Merry Christmas!

Our Christmas party was lots of fun!!!  We made reindeer food, estimated how many Christmas candies were in a jar, made a nativity scene with stickers, and threw snowballs through a wreath.  The snacks were yummy too.  We especially liked the Christmas cupcakes!  Thanks again to Amy Connally for planning the party and to all of our wonderful parent volunteers.  We couldn't do it without you.  We also enjoyed a surprise dessert this week.  Davidson's daddy brought a yummy dessert from McDonald's on Thursday.  What a nice treat.  Thanks Joel!  I hope that each of you have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year.  Have fun and I'll see you in January.

Happy Birthday Jesus!

J is for Jesus!  We celebrated Jesus' birthday this week as we learned about the letter J.  Sage Dining even made us a birthday cake for Jesus.  You will see in our slide show some of the Christmas crafts we've been making as well as some of our Christmas math activities.  We tasted candy canes this week and made a graph showing who liked them and who did not.  We also put numbered Christmas shapes in order from 1 to 20.  There were three teams, and we made it a race.  I think the Christmas tree team won.  It was lots of fun!  On Wednesday we got to watch the K5 classes perform their Christmas play.  It was great!  I'm looking forward to one more week of Christmas fun and learning before the break!

Week of December 12-16

Reading/Language Arts:

-Letter review

-Rhyming words

-Beginning sounds

Math:

-Measurement

-#'s 1-20

-Making patterns

Handwriting:

-Letter writing review

Bible:

-The birth of Jesus,  Luke 2

Reminders

-Thursday - Christmas party 2:00

-Friday - Christmas carols 10:00,  Early dismissal 11:30

Christmas Fun

We've had so much fun this week incorporating Christmas in with our learning activities.  We made patterns on peppermint sticks, practiced beginning sounds, putting letters in ABC order, and rhyming words using gingerbread men.  These are only a few of the activities we've enjoyed this week.  You will see in our slide show that we made volcanoes for the letter V.  We made lava from corn syrup and food coloring.  It was fun to squeeze it onto the paper volcanoes that we made.  We also watched a volcano erupt using baking soda and vinegar.  Hopefully this will help them remember letter V and its sound.  We made cinnamon ornaments this week too.  They made our classroom smell good and they look great on our Christmas tree!  Our K4 class enjoyed a visit from Mrs. Shelley.  She read a great book to us called Someday.  We love Mrs. Shelley!  The Ipads and Ipods are also a big hit in our class.  We have been using them daily for letter writing practice, counting, and much more!  Looking forward to another fun week of learning.  Please note some important dates and reminders below.

Week of December 5-9

Reading/Language Arts:

-Letter/Sound - J

-Beginning sounds

-Review rhyming words

Math:

-#'s 1-15

-Review graphing

-Review patterns

-Measurement

Handwriting:

-Review capital letters

Bible:

-Happy Birthday Jesus!  Luke 2

Reminders

-Scholastic book orders due Monday
-Christmas dress day Thurs. Dec. 8 ( Bring $2 for Wiphan Organization in Zambia and Heritage Baptist Church Toy Sale to participate. )

-Christmas party Dec. 15 from 2-3 p.m.

-Christmas caroling Dec. 16 at 10:00

-Early dismissal Friday Dec. 16 at 11:30