Wednesday, September 1 — Meet your child's teacher! 4 to 6 p.m.
August Events!
Monday, August 9th — Michigan Adventure Trip $52/per person includes transportation and park ticket. 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.
Wednesday, August 11th — FREE Metro Skate Bring a friend to be entered to win a $50 gift card!
6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Wednesday, August 18th — Casino Run! $45/per person. Participants must be 21 or older. 8 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Friday, August 27th — Community Carnival and Health Fair $10 wristbands or tickets 5/$1. 5 to 8 p.m. Also bring old soccer gear for a soccer swap!
Call 684-6484 for more information or reservations for any of the events! See you there!
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School Board Meetings
The Bay County PSA School Board meets the second Wednesday of each month beginning at 5:30 pm.
The public is welcome to attend these meetings and reminders of Board Meetings are posted on the parking lot doors 7 days in advance of the meeting.
Members of the public can sign up to speak to the Board before the meeting starts or you can just observe.
Counselor's Corner
By Amy L. Norton-Varela, MA, LLPC
50 things to do this Summer
1. Write numbers from 1 to 100.
2. Find an object in your house that begins with each letter of the alphabet.
3. Write 10 sentences. Use a number word in each sentence.
4. Make something in the kitchen involving the use of measuring cups.
5. Go outside and find things for every color of the rainbow.
6. Write a story about your pet or a pet you would like to have.
7. Write a letter to someone.
8. Write the names of five friends, now make as many words using the letters of their names as you can.
9. Write the long vowels on a sheet of paper. Think of four words for each vowel sound.
10. Make a scrapbook of animal pictures. You might want to choose a animal you like. See if you can find some old magazines or calendars to look for the pictures.
11. Read a story to someone.
12. Count the money in your wallet or ask mom or dad to give you some coins to count.
13. Keep a journal of what you do during the Summer. Write in it at least 2 times each week.
14. Write numbers from 101 to 300.
15. Write the alphabet three times in your best printing or cursive writing.
16. Go outside. Find things for the sense of touch, things that are smooth, rough, prickly, sharp, hard, soft, dry, wet, etc. Make a log book
of what you discover.
17. Correctly spell as many color words as you can, try some of the harder ones too like turquoise and burgundy.
18. Write numbers by 5’s to 100 and then to 1000.
19. Make little signs to name things in your room. Put them up in your room.
20. Draw a picture of something outside. Write 5 or more sentences about it.
21. Write all the number facts that will add to 10. (6 + 4 = 10, etc. )
22. Go on a nature hike. Collect things and put them in a picture.
23. Pretend you are a giant. Write a short story about it.
24. Write numbers from 301 to 500.
25. Cut out words from the newspaper - one for each letter of the alphabet
26. Use the letters in the word SASKATCHEWAN to write as many words as you can.
27. Write all the number facts that will add to eighteen.
28. Find a recipe that uses a color word in it's title and help your mom or dad make it.
29. Count out loud to 1000
30. Write 10 sentences. Use a color word in each sentence.
31. Write numbers by 2’s to 100 (2, 4, 6...)
32. Have your mom or dad register you in a day camp program with your community league, library or a church.
33. Write a fairy tale. Then read it to someone younger than you.
34. Write the short vowels on a sheet of paper. Think of a five words for each vowel sound.
35. Write a poem about the weather, an animal or a plant.
36. Plant something outside or help take care of a garden.
37. Imagine that you have an alligator as a pet. Write a story about it.
38. Cut apart the squares of a comic strip. Mix them up. Rearrange them in the correct order and then rearrange them into a funny mixed up story.
39. Compare your bike with a friend’s bike. How are the alike? How are they different? Then do a safety check on both bikes.
40. Make a sandwich. Cut it in half and then in fourths, see if you can cut it into eighths too.
41. Make a list of everything you can find that is orange.
42. Cut out words from a magazine. Make sentences out of them.
43. Video tape your neighborhood and any holidays you go on to share with your friends when you go back to school in the Fall.
44. With your parent's permission, find one person on your block who is elderly and offer to help them with their yard work one afternoon.
45. Write any ten numbers between 1 to 100. Cut them out and mix them up. Arrange them again from smallest to largest.
46. Cut out a picture from an old calendar. Cut it into puzzle pieces and then put it back together.
47. Take your dog or your neighbor's dog for a walk, read a book about dogs and try to teach it a new trick.
48. Choose a flower out of your garden, learn everything you can about that flower.
49. Make price tags for several objects in your room. Make some play money and use it to buy the things in your “play store.”
50. What would you do if you lived during the time of dinosaurs? Write a story about it.
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