December 9, 2016

Dear Parents,       

It is almost Christmas time.  We have been working on more letters of Christmas things.  We began the week with making our Gingerbread houses for G.  Thanks for sending in everything for the gingerbread houses and for those who came in to help, they turned out great.  We have them displayed around the room to decorate for Christmas.  We will send them home before they get out on break.  We did H and practiced how Santa says Ho! Ho! Ho!, for I – we made Icicles, for J – we made Jingle Bell bracelets, for K – we talked about Kris Kringle and have begun discussing how other countries celebrate Christmas, We have been writing down what we have done for each letter.  You can see that list when we finish up next week.  We also discussed this week some of the different holiday ways people celebrate at Christmas time.  We discussed Hanukkah and made a menorah, and Jesus and made a manger scene.  In math, we have discussed the shape hexagon and reviewed over all the shapes.  In our math books, we have some sheets left we did not do on the shapes.  This is just extra work.  We have done many things with the shapes, so I am sending these extra pages home for you to have.

Next Week

Theme: Christmas                                                      

Handwriting Letters: x, z                                        

Story: The Gingerbread Man                                                                         

Reminders/Dates

·      For my math and literacy volunteers: We will have literacy centers only next Monday and Tuesday and no centers the following week.  We will not have math centers next week.

·      Return homework and notebooks next week on Wednesday.

·      Students will only take home books next week on Monday.  Please return the books these books by Thursday next week.

·      I wanted to let you know that we do not need to collect milk jugs, we are not going to do that craft, sorry.  We will not need any.

·      Tuesday December 13^th: The PTO is having their Parent Unplugged session from 5:30-7:00.  This should be an interesting session about math.  You can register and read more about it at

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/unplugged-get-over-it-tickets-27603221980?aff=es2 

• Don’t forget about the book exchange.  Each student needs to get a book for another student.  The price limit is $5.  It needs to be wrapped and have a tag with the name of who it is from.  Girls will exchange with girls and boys will exchange with boys.  I would like the presents sent in by Thursday December 15^th.

• Letter of intent forms are due by next Friday, please send it in by then.

·      Friday December 16^th: Christmas celebration – Students will not need a snack or a lunch. We will have a big day full of fun activities and food.  Here is our schedule for the day:

8:25-9:45         Small group and whole group activities

9:45-10:15       Snack

10:15-11:15     Small group and whole group activities

11:15-11:40     Open Presents

11:40-12:00     Outside

12:00-12:30     Lunch

·      Friday December 16^th: Return any dental letters about the SMILE program

·      Monday December 19^th: Wear Pajamas & watch The Polar Express

·      Tuesday December 20^th: Early Release at 11:45 – We will have a birthday snack today, so students do not need to bring a snack.  Remember, we do not have lunch today.  If you need for your child to eat lunch before dismissal, please let me know.

• Next week, we will be sending home the kid’s nursery rhyme book.  There are about 10 nursery rhymes in this book that we have worked on.  We are only half way done with our nursery rhyme study, so this is the first book of nursery rhymes.  The kids can keep this and review the nursery rhymes and the things they made.

• I am in need of the Polar Express movie for Tuesday.  If you have one I can borrow please let me know.

Mrs. Hodges & Mrs. Roycroft