St. Christopher School

During this holiday season, there is so much to do!  We had our annual Christmas Shopping for Kids, and as usual, we were very excited to spend our money on some wonderful gifts for our families and friends. Thank you again to all of the super volunteers who helped with this!

We started muliplication this week!  We will have weekly quizzes so the multiplication table should be reviewed nightly.  It will be much easier for the children if these facts are memorized.  We will learn division too while we practice our fact families.  We play games and use the eno board to help with multiplication and division too.

Our bulletin board is all about Advent!  Since this is the time of preparation, we designed our board with the "meaning of Advent."  We are thinking of ways that we can best prepare and what gifts we can give--the TRUE gifts that come from the heart and are shown through our actions.

We are coming to a close on pronouns, and will be beginning verbs in English.  Our writing is improving so much!  Everyday we practice our cursive writing.  Some of us are very excited to start writing everything in cursive, which is coming soon!  Practice makes perfect!

We are finishing up chapter 4 in Social Studies.  Holidays, traditions, festivals, and celebrations across the world have been the focus.  We discussed the first Thanksgiving and wrote about what we thought it would be like with the Pilgrims and Indians.  Some of us wished we could have been there!  We also had a chance to write a "Perfect Thanksgiving Menu."  Some of the classics weren't even mentioned, except cranberry sauce.  The veggies weren't popular either, although we agreed that our modern day Thanksgiving food is much better than some of the items at the first Thanksgiving!

There is a lot going on this month so please take a look at any news that comes home.  3G wishes you and your family a blessed holiday!