Reminders

• Please remember to bring in a clean towel every Monday. I only have a few extra to spare in our classroom and lately we have been running out of towels!
• return library books on Monday!
• bring snow stuff in a separate bag and remember to take it out at home to make sure it is dry

Important Dates:

• JINGLE JOG-December 22-9:00-9:30-This is our annual fun run in the gym to raise money for our sister school in the Philippines. You are welcome to come watch and even run with your child if you wish! They may wear festive clothing and accessories such as lights and headbands. This is one of the highlights of our year! Mrs. Miller and Miss Brinks will have more information coming soon!
• Christmas party-December 22-10:40-11:40
• Christmas break-December 25-January 7
• School resumes-January 8

What we are learning:

This week in Bible we began our unit on the Christmas story and started putting our Nativity boxes together. We read from our Bibles this week how Gabriel appeared to Mary and told her she was chosen to be the mother of Jesus. We talked about how with God all things are possible as well as how Mary followed God’s plan for her life without even a question or a doubt!

In math this week we continued to work on shapes and what differentiates one from another. We went on a rectangle hunt in our hallways and couldn’t believe how many rectangles we found! Feel free to have your child point out shapes in every day life! They love this activity.

During daily 5 we each had a chance to play a word wall word game as well making a list of friends. During group time with Mrs. Arnold we read books and practiced some phonemic awareness strategies.

In writing workshop we continued working on making lists. This week we made a list of school words together.

In phonics Mrs. Arnold brought a stocking filled with ornaments from her Christmas tree. We worked on saying the words slowly and writing down the sounds we heard. It has been fun to see so many of your children’s favorite ornaments as well. Thank you for sending in all the beautiful pictures!

During our outdoor learning time we took part in some creative play and made Thanksgiving dishes from snow and a participated in a Thanksgiving snow feast!