Weekly Centres, Parents Readings and Making Christmas trees with our buddies

Friday, December, 14 2012

            With only a few days until our Christmas break things have been very busy in the Pre-K class.  We mailed our letters to Santa and are eagerly waiting for the replies.  We also made many Christmas ornaments and decorated a wooden Christmas tree with our grade 3 buddies.

            Next Tuesday is our last day of 2012 and to celebrate the end of the year and Christmas we will be having a small party.  On the day could you please bring something small in to share with the others in the class.  We will also be finishing up our Christmas unit and be singing many Christmas carols.

            Today I sent home the sleeping bag.  They do not need to be brought back to school.  Instead of sleeping (which very rarely ever happened) we will be having silent reading after lunch.  Could you please send in a small pillow for the students to read on.  If they are tired then they could also use the pillow to have a nap.

            As some of you are aware I am searching for a new job for the next school year.  There is a job fair in Bangkok in which I will attend from January 8-11.  

Therefore, I will be away from school those days.  Ms. Vicky will be here along with Samantha Lee (Ms. Lee’s daughter).  She lives in Vancouver and is home for the holidays and has generously agreed to come to the Pre-K class for the days I will be away.  In Vancouver she is a nursery school teacher.  I will be preparing all of my lessons for her and will be back at school on Monday January 14^th.

            Students need to be at school at 6:15pm tonight (Friday) for the Christmas performance.  The show will start at 7:00 and be finished around 8:30.

           

What we did in our centres this week.

Literacy Centres

1.      Computer story “The Night Before Christmas”

2.      Making Christmas books

3.      Phonics book the letter “L”

4.      Write the room word wall

      Math Centres

1.      Gingerbread Man board game

2.      Pocket chart numbers and number puzzles

3.      Making Christmas trees using the small wooden blocks

4.      Gingerbread Man board game with dominos

Word of the week:  review

Student of the week

The student of the week is Alyssa Tung.  She has improved her oral language ability so much this month.  She did an excellent job with retelling Goldilocks and the Three Bears and the Gingerbread Man.  Also, she was a strong leader during the Christmas show.  Way to go Alyssa!!!!!

Reminders and Notices

1.      December 14^th Christmas concert

2.      December 18^th Half day and start of Christmas vacation

3.      January 7^th back at school

As always, if you have any questions or concern you can always write me an email at bsharp.his@gmail.com or come by and speak to me in person.

Cheers

Vicky and Braedon

And So This Is Christmas;
And What Have We Done?
Another Year Over; A New One Just Begun;
And So Happy Christmas;
I Hope You Have Fun;
The Near And The Dear Ones;
The Old And The Young.
John Lennon