Please see the sign up below for our Halloween Party:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/20f0c44aea72ea0f85-halloween1

Students need to stay on “green” 4 days this week to attend the reward party Friday (we have a guest reader for Halloween and trinkets for the students).

Haunted School is Friday night, 6:30-8:30

Please keep in mind raffle ticket sales

Have a good week!

We have just 2 more weeks to collect our raffle ticket sales. Currently, we are way under our fundraising goal. If we are unable to reach our goal, future events may be in jeopardy of being cancelled 🙁  Please continue to sell those tickets or make a donation to the PTA. If we reach our goal, we will not need to fundraise for the rest of the school year 🙂 If you have any questions, please contact Vanessa Mkrtumian at vmkrtumian@gmail.com.

Picture re-take day will be October 30th.  Please let me know if you are interested.

Dear Families and Friends of Young 5’s

As some of you may know, the Lindbergh annual Holiday Boutique is quickly approaching!  The boutique is held at the school on Saturday, November 11^th from 9:30 am until 4:00 pm.  The Holiday Boutique will have countless artists selling beautiful handmade crafts, bake sale goodies, and classroom gift baskets which will be raffled off – one of the biggest attractions of the boutique!

Historically, each classroom creates a uniquely themed basket that is raffled off at the Holiday Boutique.  100% of the money collected from the basket raffle is then divided equally among our Lindbergh teachers.  This money is used to partially reimburse our teachers for the numerous items they purchase with their own personal money: classroom books, supplies, class rewards, to name a few.

This year, because of the individual class sizes, the Young 5s classes will be combining efforts by creating a single basket to represent the two classes.  Our theme for the basket is “A Day in the D”.  The Westin Book Cadillac has generously donated a 1 night stay with complimentary valet parking for our basket (thanks to the Michalkiewicz family for organizing!).  We hope to add more items to the basket which will compliment the Detroit stay for our lucky raffle winner.  This is where we need your help! If any of you have items that will compliment our theme we would be happy to add them to the basket.  We are also asking all of you to consider donating $5-$10 in order to purchase additional items for the basket such as restaurant gift certificates, coffee shop certificates, etc.

Important Notes:

1) Your contribution to our basket is tax- deductible!  Donation receipts are available for anyone who would like to donate more that the $10 contribution.

2) There will be a banner on display at the boutique thanking business for their donations.  They will also be mentioned in our newsletter. These businesses must have their donations provided on or before November 1^st  in order to be included on the banner.

3) Attached you will find our proof of non-profit status given to us by the Michigan PTA.  Please feel free to copy this note in order to solicit any business would like to contribute and be included in this important event.

4) Please have all donations returned by Friday, November 3^rd so we are able to shop and plan for the basket.

We thank you for all of your support.  Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions.

Best Regards,

Doug Marks – dptrout23@yahoo.com

Kelsey Michalkiewicz kmichalkiewicz@yahoo.com

Julie Trzeciak – julietrzeciak@gmail.com

Greta Valmassoi – gretarose@gmail.com

News and Information

Library Books

Please help your student remember to return their library book back to school on Monday.

Field Trip

Thank you to the chaperones who could attend the orchard field trip.  The day was beautiful and the students enjoyed the experience.  If you have a copy of our class picture could you forward it to me???

Classroom Halloween Party

Our class will be celebrating Halloween on Tuesday, October 31st at 9:00 a.m.  The Kindergarten and Young 5 costume parade and our party should take about an hour and a half.

Students are welcome to wear a costume to school (with clothes underneath).  We will be taking our costumes off after the party and putting them in our backpack.

A sign-up up for food and supplies will come out Monday.

What We Did This Week

We introduced our Alpha Friend, Hattie Horse, letter H

We colored the letter H, colored letter H pictures, and worked with letter H in our poem books.

We wrote in our journals.  We are learning to draw our stories with details and basic shapes.

We have moved onto reading Halloween stories

We worked in our Handwriting book using our “three finger squeeze”

We are counting to 100 using songs and our math grid

We are also building numbers on the ten frame

We introduced our numeral song and practiced writing numbers on our whiteboards

We visted our special classes, Gym, Art, Music and Media

We enjoyed playing on the playground

We enjoyed Free Choice Time

We continue to learn to rotate through Daily 5 (literacy) centers

We continue to review rules, routines, and procedures

Students who were on green 4 days this week attended the BINGO party.

If you have any questions or concerns please let me know

Last day to donate batteries

Popcorn Day, 25 cents a bag

“Boo Grams” are due

The bus will be leaving Lindbergh at 10:30 and our scheduled tour at the orchard begins at 11:15.

You can meet us at school and follow the school bus or you can meet us at the orchard by the white fence out in front of the barn.

10685 Warren Road, Plymouth, 48170

Looking forward to a great day!