January 18, 2017

Dear Parents,

Thank you all for sending in snacks, you may send in items for “Family Fun Night Basket at anytime. Every Thursday we go to Church so if you would like to send some change with your child to put in basket, it really makes them feel good. If they do a little something to earn the money would be another way to teach them to give and feel proud.

We will be having our Frozen Party on January 24^th along with the Kindergarten. Your child may come to school as one of the Frozen Characters or in their Pjs. All next week we will be learning about “I” is for ice and icicles. They children will be learning about frozen and melted, solid and liquids, and the Season of Winter.

Here are some of the things that have kept us busy this week:

'Reading: We worked on the Letter “S” on Starfall, did the “Upper Case Workout”, ABC Flash Cards, “Phonics ABC Song “ on You Tube, practiced writing our names and the letter “S”, made “S is for Snowman” out of Magic Nuddles, made edible snowman, and made Hand Print Snow Men.

Math: We did “Exercise to 100 by 1s” Workout and “Zero the Hero” Workout; counted forward and backwards with Snowmen; found Snowmen that were the same and the ones different; put correct number of buttons on Snowmen; practiced our colors with Scholastic Snowman Diagram; and sang along to a lot of Snowmen Counting songs.

S.S./Science: The children did “The Snowman Hokey Pokey”, learned about the Four Seasons, Sequenced the building of a Snowman, and enjoyed Show-N-Tell and Letter Bag.

Religion: This week we learned all about Baptism and John the Baptist, did lessons in our books “Who is Jesus”, “The Holy Family”, and “What is Baptism?”. The children have been doing a good job at Mass with their Prayer Pals. We continue to work on Sign of Cross, genuflecting, and also our prayers in the classroom.

Crafts: In class we made several Snowmen Crafts out of foam and made Paper Plate Snowmen.

Story Time: The books they enjoyed were: “A Very Merry Snowman”, “Hello Snowman”, “The Biggest Best Snowman Ever”, “When It Starts to Snow”, “Sadie and the Snowman”, “One Snowy Day”, and “Dora's Snowy Day”. Most weeks we also are lucky to have the 4^th Graders pay us a visit on Thursday Afternoons and partner up with the children to read to them. They really look forward to this and ask when the older students are coming.

If you ever have any questions or concerns please contact me at anytime.

God Bless!

Miss Marie