Fathers and Mothers Week and Gathering Donations

As we just celebrated Mother's Day and we're preparing to celebrate Father's Day we'll be reading about the family this week. We have great books on the relationships of mothers and fathers and we'll be reading through them this week! We had a great day at the zoo last week and we'll be doing some writing about our experiences at the zoo. We do a shared writing together where we listen to all the children want to tell us about their zoo trip and we write down their thoughts and ideas. We want them to understand the connection between the written word and their thoughts and ideas. We'll read through our writing several times this week as we review what they saw.

We want to thank all the parents that were able to go with us to the zoo as it makes it so much fun to share our day with you and your child! We appreciate you and the time you spent with us last week!

As you might have read in the newspaper, there was a house fire in Orient last week and that was the home of two preschoolers at Brooks-Yates. We are so thankful that they are safe but they lost everything. We are collecting donations and we'll bring them to the family this Friday. The sizes that are needed are:

• Women's bouses and shirts-large, pants-size 10-12, shoes-size 5-6.
• Men's shirts extra large, pants-36 x 32, shoe size-13.
• Girls' clothes, four years old, size 5-6 clothing, shoe size 13.
• Boys'clothes, five years old, size 6-7 clothing, shoe size 1.
• Any toys for a four and a five year old.

You can bring any donations to the school and we'll make sure they get to the family.