Few Reminders...

Dear parents,

- We are having a canned food drive all next week to help restock and plump up the church food pantry. You may have already gotten a flier about it, but if not here are the details: - It is called "families helping families"- We will have a box outside of our classroom to collect canned goods all week EXCEPT Monday.- On Monday, September 28th all donations must go to the front office BECAUSE HERE IS THE EXCITING PART- for each 10 canned food items donated 5 dollars will be taken off your child's tuition- The fine print "you are only eligible for one 5 dollar certificate per child and it only counts if the canned food is brought in on Monday."- However the classes will be competing so if you are in a position in which you can give back- please do. It really means a lot to the people in our community and helps us to teach the little bits about charity, love and giving.

-Also, the first of the month this week is Thursday which means it is time to bring in wipes. However due to the storage issues and ALTHOUGH we do go through them like CRAZY...we don't need nine six pack boxes each month. So unless someone has a problem with this, we have decided to do divide up the months. Which means 3 children per month and you only have to remember every third month. Is that good for everyone? This is a preliminary schedule so let me know if you want to switch or have problem:

For October: Shawn, Alyssa, Brooke (and since you brought a big box just the other day- no need to bring more and we will keep using the sensitive ones on just her)

For November: Jay, Landon, Noah

For December: Leah, Boston, and Madeline

- Also, Gateway Bible Church- which is the church that supports the Gateway to Learning Ministry we are all involved in hosts a "Jesus Celebration" on October 31st as a safe christian alternative to Halloween. This is COMPLETELY separate from our fall party and activities but a fun event to attend. Each year we have a booth in which we sell or auction off items to raise money for the church and ALL of its ministries. We have several options as to what we can do as a class...but I guess I just kind of wanted to put feelers out there to see what special talents or gifts or things of that nature you would be willing to donate. Some of the ideas that were passed on to me were:- scrap booking supplies/lessons (I really have no clue what that means)- Sports tickets and or paraphernalia- spa certificates/ women's treat baskets/ candles, lotions, pedis/manis, massages...- Christmas wrap, ribbons, bows, tags...- wreaths- craft items- A family game night basket- couples night out,movie tickets, dinner card, babysitting (wonder who will do that part :) ) I know it sounds like a lot, but we only NEED to have one basket so if we all pitch in we should be good. I will take care of getting it all together and we can separate it into smaller more unified baskets if need be...so just start thinking and let me know if you have some awesome ideas.