2 Weeks Until Christmas Break

Hello Parents!
Only two weeks until Christmas break, I hope y'all are ready, I know I am! Just a reminder our Christmas program is tomorrow night at 5:30 but please meet at 5:15 in the music room. Remember to dress your child in a star costume. Also, next Friday is our Christmas Party. Our class is going to have a Pajama Party that day and make hot cocoa and decorate cookies. I will also provide a sign up sheet for food you would like to bring for lunch.
One more thing, the school's Gala is coming up in February and each class is expected to make and donate something for the auction. If anyone has any ideas of what to make, let me know, I have a few ideas but would love some extra input, especially from all you crafty parents! Hope you have a blessed week!
Krista Langford

St. Nicolas Day, Pizza Party and Christmas Pagaent

Happy St. Nicolas Day! Today Father Mark dressed up as St. Nicolas and visited our class and told us the story of St. Nicolas and even left candy in our shoes! The children were very excited about our special visitor.
Tomorrow our class will be having a pizza party for donating the most food during the food drive. We will most likely eat around 11 or so, parents are welcome to come and celebrate with us.
A reminder about the Christmas Pageant on December 11 at 5:30 pm in the Church. Our class will be the Christmas stars, so please create a costume that has a star or stars on it.
Any questions or concerns please email or come see me.
Blessings,
Krista Langford

Welcome Back!

Hello Parents and Friends! I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving break! I know I did. It is now time to celebrate my favorite time of the year, Christmas!!!! Over the next three weeks we will be busy learning about The  Gingerbread Man, Reindeer, Santa and of course the birth of our Lord and Savior. This week we our theme is Gingerbread Man and we will doing a variety of art, math, reading, and social activities.
Our Christmas pageant is on December 11 and our class will be Christmas Stars. Ms. Boyd has asked the parents to make their children's costumes for the pageant. If you need any ideas or supplies feel free to talk to me about it and we can work something out.
I am excited for the next few weeks, we are going to busy having so much fun!
Blessings,
Krista Langford

Sharing Feast

Hello Parents!
This week we have been learning all about Turkeys and Thanksgiving. Children will be dressed up like Native Americans for the Sharing Feast Friday. The children have also been discovering about different foods that are eaten at Thanksgiving and what the first Thanksgiving was like with the Pilgrims and Native Americans.
I want to remind everyone about our sharing feast tomorrow and that parents and siblings are invited to have lunch with us for $5 a person. Our class will be making Green Bean Casserole in the morning to serve at lunch. Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday and see you back Monday, November 26.
Many Blessings!
Krista Langford

 

Thanksgiving and Book Fair

Welcome November! Our class is learning all about the month of November and preparing for Thanksgiving, discovering what happened on the first Thanksgiving and what we do at our homes for Thanksgiving. This week we started off by taking a nature walk around the school, picking flowers and leaves, watching butterflies flutter by, and talking about the life cycle of plants. In class last week we took some pumpkin seeds and sprouted them in plastic bags, so today we transferred our seeds to soil cups to help them grow. Food is an important part of why we celebrate Thanksgiving and it is important to know how our food is grown. We also created beautiful nature collages with our findings from our nature walk.
 Currently our school is having a book fair, so please stop by and support our school and buy some books!

Canterbury Fair Week

Greetings Parents!
 First, I would welcome you to the Young Learners Blog! It is my goal to add weekly updates on here about what is happening in a class and at school. This Friday, Christ church School is celebrating our annual Canterbury Fair. We have lots of games, prizes, food and fun! Parents and siblings are invited to join us on this day.
Our theme in class this week is Medieval Times: Kings, Queens and Dragons. We will review the letters P, K, D, and Q and also Squares. It should be a fun week!
Hope to see you on Friday!
Blessings,
Krista Langford

Green Eggs and Ham!

This week our class has been learning all about eggs!! So far we have painted with eggs and had a Ressurection Egg hunt in the classroom. We have also tried out some science experiments; the floating egg, the rubber egg, and the translucent egg! We have had lots of fun! Today is the last day of our egg unit and to celebrate we made Green Eggs and Ham, from the Dr. Suess' classic story book. The children had so much fun and so did I! Hopefully I can uplaod some photos from the day onto here or onto the school's facebook page!
Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Langford

WInter has arrived!

Dear Parents,
I hope everyone had a great Christmas break! We are pleased to welcome two new student to our class, Owen and Barrett! We are so glad to have new friends in our class! Sadly we also lost a student over break, Aishik aka "Nick" and his family moved back to India. :-( We will miss him a lot! This past week and this week our class is learnig all about winter. We have been talking about what happens to the weather, what types of clothing we wear, and what types of activities do we do. We started off this week by doing a special science experiment where we put snowflakes, made out of pipe cleaners, in a borax-water solution to soak and hopefully over the next few days we will have crystalized snowflakes to hang in our classroom. Pictures have been posted on the school's Facebook page if you would like to see the experiment. Report cards went out last week, most have been turned back in but if you haven't already please sign them and return them. Thank you! And if you have any questions or concerns don't hesitate to give me a call or stop by my room!
Many Blessings!
Krista Langford