Our last coins for kids collection will be this Friday, October 30. Please send in any change you would like to donate tomorrow or Friday morning!  Thanks!

                                 

         The elementary students will celebrate Halloween in the afternoon on Friday, October 30. In the morning we will have our regular academics. We will dress up and parade downtown with the rest of the elementary at 1:00.  Please send a costume for your child to change into in a bag clearly labeled with your child’s name.  I will help the children put on their costumes and will have parent helpers for this as well, but we will not have time to apply any make-up.  If your child’s costume requires make-up, please have them go without it this time, or please come in to apply it for them. Please take care when selecting your child’s costume.  No gory or scary costumes please, and no weapons of any kind. If you are coming to watch the parade and are able to come early to help with costumes, that would be wonderful!  I won’t need as much help after the parade, but the more hands to help with costumes, the better! J  We will begin putting our costumes on at around 12:30.

         After our parade we will enjoy some goodies and a Halloween movie.  We will also have recess.  We will change out of our costumes before going outside to recess.

        

                                     

REMINDERS

Parents,
Please remember that if your child is ill you need to call the elementary office at 825-2021 to excuse them from school.  Also, if your child has a fever, please remember the "24 hour rule."  A child needs to be free from fever without the use of fever-reducing medications for 24 hours before they come back to school.  Giving a child medication and sending them to school only "masks" the fever. The child may still be contagious and is exposing everyone they come into contact with. Also, the medication tends to run out and the fever shows up around lunchtime and the child feels miserable :(
SO......if we send your child home with a fever during the school day, please plan on keeping them out the next day as well.

Please make sure that you empty your child's folder each evening and go over their work with them. Also, reviewing the letter of the day and the numbers we are learning will be a big help to your child! Don't forget to send your child's folder back to school every day- we use them daily!  Thanks!

It would be very helpful if you could label your child's clothing. I keep finding sweatshirts, etc. laying around without any names in them. Many times none of the children will claim them. Putting their name in their clothing will save on the amount of clothing that ends up in our overflowing lost and found!

We will be collecting money for the Coins for Kids program through Pizza Hut during the month of October. If you have any spare change you could donate, we would greatly appreciate it for this worthy cause! Don't forget to ask grandparents, aunts and uncles, etc. if they could help out! This program provides food for hungry children.

Great Start!

These last two weeks have been a great start to the school year! The children are coming along in learning the school and classroom rules and expectations!  They are also making lots of new friends and learning how to treat them with kindness.

We are in the process of learning the alphabet and numbers.  We are also having lots of fun playing in our centers and out on the playground, as well as having fun in Gym and Music.  We have made a visit to the big library and learned the rules we need to follow in that special place!

The library is having an open house this Saturday (September 19) to celebrate their 20th anniversary. Come on out for a good time- story time and crafts for the kids, prizes, and cookies and punch! Hope to see you there!

WELCOME TO KINDERGARTEN!

The first day of school for McBain Elementary is Tuesday, September 8.  Kindergarten students have a shortened day the first day of school, with parents attending school with their child on this important first day.  Please bring your child to school at 10:00 am and plan on staying with them until our day is finished by 1:30 pm.  You will have a chance to meet other students and parents, explore the classroom, take a bus ride, and eat lunch with your child.  In the afternoon, the children will have an opportunity to play on the playground under the supervision of our paraprofessionals while the parents have an information session with the teacher in the classroom.  I am looking forward to meeting everyone!

Parents,

All classroom books and materials must be returned to school and accounted for next week.  Therefore, today will be the last day I will send home reading folders.  Please be sure to return your child’s reading folder and classroom books to school on MONDAY.  Thank you!  All the children have made excellent progress in their reading skills this year.  Please remember to read with your child daily this summer!  There are plenty of easy reader books available in the library for check out.  There are also lots of fun activities planned at the library this summer, so be sure to visit often!

Track and Field afternoon is Tuesday.  Please be sure to dress your child appropriately and send a water bottle labeled with their name.

Final dismissal is at noon on Thursday.  Our awards assembly is at 10:00 that morning.

Report cards will be sent home with your child on Thursday.  Classroom assignments for next year will be mailed during the summer.

It has been an amazing year!  I have enjoyed it and hope that your child has too!  Have a safe and fun-filled summer!

   Mrs. Kathy Green

REMINDERS

The Spring Program is tomorrow at 1:30 in the high school gym.  Please park in the main parking lot and enter through the lobby doors.  Remember to send your child's baseball cap in as a prop for one of the songs if you haven't already!  If they don't have one, please try to find one that they can borrow for the day.
The cost for our field trip on Monday is $4.00.  Please send the money in tomorrow or Friday!