November News

November News!

Hello!

🎃 A huge thank you to everyone who donated items and helped make our Halloween parties such a success! We had an absolute blast, and your support means so much to us!

As the weather starts to cool off, please take a quick peek at the extra clothes in your child’s backpack to be sure they’re season-appropriate.

Also, if you haven’t had a chance yet, please sign and return your child’s report card envelope. You can hang on to the actual report card as we just need the signed envelope back.

Thank you again for all you do! 💛

Thanksgiving Parade!

I am so excited for our Thanksgiving Parade this year!! This will take place at the very end of the school day, before your child goes home for Thanksgiving break.T/TH will be November 20th. They will be learning all about the history of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and creating their own balloons to parade around the school. Assuming there won't be any funerals taking place, we will walk out through the church gathering space. If you would like the see them parade out with their balloons, you are welcome to meet us in the gathering space! We will dismiss from the church doors on this day. If there is a funeral, we will go out and dismiss the way we usually would at the flagpole.

A couple reminders:

We will continue to go outside so please send coats! If you send your child with gloves, mittens work best at school. They are much easier for them to put on independently. In addition to this, please have your child practice putting on and taking off their coats independently. We appreciate your help!
If your child has a June, July, or early August birthday they may bring a treat on their half birthday which will be December, January, or February.
Now is also a good time to change out your child’s extra clothes in their backpacks to winter clothes. Accidents do happen, including playground and paint accidents!
Make sure to call the office if your child is absent. It is also helpful to shoot me an email as well.

Important Dates:

Nov. 20th: T/Th Parade

Nov. 21st-28th: No School for Thanksgiving Break

Looking Ahead:

We will be doing a Christmas Bucket list during the month of December! I will be sending out a sign up genius in weeks to come if you would like to donate items.
Dec. 8th: No School
Christmas Break: Dec. 22nd-January 5th
Classes Resume January 6th

* Our "Christmas Programs" will take place on the last day before Christmas Break. We will sing a couple short songs for everyone at pick up time! It will only last about 5ish minutes. We typically do this in front of the big Christmas tree in the church gathering space. If there is a funeral, we will communicate a different location to meet us at.

November Themes: 5 senses, Thanksgiving, and Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

Learning Intentions: Letters- U, C, & O. Numbers- 6-10. Colors- yellow and brown. Shapes- circle and oval. We will continue working on strengthening fine motor and gross motor skills, recognizing first names, pencil grip, scissor practice, gluing, 1 to 1 correspondence, patterns, alphabet, letters and sounds, number and shape identification.

Learning Disposition (Seton 6): Persevere, Ownership

Religion Lessons: Sign of the Cross, Grace Before Meals, and Angel of God. We will continue talking about Saints & Jesus’ Mother Mary!!

How you can help at home:

When singing the alphabet, I encourage you to sing it to the tune of Mary Had a Little Lamb. We sing it this way because it helps the students slow down and ensures they are saying each letter. Especially letters L, M, N, O, P, that typically get skipped when singing it the traditional way.
Using the name zero when referring to number 0. Many of them are having trouble differentiating letter O, circle and zero.
When working on letter sounds, make sure you and your child are not adding the schwa (/uh/) sound at the end. For example, the sound for letter b is /b/ not /buh/ and the sound for letter t is /t/ not /tuh/. Here is a link to a quick video explaining what this means-schwa video
We are really working on recognizing our names! (capital first letter, then lowercase)

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