Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Party

Hi

Don't forget on Friday your child will not need a lunch just a SNACK. If you know your child will not eat pizza then you may send in an alternate lunch. Friday is also 1:45 dismissal with free daycare until 3:00.

I'm looking for large brown grocery bags. If you have any to spare can you send them in?  Thanks

Monday, December 12, 2011

December!

Thanks so much for being patient with my blogging absence. Walker had what's called "walking" pneumonia last week. He's doing much better now and I hope to finish off December with a bang.
So we've added two new words to our snap word wall (the & and). When we get back from Christmas vacation we will begin out writing program. The children should be able to read and write the following words to help them when starting writing sentences (a, I, like, see, my, have, the, and). We are still work on letter sound recognition as well as recognizing the lowercase letters of the alphabet. Don't forget if your child hasn't mastered the letter-sounds yet a great DVD to invest in is the Leap Frog: Letter Factory .
Also, in January when we come back from vacation there will be NO more rest time. I will be sending all the bedding home on Thursday.
Over Christmas break please have your child practice the snap words, writing upper and lower case letters and writing their name with only one capital at the beginning. They can even draw a picture and start labeling the parts of the picture. For example, lets say they draw a house and a garden. They can label house with maybe just an H if that's the only sound they can recognize or maybe a HS. They can label the flower with and F or FR. It's just the beginning of this wonderful process called writing!

Thanks so much,  Mrs. Ellis