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This is a sample of one of our Grant Adventure Time newsletters: WELCOME! Switching gears from the relaxed days of summer to the hustle and bustle of the new school year is quite an adjustment for both students and adults alike. However, I know all of the staff here have been looking forward to being back at Grant to be with our cozy, comfy, and close-knit family. We enjoy it so. So, welcome to Grant A.T. one and all. SEPTEMBER THEMES September 3-6........ Class Act September 9-13...... Dol-Friends September 14-18.... Rock, Paper, Scissors September 23-27.... Student Style Our SEPTEMBER PROJECTS were The children and Angela worked on wiggly worms, picture frames, torn paper art, Popsicle stick creations, Spanish bingo, around the world and Hula Hoop games. Activities with Dawna were marbleized pencils, beaded twin friendship pins, giant tie-dye flowers, painted rock paperweights, kazoos, origami envelopes, and make your own salt dough. Desiree taught the student's beaded key chains, book markers, a rice game, necklaces, kites, anklets, self-portraits, and they made delicious dirt cake. Maria and kids played a game of Salami, hopscotch, tennis, created a patchwork heart, name plaques, paper bag puppets, cereal necklaces, a buddy banner, magnets, stick critters, and plant pokes. In their spare time, Nydia led them in playing kickback, the cotton game, red light-green light, dodge ball, and kick-ball, and also found time to create lanyards and fuse beads. October THEMES October1- 4...................... Easy 1,2,3-A,B,C October 7-11.................... Freaky Fall Fun October 14-18.................. Creepy, Kookie, Spookie October 21-25.................. Tricks & Treats October 28-November 1..... Monster Mash OCTOBER ACTIVITIES The students blew bubbles with Angela and created decorative treat bags, holiday paper chains, mummy hands, and ran relay races. With Dawna, it was beaded bugs, scarecrow door decorations, "I Want My Mummy" pins, slime, smilin‚ skeletons, glowing sidewalk chalk, ghost pins, creepy cones, and they played tennis, jump the creek, freeze tag, and Halloween switch. Desiree and kids played battle ball and wall ball, and created stamp art, space boy/space girl, chalk art, jack-o‚-lanterns, witches, and resist art. Projects with Maria included spider windsocks, black cats, sunflower swag, bat wings, spooky spiders, spider pins, clay pot candy dishes, ghost pops, and Count Dracula, and they played basketball and duck, duck, goose. Children with Nydia fashioned lanyards, pop stick creations, played 4 square and tetherball, and jumped rope. HOMEWORK HEROES If your student is interested in doing his or her homework at Adventure Time, thereby freeing up evenings, we have a Homework Heroes Club that they may join. At 3:15 daily (2:15 Wednesdays), our staff is available to answer any of your child's homework questions. Students receive credit on a chart and then after a certain number of days, receive prizes as they advance through the chart. Upon completion of their chart, they receive a certificate of achievement.   Here's to a new and exciting fun-filled school year! Angela, Dawna, Desiree, Maria, and Nydia