Christmas Program Update!

Christmas Program Update!

The T/Th P.M. group and the MWF A.M. group will be combining due to some absences from both classes the night of the program.  The new time is 6:15pm.  The T/Th A.M group will still be at 7pm.  Thank you for understanding!  See you next week. :)
 

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

The Christmas season is here!  I hope it will be a wonderful time for you and your family.  I'll just share a favorite quote of mine that ties in with the season“For it is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas, when its mighty Founder was a child Himself.” ― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol  

MWF 10-12 DECEMBER Be sure to read the monthly news

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
11/30/14	1Capital “D” Shape: Star Number: 5 “Little Jack Horner” Program Practice (Parts come home Wednesday) snack: Miss SueZan	2	3 Lowercase “d” Green/Wear Green Program Practice Show n' Tell Bag: Ava & Alex Snack: Jace	4	5Program Practice Talking Words Factory snack: Jackson	6
7	8 -Capital C Program Practice Number: 6 -Christmas Craft snack: Ava	9	10Lowercase c Program Practice Show n' Tell Bag Jace & Lizzy snack: Hailee	11	12  Program Practice Review Letters of the year (A, S, O, P, H) snack: Oly	13
14	15 Fun in the kitchen! Number 7 Review Letters of the year (N, T, I, D, C.) christmas Craft snack: Madison	16	17 -Cookie Exchange!* Program Practice Show n' Tell Bag: Oly & Oliver snack: Alex Christmas Program TONIGHT @ 6pm Southwest Library	18	19 ~Christmas Village in Ogden~ School is from 9:30 to 12:00 dress warm!! snack: Oliver	20
21	22 Christmas Party! Handprint Art Wear your comfy pajamas. Snack: Lizzy	23 Have a lovely Christmas!	24 See you back January 5th!	25	26	27

--MONTHLY NEWS--

Thanks so much for everyone's support of the Book Fair last month! It was a lot of fun and I hope that you and your children love their books!

*Cookie Exchange: To avoid an extra refreshment fee at the library, I thought it'd be fun to have a cookie exchange the day of the program. Please bring a dozen of your favorite cookies before or after school on Wednesday, the 17^th! I will distribute them all onto individual plates and wrap them up so that you can take them with you after the program is over that night. Everyone will leave with a dozen different cookies and there will be no mess for the library to clean up. Win-Win! :)

**Christmas Program @ the Southwest Branch Library 1950 W. 4800 S., Roy.

For the Christmas Program, I would like the children to wear best dress please. You and your family can wear whatever you'd like. :) Please feel free to invite grandparents and anyone else you'd like to this. The children will each have a short line that I'd like you to help them memorize. They'll get to practice it lots of times in school, but it'd be great when I hand those out if you could help your child practice. I also am looking for a small Christmas tree as part of the program. (i.e. anywhere from 2-4 feet) If any one has a little one they'd loan me for the program, I'd really appreciate it. Thank you so much! After the program is over, there will be a small craft that you can stay and do with your family if you'd like to. :)

~Christmas Village in Ogden. We will have a fun tour of Christmas Village given by none other than Mrs. Claus at 10am on December 19^th. We will meet at the school at 9:30 so that we can get everyone buckled up. I need two volunteer drivers/chaperones. This is free for any parents who want to join us. If you would like to bring other children it's free for them too, I just need to let them know a headcount by Dec. 12^th. Please sign up on the bulletin board inside the preschool. You may also meet us in front of Santa's Castle (by the amphitheater) at Christmas Village at 10 if you prefer. Please let me know your plan so I don't leave anyone behind. Thank you!

^Christmas Break: No school from Dec.23rd-Jan 5^th. I hope you and your family have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

T-Th 10-12 DECEMBER Be sure to read the monthly news on back!

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
11/30/14	1	2 Capital “D” Shape: Star Number: 5 Program Practice (Parts come home Thursday) Happy Birthday Emma! Bday Snack: Emma	3	4 Lowercase “d” Green/Wear Green Program Practice Show n' Tell Bag: Braelee & Annie Snack: Madi	5	6
7	8	9 Capital C Program Practice Number: 6 -Christmas Craft Happy Birthday Hazel! Bday snack: Hazel	10	11 Lowercase c Program Practice Show n' Tell Bag: Mikaela & Catherine snack: Elliott	12	13
14	15	16 Cookie Exchange!* Number 7 Review Letters from beginning of the year (A, S, O, P, H) christmas Craft Program Practice snack: Dayson	17 Christmas Program TONIGHT @ 7pm Southwest Library**	18 Field Trip: ~Meet Santa and Mrs. Claus at Miss Leslie's preschool~ School from 9:10AM to 12PM	19	20 Have a lovely Christmas! See you back January 6th!

--MONTHLY NEWS--

Thanks so much for everyone's support of the Book Fair last month! It was a lot of fun and I hope that you and your children love their books!

*Cookie Exchange: To avoid an extra refreshment fee at the library, I thought it'd be fun to have a cookie exchange the day of the program. Please bring a dozen of your favorite homemade or store-bought cookies before or after school on Tuesday the 16^th! I will distribute them all onto individual plates and wrap them up so that you can take them with you after the program is over that night. Everyone will leave with a dozen different cookies and there will be no mess for the library to clean up. Win-Win!

**Christmas Program @ the Southwest Branch Library 1950 W. 4800 S., Roy:

For the Christmas Program, I would like the children to wear best dress please. You and your family can wear whatever you'd like. :) Please feel free to invite grandparents and anyone else you'd like to this. The children will each have a short line that I'd like you to help them memorize. They'll get to practice it lots of times in school, but it'd be great when I hand those out if you could help your child practice. I also am looking for a small Christmas tree as part of the program. (i.e. anywhere from 2-4 feet) If any one has a little one they'd loan me for the program, I'd really appreciate it. Thank you so much! After the program is over, there will be a small craft that you can stay and do with your family if you'd like to.

~Christmas Party at Miss Leslie's preschool: My good friend, Leslie Kobbe has invited us to join her preschool to meet Santa Claus at her home. I need all parents to pre-wrap and label a gift and get it to me no later than Dec. 12^th please! School is from 9:10 to 12:00 that day. If you can't make it by 9:10, please meet us at 9:30 at her home , 4023 S. 5000 W. West Haven. I need a couple of volunteer drivers. Please sign up on the bulletin board in the preschool. :)

^Christmas Break: No school from Dec.22nd-Jan 5^th. I hope you and your family have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! 

T-Th 1-3 DECEMBER Be sure to read the monthly news on back!

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
11/30/14	1	2 Capital “D” Shape: Star Number: 5 Program Practice (Parts come home Thursday) Snack: Grayson	3	4 Lowercase “d” Green/Wear Green Program Practice Show n' Tell Bag: Skyley & Eva Snack: Eva	5	6
7	8	9 Capital C Program Practice Number: 6 -Christmas Craft snack:Embry	10	11 Lowercase c Program Practice Show n' Tell Bag: Grayson & Rhia snack: Rhia	12	13
14	15	16 Cookie Exchange!* Number 7 Review Letters from beginning of the year (A, S, O, P, H) christmas Craft Program Practice snack: Bradley	17 Christmas Program TONIGHT @ 6:30pm Southwest Library**	18 Christmas Party! Happy Birthday Kaitlyn! Bday snack: Kaitlyn	19	20 Have a lovely Christmas! See you back January 6th!

--MONTHLY NEWS--

Thanks so much for everyone's support of the Book Fair last month! It was a lot of fun and I hope that you and your children love their books!

*Cookie Exchange: To avoid an extra refreshment fee at the library, I thought it'd be fun to have a cookie exchange the day of the program. Please bring a dozen of your favorite homemade or store-bought cookies before or after school on Tuesday the 16^th! I will distribute them all onto individual plates and wrap them up so that you can take them with you after the program is over that night. Everyone will leave with a dozen different cookies and there will be no mess for the library to clean up. Win-Win!

**Christmas Program @ the Southwest Branch Library 1950 W. 4800 S., Roy:

For the Christmas Program, I would like the children to wear best dress please. You and your family can wear whatever you'd like. :) Please feel free to invite grandparents and anyone else you'd like to this. The children will each have a short line that I'd like you to help them memorize. They'll get to practice it lots of times in school, but it'd be great when I hand those out if you could help your child practice. There are two other class programs that night right before and right after the P.M. Group, so please try to be on time. Plus, the program goes really fast—I would hate for anyone to miss out on it. :) After the program is over, there will be a small craft that you can stay and do with your family if you'd like to.

~Christmas Party: If you would like to volunteer to help with decorating sugar cookies or could bring a holiday game to play please sign up on the volunteer sheet in the preschool. Thanks so much!!

^Christmas Break: No school from Dec.22nd-Jan 5^th. I hope you and your family have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! :)

 

November calendars

---Please make sure to check out the monthly news at the bottom of this post!--

   MWF 10-12             N o v e m b e r             Miss SueZan

SUNDAY	Monday	TUESDAY	Wednesday	THURSDAY	Friday	SAUTRDAY
2	3 Capital “N” Unit: People Homes planting tulip bulbs in preschool garden snack: Jace	4	5 Lowercase“n” Unit: Land Animal Homes Hibernating &Migrating All about Me posters: Alex & Jackson snack: Jackson	6	7 Unit: “In a People House” by Dr. Seuss snack: Oly	8
9	10 Capital “T” Number: 1 Unit: 5 senses Color:Brown/ WearBrown snack: Grant	11	12 Lowercase “t” Number: 2 Unit: 5 senses All about Me poster: Ava snack: Ava	13	14 “Think outside the box” 5 senses discovery science Bday snack: Hailee	15 Happy Birthday Hailee!
16	17 Lowercase “i” Number: 3 Unit: Undersea Animal Homes Happy Birthday Alex! Bday snack: Alex	18	19 Capital “I” Number: 4 Unit: Indians & Pilgrims Show n' Tell bags: Madison & Hailee USBORNE BOOK FAIR** snack: Lizzy	20	21 Unit: “The Story of Thanksgiving” by Nancy Skarmeas Handprint/Footprint Art snack: Oliver	22
23	24 Letter Zz Review: 1, 2, 3, 4 Unit: Indians & Pilgrims Thanksgiving Fun in the kitchen* snack: Madison	25	26 No School Have a great Thanksgiving!	27 No School	28 No School	29 Please save the date!! 12/17/14 Christmas Program at Southwest Branch Library!

                                    T/Th 10-12     N o v e m b e r       Miss SueZan

SUNDAY	Monday	TUESDAY	Wednesday	THURSDAY	Friday	SAUTRDAY
2	3	4 Capital “N” Unit: People Homes planting tulip bulbs in preschool garden snack: Emma	5	6 Lowercase“n” Unit: Land Animal Homes Hibernating &Migrating All about Me posters: Braelee & Gavin snack: Gavin	7	8
9	10	11 Capital “T” Number: 1 Unit: 5 senses Color:Brown/ WearBrown snack: Dax	12	13 Lowercase “t” Number: 2 Unit: 5 senses All about Me poster: Emma & Miss SueZan snack: Hazel	14	15
16	17	18 Lowercase “i” Number: 3 Unit: Undersea Animal Homes snack: Dayson	19	20 Capital “I” Number: 4 Unit: Indians & Pilgrims All about Me poster: Mikaela USBORNE BOOK FAIR** Happy Birthday Mikaela!! Bday snack: Mikaela	21 Turkey Handprint/Footprint Art	22
23	24	25 Letter Zz Review: 1, 2, 3, 4 Unit: Indians & Pilgrims Thanksgiving Fun in the kitchen* snack: Braelee	26 No School Have a great Thanksgiving!	27 No School	28 No School	29 Please save the date!! 12/17/14 Christmas Program at Southwest Branch Library!

                                          T/Th 1-3          N o v e m b e r        Miss Hailey

SUNDAY	Monday	TUESDAY	Wednesday	THURSDAY	Friday	SAUTRDAY
2	3	4 Capital “N” Unit: People Homes planting tulip bulbs in preschool garden snack: Grayson	5	6 Lowercase“n” Unit: Land Animal Homes Hibernating &Migrating All about Me poster: Embry snack: Eva	7	8
9	10	11 Capital “T” Number: 1 Unit: 5 senses Color:Brown/ WearBrown snack: Embry	12	13 Lowercase “t” Number: 2 Unit: 5 senses All about Me poster: Kaitlyn & Miss Hailey snack: Rhia	14	15
16	17	18 Lowercase “i” Number: 3 Unit: Undersea Animal Homes snack: Izak	19	20 Capital “I” Number: 4 Unit: Indians & Pilgrims Show n' Tell Bags: Bradley & Izak USBORNE BOOK FAIR** snack: Bradley	21 Turkey Handprint and Footprint Art <--------	22
23	24	25 Letter Zz Review: 1, 2, 3, 4 Unit: Indians & Pilgrims Thanksgiving Fun in the kitchen* snack: Skyley	26	27 No School	28	29 Please save the date!! 12/17/14 Christmas Program at Southwest Branch Library!

November News~

Hello! *The last class before Thanksgiving will be a fun kitchen day for the kids. They are going to make homemade pumpkin pie filling. We will be using some of the pumpkins from the pumpkin patch and from our own preschool garden. If you would like to turn your own pumpkin from the field trip into a pie, here's the recipe I'll be using that day with the kids!

So Easy Pumpkin Pie

Cut pumpkin in half without stem. Scoop out seeds and strings. Place cut side down on foil lined baking sheet. Cover with foil. Bake @350 degrees until tender. (About 1 ½ hours) Cool. Scoop out flesh and mash with a hand mixer. Drain if too watery.

Beat together:

1 1/3 cup smooth mashed pumpkin

1 1/3 cup sweetened condensed milk

1 egg

2 tsp cinnamon

½ tsp nutmeg

½ tsp ginger

(or if you don't have those, you can do 3 tsp pumpkin pie spice)

1 cup hot water

Pour into a 9 inch pie shell at Bake @ 375 for 55-65 minutes. (Center will still move slightly.) Cool and enjoy! Mashed pumpkin will hold 5 days in refrigerator.

Following the Weber County School District schedule, there will be no school November 26^th-28^th. Enjoy this time with your family and have a very Happy Thanksgiving!

**Usborne Book Fair**

Help earn free books for the preschool while helping yourself get ready for the holidays!

Usborne books are a great addition to any library. There's so many fun and educational books and you can check them out at:

x3023.myubam.com

The Book Fair will be in my living room from 9:30-3:30 on Wednesday, November 19^th and 9:30-3:30 on Thursday, November 20^th. After dropping off your child for preschool, go browse through some books and grab a little refreshment.

If there's a specific book you'd like to see at the Book Fair, please call or text Shilene James, a friend of mine, who's in charge of it. 801.706.5016

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Last, but not least, please save the date for our Christmas Program! It will be held December 17^th at the Weber County Library, Southwest Branch on 4800 South in Roy.

Thank you!

Miss SueZan and Miss Hailey