DECEMBER NEWS
Welcome to Chilly December in Junior Kindergarten! Please have your
child bring snow pants, hat, and mitts to school with them. If the weather
is above -15 we will venture outside to play.
This Month we will be gearing up for Christmas and our concert so we will
be doing many crafts and singing our hearts out each day at school.
For our concert we will be singing Jingle Bells, We Wish you a Merry
Christmas and I want a Hippopotamus for Christmas please practice these
at home as often as possible as well. For our concert on the 16th we ask
that children be in the Library by 5:30 and the concert will commence at 6:00pm. Please dress your children in Christmas attire, green and red. :)
Special dates to remember in December:
December 6th- Good deed ornament due
December 8th- Book Order due
December 9th- baked goods drop off 8:45-11:30
December 10th- St. Joesphs Hall Bake sale for Junior Kindergarten
December 16th- Christmas concert at 6:00 pm
December 21st Christmas Spirit dress up and Christmas parties & LAST DAY OF JUNIOR KINDERGARTEN until January.
December 22nd our Hoildays begin! We will NOT have any classes from December 22-January 9th. See you in the NEW YEAR!!
We are very proud of our Junior Kindergarten's for the donations that
they have been collecting for both the food bank, Tennilles Hope &
Wellsprings.
We are accepting these donations until December 19th. Thank-you to
everyone participating.
We want to Wish you a MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
We will see everyone in January and hope everyone has safe and
Happy
Holidays!!
Junior Kindergarten:
Where we are busy playing, learning and growing!
We hope you are enjoying our new program as much as we are. We have had a successful start to our year and are enjoying getting to know your children.
As Parents and Teachers we have come up with some pointers that will help us as staff, you as parents, and most importantly your child enjoy Junior Kindergarten to the fullest!
1. Ecole St. Mary School has students that are severley allergic to nuts. To keep these students safe we ask that you only send items that DO NOT contain nuts to school with your children.
2. Our children often have the same lunch bag, backpack, shoes etc. as another child in class, so labeling any items with your child's name will help us try to avoid mix-ups.
3. With our students being so young, VELCRO is always best! One child with an untied shoe isn't hard to fix....26 children with untied shoes is dangerous!
4. The more comfortable YOU are during drop off with your children, the more comfortable they will be. Almost minutes after parents leave a crying child at school they are calm, playing and happy!
5. Our children are learing to become independant. Practicing putting on shoes, cleaning up plates and cups etc. at home are going to help them to be independant at school. Please know we are here to HELP your children, if they are willing to try. If they are not successful on the first try we are here to help them try again until they are successful.
6. one or two snacks is enough for our snack break. If the children see a full lunch bag, they tend to think they must eat all of it.
7. We do this job because WE LOVE CHILDREN! We are educated to help children learn and grow. We are silly, fun and full of exciting ideas to share with your children.
While teaching them, we will show them love, respect and care at all times.
Parent Pointers: We are teaching children to print there name using tracing techniques, we use a capital at the beginning of the name and lowercase for the remaining letters. We also hold our pencil with our "pincher" fingers when printing.