Weekly Newsletter
Theme: ADVENT
What we are learning:
Reading: In whole group, we will continue to read and make sentences with the high frequency words learned so far. Our new high frequency word for this week is have. Our skills and strategies include: Phonemic Awareness/Phonics- k/c, Oral Vocabulary- Season Words, Comprehension summarizing and making inferences. In small groups, our children will continue to work in their leveled readers. Please practice reading nightly.
Social Living: We will be discussing the history and meaning of Advent. We will create an Advent paper link chain to count down until Jesus’ birth, color an advent calendar, and color an Advent wreath to share with our families at home. We will read My Father's Angels and create a choir of angels for our classroom. Also, we will discuss the symbolism of the lamb to Jesus. We will decorate a lamb and share the important facts about Jesus - the Lamb of God.
Handwriting: We will be writing capital and lowercase Pp. The stroke description for capital for P is: “pull down straight, lift, slide right, curve forward right, slide left.” The stroke description for lowercase p is: “pull down straight, push up, circle forward right all the way around.” The stroke descriptions really help out! Continue to use them as you are helping your child do homework.
Math: We are continuing our number sense skills!! We will recognize and write the numerals that describe the quantities 11 through 20. We will continue to work with our ten-frame mats and counters. The double ten-frame will be also be introduced. The children are really working hard on these concepts!!
Religion: We will begin the week off by learning that friends are a special gift from God. We’ll identify ways that friends help us to discover God’s world. Our bible verse for this week is: “Let everything that has breath give praise to the Lord!” We’ll learn that three more saints - Saint Therese, Saint Martin de Porres, and Saint Frances of Rome were friends of God because they cared for the hungry and sick. Beginning Wednesday, the children will understand that Advent is a time of preparing for the birth of Jesus. We will explore different Advent customs such as the Advent Wreath, lighting the candles, and trying to do a good deed for each day. Our children will pull a star from our Promise Tree daily. Each star has a different Bible verse on it that we will read and discuss in class.
Homework:
M – Math- Practice Book pg. 44
Practice the “Our Father”
T - Math- Practice Book pg. 45
Reading- Little readers
W - Handwriting – capital P
Math- Practice Book pg. 46
Reading- Little readers
Th – Math- Practice Book pg. 47
Reading- Little readers
Handwriting- lowercase p
Practice counting to 50
**Library on Monday**
Dec. 3rd – Mass – 8:15
Dec. 8th – Mass – 8:15
Dec. 16th – Christmas Play @ 12:30 in the gym
Dec. 17th – Breakfast with the Buddies 8:00-8:45
Advent Stations 9:00-10:15
Dec. 19th – ½ day – dismissal @ 11:30
Dec. 22nd- Jan. 4th – Christmas Holidays
Jan. 5th – Teachers & Staff return to school
Jan. 6th – Students return to school
**We hope you had a wonderful, blessed Thanksgiving. It was a great time of reflection on all of the things God has given us. We are very thankful to God for our Holy Ghost family. We are very thankful for you and all that you do for our children and us.
**Our children did a fantastic job in the Thanksgiving play. We were so proud of each and every one of them. They will never forget the first Thanksgiving and we will cherish their Kindergarten play forever. It is such a beautiful experience for all of us.
**We are so excited about our Christmas play. We will begin working on songs and speaking parts this week. (Please note that NOT ALL children will have a speaking part, but ALL will participate.) If your child comes home with a speaking part this week, please practice nightly with him/her. Role playing and acting out the stories are wonderful ways for the children to express themselves.
Remember: Jesus is the Reason for the Season!
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR STAR STUDENT:
Alexis Rose Bass
SNACK:
Monday= Emma
Tuesday= Molli Rae
Wednesday= Avis
Thursday= Caitlyn
Friday= Andrew
Have a great week!
Jenn & Rhonda Jo
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