It's the most wonderful time of the year...

This week was a fun week to decorate our classroom and get ready to celebrate Christmas!

One of our first projects was to decorate our class Christmas tree.

 We read the book "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!" by Dr. Seuss.  The was a fun book to read, the students really enjoyed this story.  Although I had to remind the students that a real Grinch will not be coming to steal any of their presents on Christmas Eve!

 After reading this book, the students made a Grinch.  They wrote on the Grinch the following sentence, "To make the Grinch grin I would...".  The students wrote things like "...give him presents.", "...help him decorate a Christmas tree.", "...be his friend.".

 Beautiful Christmas poinsettias

 We began many Christmas craft keepsakes, there was a lot of hand painting this week!

 Decorating their Christmas trees.

 This week we learned the letter Zz and the letter Cc.  We read many fun books and did activities to help us learn these consonant sounds.

We enjoyed the book "If You Give A Cat A Cupcake".  We made our own cupcakes from the letter Cc.

 Cupcakes on Cc!

 Learning on starfall.coom

 C Show and Tell: C is for Cassidy, C is for cat, C is for cowboy and cow trailer. 

 Z Show and Tell: Z is for Zoo pet

 Frosty and one of Santa's elves came for a visit too!!

What a fun week!  We look forward to two more weeks of Christmas fun!

Austin brought his Southern Miss gear Friday for Show and Tell to cheer the Golden Eagles to victory.  The Golden Eagles won on Saturday and are C-USA Champions! 

 Student of the Week: Emerald

Coming Up...

Phonics: Ee

Math: Larger Numbers, 11-20 (Practice writing your numbers 0-20 this week.)

Thematic Unit: Christmas

Wednesday, December 7 - "Dining With Dad" - All dads are invited to lunch with their child.  Our class will go to lunch at 12:00 PM.  Please meet in our classroom at 11:50 AM, and we will walk together to the cafeteria.  Afterwards, Dads will have the opportunity to visit the "Santa Shop" with their child.

Christmas Party - Tuesday, December 20 at 8:00 AM - Parents are welcome and encouraged to attend, the students will be singing two Christmas songs that they have been practicing at school.  They will also participate in a gift exchange.  Please send a $3 - $5 book for your child to exchange no later than Friday, December 16.  Girls should send a book for a girl and boys a book for a boy.  The book should be wrapped and labeled "boy" or "girl".  Thank you!!

Props Needed - One of the songs we are practicing for the Christmas party needs a few props.  If you have a scarf and toboggan that you can send for your child to wear please do so any time this week.  We will practice with these props and keep them at school until the Christmas party.  

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