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 20th in this week's Wednesday envelope. Please let me know if there are any problems with gathering up the various clothes needed-- most girls 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. Girls-- I have several leotards of my daughter's that can be borrowed. Again, the performance of the Nutcracker will be at 10:00 (a.m. class) and 1:30 (p.m. class) on the 20th. 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 18th 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. Kids are welcome to play in the room while you work. We already have a few volunteers, but could use a couple more. Thank you!
On another Nutcracker note, I am in need of two photographers for the event. They will be responsible for taking constant pictures throughout the performance, and then burning me a CD of the pictures afterward. We will offer priority seating to the photographers. Please let me know if you can help.
Curriculum
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. I would suggest continuing to work on addition throughout the holidays as well.
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.
This is our final week of centers before the holidays, as next week we will be focusing on Nutcracker rehearsals. Thank you so much to our classroom helpers in 2013, and thank you for your continued support in 2014! I have added center helpers through Spring Break--- please check the schedule and put it in your calendars.
Blue Bags are due tomorrow, and will go home again on Wednesday for the last time before the holidays. 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 (attached to the homework packet) 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 5th.
Upcoming Events:
12/18: December's Wacky Wednesday & Nutcracker Costume-Making Event (parent help needed @ 1:20!)
12/20: Kindergarten Nutcracker Performance @ 10:00 (a.m. class) & 1:30 (p.m. class)
12/21-1/5: Winter Break
1/17: No School: Staff Development Day
1/20: No School: MLK B'day
1/29: January's Wacky Wednesday
2/15-2/23: President's Week Vacation
2/26: February's Wacky Wednesday
