G Week! "Jacob's Gift'

Week of December 2-5

Happy First Day of December and 1st Sunday of Advent!   Wendy Williams, one of our Kindergarten teachers, compiled an Advent Devotional that we sent home in backpacks on our last day of school before Thanksgiving Break.  Hopefully you can locate and discuss with family tonight.    

I have missed your children over our week break and have lifted each of your families in prayer as we enter this wonderful season of celebrating our Savior's Birth!  

Many of the kindergarten teachers will send home letters this week detailing the reasons that we only discuss the birth of Christ in Celebration of Christmas in our kindergarten program.  Honestly, I know your hearts, Christ is your family's focus for the season and we know that you will encourage your child to keep this focus when they are at school.  We will say, "we have so much to talk about Jesus' birth that we don't have time to talk about anything else at school".....so no discussion of Santa, elves, etc. at school.  

Sound of the Week - hard /g/

Phonics - review of letters/sounds to date and Handwriting book

Book of the Week - Jacob's Gift by Max Lucado

Habit of the Month - Responsibility

Mom of the Month - Melinda Rowand

Pam Hamilton and Melinda Rowand will be leading our Service Project on December 12th.  We will be serving the Security team at Perimeter Church.  You will be receiving email from Pam in the next week detailing items needed to create goodie bags for each of the seven security men.  We are combining with Mrs. Jernigan's class for this project.

Thank you, Pam Hamilton for being our awesome Mom of the Month for November...don't know what we would have done without you at our Thanksgiving Feast - your music blessed many.   

We learned last week  that our class with be the "Angels" for our Kindergarten Christmas Pageant on December 19th.  Our costumes are already made and are adorable!  I will send a photo of what is needed to wear under your child's costume this week.  Each class sings a song in the pageant and we have been assigned "Angels We Have Heard on High" - we will practice many times in class and in rehearsals, but I you might want to add to your song list for this season.  We begin Pageant rehearsals tomorrow!  

 Please make plans to attend our Christmas Pageant on Wednesday, December 19th at 11:00 in the Church Fellowship Hall.  Invite grandparents, aunts, cousins and friends.  We always have a packed house.  It's wonderful.  My in-laws drive from North Georgia every year to see our 13 minute long pageant.  It's one of their favorite holiday traditions.