November News

Mrs. Carothers and Mrs. Cully's class had a great Orange Day this year! The whole class went out to the Memory Garden and picked a pumpkin. We were so lucky that exactly 13 pumpkins grew overnight. The class did a great job painting their pumpkins and these will be on display during our Thanksgiving Feast and then ready to go home for each family's Thanksgiving dinner. We have had a lot of fun learning about bats, spiders and fire safety. We talked about squares, diamonds, red, black and orange!

Now we are ready to begin our November calendar. I cannot believe how quickly this year is going. This month our Fall Fun Unit continues with apples and harvest. Beginning November 9th we will move into our We Are Thankful Unit. I am sending home the calendar for more detail.

I passed out the Scholastic book order form last week. Please turn in the orders before November 23, 2009. You can also order online: www.scholastic.com under Juli Carothers at St. Matthew's Day School.

Here are some important dates to remember:

* November 2-5: Book Fair. New exciting news regarding this years book fair:
1) A "Muffins for Moms" event is on Wednesday and Thursday after drop-off and 2) a stunt for Francie to perform if we meet our sales goal of $5500 !

* November 5-7: SAES Conference in Houston. School will close at noon on Thursday, November 5 and no school on Friday, November 6. (I will be attending this conference and I am very excited!)

* November 9: Golf Tournament at Lost Creek.

* November 12: Parent Council meeting at 9:10.

* November 24: Noon release Thanksgiving Holiday.

* November 25-27: Thanksgiving Holidays.

* November 30: School Resumes.