Congratulations Amanda, Chris and August! Welcome little Harrison!

We thank God for beautiful little Harrison!

What a special gift fresh from heaven this sweet little one is. And praise God that the whole birth experience went well and Amanda is doing well. We'll continue to pray for you Amanda. May you simply enjoy your boys during these weeks at home. We'll miss you, but we're handling things AOK at school! Bless you, friend!

Thank you, team, for the all of the hard work you put into assessing our students today! The kids had a good, productive morning and I hope each teacher was able to move through your list of individualized assessments more quickly than if we each did this alone. THANK YOU to Lia, Michelle and Danielle for wrangling in the crowd and keeping the masses busy. It was a good day!

Pastor's Breakfast
Wednesday morning will be the Pastor's breakfast event. For us, this means that our morning recess will be adjusted to 9:50-10:10. Pastors have been invited to visit classrooms from 10:10-10:30. This might be a good time for a snack and story so that it's easy to handle any visitors that may be stopping by. If you would like to have a few students make a poster to hand to a guest pastor, please feel free. Otherwise, a simple welcome is very appropriate.

Grandparents Day
Thank you for the wonderful practice Wednesday morning. We'll do the same next Wednesday morning, October 7 from 8:30-9:00. As we have in the past, grandparents will visit classrooms on Thursday, October 8 from 10:15-10:45. We will begin our praise and worship together in the gym at 11:00. Please send the reminder in your class blogs.

Lunch and Learn Staff Meeting
Due to Grandparents Day, we will move our meeting to October 15.

Data Meetings
Our grade level data meetings will take place on Thursday, October 15 and Friday, October 16. Second grade and kindergarten will meet in the staff center during planning time on Thursday. First grade will meet during planning time on Friday.

Vision and Hearing Screening
On Wednesday, November 4 our students will be screened for vision and hearing. Any students who are not screened on Wednesday will be called out of the classroom on Thursday, November 5.

Library
Our library is now ready to take students who need new/additional reading materials on Wednesday mornings between 9:00-11:00. We are trying to move toward a more "open feel" to our library allowing students to come and go as needed. Baby steps! :) Thank you, Mary, for allowing us this access.