Merry Christmas!!! Our Christmas break is moving quickly and we are fast approaching the new year!! I can't wait to see all the smiling faces back to school in 2013! Here are some highlights from the past month of December...
Language Arts:
We've really been working hard on learning new sight words! The children are doing a fabulous job as we start reading short stories. They are very excited about their new skills and love using the highlighter to find our new sight words in there printable take home readers.
We also started a word family..the 'at' word family! It's been great to hear the children discover new words as they are able to use the sounds they know to figure out words!
Math:
The children have been working really hard on counting and identifying numbers. We've been practicing counting to 100 and are excited as we get closer to our 100th day of school! The children have been working on identifying and writing numbers 0 - 10 and also being able to read those number words. We also continue to practice skills such as identifying shapes, colors and patterns.
Religion:
We've talked a lot about Jesus as we were all getting ready to celebrate his birthday! The children heard many stories of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. We talked about the wonderful 'gift' that God sent us in His son, Jesus. We also learned about St. Lucia and St. Nicholas as we celebrated both of their feast days.
Science:
We talked a lot about living and non living things and what they need to survive. We had fun identifying different items that are living and that are not living and talked about the 'why' of each choice. We've also had a lot of fun talking about science in various topics that have come to us in our Weekly Readers!
Social Studies:
We've talked about traditions that we often have during this holiday season. We identify that different groups, even different families may have different things they like to do during the holiday season. We also talked more about our families and even did a family tree with our families at home. The children brought them back and we have had fun talking about grandmas, grandpas & aunts, uncles, etc.
The Christmas Concert was wonderful! The Kindergarteners were little snowflakes (thanks Mrs. Punjak for putting extra work to make their little headbands!) to go with the songs they sang.
All of the school children did an excellent job!
The last week of school before Christmas break brought a lot of fun! We did the 'OLL Polar Express' on Monday afternoon...we got to wear our pajamas that day, watch 'The Polar Express' on the big white board, and have a treat of hot cocoa and cookies with our 5th grade Mass buddies.
We got to listen to lots of great Christmas music that week too. We listened to the Preschool Christmas Program and also listened to the Jazz Band from Ashland High School. Some of the children even got to go up and help with the bells with the jazz bands fun tunes. Mrs. Hulmer (the Jazz Band director) also talked to the children about the instruments the high schoolers played. I loved hearing the trombones!! (I played trombone in high school and college!)
That week we also got to go shopping! The children were all a-buzz with excitement as they chose gifts for their family members and then had our special elves (parents and volunteers) help wrap them. It was a great time and so fun to watch. (One of the highlights of our Christmas was watching Ben, my son, watch US open the gifts he picked for us. I just love that!)
Our Christmas Party was so fun!! We had treats and juice, played games and exchanged our gifts! Each child brought in a gift (less than $5, and if the child was a girl, they brought in a girl gift, boys brought in a boy gift) and I put all the boy gifts in one box and the girl gifts in a different box. I attached a ribbon to each gift that draped over the side. Each child picked a ribbon (not their own) and we unwrapped! They were all thrilled with their gifts and really enjoyed our party!
Sunday, December 30, 2012
December pictures!
Fun in the snow!!
Celebrating St. Lucia
on December 13th!
Christmas Concert night!
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