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

Goodbye Thanksgiving, Hello Christmas!

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving break! Our class had lots of fun at this year's sharing feast and ate lots of good food! Thank you to everyone who donated money for the rolls!
Christmas time is amongst us and we are hard at work in our class! This week our theme is "Gingerbread People". The children have been working on their own gingerbread family and house for our class' bulletin board. This Friday we will be decorating our very own gingerbread boy/girl for snack! This should be lots of fun!

Fall Harvest!!

This week our class is learning about the Fall Harvest, Seeds and Nuts. Yesterday we painted a picture of a pecan tree, but before we started painting we first went outside to look at the pecan tree on our playground. We studied the trees' trunk, branches, leaves, and the pecan nuts. The children collected the fallen pecans and we brought them back in the classroom to use in our project. Once we were back in class, each child had opportunity to paint their own pecan tree. We used brown paint for the tree trunk and branches, and green paint for the leaves. Then we glued on the pecans we gathered from the playground. The trees look so cute and each one unique to each child!