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Friday, December 12, 2008

Weekly News for December 15-19, 2008

Important Dates:

Wednesday, Dec. 17th- PJ Day and Polar Express Day

Friday, Dec. 19th- Christmas Program in room at 1:00 and Party at 1:45

Christmas Holidays- Dec. 20-Jan. 5th

I hope everyone has a great Christmas break and Happy New Year!

Monday, December 8, 2008

Weekly Newsletter, December 8-12, 2008

December 8-12, 2008
Important Dates/Reminders:
* Thank you to those who have sent in a winter change of clothes.
· If you have not sent in the $1 for the Christmas craft, please do so asap.
* Thanks for the great response to the calendar/behavior change. Don’t forget to only sign that day, not ahead.
* Please remember our Christmas program at 12:30 and our party at 1:00 on Friday, Dec. 19th. I sent home letters letting you know what to send for the party.
* If you would like to come read to our class your favorite Christmas story, please let me know when a good time for you would be. We would love to have you come and visit. We love stories!
* Student Council has kicked off our annual White Christmas food drive. As with our tradition, students will be bringing in can goods or nonperishable items. We will be taking donations until Tuesday, Dec.16th
* Dec. 18th- White Christmas Prog. At 1:00. This is a school wide assembly where we sing and share who won the can food drive.
* Please remember that Friday is our library day. Please help your child remember his/her book on that day. We had 9 not return books last week.

HOMEWORK:
Please help your child write his/her Santa letter at home for homework this week. The paper is inside his/her folders. The top Santa’s head needs to be colored and cut out and attached(if you do not have tape or glue, just send and we will fix it for you) We are going to be displaying these in our room. This is due Friday!

STAR STUDENTS:
Alexis & Cody R.

What We will Learn this week:
We will review all letters/sounds and HF words. We will be learning about Christmas around the world this week. We will visit other Kindergarten classrooms and learn all about Holland, Mexico, and Africa. We will also review 0-20 and patterns.

Friday, December 5, 2008

Gingerbread Time!







We have been reading all kinds of stories about the Gingerbread Baby, Man, Boy, and Friends. We ended our week by making gingerbread cookies to enjoy during our snack time.

Monday, December 1, 2008

Weekly Newsletter December 1-5, 2008

December 1-5, 2008
Important Dates/Reminders:
* Since the weather has changed, please send in a change of winter clothes just in case of accidents. We will be sending home the summer ones.

* I would like to have the children make a Christmas present for you from them. Please send in $1 for the gift and they will bring it home to put under your tree.

* Please notice the note in calendars about a change in behavior rules. We will begin our day with our stickers and if they have to move a stick, they will also have to move their sticker off their calendars. I hope this will help them become more aware of their behaviors.

* I have placed the Make-Up Picture Proofs in book bags. I doubt that we will be able to get these packages back to students before Christmas. I will collect money for them until December 15. At that time I will send them to the company for processing.

* Student Council has kicked off our annual White Christmas food drive. As with our tradition, students will be bringing in can goods or nonperishable items. We will be taking donations until Tuesday, Dec.16th

Dec. 18th- White Christmas Prog.

HOMEWORK:
Math sheet and practice writing the letter. Please make sure homework is returned on Fridays.

STAR STUDENTS:
Leanna & Cody B.

What We will Learn this week:
Reading: We will learn two new letters: Ii and Tt. We will work on sounds and formation of these letters. We will also blend these two sounds to make –it words. We will also talk about character feelings, sequence, and picture details. We will be reading “Gingerbread” stories this week too.

Writing: We will continue to work on trying to sound out words to describe our pictures.

Math: We will be talking about non-standard units of measurement using marshmallows, cubes, links, etc.