New website for supplies

I know this year is coming to an end. but it's always good to have learning supplies on hand. My friend showed me this site that has some great deals stuff. Enjoy : www.discountschoolsupply.com

The Rest of the Year!

Hooray the McKenzie's are back! Here is the schedule for the rest of the year. If you have a conflict with a day that you are teaching please try to trade with someone!

We are going to try and take one last field trip using the Culture Pass from the Library! My vote is Children's Museum or the Science Museum! We can decide when it gets closer. I am throwing out the date of MAY 1 (that's a Friday). Please let me know if that works for you! Then we will decide where we are going!

I will be gone by May 13. So if you guys want to do an end of the year party or get together of some sort someone else will need to take charge! Unless of course you just want to do it before the 13th and I would be glad to do it---just let me know!

So take a look at the side bar for the rest of the year's schedule!

Zoo

Be to the Zoo by 9:30 am. Anyone want to carpool or caravan?
Kate Martell is coming she has a pass and 2 additional adult passes.
Gavin can get discount tickets : Need to know by Thursday Morning if you want those.
Phoenix Zoo

Adult (13+) 14.00 11.50

Child (3-12) 6.00 4.50

Music and Activities for the months of January and February

January 16th: Music Day at Nicolle's

January 30th: Phoenix Zoo

February 13th: Music Day & Valentine's Day Party!!! If everyone can bring Valentine's cards for each student that would be great!! We'll be making goodies and a craft project.

February 27th: Dinosaur Museum

Hopefully everyone is on board with these activities! It will be nice weather for the zoo, so I figured we better take advantage while we can!!

Lesson Plan for Activities in December

In my attempt to be more planned and prepared I have decided to schedule for activities in December. For Friday, December 5th I would like to have a field trip to Wildlife Zoo. I will try to recruit a few women in the ward to come so we can get the preschool rate. Then Friday, the 19th we can have a Christmas party. I will plan all the activities, games, and we'll draw names beforehand for a fun cheap secret Santa gift exchange! We can have it here or maybe so everyone can come do it at the park for more space! Love to get everyone's feedback! Thanks!

Pumpkin Patch???

Okay if ya'll would like to take a vote... Sorry I am just doing this now but I have been trying to get everyone's thoughts and ideas as to what they would prefer! It sounds like everyone would like to have husbands go. So since it is open until 11pm I propose we do it for F.H.E. on Monday night. There is no discounted rate but it is $7 per child 2 and up. A little pricey, I know! but it does sound fun! So I am open to do Music Day tomorrow. It is up to you guys!

Question?

Is the Pumpkin Patch still happening?I know we talked about making it a weekend or family night thing.

Lesson Plan (10/24)

Well thanks to KT I have found our halloween activity for the end of the month! There is the cutest little farm with a petting zoo, mini mazes, play areas, a bounce house, and of course a pumpkin patch. Admission is $7 per kids ages 2 and up. I am going to call and see if there is any discounted rates for preschools and get more info! But check out their website! It looks like a hit!! http://www.tolmachoff-farms.com/
P.S. I am getting together a circle time CD with the songs that I use for Briana. It includes Shake my wiggles out, Welcome song, Goodmorning song, Days of the week song, Months of the year song, and a few more I'm deciding on. Let me know if anyone else is interested in me burning them one! Thanks! ;)

FYI-- Art Easel

For your imformation---- Big Lots has a 2 sided art easel on sale this week for $20.00. One side is a chalk board and the other side is a white board, with a bottom area to store chalk, markers, etc. I think I will be getting one to use for preschool (or maybe even just to give to the kids for Christmas---and then use it for preschool!) Just thought you might be interested!

Lesson Plan for 10/10

For activity day I thought we could go to Oasis gym. The crossroads are 87th ave and Bell rd. and the street name is Kelton. I have several free punch cards so if every family can do the $5 then I have enough for all the siblings to be free. If I can just get a count of everyone who would be able to attend so I can let them know. It starts at 10am and goes until 11am. They set up several preschool aged play areas. There is a huge foam pit to jump into and a couple trampolines. It is really fun and my kids love it! We tend to go at least once a week. Let me know your thoughts and hopefully everyone can come play!

Request

Please label your posts. there is a list already going on the side, if your post fits into one great! try to keep it a general label so that more then just one post fits under the category. I went in and added labels to all the posts so far and changed the label on Briana's post to science instead of magnetism numbers instead of number 1.
Thanks,
Maren

Schedule CHANGE

I (Briana) am going to be out of town next week. Shelly will be taking my Thursday, so the schedule for the next couple of weeks is:

Tuesday Sept.23-- KT's (no change)
Thursday Sept. 25-- Shelly's
Friday Sept. 26-- Nicolle's (no change)
Tuesday Sept. 30-- Maren's (no change)
Thursday Oct. 2-- Briana's

I changed the schedule on the side bar to reflect the change!