PreK II News
Week of December 8th
What's SPECIAL this week?
*This week we will be learning about the Nativity, the animals, the star, and the shepherds.
*We are continuing to learn our Christmas music for the upcoming Christmas Performance on December 19th!
*We are continuing to learn our Christmas music for the upcoming Christmas Performance on December 19th!
*Chapel is on Friday!
Large Group
*Listening and learning some of our Christmas songs
*The Christmas Story - Part 3
*Christmas Story Flannel Board
*Practice for our Christmas Program
*If I could give Jesus a gift.
Small Group
*Nativity Animal Puppets
*Nativity Animal Booklet
*Sorting Animals and People
*S is for Star box
*Dot to Dot Christmas Tree
*Shapes on the Christmas Tree
*Christmas Cutouts
*Alphabet Stars
*Nativity Animal Booklet
*Sorting Animals and People
*S is for Star box
*Dot to Dot Christmas Tree
*Shapes on the Christmas Tree
*Christmas Cutouts
*Alphabet Stars
*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
*Nativity Puzzle
*Nativity Patterns
*Beginning Sounds
*Writing center with dotted names for name recognition and practice
*Nativity Puzzle
*Nativity Patterns
*Beginning Sounds
*Spot the Difference
Classroom Needs
None at this time!
WOW! Experience
*Chalk and Walk
*The Birth of Jesus
*The Birth of Jesus
Books
Nativity Story
Do You See what I see
Asleep in the Stable
Counting to Christmas
I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
Do You See what I see
Asleep in the Stable
Counting to Christmas
I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas
Remember!
*Please be sure to send your child to school ready for cold weather! We often go outside, so they will need coats, hats, gloves, and boots if it's snowy!
*Our Christmas Program is next Friday (December 19th)!
*Our Christmas Program is next Friday (December 19th)!
Family Partnerships
*Have your child sing you the songs we are learning at school.
*Read the Christmas Nativity story together and let your child tell you in their own words what they already know. Help them fill in what they have forgotten.
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