Important Dates:

October 6: Beginning of second nine weeks of school
October 7: No School for students/PD Day for teachers
October 8: Class picture day/Students should wear SSA.
October 10: No School
October 13-17: Fall Break
October 20: Students return to school.
October 21: Cheekwood field trip for Faison and Tanner/See below for payment
information. Please return your child’s permission slip.
October 23: Report cards sent home.
October 26: Trunk or Treat at PPE
October 29: Cheekwood field trip for Acker, Brumleve and Hartsock/See below
for payment information. Please return your child’s permission slip.
October 30: Classroom Harvest Parties/1:30-2:30pm. Please let your child’s
homeroom teacher know by October 28 if you plan to attend. Students do not
wear costumes.
October 31: Parent/Teacher conferences/No school for students.
November 6-7: Grandfriends Day
November 12: Nashville Public Library puppet truck visit

The Show will be based on the book Many Moons by: James Thurber.
Many Moons is a magical story about emotion, wisdom, and perception. Princess
Lenore has fallen ill, and there is only one thing that can make her feel better: the moon.
Can the King figure out a way to satisfy his daughter’s demands? Only with the help of an
unassuming assistant… his court jester!

The cost for our field trip to Cheekwood is $4.00 per student. Please see below
for instructions on how to make payment.

Here are instructions for how to use School Cash Online.
1. Go to schoolcashonline.com
2. If you have registered before (this is the same platform that we used last year for
field trips), you should be able to just log in to your account.
If you are new to Percy Priest click “Register.”
1. Once registered, you will be able to add your child. To add your child, the first
question is: “Type in the School Board name and select one from the list.” Ours is
“Metro Nashville Public Schools.”
2. The rest of the questions are just your child’s information!
3. Once your child has been added, you will see “Items” listed across the top. When you
click, you should see your child’s name and the field trip that is available for
payment.
4. Please email morgan.parker@mnps.org if you have any problems with using School
Cash Online.

What We Are Learning for the Week of October 6, 2025:
There will be no homework the week of October 6, 2025. Homework will start
again the week of October 20. Students are encouraged to continue to read at
home daily.

Social Studies:
Spelling Words: There will be no spelling words until the week of October 20.
Phonics: Blending, segmenting, tricky words, and decodable texts
Skills: Nouns; Vowel Digraph ‘o_e’

Wit & Wisdom
Focusing Question: What lessons can we learn through stories about animals?
Texts: The Hart & the Tortoise, The Ant & the Grasshopper, Aseop’s Fables
Math: Unit 3 Addition and Subtraction Comparison Problems
Science: Plant Structures and Function