Mrs. R’s Super Star’s December 2nd, 2013

Can you believe it’s December!!!! Wow, the time has gone by so fast! I trust everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving vacation with their family and friends. The Thanksgiving program was adorable! Our little Pilgrims looked so cute on stage! If any parents took pictures please send them my way! I hope everyone enjoyed listening to our Thanksgiving Story. Now we get to move on the birth of our Lord and Savior! Praise Jesus who saves from sins!

This week in class will be benchmark week. The students will be tested on their reading levels. In writing they will be tested on writing an expository text about a place. In math they will be tested on graphing, skip counting, adding and subtracting, and word problems. Over the break please be sure to keep the kiddos reading, writing, and doing math. This was they wont become too rusty over the break.

Since I will be assessing the students reading 1-on-1 I will not be doing reading groups this week.

Other News This Week:

Bible: The next two weeks we will be learning about the Christmas story 🙂

Language Arts: This week in spelling we will focus on the long O sound. Students will be able to accurately spell and write long ) words, high frequency words, and challenge words. In phonics the students will be reviewing the consonant pairs “sh, ch, th, wh”. We will continue to practice our writing and expanding our sentences.

Math: This week we will be practicing subtracting from 12 and less, and fact families. We will then be moving on to Chapter 11 on time and calendar

Social Science: We will be learning about Christmas traditions. This week the students will be sharing their Christmas traditions poster in class 🙂

P.E: Students have PE every Wednesday with Mrs. Whipple!

Bible Verse:

For today in the city of David there has been born for you a Savior, who is Christ the Lord. Luke 2:11(23pts.)

Spelling Words this week:

boat

coat

rode

home

hope

old

told

give

said

angel

Sight Words:

three

play

take

want

wall

uncle

sleep

pick

toy

Christmas Traditions Poster – We will be celebrating Christmas around the world in December. Students will be making a poster depicting their family Christmas traditions. This can be magazine cut outs, pictures, or drawings from your child. You can find poster boards at stores such as Walmart, Target, Longs, Dollar Tree, and Rite-Aid. The children will be making their traditions poster at home and sharing it at school. It will be due during the week of Dec. 2-6. Your child can bring it on any of those days and we will share in the afternoons. Be looking for a note in their take home folders in regards to this assignment.

OUR CHRISTMAS PROGRAM IS NOT UNTIL DECEMBER 11TH! I KNOW MY CALENDAR SAID THE 5TH, I MADE A MISTAKE. IT WILL BE THE 11TH 🙂

Dress Up Days

Student Council members demonstrate children like faith. Please make note:

Dec. 6th-Stripes Day (Wear Striped Clothing). Student Council will have candy canes and the story of the candy cane and how the stripes represent Christ. Encouraging one another to Grow In Christ for God’s love through Jesus.

CHRISTMAS SKATING PARTY!!

Its time to make plans for our annual skating party! Students may bring spending money to the rink to purchase snacks and drinks. Cal Skate allows no food/drink brought into the skating rink. The student admission cost is included in their class fee.

Fees for parents and siblings will be collected at the door:

Parents/sibling skate for only 1 of the parties (and leaving after party) ………. $6.50

Parents/sibling skating for both parties…………………………………………….. $ 13.00

Parents/sibling spectators for one party & skating at the other………………… $ 9.50

Parents/siblings as spectators only for one or both parties…………………….. $ 3.00

Please respond to the transportation letter being sent home in regards to the plans for your child. Return that sheet no later than Friday December 6th!

Together we CAN!

Once again we have the privilege to help the families of Pinedale this Holiday season! We will be collecting CANned food Nov. 12th thru Dec. 6th to distribute through the Pinedale Book Buddies program. Our High School students are already volunteering as Book Buddies and we would like to continue our support for their programs. Our delivery this year will help families by providing food for Christmas. Pinedale resource leaders put together a list of items most used in the community (see back of flyer sent home). Please make sure to check this list before you shop. There will be a prize awarded to the classes that bring the most items (1 prize for grades K-3, and 1 prize for grades 4-6).

If you are interested in making a financial donation, please send cash/check to the office and designate “Food – Pinedale.” We have a program with Food Maxx where we use scrip & S.H.A.R.E.S. so FCS also benefits!

If you have any questions, please contact Rob Foshee at rfoshee@fresnochristian.com .

IMPORTANT DATES

12-11 – Christmas Program – FC Gym @ 5:30

12-6 – Stripes Day. Wear stripes to school

12-11 – School dismissed @ 12:00 PM – Teacher Inservice

12-13 – End of 1st Semester – School dismissed at 12:00 PM

12-16– 1-3 – Christmas Vacation – Happy Birthday Jesus!!!

1- 6– School resumes – Happy New Year

1-14- EL Chapel (Mrs. Raymundo’s class in charge)

1-20-Martin Luther King day-NO SCHOOL

1-27-State of the School Address. 7-8:30 in G.L. Johnson Chapel

1-28: EL Chapel