What a great, sugar filled finish to a wonderful semester!  We have been so blessed to have your child in the Ocean Room & Rhianna and I are looking forward to next year.  Classes resume on Jan 3rd and we will begin doing sharing time for each child.  Please make sure to look at the week your child is to bring a favorite toy, book, or picture to talk about. 

For those of you traveling, have a safe trip & I look forward to hearing all about your holiday!

Blessings,
Kai

Pictures from Christmas Parties!!

The final week of the semester is here.  What a fun time we have had in 2011!  We will be finishing up our Celebration of Jesus' birth and having a Christmas "birthday" Party this week!    Even though we are doing a lot of celebrating, we will also be doing some learning... We will be reading a Bible story about the Angels telling the shepherds about the Savior that was born.  Our shape of the week is a SQUARE.  We will be learning to trace them and finding squares around the room.  Your child has worked hard on making a great gift for you and has been looks forward to giving it to you.  We will be reading the book, Who Will Help Santa This Year? during story time and will be making jingle bell bracelets and decorating goody bags to take home.  Of course there will be songs and movement, as we dance to Jingle Bells, Rudolph, We Three Kings and a lot more carols.  As a special treat, we will be watching the VeggieTales Christmas movie while eating popcorn and drinking juice in our comfy pajamas!

I have been so blessed to have your children in this class and look forward to teaching and learning with them in 2012!  Have a Merry Christmas and a safe and happy New Year!!  I would love to see those Christmas cards if you send them out.  See you the week of January 3rd!


Mrs. Kai

We have a lot of exciting things planned for this week.  Our Bible story will be focusing on the birth of Baby Jesus.  We will discuss how Jesus will save us and why his birth was so important.  We will also be working on a new shape: a Triangle.  Using the triangle, we will be making a neat Christmas Tree with popsicle sticks.  For our morning activity, we will be making a coffee filter angel that will be displayed in our room.  There will, of course, be a lot of singing and dancing during the day, as we will continue to sing our Christmas carols and our shape song.  The book that will be read during story time is "Who Was Born This Special Day?"  You child will get to search for who was born on Christmas.  Is it the donkey, or maybe the shepherd? 

Please take some time and look at the art projects from last week that your child made.  He/she put a lot of effort into making it for you.  We will be making many more things before the semester is finished and I know how proud you child is in his/her work. 

Also, there will be a letter coming home that talks about the Christmas party next week.  We have asked each of you to bring an item to make this party a success.  If you are unable to provide your item, please let Mrs. Rhianna or I know.  We are excited to wrap up our semester next week with a celebration of Jesus' birthday. 

Please make sure to continue to bundle up your child, as we will be heading outside to play if the temperature is above freezing. 

Happy Holidays!
Mrs. Kai

Mrs. Rhianna and I are looking forward to working with your children. Although the teachers have changed (a bit) the love and learning will be the same. This is my favorite time of year and I am excited to teach your children about Christmas and the blessings it brings.  As we begin our Christmas section this week, our bible story will be about how Mary and Joseph found out they would have Jesus. We will be making a wreath in art as well as making decorations for our door... keep your eye out for your child's masterpiece.  We will also be starting our unit on shapes, circle being our first one.  With a new unit comes a new placemat.  The children will get to decorate theirs with different shape stamps. Your children will be movin' and groovin' this month to Christmas music as well as singing some of the classic carols... Jingle Bells, Joy to the World, We Three Kings and many more. Be on the lookout, next week, for a letter discussing the upcoming Christmas Pajama Party. 

Please remember that we will be playing outside during recess, weather permitting with the temperature (wind chill included) above freezing.  Each child should come with a winter coat, hat, and mittens or gloves. 

Blessings,
Mrs. Kai

Re-Cap on the first Two months!

We have been busy in the Ocean Room! Learning all of our colors, starting to recognize our own names, learning to cut with scissors, playing and sharing with friends, and so much more! We have had a fun start to the year. Again I want to apologize about the delay in posting pictures!!! I am trying to learn how to use a MAC...and most of you know or have heard it can be a process :) 

Kai and I had such a fun week this week. The kids all looked great in their costumes! We hope everyone has a HAPPY HALLOWEEN~ pictures to come soon!

First few weeks :)

Great Start!

We have had a fun start to the 2011-2012 school year in our 2&3's Ocean Room! Thank you to everyone who brought supplies, that will help us out so much throughout the year. Mrs. Kai and I have been getting to know each one of your children, and we our so excited about watching them grow and learn throughout the year. They all love to play, color, and PAINT! We have many of them come up and ask if they can paint again, too cute! Many days I think, if only I had a video camera or tape recorder, because the things they all say and do are too precious. I will however begin to take pictures and post them on here! I would love to hear about anything your child may be telling you about from their time at school. I've heard about many of them singing our color songs at home, which is awesome! They listen so intently as Mrs Kai and myself sing, and occasionally we see some lips move and a few join in, but we have yet to have them really sing with us. We know in time the shyness will wear off! :) I hope everyone has another wonderful week!
Mrs. Tana

End of School

I can hardly believe it has come to an end...these beautiful children have learned, grown, and come to love school; I can't wait to see them back next year for even more fun!

Aubrey, Ryker, and Lakyn enjoy the picnic lunch

Ryker wanders across the rocks

Lakyn shows how to play hopscotch

Addisyn dances in her mouse mask

Virginia, Ryan, and Cara eat lunch outside

The kids get an end of school treat for such a great year!

Andrew catches bubbles after lunch

Averie takes big gulps in the warm sun

Elyce digs in the pink sand

Saige draws pictures with sidewalk chalk

AJ looks for bubbles above and below

Ryker climbs through the cabin window

Ice cream and a story helps cool off sweaty kids

Water Day!

What a blast! Even with some cool weather, the kids braved the water and had a GREAT time. Check out the pictures:

Ryan and Virginia try the sprinkler

Cara makes a splash

Ryker tests the slide

Naomi takes a break to warm up in the sun

Addisyn winces at the cold droplets

Saige pours water back into the pool

Paxton plays at a water table

Reed checks out the action all around him

Gretchen grins for water day!

Ryker, Saige, Andrew, and Averie enjoy "soup"

Paxton and Reed test all the water toys

Will, AJ, and Brody play in the pool

Joaquin, Greyson, and Will hang out in the sun

AJ blows some BIG bubbles

Greyson assists his friend Will in putting his shirt back on