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This is a sample of one of our Joaquin Miller Adventure Time newsletters: WELCOME TO JOAQUIN MILLER A.T.! We are glad to be back. We hope you all had a great summer. We see a lot of familiar faces as well as some new faces. We are going to have a wonderfully fun and safe new year. SEPTEMBER THEMES Welcome, Circle of Friends, Yom Kippur, and Autumn/Fall Welcome Week: We spent most of the week getting to know each other and having fun with a lot of activities such as collages, bookmarks, name tags, mats, paper mosaics, painting, drawing, coloring, and playing baseball. Circle of Friends Week: The children made some fun things such as happy faces on place mats, masks, silhouettes, iron beads, paper chains, paper weaving, collages, napkin rings, wreaths, cards, and we also played football. Yom Kippur Week: We celebrated the Jewish holiday, created cute arts and crafts, such as jewelry, pins, coloring, Yahrzeit candleholders, drawing, clay, painting, collages, cards, and we played basketball. Autumn/Fall Week: For the last week of September, we created leaf prints, bookmarks, collages, and papier-mache. We painted, created nutshell bugs, sponge trees, twig people, veggie prints, and we played soccer. OCTOBER THEMES Harry Potter, Goblins, Ghosts and Witches, Creepy Crawlers, Things That Go Bump In the Night Harry Potter Week: In the first week of October, we are creating magic wands, hats, glasses, rag dolls, mini pillows, we drew, colored, made broom pins, witch's brew, and we will play hockey. Goblins, Ghosts, and Witches Week: This week the kids are making spooky arts such as ghosts, sponge goblins, lanterns, marble paintings, witches, foil art, masks, creatures, and they are playing volleyball. Creepy Crawlers Week: Get ready for some scary arts and crafts, such as clay spiders, slinky snakes, bugs, creepy collages, bright bugs, Caterpillars, beetles, and baseball. Things That Go Bump In the Night Week: The kids are enjoying a star collage, night creatures, black cat mats, paper bag owls, bats, painting, under the bed creatures, clay bugs, creepy creatures, pumpkin candy containers, and football. Halloween/Haunted House Week: We are playing basketball, creating orange hats, pencil holders, jack-o‚-lanterns, pumpkin lanterns, candy pictures, 3-D paper mosaics, goop, and we are decorating our room for our famous haunted house. OCTOBER VISITORS During the month of October, we'll have CHP Officer Greenfield bring the new CHP Camero and talk about safety on the road and street. This visit will be on the second. On the following Wednesday, the ninth, we'll have Officer Cave from the Oakland Police Department bring the talking car and give a fun learning presentation on safety. Let's be safe and have fun. On the 23rd, at 2:00, the Oakland Police Department will bring police horses. MUSIC Let's enjoy the music! We will teach keyboard and explore the world of music with the kids. I'm sure the kids will enjoy learning the keyboard. If you wish your child to participate in the keyboard workshop, please do sign up so that we can arrange the schedule for them. -Thank you. SPORTS Hi, sports fans! Throughout the school year the kids will play sports and activities that will teach basic skills and sportsmanship. I know we will have another great school year. If you have any suggestions or comments about some activities you wish your child to participate in, please don't hesitate to speak to us. HOMEWORK HEROES AND HEROINES CLUB With the start of school, there comes homework. We encourage all A.T. students to become Homework Heroes. To be in our Homework Club, all a child has to do is let a teacher know he or she wants to join and get signed up on the homework chart. The children do homework at A.T. and get a point for each day they do it. Along the way, they will earn prizes for their hard work and then participate in the BIG Homework Heroes Club Ice Cream Party at the end of the school year. We hope to see everyone participating and having fun. We are off to a good start with over 100 students enrolled in our club already. Once again, Welcome to A.T. Love, Your Adventure Time staff If you would like to call us, our number is: 510-531-7782.