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.

 

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!
        

 

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.