This month's newsletter topics
October Fun – What’s New in November – Community Building Tours – Help Us Collect Canned Food! – Outside Play
This month's newsletter topics
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October Fun
October has gone by so fast. Thank you to everyone for helping us celebrate Halloween. It was a very festive week for all the children. Be sure to look at all the pictures on Facebook or Instagram, and if you have some photos, send them to us.
What’s New in November
Themes this month
- Families
- Thanksgiving
- Community
This month we are excited to learn about our students, their families and the community we live in. We will be talking to the class about being thankful, the importance of good friends, and family and community. We will visit the many other programs that share our building as well as learn more out our city and state. We will have several guided tours through our building and visit the music and art studios, the history room, and more during our tours.
During November we are looking forward to some new guests as well as some regulars. We will enjoy seeing Tallulah’s Daddy again, and meet Stefano from Italy as he introduces us to the art of giocoleria (juggling). Plus we will enjoy a nature walk with Talk About Trees.
NO SCHOOL- Veterans Day
Monday-Friday, Nov. 25-29 –
NO SCHOOL – Thanksgiving vacation
Monday-Friday, Dec. 23-Jan. 5 –
NO SCHOOL – Winter vacation
Community Building Tours
Hands On is happy to share our building with the St. David’s community. There are so many interesting things that are going on in this building. During the next few weeks as we talk about community, we will also be taking tours and learning about the different groups that share our building. Here are just a few of the other programs in the building:
Help us collect items for our community!
Each November and December our school works together with St. David’s, and other building partners, to collect food or products that can help our community. This year St.David’s is collecting items for their Little Red Wagon to help the homeless in our community. Please bring in your items during the last week of November and first week of December. It will be really nice for our students to see that even a small contribution, added to other small contributions, can turn into a great big contribution. It is also a great way for our students to help our local community.
Items for the Red Wagon:
Toothbrushes and toothpaste
Socks and hats for the winter
Individually wrapped food items
Or
Non-perishable food for food bank
Afternoon Enrichment Classes
Many children have enjoyed our afternoon enrichment classes this fall. We partnered with Soccer Shots, Northwest Children’s Theater, Portland Early Learning’s Adventures in Spanish and Yoga Playgrounds. Later this month information about the winter sessions will be avaiable, and enrollment for January classes will begin in December.
