Dear Parents,
I will be letting your children know
about their Nutcracker parts this week! You will be receiving a notice
regarding your child's part, and what s/he should wear on the 21st in
this week's Wednesday envelope. Please let me know if there are any
problems with gathering up the various clothes needed-- most girls (not
all) will be wearing leotards, and most boys will be wearing dark pants
and either a light or dark shirt. Hopefully, if there is a clothing
item you do not have, you can borrow it, as I do not intend for you to
have to buy anything. Again, the performance of the Nutcracker will be
at 10:00 (a.m. class) and 1:30 (p.m. class) on the 21st. Get there a little early (the invitation we are
sending home this has a time 10 minutes before the start) so that you
can be seated when the performance begins. You won't want to miss it!
On Wednesday the 19th at 1:20, we will have the "Paper Party" for the
Nutcracker costume pieces. I would love to have parent helpers from our
class join helpers from all the other kindergarten classes to cut and
prepare the paper costume pieces for the Nutcracker performance, using
patterns, samples, and materials that we will have ready to go. We will
be meeting in K2 to work for no more than an hour on all the bits and
pieces. Please let me know if you are available.
This week's letter is Cc, and the Alphafriend is Callie Cat. We have two new sight words this week: that and at. We will be continuing with our math unit on addition. Again, I want to remind you that http://www.xtramath.org is a great, free website for reinforcing math facts.
This
week's sharing is Letter of the Week share. Please have your child
bring in something that starts with Cc. Please write clues and hide it
in a bag.
Blue Bags are due tomorrow, and will go home
again for the next two weeks. When we return from Winter Break, the journal component
will be added to the Blue Bags. Your children will be asked to use a
page from the journal to respond to the story they read. We would like
them to write a sentence about what they liked about the book, and draw a
nice picture to go along with it. More details will follow in the Blue
Bag on the week of the January 6th.
Upcoming Events:
12/19: December's Wacky Wednesday & Nutcracker Costume Making Event
12/21: Nutcracker Performance @ 10:00 (a.m. class) & 1:30 (p.m. class)
1/21: MLK Day, no school
1/30: January's Wacky Wednesday
