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10.24.2011
Library Card Drive
Fifth annual Library Card Drive: Oct. 1 - 31, 2011
http://www.piercecountylibrary.org/services/library-card/library-card-drive.htm
10.23.2011
Current Raffle
Each month the Coop features a new raffle. This month we are featuring a basket of homemade goods donated by a preschool family. (A very talented family at that - right!!?) LOTS of canned goods and also a beautiful lap quilt. Buy your ticket for $2 each. The drawing will be mid November!
Also, if you would like to showcase your gift and talent through a raffle just contact Megan McFarlane about your idea for a raffle!
Also, if you would like to showcase your gift and talent through a raffle just contact Megan McFarlane about your idea for a raffle!
Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies
Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies
1 cup packed light brown sugar
1 cup smooth peanut butter
1 egg, lightly beaten
chocolate chips (optional)
Preheat oven to 350. Beat ingredients until blended and smooth. Shape dough into 24 balls, place on ungreased cookie sheet, flatten slightly with fork, bake 10-12 minutes or until set.
1 cup packed light brown sugar
1 cup smooth peanut butter
1 egg, lightly beaten
chocolate chips (optional)
Preheat oven to 350. Beat ingredients until blended and smooth. Shape dough into 24 balls, place on ungreased cookie sheet, flatten slightly with fork, bake 10-12 minutes or until set.
10.06.2011
10.05.2011
Parent Ed credit for....
If you were lucky enough to attend the Key Peninsula Farm Tour last Saturday, you were lucky enough to also receive a parent education credit for this event. Be certain to sign the sheet in the classrooms to receive credit!
Horseback Riding Lessons....
Horseback Riding Lessons! All ages welcome! Beginning to advanced riding in nearly every discipline. Bring your own horse or ride one of our excellent lesson horses. Years of experience. Located near Lake Kathryn village. Horse training available as well. For more information contact Heidi at 253-225-0561.
Thank you! Heidi
Thank you! Heidi
10.01.2011
October 2011
Welcome to the 2011-2012 preschool school year! You can check in here anytime for important Preschool information like:
"M" is for Mary and "K" is for Kim - teacher updates
Fundraising opportunities
Parent education opportunities
House of Representatives - class rep updates
Presidential address - updates from the presidents
Treasurers Chest - update from the treasurer
Bates...updates - update from Bates instructor
Life Lines - health and safetly updates
Community events
Curds and Whey - miscellaneous
"K" is for Kim
Hello Vaughn Families!
We are off to a great start, our first few days of preschool have been magical!!! What a great group of children!!! Please remember to stay in touch and always feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns!
Welcome to Preschool! We are going to have a great year making new friends and learning new and exciting things. We will play, have fun & get messy, learn to be a friend and how to share with each other. I know that you are entrusting me with a very precious gift, and I feel very honored to be your child’s first teacher, thank you so much for sharing them with me!
We are off to a great start, our first few days of preschool have been magical!!! What a great group of children!!! Please remember to stay in touch and always feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns!
Happy Fall!!!
Teacher Kim
"M" is for Mary
Evergreen Parents:
We have had a wonderful start to the new year. We are making new friends and learning the classroom routine. It is going to be a great year.
In October we are going to be exploring the areas of fall leaves and apples We will read The Book Brown Bear and do many activities that are associated with the book. We will also be concentrating on name recognition, shapes and colors.
Thanks or sharing your children with me
Miss Mary
Bates Updates
Dear Parent,
Welcome to co-op preschool! The beginning of school is always such an exciting time, as the possibilities for a great new year are endless. It is personally an exhilarating time as I get the opportunity to meet and to get to know all of you a little better.
Vaughn 3-day – F 10/21
Vaughn 2-Day – Th 10/20
Evergreen - W 10/12.
In addition to your concerns and questions (which we always spend most of our time on), I usually highlight a book at the shares that I think is an invaluable addition to a parenting library. Since I know that most of you are too busy being parents to read a lot of information about parenting, I will do the reading and give you nuggets of information that may help in your parenting journey.
As you can see, this is a pretty impressive list. I look forward to helping us all understand more about this list and seeing how we can assist our children in acquiring these necessary skills while at the same time dealing with the immediate issues of getting our children dressed in the morning, to get them to stop hitting their sister, to eat nutritious meals, to sleep in their own beds, etcetera, etcetera.
Carol
Welcome to co-op preschool! The beginning of school is always such an exciting time, as the possibilities for a great new year are endless. It is personally an exhilarating time as I get the opportunity to meet and to get to know all of you a little better.
One of the ways that this meeting happens is through the parent shares that I facilitate once a quarter; in October, January, and March. For those of you who don’t know what a parent share is there is a description at the end of this article. For those of you who do know, you already know how fun and informative that they can be.
The upcoming parent shares for October are:
Vaughn 3-day – F 10/21
Vaughn 2-Day – Th 10/20
Evergreen - W 10/12.
In addition to your concerns and questions (which we always spend most of our time on), I usually highlight a book at the shares that I think is an invaluable addition to a parenting library. Since I know that most of you are too busy being parents to read a lot of information about parenting, I will do the reading and give you nuggets of information that may help in your parenting journey.
The book I have chosen this year is “Mind in the Making – The Seven Essential Life Skills Every Child Needs” by Ellen Galinsky. The seven life skills are listed below.
§ Focus and self-control
§ Perspective taking
§ Communicating
§ Making connections
§ Critical thinking
§ Taking on challenges
§ Self-directed, engaged learning
§ Focus and self-control
§ Perspective taking
§ Communicating
§ Making connections
§ Critical thinking
§ Taking on challenges
§ Self-directed, engaged learning
As you can see, this is a pretty impressive list. I look forward to helping us all understand more about this list and seeing how we can assist our children in acquiring these necessary skills while at the same time dealing with the immediate issues of getting our children dressed in the morning, to get them to stop hitting their sister, to eat nutritious meals, to sleep in their own beds, etcetera, etcetera.
I look forward to seeing you all at the next parent share.
Carol
What's a Parent Share?
A parent share is a fun and helpful informal discussion held during your child’s class time in another room. This is your chance to talk with (or just listen to) me and other parents in your class talk about whatever is on your mind regarding parenting issues, ages and stages of development, your child’s and/or your role in the classroom, etc. Because these sessions are informal, you may come and go as you please. Siblings are welcome (please bring things to entertain them). Earn a parent education credit.
Ways to Raise
Upcoming Events:
- First Aid Kits – Available for sale first week of October - $10 each
- Comedy Night – McCormick Woods Clubhouse – Sat October 22 – 8:00 p.m. – Tickets are $15 each.
Time to buy your Comedy Night tickets! This is an amazingly fun night AND a great way to help raise money for our preschool! The Great Cris (a “local legend”) is putting together a hilarious lineup of comedians just for us. The show is Saturday, October 22, at 8:00 p.m. at the McCormick Woods Golf Course Clubhouse. Tickets are only $15 each. Don’t forget to invite your friends, family, neighbors, and co-workers to join in this super-fun night! Contact Teacher Mary, Teacher Kim, or Megan McFarlane for tickets. Questions? Contact Megan Mcfarlane (info from your handbook.)
A variety of First Aid Kits will be available for you to purchase for yourself or gifts beginning the first week of October. They start at only $10 each and will make sure you are prepared anywhere you go – get one for your home, auto, sports events, camping, and even for your pets!
Don’t forget – we are still looking for contributions of services or great gifts that may be raffled off during the year!
3rd Annual All-Hallows Eve Harvest Celebration
Location: Volunteer Park
Day/Date: Saturday October 15
Time: 6-8 pm-
Cost: Free
An evening of fun for the whole family! Come
join us for music, entertainment, pumpkin
judging and costume contest (see below).
Music entertainment with Billy Farmer and
storytelling by the fire with Karen Haas. Make
sure to bring lawn chairs and roasting sticks for
your S’mores! Event will run rain or shine.
7-7:20pm - Children’s Stories
7:25-8:00pm - Teen and Adult Stories
Ghoulish Goodie Hunt for children 7:20-8:00pm
Pumpkin Carving Contest:
Age 16 and up
At home, carve your pumpkin, make it scary or funny, pretty
or gory, old-fashioned or modern and then bring it down to be
judged by fellow community members for a chance to win a
prize! Judging will begin at 6 pm and run until 7:30.
Winner will be announced at 7:45
Costume Contest:
Age 15 and under
Come down in costume for a chance to win a prize. Judging will begin at 6 pm and run until 7:30. Winner will be announced at 7:45
For More Information:
Email answers@keypenparks.com
Call 253-884-9240 x 22
Or Visit: www.keypenparks.com
Your dollar donations or a can of food for the food bank would be greatly appreciated
Zucchini "rules"
My father-in-law was teasing me about the 6, (YES 6!) zucchini plants that I planted in the garden this year. Needless to say we have have zucchini out the wazoo!! Anyways he was laughing recalling a earlier time of his life living in Vernal, Utah when people began to start locking their doors at church! He revealed that this began due to zucchini harvest where folks were leaving their crop of zucchini in peoples vehicles! Well if you were at paper work in the park, you might have seen the zucchini labeled "help yourself!" That would have come from our crop this season which has taught me to NOT plant so many darn plants in the future. Since then, I was driving my child to preschool only to see this on our mail box, it seems, with the story from my father-in-law and this sight, I'm not the only one who is trying to rid of zucchini before it goes bad!
ZUCCHINI RELISH
So if you too have an enormous amount of zucchini I urge you to #1 not ask me if I need any and #2 try making this fantastic recipe, (as I did!) that Teacher Mary shared with me!
Enjoy, Annie Massey
10 cups zucchini
4 cups onion
5 tablespoon salt
2 green pepper
1 red pepper
Grind and mix together and let sit over night
Add 2 1/4 cup vinegar
6 cups sugar
1 tablespoon each of nutmeg, turmeric. celery seed, cornstarch and dry mustard
Bring to a full boil and boil for 30 minutes.
put in Jars and water bath for 5 minutes
Oct 9th thru 15th is Fire Prevention Week
Check out this link for more information on the National Fire Prevention Week from Oct 9th through the 15th.
Gluten free peanut butter bookies
Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies
1 cup packed light brown sugar
1 cup smooth peanut butter
1 egg, lightly beaten
chocolate chips (optional)
Preheat oven to 350. Beat ingredients until blended and smooth. Shape dough into 24 balls, place on ungreased cookie sheet, flatten slightly with fork, bake 10-12 minutes or until set.
1 cup packed light brown sugar
1 cup smooth peanut butter
1 egg, lightly beaten
chocolate chips (optional)
Preheat oven to 350. Beat ingredients until blended and smooth. Shape dough into 24 balls, place on ungreased cookie sheet, flatten slightly with fork, bake 10-12 minutes or until set.
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