Week of December 5, 2022

Happy Birthday to our two sweet friends!!

We love learning the real meaning of Christmas!

Our friends loved making their reindeer and asking Santa for a special gift!

We loved playing "Reindeer 'Math' Games!"

Ask your little Helper to tell you how reindeer Help Santa on Christmas!

H is for Hippo

Winter is coming!

We did a great job writing "Winter" on our Winter Tree Tags!!

Our AMAZING Winter Trees are now on display in our Classroom Gallery!

We finished our 3-D Stars and they are now twinkling in our classroom sky!!

H is for Having Fun!!!

H is for building High-rise Masterpieces!

And for an always Happy and Hard Working Mrs. McDonald too!!

H is for Happy!

H is for Having Happy as well as other feelings too!!

H is for "Hark the Herald Angels..."

They are now on display in our Combined PreK-3 and 4 Hallway Nativity!

h is for horse!

H is for Hanging Ornaments!!!

H is for Hard working Helping Hands that did such a beautiful job decorating our classroom tree!!

H is for hilarious playdough fun!

H is for what Santa says....

Ask a 5 Day Friend to tell you what it is!!!

H is for Having such an amazing Helper!!  

Mrs. Selser shared her children's very special Hippo storybook about a real Hippo named Fiona!!  We loved it!!!

H is for "Hanging our Stockings by the chimney with care..." 

(After writing our names on them and sewing them together of course!!)

A sneak peek at our upcoming week: We will be getting ready for our Christmas Show on Friday!!  We will also be working on Letter Ii and on recognizing our first names and learning the number 4!

TISSUES:  Thank you so much to the families who donated tissues. They are coming in so handy already!!

Gifts of Kindness  Thank you for helping our class gift Baby Jesus with your children's kindness.  They are all very excited to use their kind and caring words and acts to help celebrate the Advent Season.

This Week's Focus will be on:

Letter of the Week: Ii

Number of the Month: 4

Color of the Month:  Blue

Shape of the Month:  Star

December Themes:  Counting 0-4, Sorting, AB Patterns, Christmas, Kindness, Feelings, Winter,      Name Recognition
Religion:  Sign of the Cross, Simple Prayers, Grace before meals, Christmas, "Jesus is Born," Advent

Show & Tell:  NO SHOW and TELL this week due to our Christmas Show 

Dates to Remember:

TUESDAY, December 6th:  SANTA SHOP:  Our Five Day Friends will shop with our class.  Our Three Day Friends are welcome to come in to school with their parent and shop at any time during the sale.  Our shoppers are scheduled to attend the sale at 9:45.  Shopping is completely optional.  Only our shoppers will go to the Santa Shop while the rest of the children remain in our classroom.

December 9th: 9:00am (Snow Date December 12th)  🎄PreK Combined Three and Four Year Old Classes Christmas Show🎄

December 14th:  NO AFTER SCHOOL CARE

December 23rd:  8th Grade Project Graduation Tag Day - Wear Christmas Colors

December 23rd:  NOON DISMISSAL - No After Care

December 24th - January 2nd:  NO SCHOOL Christmas Break

Tuesday, January 3rd:  School Re-Opens

Have an incredible week!

Paula Dobres