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KINDERGARTEN
Room 138
DECEMBER 2013
MR.NICOL AND MRS. GALLO
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Tis the Season
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We would like to take this opportunity to wish you and your family
a very Merry Christmas! You hope that you each have a blessed
holiday and enjoy the time spent with family and friends.
COMING UP IN DECEMBER
Elf on the Shelf
Starting Monday, December
2nd, a friendly elf will be
visiting daily to watch over
us and report back to Santa.
If you have not heard of ‘Elf
on the Shelf’, please visit
our classroom website for
more information or
www.elfontheshelf.com
December will be a very busy month
in Kindergarten! Our students will
be busy little elves, preparing for our
Christmas Concert, learning about
Advent, attending a musical concert
at Jean Vanier, making Christmas
crafts and so much more!
This month we will begin working on
our letters to Santa. Santa has
promised to respond to each child’s
letter, which will hopefully be in the
last week of school.
In Science, the students have already
begun to wonder about and explore
the concept of states of matter.
They have been participating in
experiments to see what happens to
water at different temperatures.
Important Note
We are continuously humbled
and blessed by the
thoughtfulness of our students
and their families at Christmas
time. We truly appreciate being
thought of at this busy time of
year. Although we by no means
expect anything for Christmas,
we would like to ask that if you
would like to give us anything,
that it be something for the
students. Seeing the students
For math, we will be reviewing
everything we have learned this year
in our ‘Math Mania!!!’
This month we are introducing
‘The Adventures of Sock Monkey.’
Each weekend students will take
home our class Sock Monkey to
spend time with. Students will
write, draw or take pictures of their
time together and share it with the
class the following week. The Sock
Monkey is a great way to get
students writing about the events in
their live and sharing these events
with Sock Monkey orally. Please
check out our website to find out
more details.
happy is what makes us happy!
So, if there is an item and/or toy
that you know your own child
loves, I’m sure their peers would
enjoy it in the classroom as well
(for example; craft supplies, educational
games, teaching supplies etc.). Thank
DEC 5TH
School Mass
held in the
gymnasium
9:00 am
PJ Day
DEC 10th
This season we will be
reading the Polar
Express, written by
Chris Van Allsburg. On
Thursday, December
19th, we will be
climbing aboard our
very own Polar Express
(created by the students)
to watch the movie in
our PJ’s. Please send
your child to school in a
warm pair of pajamas
for the day! We are
looking for a donation of
Daytime
Christmas
Concert
1:30pm
DEC 11TH
Musical
Concert at
JVA/Christmas
Concert
6:00pm
Hot Chocolate, as we
will be following the
events in the movie.
Elf on the Shelf!
The Elf on the Shelf is
a special scout elf sent
from the North Pole to
help Santa Claus
manage his naughty and
nice lists. When a class/
family adopts an elf and
gives it a name, the elf
DEC 17TH
Business Fair.
Event held by
the grade 8’s
receives its Christmas
magic and can fly to the
North Pole each night to
tell Santa Claus about
all of the day's
adventures. Each
morning, the elf returns
to its Class/family and
perches in a different
place to watch the fun.
Field Trip to
Jean Vainer
On Wednesday,
December 11th our
class will be taking a
field trip to Jean Vainer
DEC 19TH
PJ Day
All aboard the
Polar Express!
to watch a musical play
performed by the high
school students.
Christmas
Concert
St. Mary’s will have two
opportunities for parents
to watch our Christmas
Concert. The first will
be held on Tuesday, Dec
10th @1:30. The second
concert will be held on
Wednesday Dec 11th @
6:00pm. Details to
follow.
November Review
PenPals
During the month of
November we received
our first letter from our
PenPals in Korea. They
shared with us some of
their traditions, what
they are learning in class
and asked us questions
about what it’s like to
live in Canada.
information about
ourselves and others. We
used bar graphs, tallies
and pictographs to
collect the data. Our
students are really
starting to talk like
mathematicians, using
words like; data,
In math we learned
attributes, surveys,
about collecting data to greater and less then.
to discover new
Math
Parent Interview
Thank you to everyone
for coming to see us
during parent interview.
It was a fantastic
experience for us discuss
your child’s successes
and the goals we have
set for them in the
future.