Hello everyone

Hello parents! I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We had a wonderful week here in Junior Kindergarten. We are learning about Winter and Christmas. We have talked about the weather change, how it has gotten colder and how this is something that happens during the winter. We have been reading books about the meaning of Christmas and why it is important. We have made many art projects related to the Christmas season and winter.

We have also started a new book in our Happily Ever After curriculum. It is called The Tug of War. We have also been working with money and time in our Saxon Math lessons. I ask that each child work on writing the numbers 1-10 at home and that you talk about time at home. We are learning to tell time and it would be extremely helpful if they could learn a little at home.  :)    

Some things for you to remember that are coming up this month:

          - December 10th is Santa's Workshop. This is a day when the children will go from room to room    making different things in each room. Please let me know if you would like to volunteer to help out in our room.

           -  December 14th is our Christmas program. It will be in the evening, so I will let you know the time when I find out.

           -   December 17th is our Christmas Party and the last day for the semester. I will have a sign-up sheet outside the door next week.

Thank you all for being such wonderful parents! Have a great weekend!


Katy Davis

Candy Cane Lane next Wednesday, December 1

You most certainly will not want to miss the First Annual Candy Cane Lane Children's Holiday Fashion Show and Luncheon benefiting the Children's Hospital at Scott & White on Wednesday, December 1.

The fashion show will feature some of our adorable students modeling holiday fashions from My Vintage Baby, Orient Expressed and original designs from Amanda Duggan, a mom of a CCS student!

The luncheon will begin at 11 a.m. and is catered by Megg's Cafe. Tickets are $20. Space is limited so we urge out parents and friends to reserve a chair as soon as possible. To make your reservation, please see Kathy Barnes in the office or call 774.8622.

Parents Plus is also hosting a Holiday Bazaar in conjunction. Talented parents and friends of the school will have lots of gifts on hand to purchase. It is really going to be a fabulous day. The Bazaar will run from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. Admission to the Bazaar is free.

Hello Jr. Kindergarten parents!

Hello everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend.   :)    We are starting a new week here in Junior Kindergarten. We are continuing our discussion on Thanksgiving celebration and what things we are thankful for. We are learning about the letter Mm, money (Saxon Math), ABB pattern, the numeral 9, letter recognition and writing names. We have a lot to do this week and many fun activities planned. I still need feathers from some of you for our turkey on our bulletin board, and I also need a can of green beans from each child for the Sharing Feast on Friday. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email me. Thank you!

A few reminders

Hello parents! Here are a few reminders for you:

   - The Sharing Feast is on Friday, November 19th. I will need each child to bring a can of green beans by the Thursday before (we are doing the green beans this year).

   -  I still need the "feathers" from some of you for our turkey. They can be as decorative as you want and have as many family pictures as you want on it. I need the by Monday.

Thank you for everything you do and I hope everyone has a great week and weekend!

Katy Davis

CCS Celebrates Veterans Day

Please join Christ Church School as we celebrate Veterans Day on
Thursday, November 11, at 11 a.m.

Students are encouraged to wear a white or red shirt. Uniform pants/
shorts/skirts are still required.

At 11 a.m. we will have our own Veterans Day Parade to honor all
veterans, especially parents and grandparents of students who are
veterans. We would love it if you could join us on this special day!

CCS Book Fair Saturday! Support CCS!

Hello all!

I hope everyone is enjoying this wonderful weather!   :)    We have had a lot of fun in Jr. Kindergarten talking about the weather change. We have also talked about things such as patriotism, fall, and Thanksgiving this week. We discussed what we are thankful for, what we eat at Thanksgiving dinner, the first Thanksgiving, and Pilgrims and Indians. We also discussed what it means to be patriotic, the United States of America (when the U.S.A. was formed, the different states, and the flag), and how important it is to be patriotic.

We have been learning about the letter Kk (the sound it makes, words that start with Kk). Our next letter will be the letter Ll. We are finishing up our Happily Ever After story (The Nightingale). Our next story will be The City Mouse and the Country Mouse. Since we started a new month, we started a new pattern on our calender. Our new pattern is the ABB pattern. We will do art projects that pertain to this pattern throughout the month of November.

I hope that everyone has had a wonderful week. We will start our discussion on Native American Culture next week in honor of Thanksgiving. If you have any questions, feel free to email me or comment on here. Thank you!

Katy Davis

Hello Parents!

Hello everyone! I hope all of you had a wonderful weekend. Canterbury Faire was a lot of fun and I enjoyed seeing so many of you there! Thank you for all the help with the booth and the support for the school. It is greatly appreciated. We have many fun things in store for this week. Our theme this week is Halloween. We will talk all about Halloween, jack-o-lanterns, trick or treating and being safe while trick or treating, and many other things. The letter of the week is Jj and we will start a new Happily Ever After story called  "The Nightingale."  Our field trip to the Pumpkin Patch is on Wednesday, so I will need permission slips by Tuesday. Also, our Halloween party is on Friday. I will need $3-5 from each child for the pizza and a bag of candy for the treat bags. Thank you all so much for all of your help. Have a wonderful day!

Pumpkin Patch

We will go to the Pumpkin Patch from 9-9:30 on the 27th.

Hello everyone!

Just a few reminders:

            - Canterbury Faire is this Saturday! If you will be in town, I could really use vonlunteers for our booth. There is a sign-up sheet outside the classroom, so please sign up!

             -  I need $3 from each child for the pizza for our Halloween Party. I will order 4 pizzas and you are more than welcome to come to the party and spend time with your child.  :)  The party will start at 11. Also, we will decorate the room while they are in music so if you would like to help with that please feel free. We will start with that at 10:30 while the children are in music.

             -  We will have treat bags for the kids at our Halloween Party. I would like for each child to bring a bag of candy by Friday (the day of the party) to contribute to the treats that will go in the treat bag.  :)  I do not have any allergies in the classroom, so any candy is welcome.

              -  Shields will need to be done very soon! We will hang them up during Canterbury Faire.

             -  There eill be a bake sale during Canterbury Faire. There is a sign-up sheet outside of the classroom for those of you that want to bake something.

              -  Pumpkin Patch trip is October 27th! We will walk over to the First United Methodist Church and there will be many fun activities planned. The children are allowed to wear jeans and their school shirts that day (school t-shirts). I will let you know what time when I find out. Parents are welcome to join us.  :)

Thank you to all of you! You are all such wonderful parents and I am so excited about all of our fun activities we have going on this year!

Royal Volunteers Needed for Canterbury Faire

BAKE SALE
We are asking for everyone to donate one large item (such as a cake, pie, or bread) and one batch of small items individually wrapped (such as cookies, brownies, rice krispy treats).
• Label everything with tags or printed labels from your computer, be sure to mention if the item contains nuts. Don’t worry about pricing, we will handle that.
• Presentation is everything! Large items sell much faster if they look great. Check the dollar store for Fall or Halloween plates to display your creation.
• Individual items don’t need to be wrapped as fancy, most of these will be sold and eaten at lunchtime. These will be priced at 50 cents each, so package accordingly (one brownie per bag, two cookies per bag, etc.).
• Delivery times: Friday, October 22 before 4pm at the front of the school, or Saturday October 23 before 10am at our table by the Parish Hall.

CLASS BOOTHS
Sign up for a time to help at your classroom booth. Each class has a booth and parents need to sign up for 30 minute time slots. If you are unable to go into your child's class and sign up, send your teacher an email and let her know when you can help.

RAFFLE
Ready for a fall getaway? The Canterbury Faire committee is so excited to announce a raffle for a weekend getaway to Great Wolf Lodge in Grapevine. It is a kid's dream and fun for parents, too! Tickets for the raffle are available in the office. Tickets are $10 per ticket or 3 tickets for $20.
A special thank you to our generous raffle sponsor Sherri and Graves Erskine, Geico Local Office serving the Killeen/Temple area.

Questions? Don't know what you can do to help? Contact Holly Steele, Canterbury Faire Chairperson. Thanks everyone for supporting this Parents Plus fundraiser!!

Family Crests

Hello again! Just a reminder that the Family Shields are due in a couple of weeks. Canterbury Faire is on October 23rd. Make the shields as decorative as possible with your family crest. If you have a shield from last year then please bring that.   :)   Thank you and if you have any questions, feel free to email me.

Katy Davis

Fall has arrived!

Hello everyone! What a beautiful week it has been so far.   :)  We are having a wonderful week in Jr. Kindergarten. We are learning all about the Fall season and the changes that take place during this time. We are also learning about patterns in our Saxon Math cirriculum, we have started a new book in our Happily Ever After unit (The Elves and the Shoemaker), are learning to count from 1-100, and many other things. We are going to start learning our high frequency words within the next week. When we do this I will send you a list of the words so that you can go over them with your child at home.

Please bring box tops to class by Friday. We really want to win that pizza party!  :) We will also have a sign up sheet within the next couple of weeks for our Haloween party. I know it is early, but I wanted to give you all a heads up. If you have any suggestions on what food we should include, let me know. We will be ordering pizza for the party.

Thank you all for being such wonderful parents! It is going to be a wonderful year.

Christ Church School Sunday :: October 3

We hope you make plans to join all of us for Christ Church School Sunday this Sunday, October 3.

CCS is the primary ministry of Christ Church and the parishoners always appreciate seeing "their" students. At the 11 a.m. service the church will offer prayers for the school and will recognize the faculty, staff, school board, but most importantly our students. Upper School students will also sing.

Following we will have cake and fellowship in the Parish Hall. It is a lovely morning and we hope you will be there.

Students are encouraged to wear their Chapel uniforms.

Hello all!

Hello everyone! We are excited to start a new week in Junior Kindergarten.  :)    This week we are learning about the letter Ff and families. We have many fun activities planned for the week. I would like to ask that you send some family pictures with your child by Wednesday of this week. We will be doing an art project with them. We are also working on a story called La Tortuga in Happily Ever After. We are learning about shapes and numbers in our Saxon Math. If you have any questions, you can reach me through the blog or through my school email. Thank you!

Family Shields

Family Shields on display at Canterbury Faire 2009

Canterbury Faire is just around the corner (October 23!). We are asking each family to help with decorations by designing their own family coat of arms on the shield provided. During medieval battles, knights would put their family coat of arms on their shields so they could easily be identified as friend or foe on the battlefield. Have fun with it and make this a family project to do together with your children. If you still have your shield from last year, please send back so we can display the shields for others to view.

Shields will go home with students Friday. Keep in mind that this project is per family, not per student.

Please have the project completed and returned to school no later than Monday, October 18, so we can display them on the that week. On the day of the Faire they will be displayed outside on a castle wall to add to the medieval theme of the event.

Please let me know if you have any questions!

Some Important Things To Remember

Here are some things that are going on at our school that you should remember:

   

    Keep those BoxTops coming! The special bonus BoxTop program at H-E-B runs through the first week in October. Remember, the class with the most BoxTops will win a pizza party! We need box tops!  :)

 

    

   Canterbury Faire is quickly approaching and that means it's time for the Family Shields! Each year students design and decorate a shield with their family coat of arms. If you have a shield from previous years, please send it to school so it can be displayed and so others can see the incredible works of art you have produced! We will be sending home shields to new families to work on this week. Shields are distributed per family, not per student. When you have completed your shield please return it to school for display. Your child will be getting their family shield tomorrow.

 

      

     Please make plans to join us for a special day October 3 at 11 a.m. Christ Church celebrates CCS Sunday with a special service for our students and school. First through Sixth graders will sing during the service. Join everyone for cake and lemonade in the Parish Hall following the service.

 

     Our sign-up sheet for Parent Conferences is out on the board outside the door.  Please sign up for a time convenient for you to meet with your child’s teacher about your child’s progress. Parent Teacher Conferences are on October 11th. Remember, there will be no school that day. Extended Care will be available for children enrolled in that program. There will be no morning drop off that day. This is a uniform free day! But, please send your child in tennis shoes. Please send a sack lunch. Mrs. Lin has the day off in the kitchen!

 

I will also have a list out tomorrow on here of the Spanish words that your child is learning each Tuesday and Thursday. This way you can help your child in this area if you would like to.

 

Thank you and have a wonderful day!

 

Hello Everyone!

Hello everyone. I hope everyone had a great weekend! We will be studying the human body this week and how the human body works. Last week we talked about nutrition and we got to taste different fruits and vegetables. We will be doing a lot of fun things this week that have to do with the human body. I hope everyone has a great day and week. Thank you all!

Show Some Spirit!

Back by popular demand, we are offering the navy blue CCS Knights shirt in short sleeve. Please return this form to the office to place your order. Orders are due no later than Friday, September 10. The cost is $12.

We do have some long sleeve Knights t-shirts available as well. The cost for the long sleeve t-shirt is $15.

Field Trip

We will be going on a field trip to the CAC on Thursday, September 9. The performance, Above the Crowd, will begin at 10:30. We will leave CCS at 10 a.m. and should return by 11:45 a.m. Please print out the permission slip, fill out all the requested information, and return it to school with your child by Friday, September 3. Thank you!

Field Trip Permission Above Crowd

Great first week!

Hello everyone! We had a great (and short) first week in Jr. Kindergarten! We got to know eachother and learned about our calender and many other things. We started our Happily Ever After unit. Our first book in this unit is Little Red Riding Hood. We will begin the letter Aa next week and start on our Saxon Math. I look forward to a wonderful year with your children.  :)  If you have any questions, let me know through this blog or through my email. Have a wonderful weekend and I will see you all on Monday!

Katy Davis

Jr. Kindergarten Teacher

Welcome to my blog

Welcome to my blog! My name is Katy Davis and I am the Jr. Kindergarten teacher. I am looking forward to the school year and having a whole new class of children.   :)  This blog will be a way for me to communicate with you all and for me to send home any information that you will need. I hope that everyone had a wonderful summer and I will see you all at Open House on Sunday, August 15th from 4:30-5:30!


Katy Davis