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:

In Bible this week we continued our study of the Christmas story. We worked on our Nativity boxes and discussed the greatest Christmas gift ever! God sent his son Jesus to us! We also practiced our verse, Luke 2:6,7-“While they were there the time came for the baby to be born, and she gave birth to her first born, a son. She wrapped him in strips of cloth and placed him in a manger, because there was no room for Him in the inn.”

In phonics this week we looked closely at letters in words and worked on identifying the first and last letters in words. We used a list of our pet names to work on this! Thank you for letting me know all of these amazing names!

During Daily 5 we worked on writing words as well as read to self and working with Mrs. Arnold.

We are beginning to concentrate on handwriting again. We are working hard to stay on the lines as we write and make tall letters tall and small letters small.

This week in engaging God’s world, we talked about the difference between needs and wants. This is a great discussion in kindergarten as it can be so hard to think outside of wants and look to not only our needs but the needs of others as well.

In Math this week we continued to look at shapes. We worked on counting sides to identify a hexagon and realized that it is different than an octagon. We then worked on making hexagons by putting different shapes together! They did so well with th

This week in outdoor learning we looked for the wise men and found them in the burn bright sign! We wore our oaki suits as it was very wet outside!

This week Elias Vanlente was Up in Lights. Elias’ mom came to share all about him! She read us a book entitled, “What would Danny do…”  We helped read the book by helping Danny make hard choices which led to different outcomes in the book! We are so blessed to have Elias in our classroom! He always has us laughing and brings so much joy to our classroom!