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Dear Families, 			November 10, 2009
	We have a great Holiday Bazaar on Saturday, November 14th from 9-4 here at Bandelier.  There 
will be some great arts and crafts AND a special table just for our sugar skulls paired with Ms. 
McNellis’ art.  We will be selling around 24 sugar skulls molded and decorated by our students for $5 
each.  My volunteers so far are Kristen, Emily and Amy.  I will try to come for an hour before my test 
to get everything rolling  Thanks volunteers, couldn’t do it without you guys!
	NO SCHOOL tomorrow, Wednesday, November 11th.  Veteran’s Day, enjoy your day off and 
discuss how important veterans are with your kiddos.
	SERIOUS DONATIONS- Okay y’all, have you seen our donation box?  It is OVERFLOWING with 
donations from our families!  We are using tally marks to keep track of donations and it is very cool!  
Keep them coming if you can!  They are also collecting money to purchase turkeys for families in 
need…see Lorri in the health office if you would like to donate.
	COOKING DONATIONS NEEDED-We need cans of pureed pumpkin please!  I would like to make 
pumpkin pie next week and would love some cans of pureed pumpkin and some premade pie crusts!  
Send in when you can…thanks!
	BEHAVIOR-Well, it’s that time of the year where the kids get a little rambunctious and forget 
some of the rules.  In class, we will work on behavior-using words, keeping our hands to ourselves, 
asking adults for help.  We will also start running some more laps and do a little dancing to get our 
crazies out.
	REST TIME, no more…Starting next week, we will begin a read aloud/lay down time without mats 
after lunch.  None of the kids are sleeping anymore and I would like to start a chapter book read 
aloud.  If a child is extremely tired, we will set them up with a mat in the reading corner if needed.  
During this time, I will also pull some students who may need some extra help and work with them.  
Some of the time will be added to self selection.
	COMPUTER REMINDER-A parent was asking about websites for kids to use that were kinder 
friendly so I thought I would pass on a reminder to you.  On the Bandlier website (http://10.17.0.3/) 
there are some Bandabear Best Links that have some great sites such as Starfall and other just fun 
sites to visit WITH YOUR CHILD.  Check them out.

	WHAT ARE THEY DOING?
Writing-Next week, we will cover the last two letters of the alphabet in lower case and begin 
uppercase after Thanksgiving.  We will use our knowledge of letters and sounds to write a poem 
about being thankful next week with lots of help in small group using our peers and adults to help.
Science-we are starting some seeds in baggies to see the development of a seed as it grows.  We will 
also collect nuts next week, count them, graph them and taste them.  We may start making 
birdfeeders using pine cones, peanut butter and birdseed to feed birds on their way south for the 
winter.
Math-We are continuing our addition word problems and will introduce them to some math 
symbols-the addition sign and equal sign.  We will also work on ACE in math-Answer, Compute and 
Explain-a school wide strategy used to build understanding in math.  Answer is done with pictures of 
math problem, Compute is done with a number sentence, and explain is a written answer.  We will 
start this next week.
Reading- we will start a book using position words and a turkey.  Small groups for reading will start 
after Thanksgiving.

Book order due Friday, November 13th.
NEW SHARING THEME-Three things that rhyme-such as a rock, sock and clock!  be imaginative and 
send it in on your snack day!
If you never sent in a family picture, please do because we are going keep them and make a book 
out of them for our class.


Thanks for sharing your children with us.  I look forward to seeing all of you at parent teacher 
conferences, Lhasa Lea 228-8759 lea_l@aps.edu


Teacher website- http://teacherweb.com/NM/Bandelier/LhasaLea


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