Good Morning Everyone,

This week we will be putting learning aside for some Christmas fun!

Tues and Wed will be pajama day and Polar Express movie days,  with delicious snacks served =)

Thursday is our Christmas Program in the HFYH gym at 10:30 am all parents and family members are invited to attend.  Please have your child wear Christmas attire and sit back and enjoy the beautiful sounds of god's children sing the praises of our saviors birth.





I'd like to wish you all a wonderful holiday season and see you all in 2013!

SCHOOL RESUMES JAN 7th

The letter F

This week we will be learning about the letter F and the sound it makes.
We will be finishing our Nativity scene on our bulletin board and practicing our Christmas songs for our field trip on Thursday.
 

We will be making a flag and a frog this week.

Review week

This week we will be reviewing:

How to write and recognize the letters: E,S,I and H...
Our nursery rhymes are:  Pease Porridge Hot, Star light, Star bright, Itsy Bitsy Spider and Peter, Peter Pumpkin Eater.
Our Days of Creation: On Day 1, God made light, On Day 2, God made the air and the water, On Day 3, God made the land and the plants and On Day 4, God made the sun, moon and stars.
We will be making ice cream on Thursday for a tasty treat!!
We will be tasting vanilla pudding and nilla wafer cookies for scrambled eggs.
We will start making our Christmas crafts and gifts for baby jesus and his birthday.




Parent Reminders:
*December tuition is now due! Please make checks to HFYH!
*Book Fair this week! The book fair will be open before and after school each day and from 6:00pm-8:00pm Monday-Wednesday night. All proceeds benefit our school!
*December 13th- Field Trip to the Evansville Protestant Home to sing for the residents. Field Trip permission slip is due December 11th! Bus will leave at 8:30am! Please DO NOT be late! We will perform at 9am and pass out our goodies before we leave! Due to parking and space within the nursing home, parents are asked to not attend this field trip!
*December 20th- HFYH Christmas program at 10am in the Gym! There will be NO afternoon or full day classes after the program.
* If EVSC is on a one hour delay, HFYH will also run on a one hour delay. If EVSC is on a two hour delay ALL morning classes are cancelled. Afternoon and full day students can arrive at 11:45. If EVSC cancels school, HFYH will be closed as well!
*No School December 21st-January 1st- Christmas Break! School will resume Wednesday January 2nd!

Just a reminder about weather policies

Just a quick reminder that HFYH follows EVSC school delays and cancellations. If EVSC is on a one hour delay, HFYH will also run on a one hour delay. If EVSC is on a two hour delay ALL morning classes are cancelled. Afternoon and full day students can arrive at 11:45. If EVSC cancels school, HFYH will be closed as well!

I hope that every one had a wonderful Thanksgiving

I hope that every one had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends.
The Christmas Season is upon us, so this week we will be reading the book Elf on a Shelve and our classroom elf will arrive Dec 3rd and the children will help pick out a name for him and he will be with us until Christmas Break.
We will be very busy elves ourselves... we will be decorating our Christmas Tree the first week of December  and making Christmas crafts, and nativity crafts.

Out letter this week is the

Our Nursery Rhyme is:
Pease Porridge Hot

Our Bible Verse is: Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others

The Letter S

This week we will be learning about the letter S and the sound it makes. We will also be making a Color Rainbow Hair Poem as we finish up our colors.

The nursery rhyme this week is:  Star Light Star Bright
 Star Light Star bright,
The first star I see tonight,
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have the wish I wish tonight.   

                 

 
 Don"t forget about our Stone Soup Lunch on Nov 15th in the classroom, ALL PARENTS ARE INVITED  TO ATTEND!!! lunch begins at 11a.m 

November Tuition is also due at this time, and Please continue to send in those canned yams!!! Class that has the most will receive a special surprise from Ms. Nicki.   I personally want to thank every parent that already has donated to our worthy cause to help feed needy families in our area.  We currently have 53 cans of yams and counting.  

Remember Conferences are on November 19th and I will be sending home a flyer on Thursday with your time on it.  Please use the entrance closest to the Sanctuary  at your specified time.

NO SCHOOL NEXT WEEK 

Halloween fun and the letter H week

Halloween fun

a few of our boys 

Caleb 

Our class

Lets practice lacing halloween lace up cards

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The Letter I

This week we are working on the Letter I

The Nursery rhyme is Itsy Bitsy Spider

The color is : YELLOW 
The bible verse is:  I am the way and the truth and the life.

Don't forget that we are collecting can yams to feed families that are in need.  Class competition begins tomorrow!! So send in those yams!!

 Sign up sheet is available to sign up for conferences, they will be done in half hr time slots all day on Monday.
Also I need parents to send in vegetable soup for our stone soup luncheon on Nov 15th lunch will be served at 11:00 a.m in our classroom. Parents are welcome to attend. 

Fun at school

Lauren using dry erase markers and writing her letters

 Twister Fun... what a great way to practice your colors and left and right

Decorating pumpkins 

October 30 - Nov !

Our Halloween Party will be Wednesday.  Please allow your child to wear his or her costumes to school.
( please make sure that costumes are bathroom friendly)  There will be stations set up in the gym along with a wonderful story teller.

Also we will doing a Thanksgiving Feast on November 15th.  I will have a sign up sheet outside the classroom for you to donate food and or time to help cook the food.  Parents are encouraged to eat Thanksgiving dinner with your child.

Parent/Teacher Conferences  will be November 19th through 21. I will also have a sign up sheet for a time slot.

This week at school we will learn about the wonderful letter H  and the color Blue  and day three of creation.
Our bible verse is: Honor your father and mother.

   


Our Nursery Rhyme is:

Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater











REMINDER: Sunday Oct 28th

Dont forget to join us  Sunday for Trunk or Treat from 3-6
Come in your costumes and trick or treat and play games and have some fun!  Hope to see you there!!

REVIEW WEEK

This week at school we will be reviewing the letters:  X, N ,Z and K.

Our nursery rhyme this week is: Little Miss Muffett

Our colors are: orange, grey,black,green

Our shapes are: triangle, circle, square and diamond

We will be making leave collages this week and mixing all our colors of the week to see what color we come up with and painting with the color.  We will be writing our letters on dry erase boards and finishing our coffee filter kaleidoscopes.  We will be looking through magazines to find our colors of the week and gluing them to paper.

We are going to be playing Twister this week to practice our primary colors.

TJ's Orchard

apple press

All aboard the big yellow school bus for our first field trip of the school year!!
The kids and I along with Ms Nancy sang Wheels on the bus and sang our nursery rhymes the whole way there, we had so much fun looking out the windows and singing our favorite songs.

Once there we learned about Johnny Appleseed and how to make apple cider and toured the apple press and we even got to wash a few apples and count them too, until they rolled down to fast LOL!

We also walked through the apple orchard and learned about different kinds of apples.  Our favorite as a class is the red delicious.

Then it was off to walk through the pumpkin patch and learn how to grow pumpkins.  Did you know that the pumpkin blossom is a delicious and nutritious treat when fried in a little butter or olive oil.!!
We continued through the pumpkin patch and ended up back at the big barn where everyone enjoyed some freshly made TJ's Orchard apple cider and each child was given a goody bag to share with every one at home.  Inside was a small pumpkin and a wonderful apple from the orchard.

singing Zaccheus

 bus ride

class picture

our tour guide

learning how to make apple cider

pumpkin patch

 
We boarded the big yellow bus once again and headed home.. Everyone had a wonderful time and I am looking forward to another field trip in the near future.

Fun times with the letter X

Garrett having some fun in dramatic play =)

  Practicing our fine motor skills with scissors and  tearing paper with our fingers.

 X marks the spot!!

  Xylophone music any one?

The Letter K

This week we will be learning about the letter K.

Our nursery rhyme is: Old King Cole

Our color of the week is: Orange
Our Bible Verse is: Keep me as the apple of your eye.

Our  shape is a Diamond. 

We will be using shaving cream this week to practice writing our letter K's and diamonds.

Don't forget our field trip on Wednesday!!  Permission slips must be turned in by Tuesday and students will be riding the bus.  You can follow or meet us there!!  Parents are free !

If you have not paid your tuition it is due at this time.

  

This week is the letter X

This week we will be doing the letter X and going on a scavenger hunt.   Looking for letter X on the spot.

We will be making x rays with q-tips, and use craft sticks to make an x.

Our nursery rhyme for the week is Patty Cake.

I will be sending home a cake pattern for you and your child to decorate for homework use whatever you would like to decorate them.

Hope everyone had a fun time at the fall family festival and enjoyed the fellowship.

Introducing the letter Zz and the color black

We will be making name plates using card stock and allowing the children to decorate and practice writing his or her name.  The plate will say: Jesus knows my name!

We will be learning the bible verse: Zion hears and rejoices.
Our nursery rhyme for this week is:  Zacchaeus

Our color of the week is:  BLACK

We will be making a zebra from the letter Z

We will be learning about the circle and and square.

Parents pleases do not forget that October tuition is due now and our FALL FESTIVAL is OCT 4th starting at 11am with a tour/ scavenger hunt so that your child can show you the school and all the wonderful artwork from each of the students in all our classes here at Home for Your Heart.  Followed by a delicious lunch in the gym.  Hope to see you there!!