"D"elightful D Week!

Week of September 15 – 18

Sound of the week  - D

Book of the week – Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

Habit of the Month – Obedience

Mom of the Month – Jan Reynolds

We had a great week celebrating “C”!  We Counted Candy Corn, and “ate” the Life Cycle of a Butterfly!

We loved having Mrs. Stephens come read to our class! (and Elle and Maggie did have the Life Cycle of the Butterfly plates, they just got cropped out of the pictue – all you really wanted to see was the beautiful girls anyway!)

Don’t you love our picture after chapel in our dressy enrichment clothes!  (BEFORE recess!)  They did a fantastic job practicing the Habit of Self–control in a rather lengthy chapel service!  Thank you Mr. Trung for sitting with us!

They look so beautiful and handsome in their dressy enrichment uniforms! One update on the dress code…Several are really struggling with fastening and unfastening belts. That is a very difficult task for a 5 year old!  I have secured permission, from Mrs. Crist, for kindergarteners not to wear belts on regular dress code days.  This will make our trips to the bathroom much more time efficient!  On dressy enrichment days (like chapel), they should wear the belt and then we will take them off and put them in backpacks after the event.  So unless your child is very self-sufficient and time efficient in taking care of their belt, please just leave them at home.  If your child just really wants to wear one and is still having difficulty you can check out http://www.myselfbelts.com .  This site has belts that are easy for young children to use. 

With the welcome cooler temperatures inevitably come higher “temperatures”.  If your child has fever, is throwing up, or on antibiotics for a contagious illness, please wait 24 hours before they return to school.  (in the case of a fever, 24 hours fever free without Tylenol or Advil) All of our families will appreciate anything we can do to prevent the spread of illness and so will your teacher!  Because of chemo, Kylie’s immune system is very weak and common colds and flu can be very serious.  I am helping my sister as Kylie’s back up caregiver and would really hate to bring illness home to her from kindergarten.  Thank you so very much for your help with this!

This week will be “d”elightful!  We will be enjoying another classic book by Caldecott winner author/illustrator Robert McCloskey.  Make Way for Ducklings is always a favorite!  We will be discussing alphabetical order, rhyming words, birds’ eye view, how parents care for their family, obeying our parents, mallard ducks and Boston Public Gardens.  Colossians 3 has much to say about parents and children, Deut. 4:1-9 and Prov. 22:6 talk about parents training their children, and Galatians 4:6 reveals God as the perfect, loving father.

This week we will be doing our first picture study, one of the illustrations from our book.  We will do our reproductions on Wednesday of one of those sweet little ducklings. 

We will enjoy diamonds, dots, dozen, dimes, ducklings, drawing and dancing this week in class.  Some fun ideas for home include a date with Daddy for donuts (look for a special invitation from your child).  Dig in the dirt. Eat dirt cups (chocolate pudding with crumbled Oreo cookies on top – put a gummy worm in the “dirt” for fun!)

Don’t forget about the bake sale on Thursday.  Send in $1 for a treat.  If you would like to tuck a dollar in a pocket of their backpack just to have for bake sale days you can let me know one is there and I’ll keep a list of who has one stashed away and help them look for it on days they might otherwise forget.