Weekly News and Homework (a tad early...have a great weekend!!)

Language Arts: We will learn about and practice writing E words, sing songs, read many books, recite our elephant poem, stamp this week’s and last week’s sight words (this, do, and, one), and practice spelling them every day, write upper and lower case letters, write in our journals, sing about letter sounds, make and learn to read E books, continue our literacy center rotations, and more!!

Math:  We will continue our unit on Numbers through 10.  We will also count by 1s, 5s, and10s (to 100!), work with our number of the day (Spanish, tally marks, addition and subtraction problems, etc), and graph the weather.

Bible: This week we will continue to learn about the Shepherds and Wise Men and celebrate Jesus’ birth.  We will read the Bible, sing along with Wee Sing Bible Songs and Wee Sing More Bible Songs, sing Away in the Manger, Silent Night, Joy to the World, and We Wish You a Merry Christmas, review John 2:3 and Philippians 4:13, and pray together every day.   

Science, Social Studies, Art, and Misc: This month’s theme is Christmas and family traditions.  Our biggest project this month will be our Christmas play, which we will be at 9am on Friday, December 20^th.  We will also do our team jobs, attend art class, music class, library, computer lab, and PE, explore the classroom during choice time, and more!!!

Sharing:  We will not have sharing on Friday this week (busy day!).

Donations: If you haven’t already done so, please send $2 to school with your child to help with the cost of the Christmas ornaments we are making with the Kinders.  You will love them; they are adorable!  Thank you!  Also, please continue to bring community snacks to school for our hungry kiddos to eat at afternoon snack time (crackers, cereal, cuties, apples, etc).   Thanks!

 

Upcoming Events:

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

Kindergarten Christmas Play: Friday, December 20th at 9am in Monschke Hall. We hope to see you all there!  Please help your child memorize his or her lines and practice singing the songs.  We will provide most of the costumes, but please dress your child in a comfortable ‘base’ outfit the day of the play.  Solid, neutral colors will work best-- silver, gold, or yellow for the Star, white for the Angels, tan or brown for the Shepherds and Joseph, brown, black, or tan for the Innkeeper and the Wise Men, gray for the Donkeys, and black or brown for the Ox.  Our play is at 9am, so please bring your child to school on time dressed in his or her base outfit.  He or she may change back into school clothes after the play.  We will make ears for the Ox and Donkeys here at school. 

Kindergarten Christmas Party: Friday, December 20th at 1pm.  Yay!!

No school: December 21^st-January 5^th

 

 

This Week’s Homework:

The following assignments should be completed by Friday:

1.     Phonics page for the letter of the week- Ee

2.     Handwriting page for the letter of the week- Ee

3.     2-3 choices from our monthly family activity calendar.

4.     Sight word practice: I, big, we, can, in, it, like, up, a, find, see, two, not, go, to, red, have, name, is, make, play, too, are, run, for, blue, you, jump, this, do, and, one.

5.     Ten minutes (or more!) of reading every night with a parent, guardian, or older sibling, etc.  I’m sure your child would love to read the book in his or her small manila folder to you!  Sight words are fun to read together, too.  Reading together every night is VERY important.  Let’s work together to develop a love of books and reading in our children!

6.     Please help your child memorize his or her lines for our Christmas play.

School library books are due every Wednesday morning.  18 out of 19 kids turned their books in on time last week!  Way to go!!!