An Easy Way to Raise Money for our School!
Make every gift count this holiday season by using the "Good Search" search engine (like Google or Yahoo). Additionally, you can find coupons at more than 1,600 top stores (including Amazon, Macy's, J.Crew, Toys R Us, Best Buy, Gap and more) AND a percentage of virtually every sale will be donated to the Bernie School District. Just go to goodsearch.com, designate us as the cause you support and then click over to your favorite store and shop away! There's no easier way to support us this holiday season! Please spread the word.

Math Skills

In math, we have recently been learning:

• how to put numbers cards 0-20 in order
• how to read numbers 0-20
• counting to 100
• identifying and knowing the value of a penny and nickel
  
• ordinal positions (first through sixth)
• how to create and read AB and ABB patterns
• how to read the days of the week on the calendar

You can practice some of these skills by:

• having your child read numbers you see in your everyday environment (at the grocery, in the car, at home, in books)
• having your child count objects you see
• letting your child sort your loose change, then discuss what each coin is worth
  
• asking your child to read the days of the week on your home calendar (they use the first few letters as clues)
• having your child create AB and ABB patterns out of objects in your home (pencil--pen or fork--spoon or big book--little book)
• practicing writing letters and numbers (we have practiced all of the numbers 0-20 and all of the capital and lowercase letters)

Book It

Pizza Hut has a reading incentive program called “Book It.” The idea for this program is that the teacher sets a monthly goal for each student in reading, and if the student reaches the monthly goal, s/he receives a coupon for a free personal pan pizza at Pizza Hut. Expect to find your child's pizza coupon in his/her blue folder at the end of each month.

American Education Week
Education Generates Super Heros
November 13th-November 17th

*Monday-November 14th-Students will attend a short assembly to “kick-off” the week.
*Tuesday-November 15th-Green Lantern Day-WEAR GREEN!
*Wednesday-November 16th-Spiderman Day-WEAR RED OR A SPIDERMAN TEE SHIRT!
*Thursday, November 17th-Military Super Hero Day-WEAR RED, WHITE, AND BLUE!
*Friday, November 18th-Super Hero Day-DRESS APPROPRIATELY AS A SUPER HERO, OR WEAR A SUPER HERO SHIRT!

The students have the opportunity all week to be Community Super Heroes. All classes will be collecting pennies (any denominations of money) for the Stoddard County Children’s Home. The teacher of the class that collects the most money will receive the privilege of wearing a Super Hero cape all day on Friday, the 18th!

Food Drive

The canned food drive has been extended until this Friday, November 11th! If you didn't get to donate last week, now's your chance. The food will be donated to local churches and will help feed the members of the Bernie community in need.

Tom the Turkey

Don't forget to work on disguising your turkey! We have already seen some very creative disguises! The kids think it is great! So far, we have a mayonnaise jar turkey, rock star turkey, Bernie basketball player turkey, and a princess. I can't wait to see what kind of turkey will arrive next! It is so exciting each morning as I get to show the class the new turkeys.