Late Tuition

Tuition for November is now late.  Late fee notices are going home today and tomorrow.  Please add $15 to your payment.  Thanks so much.

Vitamins

Congratulations to Preschool 2 (Ms. Betsy, Ms. Laurel and Ms. Pam) for collecting the most vitamins for our medical mission for both sets of days!

Mon/Wed collected 60 bottles!
Tues/Thurs collected 7 bottles!

They will be celebrating next week with a pizza party, and their class pictures will be posted in the foyer.

A big thank you to all parents who brought vitamins for our mission trip down the Amazon.  Our church members leave the end of October, and I know the children will be blessed by your contribution.

Fall Parties and Costume Parade

Next Tuesday and Wednesday we will have our Fall Parties and Costume Parade.  The teachers should have notified you of what they need for the parties.  Obviously, the little guys in the Nursery won't do much in the way of "partying" and each of the class activities are determined by their age.  Nursery, it is completely optional whether you want your child in a costume or not.  

If the weather is pretty, we do a costume parade outside (exception is Nursery since some are still not walking well).  The children and teachers walk along the sidewalk getting treats along the way from our administrative/support staff.  They end their walk with a trip to the church offices for another treat up there. Hopefully, it will not rain!  If it does, we will do the parade inside and go from room to room. 

We ask that you please send your child in his/her costume.  If they want to change out of the costume, we ask that you have play clothes on underneath.  It is supposed to be chilly those days, so the extra layers will be a good thing!  Because we are a church and a preschool, we ask that you do not dress your child in any scary costume or one of a "devilish" nature (devil, witch, ghost, etc.).  This year you will see our teachers dressed up as storybook or Disney characters!

It will be a great week!  Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!  Stay warm :)

SpoiledRottenPhotography

Just a reminder that orders for SpoiledRottenPhotography are due Wednesday, October 24th.  If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail me, and I will direct your question to the right place.

Reminders

• Tuition is due now.  You may use PayPal over the Fall Break if you haven't paid.  It can be found on the right side of the blog.
• Fall Break - no school Monday and Tuesday, October 22 and 23
• Scholastic orders are due Thursday, October 18 - we are only doing online orders this year - www.scholastic.com/bookclubs.  School code is GPTH7
• Don't forget to get your Kroger gift card!  $5 gets you a $5 Kroger gift card tied to Shining Light.  Continue to add $$ to the card when you use it, so that we receive a percentage.  
• You should have received an e-mail link to your pictures from SpoiledRottenPhotography.  There was also a hard copy sent home in your child's folder.  If you have not received information about your child's photographs, please e-mail me at shininglight@franklinchristianchurch.com.

FYI Again

We sent about four more suspected cases of Hand, Foot, and Mouth home yesterday.  Once again, it is a virus and often not very bad at all.  Children will run a low-grade fever and develop blisters on hands, feet, and mouth.  It is very contagious. However, they are most contagious before the blisters ever break out.  It lasts about five days.  The serious part of it is if the blisters get inside the mouth.  That can be very uncomfortable.  If you want more information, visit the site below.

http://kidshealth.org/parent/infections/skin/hfm.html

We disinfected like crazy yesterday, and hopefully, with the little break today and this weekend, we will all be healthy by Monday!  Make sure you wash your child's hands frequently!

Just a little reminder that November tuition is due on Monday and Tuesday next week.  I don't know about you, but this fall seems to be flying by!

I got the chance to escort the children back and forth to have their pictures made this week.  I think you will be very pleased with the outcome.  There were some adorable pictures taken, and we can tell the children who are pros at the picture-taking game; they were too, too funny!  We had a great time watching them.  We appreciate SpoiledRottenPhotography.  They were wonderful as we worked them non-stop!