PreK II News
Week of December 15th
What's SPECIAL this week?
*This is the last week of school for 2014!
*Our Christmas Programs are this Friday (December 19th). Monday/Wednesday Class starts at 6:00 and the Tuesday/Thursday Class starts at 7:30.
*Our Christmas Programs are this Friday (December 19th). Monday/Wednesday Class starts at 6:00 and the Tuesday/Thursday Class starts at 7:30.
Large Group
*Practicing our Christmas songs
*The Christmas Story - Part 4
*Christmas Story Flannel Board
*King Crowns
*Snowflake Experiment
*Making and Painting our ornaments
*The Candy Cane Experiment
*Where we are going for Christmas (map)
Small Group
*Create our own snowflakes
*Numbered Christmas Ornaments
*Reindeer Games
*Jingle Bell Rock
*Numbered Christmas Ornaments
*Reindeer Games
*Jingle Bell Rock
*Kindness Chain
Centers
*Christmas coloring pages available at the art center to promote creativity and Christmas themed paintings
*Writing center with dotted names for name recognition and practice
*Match shape Christmas Ornaments
*Snowflake Letter Hunt
*Wisemen Maze
*Build a Snowman
*Writing center with dotted names for name recognition and practice
*Match shape Christmas Ornaments
*Snowflake Letter Hunt
*Wisemen Maze
*Build a Snowman
*Christmas Counting
*Writing Our Names
Classroom Needs
None at this time!
WOW! Experience
*Snowflake Experiment
*Create our own snowflakes
*Candy Cane Experiment
*Create our own snowflakes
*Candy Cane Experiment
Books
Nativity Story
Remember!
Christmas Program is Friday, December 19th!
Monday/Wednesday Class: Starts at 6:00pm
Tuesday/Thursday Class: Starts at 7:30pm
Monday/Wednesday Class: Starts at 6:00pm
Tuesday/Thursday Class: Starts at 7:30pm
Family Partnerships
*Have your child sing you the songs we are learning at school.
*Over Christmas Break, please have your child practice writing their name, letters, and numbers!
Fruit of the Spirit: Kindness
Kindness isn’t taught, it’s learned. In order to be kind, you have to experience it at home, and most of that experience is learning it by example.
Here are four ways to bridge the kindness gap:
1. Walk the walk. Children understand kindness through everyday interactions with their parents.
2. Talk the talk — give them kind language. Kindness is the ability to take another person’s perspective and then tailor your words and actions accordingly.
3. Reward big acts of kindness, but don't go overboard. Reward “uncommon acts of kindness”
4. Force them out of their comfort zone to teach empathy. Kids should interact with people from different backgrounds, to learn how to place themselves in someone else’s shoes
Here are four ways to bridge the kindness gap:
1. Walk the walk. Children understand kindness through everyday interactions with their parents.
2. Talk the talk — give them kind language. Kindness is the ability to take another person’s perspective and then tailor your words and actions accordingly.
3. Reward big acts of kindness, but don't go overboard. Reward “uncommon acts of kindness”
4. Force them out of their comfort zone to teach empathy. Kids should interact with people from different backgrounds, to learn how to place themselves in someone else’s shoes