A Festival of Fall Colors

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The first month of school seemed to fly by and now we’re off and running! Our students are all getting to know the routine, our classrooms, and each other. We’re making new friends, learning a lot, and having loads of fun! October marks the start of parties and festivities so please make sure you read the newsletter carefully.

Upcoming Events

10.19.21 Student Pictures

Our individual student pictures this month will be taken by Emily B Hall Photography. Pictures will be during school on Tuesday, October 19th and Wednesday, October 20th. Please refer to the email sent today from Admin for your child’s assigned day. We will be sending package information and prices for purchase via email after your child’s pictures have been taken.

10.22.21 Fall Festival

Please join us for an outdoor FALL FESTIVAL at Rollingwood Academy on the lawn Friday, October 22nd from 6-8pm for a Family Movie Fundraiser Event!

**FREE ADMISSION** to Rollingwood Students. $5 Adults and $3 to non-Rollingwood children. There will be games to play, food for purchase, gift basket raffles, crafts and MUCH MORE!

RSVP to RESERVE YOUR ENTRY TICKETS! To do so, please Venmo @RollingwoodAcademy WITH YOUR LAST NAME AND NUMBER OF GUESTS (ex: 1 Rollingwood Student, 2 children, 2 adults) Your name will be on the list at admissions the night of the event where you will receive your wristband. You will have the chance to purchase additional tickets for games, food and raffle prizes at the event. The first 30 families to RSVP will receive one free raffle ticket and a 2-hour unlimited bowling packing to Pinboys! You will also have the chance to purchase entry tickets at the night of the event with Venmo or cash. All proceeds will go to Rollingwood Teacher Appreciation Week, end of the year teacher gifts and Kindergarten gift to the staff for graduation!

Can't attend but would like to make a donation? Feel free to Venmo @RollingwoodAcademy and be sure to note "donation."

Would you like to volunteer? Please email Jane Pace JaneElizabethBell@gmail.com for opportunities.

10.28.21 Greenbriar Farms

The Little Bluestem 3’s, Southern Sundrops and Honeysuckle classes will be going on a field trip to Greenbriar Farm on October 28th. ALL students are welcome to attend the field trip regardless if your child is enrolled on this day. Students will depart on the bus from school promptly at 9:15am, therefore please plan to arrive to school by 9:00am. The students will be eating their lunch from home at the farm. Please send your child to school on this day dressed appropriately, with a brown bag disposable lunch and snack. Students will return to school around 1:00pm.

*** A field trip permission slip will be sent home in your child’s folder. If you would like to be entered into the chaperone lottery, please do so on the form. You will be notified by your child’s teacher if you have been selected as a chaperone.

***Teachers and chaperones attend for free! If you would like to attend, but you were not selected to be a chaperone, you must send in $10.00 per adult or sibling with your child’s permission slip. Siblings are also welcome! $10.00 includes everything the students participate in, plus a pumpkin. (Siblings 2 and under are free.) Parents may follow behind the bus, or meet the buses at the Farm. ]\

225 Sign Pine Rd, Chesapeake, VA 23322

*** If a child rides on the bus to the farm, they must ride on the bus back to the school.


10.29.21 Fall Character Parade & Party

Please join us for our Fall Character Parade on Friday, October 29th at 11:30am. We would like to invite ALL students to come to school dressed as their favorite book character on Friday, October 29th! If your child does not come to school on Friday’s they are welcome to be dropped off at their classroom at 10:45am, however, please let us know in advance if your child will be coming.

***This will be an all outside event.**** We welcome families to come watch the parade and line up along the front lawn and along the street of Whitton Way. The students will parade out from the main entrance door, down the stepping stones on the lawn, down the sidewalk on Whitton Way and then turn around at the col-de-sac to return back to families on the front lawn for pictures.

Following the parade, we welcome families to join us for pizza party on the back lawn!

  • We will provide the pizza and a Halloween treat on this day, however, please remember to pack your child a snack(s).

  • We encourage you to use items that are in your house. Be creative! Some examples are:

    • Pete the Cat-Blue jeans, yellow shirt, buttons made out of felt or construction paper, cat ears

    • If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff- White long sleeve, jean overalls, cookie made out of cardboard box and black marker.

    • Madeline by Ludwig Bemelmans- Blue dress, red scarf, white knee-high socks, black shoes, sun hat.

    • Remember to send the book in with your child as well!

10.29.21 Pumpkin Decorating Contest

  • It’s time for our annual Classroom Pumpkin Decorating Contest! All classes will participate in decorating a pumpkin as their favorite book character. We need you to help us choose our winner! Make sure to check out their creations during gate duty on Friday, October 29th and vote for your favorite pumpkin!

11.01.21 Conferences

            Now that our students have learned the routine of the school day, our classrooms are busy with starting student assessments. Parent-teacher conferences will be held on Monday, November 1st. The school will be closed for students on this day. Teachers have posted a sign-up sheet on Class Dojo for parents to reserve a time. Conferences will be scheduled in 15/20-minute increments. If you have not already done so, please sign up for a time. If the day/time does not work for you, please contact your child’s teacher to arrange for another day.


Cold & Flu Season

We are entering into the cold and flu season and with Covid-19 there are some concerns with what it will bring. Some of the symptoms of flu and COVID-19 are similar, making it hard to tell the difference between them based on symptoms alone.  If your child has any of these symptoms you must keep them home and they may not return until they are symptom free. We will be calling parents to pick up any child who comes to school ill, in order to keep our teachers and the other students healthy. Diagnostic testing can help determine if you are sick with the flu or COVID-19.

Common symptoms that COVID-19 and flu share include:

  • Fever or feeling feverish/chills

  • Cough

  • Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing

  • Fatigue (tiredness)

  • Sore throat

  • Runny or stuffy nose (outside of the normal)

  • Muscle pain or body aches

  • Headache

  • Some people may have vomiting and diarrhea, though this is more common in children than adults


As always, thank you for sharing your children with us and for your continued support.

Fondly,

Rollingwood Academy Administration

Evelyn Paddack