IMPORTANT: December Events, Songs to Practice, Our Christmas Play Script, and Sight Words

DECEMBER EVENTS:

 

Chapel: Monday, December 9th, 2:25-2:55 Guest Speaker: Rebekah!   Singers: Vomvokids!

 

Home and School Club Meeting: Monday, December 9th, 6pm

Carols, Cookies, and Cocoa: Tuesday, December 17th, 3:15-4pm Attendance is optional, but strongly encouraged.  Our Kindergartners will sing Away in the Manger.

Kindergarten Christmas Play: Friday, December 20th at 9am.  We hope to see you all there!  Please help your child memorize his or her lines and practice singing the songs below.  I sent the lines home yesterday.  Below you will find a copy of the entire play.

 

Kindergarten Christmas Party: Friday, December 20th at 1pm.  Our Room Moms will send out an email invitation soon with treat and activity requests.

 

 

MORE DECEMBER NOTES:

 

Theme: Christmas

Songs: Silent Night, Away in the Manger, Joy to the World, We Wish You A Merry Christmas (I encourage you to practice singing these songs together at home.  The lyrics are below.)

Bible: Jesus’ Birth, Shepherds and Wise Men, Christmas Play

Verses:

John 2:3 We know that we have come to know Him if we keep His commandments

Philippians 4:13 I can do all this through Him who gives me strength

John 3:16 God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only son

 

Letters: Dd, Rr, Ee

Sight Words: you, jump, this, do, and, one (new flash cards below)

 

Math: Shapes, Numbers through 10

Social Studies: Christmas

Science: Health and Animals (continue in January)

 

 

Song for Carols, Cookies, and Cocoa Event:

 

Away in a Manger

Away in a manger,
No crib for a bed
The little Lord Jesus
Laid down His sweet head

The stars in the sky
Looked down where He lay
The little Lord Jesus
Asleep on the hay

The cattle are lowing
The Baby awakes
But little Lord Jesus
No crying He makes

I love Thee, Lord Jesus
Look down from the sky
And stay by my cradle,
'Til morning is nigh.

Be near me, Lord Jesus,
I ask Thee to stay
Close by me forever
And love me I pray

Bless all the dear children
In Thy tender care
And fit us for heaven
To live with Thee there

 

 

Our Christmas Play:

 

The Star

Adapted from Joyce Dunbar

 

All: Sing Silent Night

Silent night, holy night

All is calm, all is bright

Round yon virgin, mother and child

Holy infant, so tender and mild

Sleep in heavenly peace

Sleep in heavenly peace

 

 

 

Star: I am the star in the sky

 

 

Shepherds: We are the shepherds watching by night

Star: Who saw the star in the sky

 

Angel: I am the angel shining bright

Shepherds: Who came to the shepherds watching by night

Star: Who saw the star in the sky

 

Donkey 1: I am the donkey with precious load, trudging the long and weary road

Angel 1: Looked on by the angel shining bright

Shepherds: Who came to the shepherds watching by night

Star: Who saw the star in the sky

 

Innkeeper: This is the inn where the only room was out in the stable in the lamp-lit gloom

Donkey 1: For the donkey with precious load, trudging the long and weary road

Angel 1: Looked on by the angel shining bright

Shepherds: Who came to the shepherds watching by night

Star: Who saw the star in the sky

 

Ox: I am the ox

Donkey 2: and I am the donkey

Ox and Donkey 2: who saw such wonders come to be

Innkeeper: At the darkened inn where the only room was out in the stable in the lamp-lit gloom

Donkey 1: For the donkey with precious load, trudging the long and weary road

Angel 1: Looked on by the angel shining bright

Shepherds: Who came to the shepherds watching by night

Star: Who saw the star in the sky

 

Mary and Joseph: This is the manger warm with hay where the newborn baby lay

Ox: I am the ox

Donkey 2: and I am the donkey

Ox and Donkey 2: who saw such wonders come to be

Innkeeper: At the darkened inn where the only room was out in the stable in the lamp-lit gloom

Donkey 1: For the donkey with precious load, trudging the long and weary road

Angel 1: Looked on by the angel shining bright

Shepherds: Who came to the shepherds watching by night

Star: Who saw the star in the sky

 

Wise Man 1: This is the gold and fragrant myrrh and frankincense, the gifts that were

Mary and Joseph: Placed by the manger warm with hay where the newborn baby lay

Ox: I am the ox

Donkey 2: and I am the donkey

Ox and Donkey 2: who saw such wonders come to be

Innkeeper: At the darkened inn where the only room was out in the stable in the lamp-lit gloom

Donkey 1: For the donkey with precious load, trudging the long and weary road

Angel 1: Looked on by the angel shining bright

Shepherds: Who came to the shepherds watching by night

Star: Who saw the star in the sky

 

Wise Man 2 and 3: We are the wise men who came from afar who also saw and followed the star

Wise Man 1: Bearing the gold and fragrant myrrh and frankincense, the gifts that were

Mary and Joseph: Placed by the manger warm with hay where the newborn baby lay

Ox: I am the ox

Donkey 2: and I am the donkey

Ox and Donkey 2: who saw such wonders come to be

Innkeeper: At the darkened inn where the only room was out in the stable in the lamp-lit gloom

Donkey 1: For the donkey with precious load, trudging the long and weary road

Angel 1: Looked on by the angel shining bright

Shepherds: Who came to the shepherds watching by night

Star: Who saw the star in the sky

 

Angels: This is the child who was born to be king, peace on earth and goodwill he will bring

 

Wise man 2 and 3: We are the wise men who came from afar who also saw and followed the star

Wise Man 1: Bearing the gold and fragrant myrrh and frankincense, the gifts that were

Mary and Joseph: Placed by the manger warm with hay where the newborn baby lay

Ox: I am the ox

Donkey 2: and I am the donkey

Ox and Donkey 2: who saw such wonders come to be

Innkeeper: At the darkened inn where the only room was out in the stable in the lamp-lit gloom

Donkey 1: For the donkey with precious load, trudging the long and weary road

Angel 1: Looked on by the angel shining bright

Shepherds: Who came to the shepherds watching by night

Star: Who saw the star in the sky

 

All: Sing Joy to the World and We Wish You a Merry Christmas(1^st verse)

Joy to the world, the Lord is come

Let earth receive her King

Let every heart prepare Him room

And heaven and nature sing, and heaven and nature sing

And heaven, and heaven and nature sing

 

We wish you a Merry Christmas

We wish you a Merry Christmas

We wish you a Merry Christmas

And a Happy New Year!

 

Good tidings to you

And all of your kin

Good tidings for Christmas

And a Happy New Year!

 

 

Vomvokids’ Sight Words

We learn two new sight words every week in Kindergarten.  We practice reading, spelling, and writing these words every day.  Here are the sight words we have learned so far this year:

 

 

I	big	can
in	it	like
up	a	find
see	two	we
go	not	to
red	have	name
play	too	run
for	blue	are
you	jump	this
do	and	one

 

Please practice these words with your child at home until he or she can read them fluently. When your child is able to read all of these words to me he or she will get a prize from the prize box! I will update the list every month. Thank you for your support!