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Friday, December 19, 2025
Well, we made it! First, I would like to thank all of you for helping with all of our Christmas preparations with getting your little one ready to perform today. I am sure you will agree with me that they ALL did an amazing job and I am so proud of each and every one of them. I hope you enjoyed watching as much as we enjoyed putting it on for you. I know that Jesus, Mary, Joseph, and everyone else upstairs were smiling down today!!
A large portion of our week was spent getting ready for our show, but we still did many other things as well! We went to Gym, Music, and Library this week. We finished our Advent wreaths and calendars. We read A Visit To Christmasland, ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas, Where Jesus Slept, and The First Christmas. We learned about the Three Kings when we did our Religion lesson, Chapter 26, “We Celebrate Christmas”. We learned that the kings are also called The Wise Men and The Magi. We sang Christmas songs, danced Christmas dances, and watched Christmas shows. We worked on our presents for our parents throughout the week. We finished up color Green, Shape Triangle, Number 2, and have completed letters A through F so far. January’s focus will be letters G, H, I, J, Number 3, Shape Rectangle, and Color Blue.
Each day brought different Christmas themed activities. On Monday, we celebrated the spirit of giving when we made book markers and ornaments to go with the cards that we made for our Prayer Partners. We were so excited to give them to them on Thursday! We learned that giving makes people’s hearts happy. Reindeer Day on Tuesday with Miss Reen was amazing! Between our Reindeer Water Bottle craft, dancing the “Reindeer Pokey” and “Reindeer Freeze Dance”, and making reindeer food, we were TOTAL reindeer!! Remember to sprinkle the Reindeer Food on your lawn on Christmas Eve! They need to keep their energy up to get around the world!!!! We had a blast on Wednesday in our PJ’s eating Oreo cookies, drinking chocolate milk, and watching A Year Without A Santa Claus! On Thursday, we had our “official” Christmas party, which celebrates the real reason for the season, Baby Jesus’ birthday. We had a special snack of Oreos and a juice pouch. We wore party hats and sang the “Happy Birthday” song to Baby Jesus! We read the story of the Nativity, and we all got the book to take home. We played a fun game where we passed Baby Jesus around to Christmas music, and when the music stopped, whoever was holding Baby Jesus got a candy cane. We kept going until everyone had a candy cane. It was fun! Then we did a craft where we put stickers on a stable to make the Nativity scene. Lastly, we all received our very own jigsaw puzzle of the Nativity. We worked so hard (and so well) to put the pieces together, and we are able to do it over again since we took them home too! Thanks to Mrs. Buchheit and Mrs. Puliti, our amazing Homeroom Moms for a great day! And you ALL saw what we did on Friday! The children did a wonderful job and I’m sure you are as proud of them as I am! The Christmas show always brings me back to the meaning of what Christmas is all about. I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did!
While you are enjoying your little ones over break, keep their skills sharp with name writing practice, scissor skills, letter, number, color, and shape recognition, and activities of daily living skills such as zippering, opening things, etc. Don’t let them fool you into thinking they can’t do it! Most of all, enjoy each and every moment with them, because time is flying…and you don’t get a re-do!! Thanks for all of the gifts, cards, and well wishes! I will miss you all, but am really looking forward to some down time with my family! We will meet back here on January 5! Merry Christmas and A Very happy New Year!!
REMINDERS:
Please wash and return rest mats on Monday, January 5.
Please remember to update Pickup Patrol DAILY as needed. It needs to reflect your child’s dismissal plans for each day, i.e. Cares, Enrichment, car rider, etc. I usually know where your child is going, but if there was ever a substitute for me, she may not know where to send your child.
Remember to check folders nightly.
Please have your child in school by 8:00. Children arriving after then are held in the foyer and marked late, resulting in them missing prayers, pledges, and announcements.
Please ensure that your child goes to the bathroom at home before coming to school. Too many friends are not making it to our bathroom time. This is especially important now that we go to the gym for Prayers and Announcements at arrival time. The toilets/sinks down there are much bigger and harder to reach.
Remember that if you need to pick up your child early, it needs to be at 11:45, before we get into children’s lunchtime, staff lunchtime, bathroom time, and nap time. Please understand that this is for the safety of your child and so we are not walking the halls at random times while our big friends are learning…not to mention the dreaded taboo of waking sleeping three-year-olds during happy nappy. Thanks for understanding =)
If you could kindly let me know if someone in your house is away (or for any reason you feel may have your child a little “off”), it would be a big help so we can give extra hugs and reassurance!
Please continue to monitor your child’s health/symptoms. We are in the flu and allergy season! We are really working on coughing and sneezing into our “GERM CATCHERS” (elbows). For the health of us all, please keep your child home when they exhibit symptoms or are not feeling well. They don’t yet understand how to cough/sneeze into elbows, blow noses, etc.
Please send your child with a coat now that the weather is getting chillier, and practice putting coats on (The Flip) and taking them off, fixing their sleeves.
We are really working on independence with activities of daily living (shoes, toileting, opening lunch items, cleaning up, packing/unpacking, etc.). Please encourage this at home. Please practice especially opening and closing the Bento boxes! My mottoes are: “If you don’t try, you will never learn” and “I will help you with ANYTHING and EVERYTHING...as long as you TRY first”!!! Hint...they can do WAY more than they let on =)
Just a reminder to send lunch choices that your child likes and can eat independently and relatively “easily”. Please send napkins daily and utensils as needed.
Please save Popcorn for a home snack. Popcorn is not recommended for children under four and can be a choking hazard. Please cut grapes in half for the same reason.
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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