Coco’s Kids News
November 30, 2009
Welcome back! I hope everyone had a very nice holiday with their
families. Our families were by far are what the children said they were
most thankful for. Thank you to all the parents who came out and enjoyed
our Thanksgiving lunch. It proved to be a wonderful day with lunch and then
having many of the parents visit the playground. It means a lot to the
children to have you there.
It’s that time of year when the children are getting very excited
about Christmas. It is always a challenge keeping them focus over the next
few weeks when all they have is "sugar plums" dancing in their heads.
However, we must remember our manners and school rules. We have planned
activities that will be both fun and educational for this time of year. One
will be looking for the gingerbread man.
This is also the season where we help others. Lyon will be
collecting canned good items for the Covington Food bank. If you can send
in dried beans, canned vegetables or fruit, macaroni and cheese or any other
type of item we would gladly appreciate it.
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READING: This week we our focus book is The Gingerbread Man. We will
compare different versions of this story. Another favorite is The
Gingerbread Baby. We will read the beloved fairy tale and other holiday
books. We will identify upper and lower case Y, its sound in isolation and
in context, elements of fiction, blending, print awareness, segmenting,
rhyming, sequencing, sentences, sounding out words, “an” word family, and
high frequency word “two”. Our journal writing is improving. There is more
detail in their drawing and the children are using more high frequency words
and beginning sounds.
MATH: The skills we will cover this week include:
* numbers and sets
* patterns
* graphing
* place value
* addition
SOCIAL This week we will be studying holiday customs for three
LIVING: weeks.
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INFORMATION AND REMINDERS
1. Permission slips and $5.00 are due this Thursday for our CHS play field
trip on Friday. Weather permitting we will also go to Bogue Falaya Park for
lunch after the play. We need parents who can meet us there to help
chaperone and eat lunch with us. We should be at the park about 11:30 and
we’re due back at school for 1:00.
2. Our Polar Express day is scheduled for Friday, Dec. 11. These activities
will take the place of a tradition Christmas party. If would like to help
us on that day we would love to have you. The children can bring their
pajamas to change into for the day. Our round robin activities begin at
11:50.
3. Tuesday, December 15 at 1:30 is our Christmas program. The Kindergarten
classes will perform for family and friends in the gym. The program should
not last more than and hour. Each child needs to bring in a Santa hat.
I’ve seen them at the dollar stores.
4. Friday, Dec. 18 is the end of the nine weeks. It is a half day of
school. The children will be dismissed at 12:31 and there is no after
school care that day.
5. PTA will be holding their Reindeer Lane fund raiser the week of Dec. 7.
Student can purchase gifts for their family, more information to come.
6. Christmas holidays Dec. 21-Jan. 1.
7. We could use some glue sticks we care completely out.
8. If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to call.
