It's a great day!!

Happy 5th week of school! Time is sure flying--yesterday was midterm already!!! I am proud of the responsible children your 2nd graders are becoming. They are doing an excellent job remembering homework, special items needed for Bible, etc. Speaking of that--let me know what you think of the "new look" of the assignment sheet. I thought it would be easier for you and your 2nd grader to read and understand.

We have started the Salvation Army Canned Food Drive. PLEASE bring in cans and non-perishable items. For every FIVE cans brought, your student will receive 1 Market Day ticket. Though this is NOT why we should want to do it! :) Even in our tough economic times, where things have hit almost all of us in one way or another, there are people in our community that cannot even feed their families or do not have a place to call home. Please consider donating (it's a good way to clean out your pantry, too!)

Next Friday, September 26th, there is ALOT going on. First, it is the Creation Science weekend and the kickoff starts with an Assembly for our students at 9:00am. Then, the 2nd grade classes are going to continue the day with Apple Day, a celebration of Johnny Appleseed's Birthday. We will be doing apple crafts, apple tasting, bobbing for apples, and much more! There will be a sign up sheet to bring in things for our celebration (and parent volunteers are needed too!) Also that day is the first Market Day!!! (Yes, we have a PACKED day!) Market Day starts at 2:00 and lasts until 2:30. The children are asked to bring in items they want to "sell", for example, stuffed animals, toys, cars, homemade cookies, packaged cookies, etc. They will "sell" them for tickets and learn how to run a store. It is a great event!

Did your student tell you about learning how to write their name in Chinese? I found this great website that translates names into Chinese characters. They practiced writing it yesterday and will paint it probably today. They were very excited about it because we learned about China while talking about the Olympics, and the Silver Group just finished reading a story about a girl who is Chinese-American, and they wrote a story with some Chinese characters. It was very neat!


Have a super day!