Weekly News and Homework

Language Arts: We will learn about and practice writing D words, sing songs, read many books, recite our poem about Doggie Nell, stamp our sight words (you, jump), and practice spelling them every day, write upper and lower case letters, write in our journals, sing about letter sounds, make D books, continue our literacy center rotations, and more!!

Math:  We will continue learning about shapes this week!  This is a fun unit with a lot of hands-on and craft activities.  We will also make our December calendars, count by 1s, 5s, and10s (to 100!), work with tally marks, and graph the weather.

Bible: This week we will learn about Jesus’ birth.  We will read the Bible, sing along with Wee Sing Bible Songs, learn Away in the Manger,  recite 1 John 2:3, and pray together every day.   We will also practice a couple songs to sing next Monday at Chapel.

Science, Social Studies, Art, and Misc: This month’s theme is Christmas and family traditions.  Our biggest projects this month will be our Christmas play, which we will perform for you right before Christmas break.  We have not received confirmation from the church about our Monschke Hall reservation, but we will let you know when the play will be as soon as we hear back from them!  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 have a sharing time every Friday during our afternoon meeting.

 

Upcoming Events:

SCHOOL PICTURE ORDERS ARE DUE NOW! (TOMORROW…) Please turn them in ASAP if you would like to order your child’s school picture.  Thank you!

Monday, December 9^th: Chapel 2:25-2:55 with a special guest speaker, Rebekah Dunbar.  Our class will sing songs on stage this week.  Please join us!!

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

 

This Week’s Homework:

Please help your child complete a little homework each night until it is complete. 

The following assignments should be completed by Friday:

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

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

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, and jump.

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 (your child will get his or her lines Tuesday afternoon).

School library books are due every Wednesday.

 

Thank you for checking your child’s take-home/homework folder every night and making sure it gets back to school every day.