April 30, 2008                                                                                                                                                                                 2008 – Issue 17

Plan Ahead

May 9^th – early release

May 14^th – BLOCK Fest (1-2pm)

May 16^th – Field trip to NW Trek

May 26^th – NO SCHOOL

June 7^th – Parents’ Club Annual “Country Kickoff” 6pm

June 13^th – early release – Last day of school

HELP!!! We need some volunteers to help with our BLOCK Fest on Wed. May 14^th.  Set-up (in the gym) will start a little after noon that day and will be taken down at 3 pm.  It is being offered to the preschool through the first graders.  There is a training session on May 12^th at the Squaxin Island Child Dev. Center (786-8907) – or training will be available right before the activity.  Contact me if you are interested.

We are running low on healthy snacks…if you would like to bring some for these hungry little ones, please do.  Thanks so much.

We have received so many “flat kindergarten” postcards already.  We have had cards from as far away as Iraq, Paris and Alaska.  This has been such a great opportunity for the kids to learn about far away places.  Thanks so much.  We will be ending the project on Thursday, May 8^th.  If you would like your flat kindergartener’s journal read, please send it no later than that date.

We are using a different format for our reading period and will be focusing more on having the kids read together and to the adults.  If you would still like to volunteer, please feel free to come during the 9:30-10:30am time on Monday through Thursday.  The kids will love having someone to read to and show off all that they have learned this year in reading.

Amber Clifford has offered to drive some of our chaperones for the May 16^th field trip to NW Trek.  If you would like to join her, please either contact her or me.  The bus is going to be so full with all the chaperones, kindergarteners, and first graders that it will be a very tight fit…if at all.  Please consider car-pooling if at all possible.  Let me know if you would be willing to drive and I will put the word out to the other chaperones.  We really appreciate all your help on this.  You truly are such great parents and grandparents to help us like this.  Thank you!!!

Our current fund-raiser is for the Parents Club Auction on June 7^th.  We have some really great things in our basket.  If you have new items you would like to donate for kindergarten’s KITCHEN theme, please drop them off in our room in the bucket by the door.  All of the funds raised go back to your school. Thanks to those who have donated already.

Please make sure your child still has warm clothes.  The sun may be shining, but it can still be very chilly out there.

Please remember to contact the office is your child is absent, either by a phone call on the day they are absent or a note when they return.  Thanks.