Community News - Week 4

Pizza Day this week!

In Other News: 
Our very own Ann Ordway will be speaking at the Battle Ground Library Tuesday, October 6, 6-7:30 pm.  The title of her talk is What’s the Big Deal About Money?  This event is best served for student’s grades 3-6 along with a parent. I’m looking forward to learning some helpful hints for our kids!

Following Essentials:

Weather permitting; I plan on heading to the park following Essentials again this week.  If you are free we would love to have your families join us. 

Kiwanis Park

422 SW 2nd Ave
Battle Ground

Pumpkin Patch:

There is still time to sign up for the pumpkin patch field trip. 

Community News - Week 3

Parent’s Night Out:

Please note our location CHANGE!

When: Tuesday September 22^nd @ 6:30pm

Where: Northwood Public House and Brewery

1401 SE Rasmussen Blvd.

Battle Ground, WA, 98604

We have a reservation for the back room under Classical Conversations Battle Ground.  

Hope to see you there tomorrow night!

Picture Day:

Don’t forget picture day this week.  Order sheets have been emailed to your inbox. 

Pumpkin Patch Field-trip:

Bizi Farms

Tuesday, October 6^th at 10:30am

Please arrive 15 minutes early so we can enter the tour as a group. 

$5 per child, parents are free (unless they want a pumpkin)

Activities include:  Climbing on the bale pyramid, seeing farm animals, going through the bale maze, hayride and picking out a pumpkin to take home. 

Sign-ups will be available this week at CC.

Washington State Capital Tour:

Heather Hibbs a Challenge Director in Clark County has coordinated a Washington State Capital Tour. 

The tour will be on Monday, January 26, 2016.  We will have a sign up at BGCC starting the first Thursday in October.  A final number count must be turned in no later than November 1^st. 

I’m so excited to take my older children to see our government in action.  This tour will show us how bills are passed, how we can voice and participate in the decisions that are being made in our government. 

**This field-trip is for 4^th -12^th graders only**

Welcome to Battle Ground Classical Conversations

Good Morning CC Families,

Summer is rapidly drawing to a close.  Stepping outside you can feel the nip in the air this morning.  Our family has spent the last few weeks shifting gears from endless summer to preparing for the upcoming school year.  I'm going to miss all the fun and exciting adventures that summer held for us but I can't wait for autumn leaves, apple cider, read-aloud stories and soup simmering on the stove.  Having our children learning at home together as a family is such a blessing.  What joy we have to walk alongside them as they explore the wonders of science through the observation of nature, ancient history, math, Latin and preparing for weekly presentations.  Fun times coming this fall!

We have a new BLOG! 

The Director and all tutors will be using this site to communicate weekly class recaps and highlights as well as any important reminders and updates. In order for you to stay up to date on these topics, it is important that you take a minute to go to the blog and subscribe to updates by entering your email address in the "Subscribe for Email Updates" box in the far right column. 

The blog address is: www.BGCCFoundations.blogspot.com

The site is still under construction. Please excuse the "mess." 

Each class at BGCC has a tab at the top of the home page. You will be able to find each of your children's class recaps here. Your child's tutor will post to their blog tab by Saturday evening, so all class information will be current and available to view by Sunday AM. To keep email notifications to a minimum, you will not receive an email every time a tutor updates their class page. For this reason, it will be each parents responsibility to check the class tabs for updates each week after Saturday evening. 

We have been looking for an easy way to stay connected and get information to everyone with the least amount of emails and hassle. We will be trying this approach for the 2015-2016 CC year. Please send any questions/concerns regarding the blog to: Amanda@balancedlivingvancouver.com or angiebgcc@gmail.com. 

Pizza Day:

Let's start the year off with PIZZA DAY!  That's right; no need to pack a lunch the first week of CC unless you want to.  Pizza will be available to you for $1 per slice with a GF option at $1.50 a slice.

A sign-up sheet will be located near the coffee station Thursday morning along with a zipper bag to collect pizza money. 

New Babies:

A few mamas have been extra busy over the summer.  We have three new babies: Janell Sorensen had a baby girl, Jodie Rodriguez a baby boy and Tami Smith had her baby boy on Orientation Night (she was obviously excused from our mandatory community meeting :))

Let's bless these ladies with a few freezer meals to take home with them on Thursday.  To sign up to bring a meal, email me at angiebgcc@gmail.com.  Just a reminder, freezer meals can be homemade or ready-made from the grocery store.     

Family Contributions:

Each family will be assigned a family contribution.  These jobs will rotate after our first 12 weeks of the school year.  Each task should only take your family about 5-10 minutes.  Many hands make light work!    I'll bring the job assignments whiteboard to Open Assembly on Thursday.  We'll also ask each family to serve on Pre-Assembly duty one time this school year.  When you are on pre-assembly duty we ask that you arrive by 8:45am and supervise the students as they get seated on their tapes in the Worship Center.  Thank you in advance for jumping in and serving our community in this way! 

Parents Night Out:

When: Tuesday September 22 at 6:30pm

Where: Mill Creek Pub

            1710 SW 9^th Ave

            Battle Ground, WA 98604

Mill Creek has a private room that's been reserved for our CC community.  Join us for dinner or just dessert.

In closing, I'm so excited to live in community with each of you this year.  It's an honor to serve your family as the Battle Ground Classical Conversations Director.  Please join me and praying for God's leading in our families and in our little community this year. 

In Him,

Angie Forrester