Our Royal Week

We enjoyed being royal this week. Monday we read about The Knight and the Dragon and watercolored a dragon of our own. Tuesday we made our knight helmets and armor and we read about a girl knight. On Wednesday we made fancy, bejeweled crowns.

We wrapped up the week on Thursday with our Royal Tea Party that we dressed up for using our knight helmets, jeweled crowns and other royal attire. We had delicious peanut butter and jelly “tea sandwiches” and juice “tea”. More pictures can be found on our Photo Gallery Page.

AM Royalty

PM Royalty

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Valentine's Day / Friendship Party

We will be having our Friendship Party during class on Thursday, February 13th. Please have your child write ONLY his/her name on each valentine. This will make the passing out process much less complicated!  Start sending as soon as your child is finished writing their name. We have 18 friends in each class.
You are welcome to send special treats/snacks that day. We recommend take-home goody bags or non-sugary snacks as we usually receive plenty of cupcakes, cookies, etc.

Don’t forget to make your own Mailbox and bring it in by February 12th!

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Contact Information Update

We have had several instances lately in which we need to reach a child’s parent and/or emergency  contact, only to find out that the phone number(s) we had no longer work. We MUST be able to reach you in case of an emergency and to confirm  absences as required by law.
If the contact information for you or your emergency contacts has changed since the beginning of the year, please get the new info. to us ASAP!

Welcome Back!

Well, after our extra long break, it's good to be back. A little difficult, but nice to get back to our regular schedule! We hope you all had a fabulous break!!!

This week we made our January page for our Person Book. We got to draw ourselves wearing our winter/snow clothes and add items like snowflakes and snowmen to our illustrations.

Thursday we used up our old glue bottles when we made snowmen from puddles of glue. These creations are still drying so they will come home with your child next week.

Our bonus day on Friday we made ourselves all bundled up like Eskimos. Very fitting for this winter!

Please be sure to check your child's red folder for all the extra notes that were sent home this week. There is one about the FREE Moovin' & Groovin' Event on January 18th, another about Child Development Days and a third note that you can pass along to anybody you know in the district that will have a 4K kiddo next year.

Also, we have photos from our Holiday Book Exchange on the Photo Gallery page now.

Have a great weekend!

We've been busy!

It's been a busy few weeks! We had fun last week at Hann's Christmas Tree Farm. You can see the pictures on our Photo Gallery page. We also made bells on Monday that we will be using during our Holiday Sing...which is on THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19th! We had the date listed incorrectly on the newsletter last week, however, the calendar shows it correctly. 

We also made mini-drums and painted to music. The paintings are displayed in our hallway and classroom. They are all so unique and colorful!!

This week we read the story of The Night Tree and made our own trees out of paper strips. These are decorating our room too.

We created stockings with our names on them for on our stage at the Holiday Sing. We got to write our names with glue and then add glitter!

Wednesday we painted a wreath and added a bow and some "holly berries". On Friday we made our own spider after hearing the story of Sammy the Spider's First Hanukkah.

A Magical Week

We learned about an African Folk Tale called Abiyoyo. It is about magic, music, and understanding.  Mrs. Fox even performed some fun magic tricks this week!!

Monday we made a wizard’s hat and a wand.  We made our own magic hat and rabbit on Tuesday. Did your child pull a rabbit from the hat for you? Wednesday we created monsters by cutting a monster shape and then adding various eyes, noses, and mouths.

We experimented with color mixing to make new “magic” colors on Thursday. 

Photo orders were sent home in your child's red folder this week, so be sure to grab those out your child's backpack so they don't get ruined!

Don’t forget that next week we only have one day of school!  
There will not be a newsletter next week. Have a great Thanksgiving Break!

More Bear Fun

We worked on a number of bear projects this week. On Monday we created a bear puppet.

Tuesday we all enjoyed our day off...well, Mrs. Fox didn’t get the day off, but she enjoyed meeting with all the families at conferences. Thank you to those who attended! If you haven't had your child's conference yet and can't remember when it's scheduled for, check the "Conference Schedule" using the link in the menu above.

We made a bear hibernating in a cave on Wednesday, which was hard work...especially using our fine motor skills to pinch and pull the cotton balls to spread them.  

Thursday we created posable bears that are now decorating our classroom.

We also had a great time at our pajama party where we painted a bear portrait and did patterning activities. It was a beary fun day!

Bear Painting

AM Pajama Day

PM Pajama Day

Beary Fun Week

We did lots of bear crafts last week. These projects will be given to you during your child's conference. These projects display lots of important math skills including sequencing, patterning, and sorting.

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Conferences have begun. If you forgot when your child's was scheduled, please check here: http://www.creativeartsclass.net/Conferences.pdf

Also, it is not necessary for your child to attend the conference and may be easier for you if they do not. The play centers will not be open for them to use during conference time. Also, if you can't make it for any reason, please call us right away at 884-6162.

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If you haven't turned in your child's Health Report, we put a neon green note in his/her red folder. These are due by December 1st and if we don't have it by then, your child will not be able to attend class until it's turned in.

Happy Halloween!

Monday we cut strips and made mummies that decorated our room for our costume party. 

Tuesday we glued mini-marshmallows into the shape of a ghost. We made a skeleton out of Q-tips on Wednesday.

We also enjoyed some really fun snacks this week!

Ghost  Bananas from Annabelle

Delicious Fruit Cups from Jameson

Super Fun Monster Snacks from Tori for her Birthday!

Thursday we had our costume party! It was so much fun!! We worked together to make witches brew. The brew included Snake Eyes (Red Hot Candies), Ghost Droppings (Popcorn), Witches Finger Nails (Bugles), Chicken Toenails (Candy Corn), Skeleton Bones (Pretzels), Beetle Shells (M&M's), Skeleton Glue (Mini Marshmallows), Spider Webs (Honeycombs Cereal), Bat Bones (Fritos Chips), Jack-o-Lantern Eyes (Doritos), Pumpkin Poo (Cheese Balls), and Pumpkin Drool (Cheetos).

And we had special Halloween-themed games. 

Here are the class pictures but be sure to go to our Photo Gallery Page for many, many more photos.

Morning Class

Afternoon Class

Spooky Cupcakes from Malik