Friday, November 30, 2018

November 26-30, 2018

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!


Last week, the Early Childhood Division celebrated together - Charlie Brown style!


We began our celebration by going to the Kindergarten classroom to watch A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. We told the children to pay close attention to what was happening and we would talk about it at the end.



In the movie, they had a great feast of friendship with the food they could find: bread, pretzels, popcorn, and jellybeans. We discussed that even though Charlie Brown wasn't able to provide a traditional Thanksgiving meal, he wanted to celebrate with his friends with what he had.

Now it was going to be our turn to celebrate with our friends - Charlie Brown style! We dressed up like the friends who shared the first Thanksgiving - the Pilgrims and Native Americans.



All of the EC students traveled to the Pre-K and Nursery classrooms to share our feast.


The boys and girls prayed together to thank God for their friends and their food and enjoyed a delicious feast together.










As the boys and girls said, "This is the best day ever!"



Now we are busy getting ready for our big debut in the HCA Christmas show! The Pre-K students will play the role of the angels and have been practicing so hard to learn their songs. All children need to wear a white turtleneck, nice pants/skirt, and dress shoes. We have the angel costumes for the children to wear over their clothes. 

There will be two performances of the Christmas show: 
  • Monday, December 17, at 6:30 pm, for parents, family, and friends.
  • Tuesday, December 18, at 10:00 am as part of our Grandparents' Day celebration.
More details will be sent home soon!

Reminders:
  • Scholastic Book Club orders are due on Tuesday, December 4.
  • Show and Tell will be on Thursday, December 6, and will be something that begins with /n/.
  • Save the date for the Family Christmas Liturgy on Sunday, December 9, at 10:00 am. 
  • Next Friday, December 7, will be Pajama Day at HCA. For $1.00, your child may wear his/her pajamas to school. All of the money collected will go to the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.


Have a great weekend!