I hope you all have a very safe and wonderful Halloween night!

Dear Parents,

I wanted to let you know that our Book Fair will begin next week on Tuesday, November 8th and run through Wednesday, November 9th. Eve, our Barefoot Librarian, will be set up in the Lower Elementary classroom. Please stop in to see her in the morning or in the afternoon and pick out some new literature for your child! 🙂

Hope you all have had a ghoulishly wonderful weekend! Our pajama day is tomorrow! Please send your child to school in pajamas (no superheroes, please) and their sneakers.

Have a great night!

I hope you and your family are able to relax this weekend and have some Halloween fun!

Today, in morning circle, the children had an opportunity to practice mindful listening. They had to listen closely and guess these sounds! We used the first video in class; the second is longer and more challenging 🙂

Guess the sound 1

Guess the sound for home practice!

Dear Parents,

Each class had a chance to parade through the other classes and show off their colorful, joyous calaveras!

We had an abundance of delicious food and lunch was amazing. The teachers are posting their feast pictures to their classroom blogs. 

They did a wonderful job and greatly enjoyed the scrumptious food. Thank you again, Parents!

Julie Sanford, Raiden’s mom, runs a wellness and food blog with recipes, videos and weekly plans–which is very helpful on Sunday when you don’t want to plan anything 🙂 You can also see our dear Raiden–what a superstar!

Check it out here!

http://www.wellfedfamilies.com

Maleah Rogers’ mother, Brook, is a professional face artist. She came to visit their class today…what gorgeous results! Her website is http://www.KIWISPARTY.com

Dear Parents,

Each Thanksgiving season, Marimont works to give thanks for the wonderful things we have in our life by paying it forward to someone else. These drives and fundraisers are wildly successful, thanks to your large hearts! This year, we are going to work together as a school to raise 225 lbs. of food for the Central Texas Food Bank!

On Monday, October 31st, you can start to bring your donations in to school. The big food bank boxes will be in the front classroom. Please come by and see our progress through the weeks! At 3:00, November 18th, I will load up my trusty Tahoe and drop off the food…that is, unless we raise more than 3 boxes worth of food. If that happens, Central Texas Food Bank will arrange a pick up at our school!

I’ve included some information about what to donate and commonly donated items.

Thank you so much for your support and help, parents!

What food should I collect?

• healthy, non-perishable food
• items with intact, un-opened consumer or commercial packaging
• items with non-breakable packaging (no glass please)
• food within the expiration date on the packaging

What items do clients request most?

• peanut butter
• canned chicken breast or tuna
• canned low sodium vegetables
• canned fruit in its own juice (no sugar added)
• dry pinto beans
• brown rice
• non-fat dry milk powder
• 100% whole grain cereal

I just wanted to share a few pictures of pumpkin carving that I was able to take. The children helped create very cute Jack-o-lanterns!