November 8, 2010 Knowing Jesus, Growing in Faith, Serving God’s Children
Dear Parents,
Welcome to a short week. Remember, Thursday is over at 11:15AM for Parent Teacher Conferences and Friday is no school for the same reason. I’m looking forward to visiting with each of you!
*This Wednesday we have our field trip to Lowes, leaving about noon or shortly after. We’ll learn that tools help us complete a task! Thank you to all who can drive! Sorry it is right in the middle of our day! The other class has the hour right after us!
*This coming Sunday, the 14th, we will play “We Gather Together” on the bells at the 4PM installation of our new pastor. Thank you for the wonderful group able to play. We will really be able to lead worship!
* Wednesday, Nov. 24th, is Grandparents Day and is a half-day also, ending at 11:15 to give people time to travel. We’ll go to chapel first, and then have a special program time in the multipurpose room for preschool and kindergarten. Afterwards we will go to our classroom. Visitors can squeeze in with us to see some of the things we do in Kindergarten! Don’t worry if no grandparent is available. We’ll have lots of visitors!
*Thursday and Friday the 25th and 26th we have no school for Thanksgiving.
*Don’t forget to mark Sunday, December 5th on your calendar. That is the date of our Preschool/Kindergarten Christmas service, Angel, Angel!” at 4PM. Everyone wears a simple costume. We do need 4 more shepherds’ costumes. If anyone has a bathrobe that would work, please let me know, or the ability to sew a simple one. Thanks! A few children have a line to learn. I’ll send these home in the folder highlighted. Most will sing, do finger plays and play the bells for our service.
We continue to work with “Aa” through “Ii” this week and add “Jj.” We are always stretching out words now. Find something that begins with “j.” No show and tell this week. We’ll be writing about things we are thankful to God for to put on our walls. Be sure to look at the cute turkeys in the hall!
In math we will have fun comparing the length and amount of things. They’re learning to line up two sets to see which has more or less. Thanks to those who got the homework done with family names. That was fun! Keep those math binders one more week. I know it’s hard to get to those games, but the “What’s Next?” is an important game to play often. If they’re good at it, try the variations.
Our Bible lessons are about Samuel this week. We will learn that God was with Samuel wherever he went, and He’s with us and blesses us wherever we are, too. Our Bible verse is from I Samuel 3:19 “The Lord was with Samuel as he grew up.” We’ll put our names into this verse, too! All month we will discuss our blessings and how we can thank the Lord for these many blessings.
We will finish our animal studies with habitats, then begin learning the continents, along with different types of land and water formations this week, as well as learning a little history of Thanksgiving time. I hope to have each child dictate about how to cook a turkey for the Journal contest, so watch the Thanksgiving Day paper and the Journal website to see if any of ours make it in! They can be so cute!
Please try to get your book orders in this week. You can bring them in to conferences if you want to! Don’t be afraid to try the online ordering. It’s easy! You just need that code that is on the front of the paper copies.
God’s blessings,
Roxi Withee