Weekly News and Homework

Language Arts: We will learn about and practice writing R words, sing songs, read many books, recite our rabbit poem, make trees with our sight words (this, do), 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 R books, continue our literacy center rotations, and more!!

Math:  We will wrap up our shape unit this week.  Our next unit is 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 learn about the Shepherds and Wise Men and continue to 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, recite, discuss, and illustrate Philippians 4:13 (I can do all this through Him who gives me strength—my favorite verse!), 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 have a sharing time every Friday during our afternoon meeting.

Donations: Please send $2 to school with your child to help with the cost of the Christmas ornaments we are making with the Kinders.  Thank you!  Also, we are out of extra/afternoon snacks.  Please send some community snacks to school (crackers, cereal, cuties, apples, etc).  Thanks! 

Upcoming Events:

Chapel: Today at 2:25 Guest Speaker: Rebekah! Singers: Vomvokids!

Home and School Club Meeting: Tonight at 6pm

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. 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 would work best (all white for the Angels, tan for the Shepherds, Joseph, and the Wise Men, Grey for the donkey, etc). 

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

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

 

 

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- Rr

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

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, and do.

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.