Happy Thanksgiving! 

I hope you all have a blessed Thanksgiving break! We are feeling extra thankful for all of your kids this year! They are amazing and we are so blessed! What a joy to have sunshine and warmth this week! 

Upcoming Dates and Reminders: 

Thanksgiving break: 

We have a lot of kiddos leaving early next week! If you plan to skip Monday and/ or Tuesday please let me know. I hope you have a great break! With so many kiddos out next week, we are sending ALL gear home. Next week please send your child to school after looking at the weather with the gear they will need for the day! we will not need our gecko bags until after break! 

Christmas Party: 

Our Christmas party is December 22nd from 1:00-2:00. We will need some volunteers to come help as well as a few items donated ! Below is the link if you are interested! 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NhbAHtRL1h4-1YswK9TrBGwJbjtfIVhGWVK7pOMeETg/edit?usp=sharing

Stockings: Thank you so much for all the donations for stockings! We are excited to start this after thanksgiving! 

Book exchange: We will also be doing a book exchange with our class December 22nd at our Christmas party. We will be asking that your child buys a book for another student in the class and wraps it! Girls will be getting another book from a girl and boy from boy! Please just label the wrapped book as "girl" or "boy." We will be playing a fun game with these. 

Google photos: Be sure to check out our google photos! This is on the right side of the screen. If you are on your phone you have to click "web version" at the bottom to view! 

Lost Mittens: Here is our collection of mittens so far. Please let me know if these belong to you! Please LABEL all your gear! Kids typically have very similar things and do not know what is theirs! 

11/10/23

 Upcoming Dates and Reminders: 

Homework: 

Thank you for keeping up with work at home! 

Class story: 

We are learning about the "w questions" (who, where, when questions). We have started writing class stories. Our first story was sent home today! Feel free to read these with your child and ask questions after! Your child should be able to read it to you (with some help)! 

Vision Testing: 

We have vision testing Monday in the middle school! 

Critter Barn: 

We are headed on a special field trip to the critter barn on Wednesday the 15th. Please PACK A HOME LUNCH. We are leaving at 9am and will not be able to order hot lunch! 

Christmas Party: 

Our Christmas party is December 22nd from 1:00-2:00. We will need some volunteers to come help as well as a few items donated ! Below is the link if you are interested! 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NhbAHtRL1h4-1YswK9TrBGwJbjtfIVhGWVK7pOMeETg/edit?usp=sharing

Stockings: Thank you so much for all the donations for stockings! We are excited to start this after thanksgiving! 

Book exchange: We will also be doing a book exchange with our class December 22nd at our Christmas party. We will be asking that your child buys a book for another student in the class and wraps it! Girls will be getting another book from a girl and boy from boy! Please just label the wrapped book as "girl" or "boy." We will be playing a fun game with these. 

Forest Gear

We’ve had several families reach out to say they missed the due date for purchasing Forest gear. If you would like to purchase a Forest School t-shirt or sweatshirt the link is alive again. The online store will accept purchases until Friday, November 24! Thank you! 

Mocha and Merch Christmas Open House!  

Mark your calendars for Wednesday, November 29 from 4:00pm - 8:00pm. You are invited to The Maroon and White Shop’s Second annual Mocha and Merch Christmas Open House!  Come browse our new store at HCHS while enjoying the provided refreshments, listening to Christmas music and start your Christmas shopping!  We will have the latest HC gear available, and the first 15 people to make a purchase will receive a complimentary gift!  Each item bought directly supports the Special Olympics Unified Sports program at the high school.  It’s an event you won’t want to miss!

Save the Date

Our parent board is putting together a new event to celebrate Christmas in the Forest for all K-5 Forest Families. And Heaven and Nature Sing! More details will be forthcoming but please jot December 14 from 6:00-7:30 on your calendar! 

Thank you: Anna and I want to reach out and say thank you for all the sweet notes and gifts! We appreciate all of you and love your kiddos so much! 

11/3/23

 Upcoming Dates and Reminders: 

Homework: Thank you all for the hard work with your kids at home! We are starting "Red words" These are words that are hard to sound out that the kids need to memorize! I have attached them in the email. Please let me know if you would like a printed copy of these and I am happy to send them home! 

Off campus times: With the colder weather we will be leaving for our off campus days at 11:30. We will eat lunch before we go! 

Critter Barn: We are excited to be headed to the critter barn November 15. This is an all day event.. We are looking for 2 volunteers to come along and help lead a group. We will be split up into 4 groups and will need 2 parents to come help! Please let me know if you are interested! This is from 9:30-2:00. We will be bussed over ! 

Christmas: 

We will be doing our Christmas party and Christmas movie day on December 22nd. This is our last day of school before Christmas break. 

We will be doing stockings the month of December. We would like to put different items in each kids stocking every day the month of December to count down until Christmas! We are looking for any donations to help make this possible.. You can get creative with this, the kids will have a blast with it! Please make sure to provide 26 of the same or similar enough items! If you want to do a girl/boy item we have 9 girls and 17 boys! Some ideas would be socks, crayons, candy, small toy, color books, homemade treat, etc! Please write your name and what you are thinking of donating so we do not have a bunch of the same item!! You can bring these any time from now until after Thanksgiving! Please keep this a surprise for the kids! Thank you for those who have already signed up ! 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/106G8le3f1AABylQ0qoxw0RI2zlAzo_V_gDg87lc5i1c/edit?usp=sharing

School Start time: 

I have had a few of our teachers reach out and say we have a few kids coming a bit too early in the morning! This is a gentle reminder that drop off time is from 8:10-8:20, if you need to come early there is a teacher from one of the 4 classrooms watching early kids outside from 7:45-8:10. If you are earlier then that we do NOT have adult supervision! We only have our reading assistant for 45 minutes and like to start rotations in the morning right at 8:25! It is very distracting for other kids when kids are getting dropped off after 8:25. So between 8:10-8:20 is the best drop off time! Thank you all!!