2018 Christmas Program

We loved celebrating a Thanksgiving Feast with your kids!

Mr. Turkey’s fat today. Gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble! I hope you got a piece of that song in your homes! I loved this week. Rehearsing the story of the beginnings of the first Thanksgiving always gives me a thrill. By the end of the week, here’s how the children told it:

Cannon: They were pilgrims.

Graham: The king told them what to do.

Eli: They had to go to a new place!

Eve: They didn’t want the king to tell them what to do.

Eli: They say, “No! I don’t want to!”

Lily: They got on a boat because they wanted to do their own stuff.

Cannon: It was the Sunflower! I mean, the Mayflower!

Adelle: It was a boat that would hold a lot of people…everyone!

Ellie: The Mayflower was bigger than a house.

Makayla: There were no houses!

Clyde: They made houses with wood.

Smith: No stores!

Kyree: No houses there!

Ruby: No food there!

Leisel: They chopped down trees.

Ben: No house.

Nathan: They built a house.

Ellie: And they made hospitals, too!

Mrs. McClure: Think so?

Ellie: Yah, ‘cause people were sick on the Mayflower and some of the people died.

Stella: House.

Lily: The pilgrims didn’t know how to make plants grow.

Kaylee: They were so hungry!

Lily: The Indians were watching them.

Cannon: They put fish in the seeds!

Makayla: Rain can happen.

Clive: They planted pomegranates!

Charlotte: Corn!

Graham: The Indians helped them plant food.

Cannon: The corn started to grow.

Adelle: They had so much food!

Sherry: They wanted to share.

Cannon: The 99 braves came.

Lily: And the chief made 100 Indians!

Eli: I’m the bravest boy you’ve ever seen!

Mrs. McClure: Then, what happened?

Grant: Let’s just read it! COME ON!

Sadie: They had a feast.

Hadley: It was a Thanksgiving.

Eve: They prayed.

Graham: It was a feast because of the Indians.

Grant: They put the turkey in jail.

Ben: Someone shot it.

Clive: You did it wrong! Not in Jail!

Grace: They shot the turkeys.

Ben: It was the Indians.

Leisel: They shoot-ted the turkeys.

 Cannon: They had a lot of food and they were happy.

Adelle: We have Thanksgiving to make the world happy and fun.

While donning their costumes:

Kinzie: (Jumping up and down) This is the best day ever!

Eli broke out in song, “I get to be an Indian! Yah, yah, yah, yah!

(Filling her plate) Avery: This is the best feast ever!

So fun.

Best line of the week by Cannon:

Mrs. McClure smells pretty. I smelled her.

Frogs! Frogs with freckles, frogs with flies, fun floppy fish and even fighting cats! We found lots of F words.

Green Week was so much fun!

With Halloween in full swing, we have reveled in all of the fun songs. I hope you are getting a little piece of them at home. They are so fun…and scary! Ahhhh!

Of course, all of this scary fun can not go on without a little truth talk about floating ghosts that say, “Boo” and witches on brooms as being make-believe “just for fun!” During our discussion, Adelle piped up, “But giraffes are real!” Thank goodness I didn’t shatter her dreams about giraffes! Ha! 

We practiced our #6 poem and spelled and twirled in our whites. Learning letter Gg was great, knowing how afraid he is of goblins and ghosts! Golly! Please help your child review these letters in our book and the upcoming ones on our calendar. I can tell from the children’s grasp of these letter-sound concepts in class, which ones are taking advantage of this. It helps so much.

We found lots of Gg words. I laughed out loud when Smith suggested, “Gross!” “Yes! That’s a good one, but it’s gross!” Ha!

We had fun making with our scary projects. “You can hang this up and scare everyone! Bwah-ha ha ha!” And we examined our own collar bones, our fingers and ribs as we spoke about skeletons. I thought their Q-tip masterpieces were adorable!

We sure love your kids.

Xo,

Miz Liz

Miss Sheri

Miss Michelle

Mrs. McClure