Toddler December 2013 Newsletter

It’s December! Almost the end of 2013! The children have been working hard on their songs for the Christmas concert. We are excited for you to see us perform our song and dance!

I would also like to reiterate that if you have any questions for concerns about your child or our classroom, please do not hesitate to contact me.  I am here to help in any way that I can! My e-mail is cummi1sl@gmail.com and my telephone number is 15000298304.

Classroom Update

We have welcomed another new friend to our classroom; Daniel Hu! Daniel Hu is full of energy and we are happy to have him!  Lately, many of the children pretend to be cats, while others pretend to be their owners.  ShaSha takes care of her cat Rino and Emily takes care of her cat Umi.  Rino and Umi crawl around the room “meowing,” while ShaSha and Emily walk with them to per them and give them water. Lion and Neo have been playing together during work time.  They build with the blocks, only to knock them down again!  Anagha, Shodai and Sara S. enjoy a game of chase almost every day in the jump room!  Eden, Daniel and Gabriel are quite the conductors! They build train tracks and play with the trains often! Finnegan is the social butterfly of our classroom. I can always count on her for a great story! Violet is always smiling and enjoys playing with all of her friends in different areas of the classroom!  Sara and Hima have gotten good at walking on the stilts in the ballet room.  I often catch them walking around the play structure laughing together! The friendships between the children are growing!

Jingle Bells

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells

Jingle all the way!

Oh! What fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh!

HEY!

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells

Jingle all the way!

Oh! What fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh!

HEY!

The children have been practicing the song, “Jingle Bells,” for our Christmas concert! Here are the lyrics if you would like to practice with your child!

December Dates

December 11 - Violet’s Birthday!

December 12 - Christmas concert performance!

Dec. 23-Dec.27 – Ms. Stacie will be in America! 

Preschool December 2013 Newsletter

It was very nice seeing most of you all again at the Parent Teacher Conferences.  Thank you for coming and discussing your child’s progress with me!  We have been practicing hard for our upcoming Christmas concert and your children have done a great job learning their song and dance.  If you have not already done so, please send in black pants and a white shirt for boys and white tights/leggings and a white shirt for girls for the concert. If this is going to be a problem, please let me know and we can work something out!  We have started our first project on maps and each week will we continue to do hands on learning with different map types.  Since most children have learned all of their uppercase letters we will also be concentrating more on lower case letters so that we can move onto word reading in February.

Class Updates

We have started our Christmas and winter art projects off with winter jackets.  Each of your children made one that was completely unique and their own.  We have also welcomed a new student, Jake, into our classroom.  Jules and Aston have done an outstanding job with our Christmas song and know all of the words by heart.  Kai did a wonderful job picture reading a book in front of the whole class.  Ann, Lisa, and Nanding have been “washing” my hair during playtime a lot and helping to fix it.  Riku, Lisa, and Ann also make cookies using our coins and blocks.  Lucas and Aston both have explained all about their favourite superheroes and the reasons why they like certain superheroes to me.  Jules and Riku have made great progress with writing their names over the past weeks and their handwriting is improving daily.  Kai really enjoys the I Spy books and Jules, Lucas, and Aston are greatly enjoying the new superhero easy reader books. 

During December we will be focusing on the letters R, M, and D.  We will also be working on types of punctuation, sounds in words, and plurals! We also have many Christmas books and art projects this month!

We Wish You A Merry Christmas

We wish you a Merry Christmas,

We wish you a Merry Christmas,

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Glad tidings we bring,

to you and your kin.

Glad tidings for Christmas and a Happy New Year!

We wish you a Merry Christmas,

We wish you a Merry Christmas,

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

December Dates

December 12  Christmas Concert

December 21-January 4  Ms. Caitlyn will be gone

December 25  Christmas

December 31  New Years Eve

Kindergarten December 2013 Newsletter

I cannot believe how fast the time is flying in Kindergarten! They are right when they say time flies when you are having fun! Everyone had a great time during our Field Trip to the Ship Museum! We got to see so many different boats and parts of the boats.

Kindergarten has been working so hard on our Christmas Concert dances and we cannot wait to show them to you!

Class Updates

Our class has been interested in so many things this month! Zoe, Willy, Meika and Kylie have been very interested in building with our dominos. From setting them up to watching them fall down, they love them! Willy has also been building stairs out of the dominos. Yolanda, Hana, Doreen, AI, Mei and Maori have been taking care of our babies in the house area, making sure they get enough food and water. David, Ken and Arthur have been very active on the carpet playing ninjas, superheroes and many more imaginative games! Willy, Florence and Penelope were very excited to learn the In the Ocean song this month! Toby was very excited to see The Titanic at the Ship Museum. The class has also been drawing lots of pictures to hang up all around the classroom!

Deck the Halls

Deck the halls with boughs of holly

Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la

'Tis the season to be jolly

Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la

Don we now our gay apparel

Fa-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la.

Troll the ancient Yule-tide carol

Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la.

See the blazing Yule before us.

Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la

Strike the harp and join the chorus.

Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la

Follow me in merry measure.

Fa-la-la, la-la-la, la-la-la.

While I tell of Yule-tide treasure.

Fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la

December Dates

December 12: Christmas Concert

December 23-27: Ms. Torie on Christmas Break

December 21: Willy’s Birthday

December 30-January 1: New Years Day

December 31: Meika’s Birthday