September has gone by so fast! We love getting to know our students and seeing them form friendships. During September we played many games to get acquainted with each other and meet our new friends. We’ve been building our community wall with photos from each child’s family. Our students enjoyed many fall art projects, apples, leaves and sunflowers took staring roles! We welcomed several special guest to our classroom. Liz Goss, children’s book illustrator, https://lizabethgoss.com/work and Hands On mom, led us through a story and project, teacher Dave started off our music program for the year and all of our enrichment classes are off to a great start!
October
- 2nd-Music with Teacher Brittany
- 8th-Music with Teacher David
- 10th, NO SCHOOL
- 14th & 15th, School Pictures, https://www.douglasfrierott.com/index
- 29th, Special guest, Talk About Trees Oregon
- 31st, Halloween Party with Red Yarn, https://redyarnproductions.com/
October is a busy month. Children and families are settling in to their new schedules and the holidays are just around the corner. Preschool children love to celebrate and have parties. Our first party will be Halloween!
Because Hands On children attend our school on different schedules, we try to make sure that we include a few celebrations that everyone can attend. Our first celebration of the year is Halloween! Dress up and celebrate with us!
Our Halloween party will be on Friday, October 31st, 12:45-2:00. All families are invited to dress up and celebrate with us! Even if your child doesn’t come to school on that day, you and your child are welcome to join us for the party! Siblings may attend as well. Red Yarn and his critters will preform from 1 -1:45 PM!
Look for a sign-up sheet mid-October on the check in table to see how you can help.
November
Monday, November 3rd – Pajama Day! You are probably tired from all that trick or treating, so wear pajamas to school and have breakfast for lunch! Look for a sign-up sheet mid-October to see how you can help.
Thursday, November 6th-Muisc with Teacher Brittany
Tuesday, November 11th-No School, Holiday
Wednesday, November 12th-Muisc with Teacher David
Thursday, November 20th-Northwest Children’s Theater enrichment class demonstration.
Monday -Friday, November 24-28-No School, Holiday
School Pictures
It is that time again! School pictures will be Tuesday and Wednesday, October 14th and 15th. Douglas Frierott is a former Hands On parent and has been doing our class pictures for many years. All children will get their picture takes for our yearbook, but you are not obligated to buy photos or the yearbook. Douglas will put all photos up on a password secured site and you can choose the ones you want him to print. Individual photos will be taken of each child, and a class photo from each day.
If your child does not attend school on Tuesday or Wednesday, hasn’t started school yet, or your sibling wants to join the photos, just check in with Jennifer so we can make a plan.
Portland Forest School
We share the building with the Portland Forest School, a private K-8th grade school. We started collaborating with them so that our preschoolers and their middle schoolers were reading buddies! I am excited that we will continue this program again this year. Once a month the middle school students will join our class to read to our students.
Talk About Trees
Each year we look forward to a few visits from “Talk About Trees”. Talk About Trees is an interactive, science-based program for preschool through eighth grade students. This program brings the forest into schools and helps to encourage awareness and appreciation for the value of trees and forests in our daily lives. The program also encourages an understanding about the protection, management and conservation of the renewable forest. Joan, a former Hands On parent, coordinates the Talk About Trees program and brings a teacher to our school a few times each year. We are excited for our first class Oct. 29th!