LOWER SCHOOL NEWS
Friday, October 15, 2004

This year, SFCS Lower School students will be experiencing the exciting SEEDS Program, which enhances a child’s critical thinking skills, research skills, productive thinking skills and love of literature. This program is brought into the classrooms through parent volunteers. To be one of these volunteers, you are required to attend a training session conducted by SEEDS creator, Dr. Mildred Young. In order to schedule an additional training session, we would like interested parents to contact your child’s teacher and let them know which of the following times would best suit your schedules. 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. or 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. After tallying the results, a session will be scheduled on a specific day.

Andrea Godsey's K5 Class

The SFCS Kindergarten class of Andrea Godsey went “ape” during their recent study of jungle animals. In addition to studying animals, the students read Where the Wild Things Are and grew a jungle inside the classroom! “It became bigger each day until it grew out the door!,” said Godsey. As a culmination to the unit, several fun activities were planned. First, “the animals” escaped and the students had to go find them on a Safari. Students wore safari hats and searched with binoculars.

Get out your overalls, plaid shirts and straw for SFCS’ PK4 Scarecrow Day! Our little ones will be celebrating the start of fall on Friday, October 29, by dressing up as scarecrows and having a fall ball to welcome the cool autumn weather.

SFCS K5 classes also enjoyed life on the farm during a recent field trip to Whispering Pines Horse Farm

The SFCS Kindergarten class of Debbie Patterson recently completed a unit study of jungle animals and Noah’s Ark. The children enjoyed several crosscurriculum activities including making animal masks, entering Noah’s Ark two-by-two and eating a “ jungle feast” of ants (raisins), straw (cereal), and bananas dipped in mud (chocolate syrup).

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