The children enjoyed our Hunt for the Gingerbread Man.  He took us on a tour of the campus, leading us with a variety of clues.  He ended up needing to take a nap after the long chase, and that is where we found the yummy gingerbread cookies for our treat.

Mark Your Calendar:

Friday, December 9>  Immaculate Conception Mass,Quick Check; HW Packet Due

Week of December 11> Review Week: Report Card, ESGI sight word and Listening Comprehension assessments being done this week.  Please be sure that if your child is not sick they are present at school for these assessments.

Tuesday, December 19>  Advent Mass>  students need to wear REGULAR SCHOOL UNIFORM, NOT PE

Wednesday, December 20>  Half-Day 12:00 Dismissal;  Reindeer Christmas Party: start time at 10:30 (look for Sign-up Genius to go out next week for ways to donate and volunteer); End of 2nd Quarter

Christmas Break>  Starts at Noon on December 20th and return January 8th.

Schedule of Specials: 

Tuesday and Thursday (PE): children wear PE short and shirt with approved tennis shoes and plain white socks.  Light-Up shoes and socks with color/emblems are not allowed.

Monday, Wednesday, Friday (Spanish, music, guidance):   children wear regular uniforms (no PE).  Approved shoes and navy socks are required.  Tennis shoes are not to be worn on these days.  Belts are required if there are belt loops.  Hair accessories are limited to the colors found in the uniform.

Academic Themes for the Week

Topic: Merry Christmas

Look for their Weekly Emergent Readers to go home on Fridays.  I encourage you to save these weekly emergent reader books in a special place:  a treasure box or special basket.  Whenever they want to pull out a story to read to you, they can select a story from their special story box.

Reading Block:    Capitalization & Punctuation; Blending; Writing a Complete Sentence; ASSESSING WRITING ALPHABET LETTERS (UPPERCASE AND LOWERCASE) AND NAME

Word Study:   short /i/ word families

Writing:  characters continued and setting; narrative writing

Sight Words: this   from   came   but

Math Block:  simple addition and subtraction; sorting, classifying, comparing; 3-D shapes identify and count with pennies; identify time to the hour; counting to 100 by 1; ASSESSING WRITING NUMBERS 1-50+

Science/Social Studies/Art:  Christmas

Religion:   Nativity; Immaculate Conception

Enrichment   

THE FRIENDLY BEASTS; Christmas Crafts

Mad Scientist:  

Foodie Fun Day: 

To Work On At Home:

writing their name

correct letter and number formation (top to bottom, left to right)>Many are still struggling with this.

cutting with scissors

taking on and off their belt