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And the award for tallest Apple Tower goes to....

Hello Families and Friends!

It was another great week in kindergarten! We have a lot of important information about the field trip next week! 🍎 Please take a moment to read through the important notes below so we can keep everything running smoothly!

A few notes:

Book Character Day: Halloween will be Book Character Day at school! Students are invited to dress up as their favorite book character and bring the book with them. They’ll have a chance to share their book character and story with the whole class! It's a fun way to celebrate reading!
Field Trip: Our Field trip is this coming Tuesday! If you are a chaperone please stay tuned for an email with information. Please continue to check the Field Trip section of our newsletter for updated information!
Showcase: On Thursday, 10/23 at 11:15am-12:00pm in our classroom, all parents will be invited for a showcase of what our students have learned in literacy! Students have planned and built their own toy out of recycled materials! Please plan to come if you would like!
November Conferences: Parent-Teacher Conferences are coming up on Tuesday, November 4th! This is a great opportunity to meet with me for about 15 minutes to discuss your child’s academic progress and address any questions or concerns you may have. Please sign up for a time slot using the link HERE.

Sight Words: Please make sure you are practicing sight words EVERY night!

Making new toys out of recyclables.

Second place was Brooklynn, eventually getting this one to 11" tall!

Lots of smiles during this project.

So much fun to watch them build and eat them at the same time :)

Trial and error.

Our apple unit is over and here are your results!

Literacy/EL: We will be wrapping up our first Module of EL! Students will have a chance to showcase their homemade toys and show what they learned to their parents on Thursday, 10/23 from 11:15am-12:00pm!

Math: Students are learning how to subitize groups of objects (up to 10) without having to count them. Students will also learn how to use a 20 frame in a variety of ways to represent numbers 0-20.

Science/Social Studies: We will earn about bats, being nocturnal, and being mammals.

FUNdations: We will continue to learn the letters d and s and start learning the letters e and r. We will learn how to write these letters, starting at the top and drawing toward the bottom. We will also learn the sounds and what words start with the sound. We will send home a packet explaining how we teach it so you can help them at home!

Sight Words: This week we will continue our Pink Sight Words. Each week, we will cover 3 new words going across each row. Please review these sight words as well as our Yellow List nightly. Sight words will be sent home as well as shared here in a link.

SEL: With adult support, students will be able to demonstrate paying attention and using kind words to encourage themselves and others while learning something new together.

Our permanent assigned days are as follows:

A - Library. B - Music. C - PE. D - Art. E - PE.

Tuesday, 10/21/25: Millstone Apple Orchard FIELD TRIP

October 20th-October 24th: Unity Spirit Week (more info to come)

Thursday, 10/23/25: End of Quarter 1

Friday, 10/24/25: PTA Trunk or Treat from 5:00pm-7:00pm (CGE Parking Lot)

Friday, 10/31/25: Book Character Day

Tuesday, 11/4/25: Teacher Workday/Conferences

Tuesday, 11/11/25: No School

November 26th-28th: Thanksgiving Break

October Lunch Calendar

CGE PTA Website- Please Join

CCS Volunteer Form

CGE PTA Sign-Up Genius Page

Title: Apple Orchard Field Trip Info

We are so excited to share that Kindergarten is going on a field trip to the Millstone Apple Orchard on Tuesday, October 21st!! 🍎 This will be a wonderful hands-on learning experience for the children as we explore fall, nature, and where our food comes from.

Field Trip Activities:

For our field trip, we will experience a quick discussion on apple education and orchards before we experience lots of fun! We will get to take an orchard hayride to see the apple trees and the rest of the grounds. Then, we will observe apple cider pressing! After that we will get to sample an apple and even get a small apple cider slushie! Once we do all the fun scheduled activities, we will gather to have lunch at the picnic area. All participants will be able to take a small pumpkin home with them!

Fee:

There will be a small fee to help cover the cost ($18). The steps to pay online are below! We will not be taking a cash payment this year!

Here are the steps to pay online:

Log into http://chatham.schoolcashonline.com/

Click register if you don't have an account already

Click ITEMS at the top right corner

Choose our field trip (Please note, you must be logged into your account to see our field trip)

You may choose to sponsor an additional student

Complete the transaction!

Chaperoning:

Parents are welcome to chaperone! The fee for parents is $13 and you pay when you arrive at the orchard. If you would like to chaperone, you must submit a CCS Volunteer Form ASAP (the link for this is in “Important Links”). Chaperones are not allowed to ride the bus with the students to/from the orchard so please plan your transportation in advance.

Lunches:

If you are going to provide your student’s lunch for the field trip, please mark that on the permission form. When you pack their lunch, it needs to be in a labelled and disposable bag (paper bag or ziploc bag). No lunch boxes come on field trips! For water, please make sure to have a full water bottle for that day.

Scheduling:

We will leave the school at apx 8:15am. Please have your child at school on time. If they normally get breakfast at school, please have them here as early as 7:30am so they have time to finish eating breakfast by 8:00am. We will make our way to the buses at 8:00am and load them all up. They will not need their bookbags!

SCHEDULE:

8:15am: Buses depart from CGE
9:15am: Buses arrive at orchard (chaperones meet at playground)
9:30am-11:00am: Apple Orchard Tour!
11:15am-11:45 pm: Lunch/Sign-out
11:45am-12:45pm: Exploration of orchard!
1:00pm: Buses leave orchard

Our tour begins at 9:30am. There is a playground available to play on if we get there a little early! Our tour of the orchard grounds ends at 11:00am. We will then have our lunch at the picnic tables. and have some free time to roam around with our chaperones! We will leave the orchard around 1:00pm. You are welcome to take your child home with you from the orchard…but you must sign your child out with your teacher before leaving.

There is a little store and bakery there that sells decor and baked goods like apples, apple cider, apple butter, slushies, cakes, breads, and even apple cider donuts.

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