The Cub Reporter
Dutch Fork Elementary School • 7900 Broad River Road • Irmo, SC 29063 • (803) 476-3900 • FAX (803) 476-3920
www.lex5.k12.sc.us/dutchfork.cfm November 4, 2010
A few important reminders . . .
Change of Transportation – Children must have a written note stating a change of
November
transportation. If a change occurs after the child has arrived at school, please
Word of the Month call the office before 2:00. Please do not send an email message to the teacher
“Citizenship” about changes of transportation. They often don’t get to check their email
before dismissal time. On the rare occasion that you must sign your child out
early, please do so before 2:00. We will be unable to dismiss after this time.
Arrival and Dismissal – Car riders are to be dropped off at the back of the school.
Staff members and safety patrols are on duty to assist your child getting out of
the car and to his/her room or designated area. We encourage you to allow your
Nov 7 child to enter on his/her own. Students are not allowed to be dropped off in
Daylight Savings Ends. Set front of the school at the fire lanes at any time. The only students dropped off
your clock back 1 hour in front of the school are bus riders. Please do not park on the curb coming into
Nov 8 the parking lot and leave your car to walk your child into the building. The car
School Board Mtg. 7:00 @ IMS pool line runs very quickly and smoothly and is well supervised for the safety of
Nov 8, 9 &10 your child. Please use the carpool line when dropping off or picking up your
CogAT Testing 2nd & 4th grade child. If you arrive after 7:50, you will need to come into the building to sign
Nov 11 your child in.
Veterans Day Parade 1:50 Breakfast – If your child eats breakfast at school, he/she must be at school by
Book Fair Begins 7:30 in order to be in class on time. Our cafeteria will close at 7:35 a.m.
Nov 15-19 Classes Begin – Class starts at 7:45 each morning. The tardy bell rings at 7:50.
American Education Week Won’t you please make sure your child is at school on time each day? Children
Nov 16 get off to a much better start when they are not rushed.
PTO Board Mtg. 1:45 p.m.
PTO Meeting and 4th Grade
Performance & Book Fair
Family Night
Nov 17 A huge THANK YOU goes to Mr. Pete
Early Release Day 11:40 a.m.
Stewart for purchasing a Red Bud Tree
Nov 18
Chick-fil-A Spirit Night 5-8 pm for our Secret Garden. Thank you also
at Ballentine Chick-fil-A to Michele Maxson and Allen Handley
Nov 24-26 for planting the tree. If you wish to
Thanksgiving Holidays
purchase an item to be planted in our
Secret Garden, please visit Woodley’s
Garden Center and ask to see the “Wish
List” for Dutch Fork Elementary. You
can donate plants to our Secret Garden
in honor of a teacher or a class.
Media Center Happenings
Please mark your calendars for November 11-
18. That is when the book fair will be here! We
will have lots of great Christmas gift ideas! We
will also be selling gift certificates. Please let
me know if you have any questions. Family
Chick-fil-A Spirit Night Night at the book fair will be Tuesday, November 16. Did you know we have a
November 18 Birthday Book Club? We have a wide selection of titles and price ranges of books
5:00-8:00 p.m. that you can purchase to honor your child on his/her birthday. We will provide a
book plate with their name and birth date to be placed in the front of the book. They
Ballentine Chick-fil-A is will also be the first person to check the book out of the library. Please call if you
sponsoring a Spirit Night for have any questions. Happy Reading!
DFES and will donate 10% of
all DFES sales back to the Senor Farley’s Spanish Spot
school! Make plans to have
your dinner at Chick-fil-A on Senor Farley’s 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade classes are writing stories in
class. Check out the stories by visiting Senor Farley’s website. You
Nov. 18 and tell them you are
can look at the stories from your child’s class or even let your child
from DFES!
read a story from another class. Once you get to the website, click
on “Classroom Stories”.
Web address: www.lex5.k12.sc.us/webpages/cfarley
Celebrate The Music Note
Veteran’s Day
At DFES Our 4th graders are busily preparing for our musical “A Kid’s Life”. A massive
electromagnetic attack from outer space has jammed all technical
Thursday, November 11 systems and there is no electricity, no cell phones, no laptops . . . NO
1:50 p.m. FUN! The kids are in a panic and don’t know what to do until Grandpa and
Grandma arrive on the scene and introduce them to a day filled with daring
and adventure, music and imagination . . . all without fancy gadgets! Our show will
Come help us celebrate! Show be presented Tuesday, November 16 at 6:00 p.m. in the mini theater. This is also
your patriotism by marching or family night for our book fair. Plan now to come and join the fun!
being along our parade route wearing
your red, white, and blue! We are
inviting all DFES family members and
friends who are veterans or are
currently serving in any branch of the
armed forces to march in our parade. Leaves
You are invited to wear your uniforms
and meet no later than 1:45 p.m. in How silently they tumble down
the cafeteria to get in line. The And come to rest upon the ground
parade will start promptly at 1:50 p.m. To lay a carpet, rich and rare,
and circle through the halls of Dutch Beneath the trees without a care,
Fork Elementary! After the parade, Kit Content to sleep, their work well done,
Klub will host a reception in the Colors gleaming in the sun.
cafeteria for all veterans.
At other time, they wildly fly
Until they nearly reach the sky.
Twisting, turning through the air
Till all the trees stand stark and bare.
Exhausted, drop to earth below
To wait, like children, for the snow.
November 2010
Elementary Physical Activity Calendar
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
1 2 3 4 5 6
Rake Make up a new tag Do some animal walks- Do as many push-ups Run five laps around Go bowling with a
some game and play it during pretend to be a turkey, as you can when you your around your house friend or make your
leaves recess. a dog, a horse, a wake up and before after school. Walk two own bowling game
today monkey. What other each meal. more laps to cool down using empty water
and help clean up your animals can you move your muscles. bottles filled with
yard. like? water, sand, or rice.
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
Play Frisbee® with Rake a big pile of Find a step. Step up Stand on one foot. 10 frog jumps, 10 Play your favorite song
your family. leaves. Jump in and and down 50 times. Write your first name pushup jumps, 10 curl and see if you can do
out. Jump around it. Now jump on and off the on the floor using your ups. Repeat 3 times. jumping jacks to the
Swim in it. Now rake it step 20 times. Rest and left foot. Now use your music.
all up and bag it for try it again. right foot to write your
trash pickup. last name. Do ten Play soccer with a
times! friend.
14 15 16 17 18 19 20
Bike ride with your Superman hold for 60 Jump rope Hula hoop for 5 min. Hold a small water Draw the letters of the Play soccer today with
family. No bike? Power seconds 3 times. 10-15 Now lay the hoop 5 bottle in each hand. alphabet in the air using a friend. Use two
hike together on a minutes. steps away from you Do 20 bicep curls, your right hand. Now do empty water bottles to
nearby trail or path. and throw a sock ball bringing the bottle to it again with your left mark the goal area.
into the hoop. Put the your shoulder and hand.
hoop farther away for a back down. Do this 3
challenge. times today.
21 22 23 24 25 26 27
Take a walk with your Play some tennis with a Hold a heavy book with Put a jump rope on the 10 min of jogging with Try some seat drops. Go to an indoor pool
family around the friend. both hands in the center floor. Jump side to side feet kicking your Stand in front of a chair and practice different
neighborhood. of your body and twist over it. Jump forward bottom. Now 10 min and sit back until your styles of swimming. No
side to side. Do this 20 and back over it. Now of jogging with high buttocks touch the seat. pool? Lie on the
times after each meal. make a shape with it knees. Jump high and Do this 15 times before ground and pretend to
and tip-toe on the rope. trying to touch the top each meal. do the strokes.
Keep your balance! of a doorway 20
times.
28 29 30
Challenge a family Make up a dance using Play volleyball with a
member all your best moves. friend using a balloon.
to a Teach it to one of your Play for 30 minutes.
game of family members and
HORSE. dance for 10 minutes.
Duplicated with permission from the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE). For information on quality physical education visit: http://www.aahperd.org/naspe/publications/teachingTools/key-points-ofQPE.cfm
