Our Trip to the Pumpkin Patch

We had such an amazing trip to the pumpkin patch.  Thank you to all of the parents that joined us on this trip.  We are so happy that you were able to spend part of your day with us.  The Peach Tree Farm is always so accommodating.  We love spending the day on their farm.  Here are some pictures of our day.  If you have some pictures that you took on the trip I'd love to see them.  You can email them to me or send them to me via the Remind App.

Field Trip Fun

I want to begin this post by saying thank you to those parents that joined us on the field trip.  I hope you all enjoyed your time with our class.  Trips like these could not be possible without our parent helpers.  We had a great time at The Peach Tree Farm on Wednesday.  Here are a few of the pictures I have edited from our trip.  I will try to post more as the months continue.

A couple of reminders.  This week is parent teacher conferences.  I will be sending home reminder times on Monday in your child's blue homework folder.  Please arrive on time.  Also, please keep in mind that each conference is 15 minutes.  Below are some of the important dates for you to remember for the coming weeks.

Grades will be handed out during parent teacher conferences.

10/27-PT conferences

10/28—Pumpkin Investigations.  We are still in need of pumpkins.  

10/29-PT conferences

10/30 No School

11/2—11/6 Book Fair in the Elementary Library

11/4– Our class will visit the book fair on this day.  Flyers will go home next week.

11/9—NO SCHOOL Staff PD day.

11/13—Major Savor Assembly

11/24—Midterms go home.

Rescheduled Field Trip, Movie Night, and Conferences

Last week, the first grade teachers rescheduled our class field trip for October 30th.  We are hopeful that those that attended the first time will be able to go again.  Please remember that you WILL NOT need to pay for the field trip again.  However, we still need another permission slip for your child to attend because of the date change.  A new field trip permission slip went home on Friday.  Please return that no later than Wednesday, October 15th.  If you paid to go on the field trip, you will not need to pay again.  But, if you are a parent that didn't attend the first field trip, you can pay to attend this one.  Please let me know if you want to chaperone.  In addition, if you are a parent that cannot go, but you paid previously, let us know and we will reimburse you.  Hopefully this rain clears up so that our next trip will be a great day to visit the pumpkin patch.

Thank you for those of you that returned your conference forms.  I have scheduled all of your conferences.  You will be receiving a letter that states what date and time your conference will be.  Please keep in mind that I tried my best to provide you a time closest to your time of preference.  However, if the time I gave you does not work for your schedule, please let me know and we will work out a time that you can attend. 

The first grade teachers, along with Burgher Haus, Hawthorn Bank, and Kiwanias, are sponsoring the next movie night this coming Friday, October 17th.  We are so excited to be showing Maleficent.  It is rated PG.

 

Please remember that movie nights are FREE entertainment for you your family.  Doors open at 6:30 pm with the movie to begin at 7:00 pm.  Once you enter, you will receive a FREE raffle ticket to win the movie, along with Burger Haus buffet certificates and honey from Mike Robertson.  

In addition to the free raffle, we are offering a variety of other raffles.  Scholastic, along with our parents, have donated items to be placed in additional raffles.  These raffles will contain, books, movies, popcorn, soda, candy, etc.  Everything you will need to have a night of family fun!  You can purchase these raffle tickets for .25 cents a ticket.

We also received scooter donations from Hawthorn Bank and helmets/safety gear from Kiwanna's.  We will raffle off one scooter and helmet for .50 cents a ticket.  There will be one girl scooter and one boy scooter.

Additionally, we will be selling candy grams to be given to the students on the day of fall parties.  Candy grams are $1.00 for one or $15.00 for a whole class bundle.  Candy grams can be personalized the night of movie night.  We will then pass them out on the Friday of our fall parties on October 30th.

We are so thankful for everyone for their generous donations of items, money, and time for our movie night.  We are looking forward to a night of fun with our firsties.  If you haven't been to a movie night, it is a definite must for your family.  Bring something comfortable to sit in (my girls usually sit in beanbags with many pillow and blankets) and enjoy the movie.  Concession stands will be available!  Hope to see you there!!!!

FYI:  If you are a parent who volunteered to work at movie night, please arrive by 6:20 pm.  Again, thank you to everyone!  You have all been so generous and we are forever grateful!

Pumpkin Patch Fun

Thank you so much to all of our parent chaperones that joined us on our field trip to The Peach Tree Farm.  The kids had a truly enjoyable time.  I love this time of the year and I am so happy that I get to share this experience with my firsties.  Here are a few of the pictures I was able to get today.  Enjoy!

2012 Field Trip Pictorial

Here's a pictorial of our Fall 2012 field trip to The Peach Tree Farm in Boonville, MO.  We went through a Magnificent Maze, enjoyed a Happenin' Hayride, got to be Pumpkin pickers, and pet/fed some amazing animals.  Enjoy the pictures!

Thank you to all of the parents/grandparents that joined us on this trip.  We all had a wonderful time visiting the farm.  The weather was pretty fantastic too!  We couldn't have asked for a better day!

The Peach Tree Farm Pumpkin Patch

On Thursday, October 6th the students in first grade enjoyed a field trip to The Peach Tree Farm Pumpkin Patch in Boonville, MO.  Below are some pictures of our adventures.

Enjoying the hayride.

Searching for the best pumpkin.



Still searching...



Picking pumpkins.

Look at these great pumpkins we picked.

Feeding goats.

Beautiful sunflowers

Resting

Sharing a seat on a large pumpkin.

Looking for the strangest looking gourd.



Hay maze fun



Enjoying a nice lunch on the pic-nic tables.