Rainy Day!

Mrs. Vidal

Yesterday Mrs. Vidal came to do her monthly guidance lesson.  This month the topic was: anger.  Mrs. Vidal read a story, the class made a list of things we could do to help us calm down when we are angry, and then the students drew pictures of one thing they could do at home and at school.  Ask your child to tell you what they learned!

Math
We finished up Unit 3 last week and began Unit 4 Monday.  So far this week we have:

•  played Top It (think of the old card game War)
• counted by 10s
• made patterns with a pattern block template  

There are just a small number of children who are still unable to count to 100 by themselves.  Keep practicing so that your child can come to our pizza party in January!  Remember, in order to qualify, your child must be able to count to 100 without help, and without skipping numbers by the 100th day of school.  Today is Day 69.  Only 31 days to go before our 100th day celebration!

Santa Book
Don't forget about the book order for our gifts from Santa!  I REALLY want to place this order Friday after school so I don't have to stress about getting them in on time.  Please send in your order tomorrow or Friday so I can place the order!  Thanks to everyone who has already sent yours in.  Remember--you can just send in $1 to get a book!

Thanksgiving Feast 

As a reminder, here are the highlights:

• Please decide if your child is going to dress as a Pilgrim or an Indian on the 24th, and start getting those costumes together!
• Each child is asked to bring in one piece of fruit for our fruit salad, please don't send those in until the 23rd or 24th.
• If you signed up to donate something, you should have received a yellow paper in your child's folder on Monday.  Those donations are due by the 23rd.

Spirit Wear Orders
REMINDER--Creekside Spirit Wear orders due Monday!! If you'd like to order, just complete the form and send it back with a check made out to Creekside PTO by next Monday! This is not a fundraiser for our PTO so they have kept the prices as low as possible so many families can purchase Creekside Cougars spirit wear.

Have a great day!