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One of our most beloved traditions is the Carnation Ceremony. Each fall, the seniors welcome the Sunrise (TK and K) students to the school with a flower; in the spring, the Sunrise students wish the seniors well by offering them a flower.
We are excited to announce the date for the fall ceremony, which will take place in a special Quaker Meeting on Monday, Sept. 22 at 1:30 p.m. at New Garden Friends Meeting, located at 801 New Garden Road.
We hope you can be there for this special celebration. If you plan to join us, please RSVP by Thursday, Sept. 18 by sending an email to Head of Middle and Upper School Tanisha Jones at tanisha@ngfs.org. Please include the number in attendance (not including your student) when you send your RSVP.
Note about Dismissal: The Sunrise class will travel by small NGFS bus to the meetinghouse for this event. The ceremony will end by 2:30. Sunrise parents/guardians who attend are welcome to take their Sunriser home from the meetinghouse after the ceremony. Remaining students will be bused back to campus for regular dismissal and Extended Care.
WEEKLY NEWS
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We survived our first full week of Sunrise and there was lots of fun and learning to be had by all! The highlight of our week was getting to meet our senior buddies on Friday. We got to pick a book to read with them and then we played on the playground. We are really looking forward to the Carnation Ceremony next Monday, Sept. 22. On Friday, we also had our first lower school meeting for worship in the gym. We sang some songs that we have been learning in music class and learned what it means to be in this space as a group.
This week in math, we continued counting to five the math way. We have also been discussing why it is important to know how to write our numbers so we can communicate with people how much of something we may need. We learned how to write the numerals 1-5 this week and we practiced counting a collection of objects and then writing the corresponding numeral.
In literacy, we finished our unit on lines. We have officially learned all of the lines that we will need to write all of the letters in the English alphabet. We will now start our year long work of learning our letters and their corresponding sounds. The first letter up is Mm. As you go through the week, look for things all around you that start with the letter m. If you would like to send in one item to share with the class, we would love to add the items to our letter museum. We will send the items home with our friends each Friday.
We learned all about our feelings this week and this will be something that we continue to talk about and explore throughout the year. The big three we talked about were happy, sad, and angry. We read a book called “Ruby Finds a Worry,” and discussed how it is important for us to talk about our feelings so they don’t get out of control.
Thank you to everyone who attended Lower School Parent Night on Tuesday. Here are links to the presentations that were shared: