The letter P and pumpkins
8 day fall theme
The letters P & p were introduced by Ms. Pointy Patches.  Her clothes are made from colorful patches.  The children decorated their own poiny patch to create a classroom patchwork design.  The children used pink and purple sticky tape to decorate the letters P & p.  Ask your child how they like the taste of sticky tape.  Plus, we made Ms. P. Puppets.
The children enjoyed the action songs: Pony...stop and go,  Shake a piece of Paper, This is the way we move around a pumpkin and more!  Plus, we painted paper bag pumpkins and carved a real pumpkin. 

"Pumpkin, Pumpkin", By Jeanne Titherington was our featured Big Book on Pumpkins. This delightful book tells the story of growing a pumpkin.  The children were given the change to sample pumpkin seeds, too.   Other pumpkin themed books we read are:
"Growing Pumpkins", By Melvin Berger.  "The Runaway Pumpkin" By: Kevin Lewis, "All about Pumpkins",  By:  Zoe Hall, and the poem Five Little Pumpkins.

Important upcoming events:
Scheduled parent/teacher conferences are Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2012 from 4:30-8 PM
   *if you were not contacted by your child's 4K teacher, then you will have your conference during 2nd quarter of school.  We hold 18 conferences per quarter of school. Report cards come home in early November for each student.

No School on October 24 & 25

PTA Harvest Dance on Tuesday, October 30, 2012 from 6-8 pm, wear your costumes
  *early sign up is recommended to avoid waiting in a line form admissions.
  *join Jefferson PTA now and save money on admission fees to Jefferson PTA events
  
For MORE school information go to the WAWM school District web site and click on Jefferson School.