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This
is a sample of one of our Joaquin Miller Adventure Time newsletters:
WELCOME TO JOAQUIN MILLER A.T.!
We are glad to be back.
We hope you all had a great summer. We see a lot of familiar faces as well
as some new faces. We are going to have a wonderfully fun and safe new year.
SEPTEMBER
THEMES
Welcome, Circle of Friends, Yom Kippur, and Autumn/Fall
Welcome Week:
We spent most of the week getting to know each other and having fun with
a lot of activities such as collages, bookmarks, name tags, mats, paper
mosaics, painting, drawing, coloring, and playing baseball.
Circle of Friends Week: The children made some fun things such as
happy faces on place mats, masks, silhouettes, iron beads, paper chains,
paper weaving, collages, napkin rings, wreaths, cards, and we also played
football.
Yom Kippur Week: We celebrated the Jewish holiday, created cute arts
and
crafts, such as jewelry, pins, coloring, Yahrzeit candleholders, drawing,
clay, painting, collages, cards, and playing basketball.
Autumn/Fall Week: For the last week of September, we created leaf
prints,
bookmarks, collages, and papier-mâché. We painted, created
nutshell bugs,
sponge trees, twig people, veggie prints, and we played soccer.
OCTOBER
THEMES
Harry Potter, Goblins, Ghosts and Witches, Creepy Crawlers, Things That
Go Bump In the Night
Harry Potter Week:
In the first week of October, we created magic wands, hats, glasses, rag
dolls, mini pillows, we drew, colored, made broom pins, witch's brew, and
we played hockey.
Goblins, Ghosts, and Witches Week: This week the kids are making
spooky arts such as ghosts, sponge goblins, lanterns, marble paintings,
witches, foil art, masks, creatures, and they are playing volleyball. Creepy
Crawlers Week: Get ready for some scary arts and crafts, such as clay spiders,
slinky snakes, bugs, creepy collages, bright bugs, Caterpillars, beetles,
and baseball.
Things That Go Bump In the Night Week: The kids are enjoying a star
collage, night creatures, black cat mats, paper bag owls, bats, painting,
under the bed creatures, clay bugs, creepy creatures, pumpkin candy containers,
and football.
Halloween/Haunted House Week: We are playing basketball, creating
orange hats, pencil holders, jack-o‚-lanterns, pumpkin lanterns, candy
pictures, 3-D paper mosaics, goop, and we are decorating our room for our
famous
OCTOBER
VISITORS
During the month of October, we'll have CHP Officer Greenfield bring the
new CHP Cameron and talk about safety on the road and street, that will
be on the second, On the following Wednesday, the ninth, we'll have Officer
Cave from the Oakland Police Department bring the talking car and give a
fun learning presentation on safety. Let's be safe and have fun. On the
23rd, at 2:00, the Oakland Police Department will bring police horses.
MUSIC
WITH DEWI
Hi, let's enjoy the music! I will teach keyboard and explore the world of
music with the kids. I'm sure the kids and I will enjoy learning the keyboard.
If you wish your child to participate in the keyboard workshop, please do
sign up so that I can arrange the schedule
for them. -Thank you.
SPORTS
WITH NICK
Hi, sports fans! Throughout the school year the kids and I will play sports
and activities that will teach basic skills and sportsmanship. I know we
will have another great school year. If you have any suggestions or comments
about some activities you wish your child to participate in, please don't
hesitate to speak to me.
HOMEWORK
HEROES AND HEROINES CLUB
With the start of school, there comes homework. We encourage all A.T. kids
to become Homework Heroes. To be in our Homework Club, all they have to
do is let a teacher know they want to join and get signed up on the homework
chart. They do homework at A.T. and get a point for each day they do it.
Along the way, they will earn prizes for their hard work and then participate
in the BIG Homework Heroes Club Ice Cream Party at the end of the school
year. We hope to see everyone participating and having fun. Off to a good
start, we have about 145 kids enrolled in our club already.
Once again, Welcome to A.T.
Love,
Claudete, Cynthia, Dewi, Elza, Franky, Luetta, Nikkole, and Nick
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