Marvelous Me!

This week we talked about how we are all different and special in our own ways. We learned about body parts too. We made some awesome personalized projects that are displayed in our classroom for the open house tonight! If you can't make it to the open house, here are some photos of our displays.

We also have our Student Spotlight Sign-up Sheet prepared for you to sign up tonight. For more information on Student Spotlight weeks, please see the Student Spotlight Page. We will display the list here once people have signed up so that you can select a remaining week if you didn't get a chance to sign up and for future reference so that you remember which week your child is in the Spotlight.

We sent home a new bulletin board project in this week's folder. 

Please help your child decorate it & cut it out.

 Don't forget to put his/her name on it too!

 October's Show & Tell Theme: Collections

We have had a great first month of school!!!

The kids have learned so much already and are doing a great job!

Have a great weekend!

~ Mrs. Fox & Mrs. Crandall ~

Families are Fun!

We spent this past week talking about our families. On Monday we used markers to draw a portrait of our family on a quilt square and then assembled the squares into a class quilt.

AM Class Quilt

PM Class Quilt

Tuesday had our hands traced to make the trunk and branches of our family tree.

We added leaves to our trees on Wednesday and on Thursday we glued our family pictures on the page. We now have a gorgeous forest of family trees on displayed in our hallway!

Forest of Family Trees

We enjoyed the nice fall days on our playground too!

Friday we had a blast dressing up in Red/White/Black and cheering on the Tiders!

Don't forget!

We are having an open house so you can see what we have been doing.

Thursday, September 27th

5:30-6:30pm

Grandma, grandpa, aunts, uncles, neighbors and friends are all welcome to visit!!!

Kissing Hand

This week we learned all about Chester Raccoon and the Kissing Hand.

We learned that even though we are away from our mommies and daddies, they still love us very much! 

We worked all week long on making Chester Raccoons that are now decorating our classroom.

On Monday we "magically" changed a square into a circle by cutting it. Lots of kids enjoyed our first time using scissors here at school. Cutting is a great fine motor skill and we recommend letting your child practice cutting at home ... with supervision of course!

We also stamped our painted hand print onto the moon.

Thursday was our fall picture day. Everyone looked adorable and did a great job listening to the photographer's instructions. We can't wait to see the final results!!

We have posted two photo slideshows to our Photo Gallery Page. The first contains photos of each child on the first day of school. The second has "everyday" photos of the fun we have here at Creative Arts Class 4K.

Don't forget about the following upcoming events/due dates:

• Monday, Sept. 17th - return your child's red folder 
• Thursday, Sept. 20th - be sure we have your family photo for our project today
• Friday, Sept. 21st - It's a Friday and we HAVE school! Our AM class will be going on a fieldtrip to the mini-homecoming parade. Be sure to turn in the pink permission slip. Both classes should dress up in red/white/black for school spirit.
• Thursday, October 4th - If you haven't turned it in already, we need the completed and signed green immunization sheet. If we do not receive this by Oct. 4, your child is not able to attend class until it is turned in to comply with state laws.

Have a great weekend everybody!
See you next week for more fun ;)

Mrs. Fox & Mrs. Crandall

One Week Down!

Wow! Our first week went so fast!! It has been a lot of fun to meet new friends and check out all the fun things in our classroom and on our playground. We have been working on turn-taking, standing/walking in line, listening, hand-raising, sharing, sitting still and more skills that will be developed all year long. Everyone is doing a great job!!!

Please note that the kids will start pouring their own drinks very soon...which means we are in for a lot of spills :) Be sure your child has extra clothing in his/her backpack.

We didn't have much time to take photos during this busy week, but here are a few to show you what we have been doing.

Have a great weekend & we will see you for our first MONDAY of class!
Mrs. Fox & Mrs. Crandall