Butterfly School
RIVERSIDE CHURCH OF CHRIST
RBS Monthly Newsletter
2024 OCTOBER
HELLO FALL!! Looking forward to the cooler weather ahead! We are off to a wonderful busy start of the year! God is good! There is a LOT in this newsletter– please invest a few moments to read carefully!
As required by the State of Texas Childcare Licensing, we routinely conduct fire, emergency and bad weather drills. During the drill, red emergency signs will be placed on the school entry doors and the doors will be locked. There is absolutely NO ADMITTANCE during the drill until all students return to their classrooms.
If you arrive to school late and we are conducting a Fire Drill, your child may not join their class. Although classes are visible in the parking lot, Fire Drill protocol requires teachers maintain an accurate student headcount for the duration of the drill. This is a safety requirement to account for every child. This means if the classes are out in the parking lot during a fire drill, you will still need to wait with your child in your car until all the classes have returned to their classrooms and I have removed the signs from the doors. These drills should be finished by 9:35.
DATES TO REMEMBER in OCTOBER!
- 11- NO SCHOOL FRIDAY - CISD out
- 15 - Butter Braid Time information coming home.
- 24- Thursday, T-Shirt Day
- 24- Thursday, Hip hip hooray! It's Pizza Day!
- 31- FALL PARTIES
Metrocrest Can Drive Information Coming Home last week of October
It's BUTTER BRAIDS time!!
On Wednesday October 15, your child will bring home an order form for our BUTTER BRAIDS fundraiser. Butter Braids are a delicious quick serve pastry. If you've never experienced the delicious yumminess of a Butter Braid, you are missing out! These frozen, ready to bake treats are great to keep in the freezer for when unexpected company shows up or for when you just need something sweet to go with your morning cup of Joe.
There are two ways to order:
1. Use the order form sent home in your child's yellow folder on October 15. You will have to collect payment (cash) at the time people order.
OR
2. BE ON THE LOOKOUT for an email from: myfundraisingplace.com
This will be an online store option that offers a feature to email participants a personalized link to the online store that can be shared with friends and family. This is the 'easy breezy' way where you don't collect money, friends purchase and pay on line.
We will collect orders from October 15 through October 31.
Butter Braids will be delivered on Wednesday November 20- just in time for Thanksgiving! Easy breakfast for visiting family!
These fundraisers are very important to our school. Your support is VERY much appreciated.
CHECK IT OUT! WOW!
A Butterfly School "FREE LITTLE LIBRARY" Book Wagon!! COMING SOON!
Butterfly School is incredibly grateful to Debbe France for her thoughtfulness and dedication in organizing our new Butterfly School book wagon. Her hard work, creativity and passion for nurturing a love of reading in young learners, is truly appreciated. we are delighted to share her vision with all of you.
Early reading is directly related to later school success. With that in mind, Butterfly School has built its own Free Little Library. Our little library is a free book sharing box- anyone can take a book or share a book. Your child liked a book? Bring it back for someone else. Your child loved a book? Feel free to keep it. And we welcome all donations!
FOOD for FAMILIES Metrocrest Can Drive
Each year Butterfly School collects non-perishable food to give to families in need for the holiday season . You will be receiving a letter in your child's folder detailing the items their class is collecting. God has blessed each of us in so many ways! We are learning to be thankful as we share with others who are not as fortunate. Have your child participate in going to the store with the purpose of picking up food for our Metrocrest Food drive.
Encourage your child to place the food items they brought into their class basket themselves. By them participating in the grocery shelf to class basket experience, it helps reinforces the understand of how important it is to give to others.
Riverside Church Engage Sunday
This past Sunday, our congregation participated in Engage Sunday, where various groups served our community in meaningful ways. One of our parents, Leah Bradshaw, organized a beautiful prayer walk through Butterfly School. Many of our families walked through the hallways and classrooms, praying over our children, teachers and school. It was truly heartwarming to witness the incredible support from our church family.
Hip Hip Hooray It's Pizza Day!
Pizza day was a huge success! Our kids had fun! Our next Pizza Day is Thursday, October 24!
💟 SPECIALS TEACHERS 💟
aka- The Fabulous Five
As you can see, Butterfly School is blessed with the best specials teachers!
From Left to Right:
Ms Jennifer-RBS Art Teacher/3s Aide
Ms Sandra-RBS Spanish Teacher{Pre-K} and Toddler/2s Aide
Ms Tracy- RBS Assistant Director and Science Teacher
Ms Chris- RBS Chapel Teacher
Ms Jenny- RBS Music Teacher
✝️ ✝️CHAPEL CHAT Ms Chris✝️ ✝️
So many exciting things are happening during October in Chapel. Fall is in the air and we are noticing our world is bursting with color! Our lessons will focus on God's creations, including creating us. We will talk about how God takes care of us through the Bible stories about Moses and Elijah. The Bible teaches us to take care of each other and on October 30th you will be hearing about Butterfly School's Metrocrest can drive!
We CAN take care of each other!!
October's Memory Verse is Genesis 1:31 "Everything God made was very good."
Ms. Chris
🎶 🎹 MUSICAL MOMENTS 🎶 Ms Jenny 🎹🎵
October is here! This month in music we will be we will be dancing with the falling leaves and rocking along with pumpkins! Did you know that rocking back and forth, side to side, and spinning helps strengthen your child’s vestibular system? The vestibular system helps us with balance, spatial relations, and coordinating movement with balance.
🖍️AMAZING ART 🎨🖌️ Ms Jennifer ✂️
Happy Fall! I’m excited to be starting art class and appreciate your patience as we transitioned back to school. October is one of my favorite months in art class. We will be learning about Vincent Van Gogh and completing two of his most famous pieces, Starry Night and The Sunflower. See you all soon!
🇲🇽 SPANISH ole! 🌸🏵️🌸 Ms Sandra 🇲🇽
Hola y bienvenidos a las clases de español. Mi nombre es Sra. Sandra y seré la maestra de sus hijos este año escolar. Estoy muy contenta de que estén aquí este año. En el mes de octubre comenzaremos con el alfabeto y un día festivo especial. Estoy muy feliz de comenzar nuestra clase de español. Los veré en octubre.
OR
Hello and welcome to Spanish classes.
My name is Ms. Sandra and I will be your child's teacher this school year.
I am so glad that you are here this year. In the month of October we will start with the alphabet and a special holiday. I am very happy to start our Spanish class. I will see you in October.
🧪SENSATIONAL SCIENCE 🧲⚗️Ms Tracy🔍
In Science this month we’ll be learning about liquids and solids while making Halloween Goop, chemical reactions making Pumpkin-canos erupt and diffusion during a “sweet” skittle activity.
🧸 TOTALLY WONDERFUL TODDLERS 🧸
Ms Lino- Toddler Teacher
Ms Stephanie- Toddler Teacher
Ms Mary- Kitchen Manager
Ms Sandra- Toddler Aide
🧍🧍🏻TOP KNOTCH TWOS 🏃🏃🏻♀️
Ms Paola- 2A Teacher
Ms Ariel- 2A Teacher
Ms Sandra- 2s Aide
Ms Sarika- 2B Teacher
Ms Vanessa- 2A Teacher
🧩🖍️ TERRIFIC THREES📌🌟
Ms Colleen- 3C Teacher
Ms Robbie- 3B Teacher
Ms Jennifer- 3s Aide
Ms Liza- 3A Teacher
🎈📘 FABULOUS FOURS ✨🎓
Ms Uma- Pre-K Aide
Ms Marsha- Pre-K 4A
2024-25 Riverside Butterfly School Teachers and Staff
Each month our specials teachers post highlights of what is happening in their classes.
These fantastic educators are what makes RBS an outstanding school. These dedicated professionals make a huge difference in the daily lives of our students. Each of these fantastic teachers plays an important part in the success of our school. They are a genuine blessing to our children every day.
Our Sensational Substitutes
We could not do it without the help of these amazing teachers! We are blessed that they can step in at the last moment and seamlessly continue instruction and not miss a beat! THANK YOU
Ms Nikkie
Ms Brittani
Ms Laura
TOY SAFETY & RECALS
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission posts recalls to it website. RBS keeps a notebook of these recalls for you to view on the red shelf outside my office. If a toy on this list is in classroom, immediately removed,
RIVERSIDE BUTTERFLY SCHOOL
Take a look at our Butterfly School Facebook page. Also look at our Riverside Church of Christ Butterfly School web site for more information on our amazing program.
address: 150 East Belt Line Road, Coppell, Texas 75019
phone: 972 745-0372- leave a message
email: butterflyschool150@gmail.com
RIVERSIDE CHURCH OF CHRIST
Riverside Butterfly School is a Riverside church ministry. Our school shares space with our church family. We welcome you to join us for worship on Sunday.
8:45 a.m. - Acappella Worship Assembly
10:00 a.m. - Bible Classes for all ages
11:00 a.m. - Acoustic Worship Assembly