December 2011
Dear Parents:
It was great to meet all of you to discuss your child’s progress in pre-kindergarten! Pre-K is a big step and the children have all done a fantastic job getting acclimated to school!
Welcome, Scarlett! Scarlett recently moved to this area and joined our class just this week.
Thank you to all the parents who donated food and paper items and helped in the classroom during our Thanksgiving Feast. We celebrated as Pilgrims and Native Americans with food from the crops of the Three Sisters; pumpkin, corn and beans. Check out the pictures from our feast on the St. Christopher website: www.stchrisschoolnh.org. All our classroom newsletters are also posted on the classroom page of the school website.
We celebrated the completion of our second compliment chain with a Pajama Day. Upon their arrival to school the children sorted Trix cereal and then ate their math work! We watched an episode of Magic School Bus during rest time and finished off our day with a couple rounds of Musical Math Chairs and Freeze Dance including learning how to spell YMCA with our armsJ.
Now the Christmas season is upon us! We will be attending the Christmas Prayer Service on Friday, December 23rd at 9:15 am; we would love to have you join us! This is also an early release day, the Pre-K students will be dismissed at 12:15am.
In language arts we will be studying the letters C for Christmas and J for Jesus and in math we will complete our initial study of writing and recognizing our numbers finishing with numbers 9 and 10. Religion will be focused on the birth of Jesus and will conclude with the celebration of his birthday on Thursday, December 22nd.
On Wednesday, December 21st we will be making gingerbread houses! Each child will need their own container of vanilla frosting, please send it in by Monday, December 19th.
We will visit with our buddies twice this month once on Friday, December 9th to work on a Christmas watercolor project and then again on Friday, December 16th for a Christmas Party.
We will be making a Christmas project with paper towel and toilet paper rolls. By cutting and painting these rolls we can transform them into a Christmas tree so whatever rolls you can send in would be helpful.
And finally, Senora B. (Mrs. Carmen Bichrest), our Kindergarten-6th grade Spanish teacher has graciously offered to teach the children Spanish on Tuesdays starting on January 3rd. They will learn basic Spanish words (colors, shapes, numbers,…) through songs, games and books.
Have a very blessed holiday season!
Mrs. Hauntsman and Mrs. Baker