I apologize for the lack of posts recently. I had this grandiose idea for a Christmas post and then.... I lost all of the pictures in my phone :/ thus discouraging me from following through. Poor excuse, I know. Anyhow, I am back in action now and did at least want to post some info about upcoming curriculum, sum up the end of the year, and some reminders :)
Our Primary class ended this year with a bang! Our Catechesis curriculum brought us right up until the birth of Jesus. The kids loved working with the Nativity scene we had out for them to put together themselves, along with the Advent wreath and several other activities to support the season. We finished our work with Johann Sebastian Bach (my goodness, the kids love him!), have several children moving into working on addition into the thousands as well as multiplication, in Math. In Language, cursive is happening everywhere and readers are appearing left and right :) It's a beautiful thing!
Starting off in this new year, we have plenty of new lessons out for the children to familiarize themselves with, as well as new spins on old lessons. We will continue with chess, adding the King in to join the Queen and pawns. Mozart will be our next musician study. Our recycling curriculum will take us deeper into the importance of recycling paper, to add to Energy and Water. I, Miss Melissa, will be ramping up the lessons tying in with my year long project; the Four Seasons. Spanish vocabulary will be expanded, and much much more :)
We have Mr. Gavin making his visit next Monday, the 14th. We will be talking about birds this time around and I believe the visitor will be a parrot. Still need to get definite confirmation on that one. But please feel free to bring contributions for him during this week leading up to the 14th. Thank you, as always!
I wanted to give you all an updated Book Wish List. For those of you who are new with us, each child for their birthday has a little celebration in the classroom where we do a walk around the sun (symbolizing that every year you get older, the earth has gone around the sun), sing, and the child is asked to give a gift of a book to add to our small, but growing library! We have a Wish List that has had some updates. Plus I figured that the original paper has possibly been misplaced here and there ;) I've crossed out the ones that we have already received:
Book Wish
List
All of the following
books are available at Amazon.com. We have split some books into certain months
because it would be helpful to have them then to support our curriculum.
Books are
one of the most precious tools we have to stimulate your child’s brain, so
remember that we allow every child to bring a book in to share with the class
every day if they want to.
If you or
your children have any suggestions for us as your Birthday gift other than the
titles listed below, please let us know!
Thank you! J
August,
September and October
The
Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn
If
Peace is… by Jane Baskwill
Peace
Begins With You by Katharine Scholes
De
Colores and Other Latin American Folksongs for Children by Jose-Luis Orozco
A
Kid’s Guide to Latino History: More than 50 Activities by Valerie Petrillo
Christopher
Columbus by Steven Krensky
My
Garden by Kevin Henkes
October,
November and December
Pumpkin
Pumpkin by Jeanne Titherington
The
Runaway Pumpkin by Kevin Lewis
The
Story of the Pilgrims by Katharine Ross
Squanto
and the Miracle of Thanksgiving by Eric Metaxas
The
Littlest Christmas Tree: A Tale of Growing and Becoming by Janie Jasin
The
Christmas Story by Jane Werner Watson
January,
February and March
Charlotte’s
Web by E.B. White
If
a Bus Could Talk: The Story of Rosa Parks by Faith Ringgold
Martin’s
Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by Doreen Rappaport
Who
Was Abraham Lincoln? By Janet Pascal
What
Does the President Do? By Amanda Miller
The
Easter Story by Patricia Pingry
Easter
Bunnies Everywhere! By Renae Rae
Anytime!
The
Big Orange Splot by Daniel Pinkwater
James
and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
The
Learning Station & Dr. Becky Bailey – Brain Boogie Boosters (cd)
Have
you Filled a Bucket Today? by Carol McCloud & David Messing
The
Skin You Live In by Michael Tyler
Kindness
Counts! By Debby Anderson
The
Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle
The
Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle
The
Mixed-Up Chameleon by Eric Carle
The
Very Lonely Firefly by Eric Carle
Goodnight
Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
The
Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein
A
Giraffe and a Half by Shel Silverstein
The
Little Prince by Katherine Woods
A
Good Day by Kevin Henkes
Little
White Rabbit by Kevin Henkes
Kitten’s
First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes
Magic
Tree House Books 1-4 by Mary Pope Osborne and Sal Murdocca
Magic
Tree House Books 5-8 by Mary Pope Osborne and Sal Murdocca
Some more exciting news is that we are welcoming SIX new students into our Primary room! (As well as a few others in our toddler and infant rooms). In the morning we will have Blaise and Lucia moving up from the toddler room, as well as a new addition, Eva :) In the afternoon we have Marie's little sister Rory joining, as well as 2 brothers; Benedict and Clement fresh from Germany; how exciting! We would like to welcome them all - we're excited and blessed to have our family growing. New faces and new beginnings in this new year :D
Now, very last piece, Miss Elizabeth is getting married.... today! (Saturday, 1/5, I know sometimes the email gets to everyone 24 hours late), she will be back with us in a couple of weeks as a Mrs. We are so very happy for her and congratulate her from the bottom of our hearts!!
That is all for now. Back with pictures for sure next time; promise.
See everybody Monday!! :)
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