Jingle All The Way!

Healthy and Happy!

We are so happy to see all of our Super Skyhawks healthy and ready to learn and celebrate before the upcoming holidays. We are looking forward to our Holiday celebration lunch this Thursday at our lunch time. All kindergarteners are invited to wear their favorite pajamas for this special day. Please be sure to wear tennis shoes. Thank you to all of the parent volunteers for providing this special time for all of kindergarten.

You are invited to join us this Friday, December 18 for an all Lower School Sing along in the gym at 10:30. Friday is a noon dismissal. After the Sing A Long in the gym please meet your child in their classroom for dismissal. Below you will find the invitation.

Families Helping Families

Kindergarten had a ball last Friday wrapping and preparing gifts for the Families Helping Families Project. A great big thank you to all of the parents that helped to support this project.

Academic Awareness

During this final week before the holidays, all classes are catching up on missed skills and reinforcing ones already learned.

In our Sight Word Study we are learning the last of the blue words.
as, for, from, was, do, they
 Please reinforce these words at home by making sentences then practicing writing and reading them. We will be adding the purple set in January.

Don't Forget to READ, READ, READ over the holiday!

Merry Math this week involves introduction of the Dime. You will find the Dime Poem below.

Dime Poem

Dime, dime

Little and thin,

 I remember

  You're worth ten.

                                                                                                                                                                                

                    

 



 

Happy Holidays to all our Kindergarten Skyhawks!

See you next year

You Know Dasher, Dancer, Prancer and Vixon

Kindergarten Reindeer?

Be sure to check out Santa's reindeer all lined up in the hallways.
HO! HO! HO!

Merry Math

During the month of December, the kindergarten classes will enjoy problem solving activities to develop logical thinking while integrating reading skills with mathematics. We will be counting with understanding and recognizing "how many" in sets of objects. We will use a variety of methods and tools to compute, including objects and mental computation, as we develop and understanding of adding and subtracting whole numbers. Holiday baking is an ideal time to give your child hands on experience using math skills!

Below are a few  holiday recipes for you to try at home. Enjoy!!

Edible Reindeer

Ingredients:

1 half piece of bread (cut diagonally)
2 raisins
1 cherry
2 pretzels
Peanut butter

Directions:

1. Spread peanut butter onto one side of the bread.
2. On one corner of the bread, place the cherry.  This is your reindeer's nose!
3. Add the 2 raisins for eyes.
4. Attach the pretzels to the long side of the bread so that they stick up like reindeer ears.

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Resurrection Rolls

Ingredients:

1 can Pillsbury Crescent Rolls
8 large marshmallows
Melted butter
Cinnamon and Sugar mixed together

Directions:

1. Give each child one  rectangle section of dough. This will represent the cloth wrapped around Jesus' body.
2. Give each child one large marshmallow. This represents Christ's body.
3. Let each child roll their marshmallow in the melted butter.  Then, dip the marshmallow into the cinnamon sugar mixture.  This represents the oils and spices that prepared Christ's body for burial.
4. Have each child place the marshmallow on their section of dough and carefully wrap it.
   Make sure all edges are pinched tight!
5. Place the rolls in the oven. Tape the door shut and place a guard - stuffed animal or child. The oven represents the tomb.
6. Bake the rolls, following the directions on the package.
7. Open the tomb/oven.  Only the cloths remain! Christ's body is no longer there! 

Read accompanying passages from Scripture, such as John 19: 38-42 and John 20.

 

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Snowman On a Stick

Ingredients:

3 large marshmallows
1 skewer
White icing
1 thin mint
1 mini Reese's Cup
1 6 inch strip of a Fruit Roll-Up
Squeezable tube icing
Plastic knife

Directions:

1. Slide one marshmallow onto the skewer.
2. Spread a little bit of white icing on the top portion of the marshmallow.
3. Slide on the second marshmallow.
4. Spread a little bit of white icing on the top portion of the second marshmallow.
5. Fold the Fruit Roll-up to resemble a scarf and then slide it onto the skewer.
6. Spread a little bit of white icing on top of the scarf (only near the skewer!).
7. Slide on the third marshmallow.
8. Slide the thin mint onto the skewer - carefully and very slowly so as not to break the mint in half!
9. Slide the mini Reese's Cup onto the skewer.  (This is his hat!)
10. Use the tube icing to make two eyes, a mouth, and some buttons on your snowman!

 

Sight Word Study

with, this, of, said, on, you, his

• Have fun creating your own holiday story using the sight words studied this week along with the remainder of the blue set of words.

December is Here!

Welcome Back!

 We have enjoyed hearing all about the special family time had during the Thanksgiving holiday. Our journals are filled with exciting entries.

 

 

My Family's Traditions

This winter season we ask that you please share a special holiday tradition that you celebrate with your families and friends. 

For example, a special tradition our Hammond School Family celebrates each year by participating in Families Helping Families.  We will discuss different traditions with our students over the next few weeks.

Some examples include:

·         roasting marshmallows by the fire

·         baking cookies with your grandparents

·         decorating your Christmas tree

·         visiting the soup kitchen

·         cooking potato latkes for Hanukkah

·         hanging holiday lights

 

We look forward to sharing these holiday traditions with your child

 

    

     Since December is here and it is a very fun-filled time of the year, we ask that all toys (including Elf on the Shelf and Elf Magic dolls) remain at home in order to keep them safe.

     Thank you for your understanding and support. 

Writer's Workshop 

The kindergarteners are beginning to write their own creative stories. We are encouraging them to use their best "kindergarten sounds" for spelling words. some of the spelling strategies we are using in the classroom are:



• Stretch out the word - listen to the sounds you hear
• Think about what the word looks like
• Is it a short or a long word? How many syllables/parts does it have?
• Use spelling patterns (word families: at, ag, am, etc.) 
• Use resources in the classroom (word wall, dictionary, or ask a friend)

Sight Word Study December 1st-8th

 

Number words six-ten
(Please note that the number words, with the exception of one and two, are not blue or purple words. We will be studying these sight words at school this week. The children will be making their own number word flash cards to bring home and practice.

Merry Math

     During the month of December, the kindergarten classes will enjoy problem solving activities to develop logical thinking while integrating reading skills with mathematics. we will be counting with understanding and recognizing "how many" in sets of objects. We will use a variety of methods and tools to compute, including objects and mental computation as we develop an understanding of adding and subtraction whole numbers. Holiday baking is an ideal time to give your child hands on experience using math skills! Have fun with Math!