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November Newsletter
NOVEMBER NEWSLETTER 2018
Dear Parents,
I hope
this letter finds you in a warm place. Winter has arrived and with the colder
days now here, we will no longer take our little ones outside (unless we give
you notice). Instead, we will take our students to the gym for fun filled games
and physical activities.
We had a
very busy October and our classes enjoyed the variety of fall activities,
especially exploring the sticky inside of a pumpkin, letting pumpkins roll down
the hill and learning spooky Halloween songs and rhymes!
NOVEMBER THEMES
November will be a pot luck of different activities. In
December will be celebrating “St. Nikolaus”. Therefore, the main focus in November will be to review
and practice songs and rhymes that our
children have learnt since September. Our students are looking forward to meet Nikolaus on
December 4th and 5th and are excited to to share their
songs with him.
On November 27th/28th students
will make lanterns for the lantern
parade when we celebrate “Martin’s Fest”.
ST. MARTIN HOLIDAY (GERMAN LANTERN FEST)
St. Martin
is a traditional holiday that people in Germany celebrate on November 11th
every year. It is based on the legend of a soldier named Martin who lived in
Hungry around 316 B.C. One cold winter night, Martin was riding his horse and
saw an old beggar, shivering in the snow. The old man had no warm clothes on. Martin
stopped his horse, lifted his sword and cut his own red cape in two halves.
Martin kept one hand and shared the other one with the old man. Years later
Martin became a bishop. On Martin’s Day, children parade through the streets at
night, singing Martin songs and carrying their lanterns with lit candles in
honour of St. Martin. Often times the parade is accompanied by a rider on horseback
in a red coat. At the end of the night, people are gathering around a big
bonfire and warm up with hot chocolate and other warm beverages. St. Martin is
a festival of sharing and bringing light into the dark.
ABC
We have
noticed that our little ones are getting really excited to learn a new letter
every week!
Realizing
that every letter has a sound makes it even more fun to look for words that
start with the letter of the week. The word “Daddy” has even 3 “D” s in it!!
Tue-Thu
students continue to trace individual letters with stickers, paint etc.
M-W-F
student are also learning how to print and form letters and how to print their
own name.
We always
encourage our students to start each letter from the TOP! Making this a habit
from early on will help your child and make it easier to adjust in Kindergarten.
PARENT TEACHER
INTERVIEWS
We will be
offering optional Parent Teacher Interviews on November 29/30. This will
provide an opportunity to share information about your child’s individual
progress and to celebrate milestones of their
growth! Communication is the key for
positive and strong relationships. Please contact us at any time if there is
anything that needs to be addressed, suggested or discussed in regards to your
child.
A
sign up list with time slots for Parent Teacher Interviews is hanging in the
hallway.
TUPPERWARE FUNDRAISER
(Deadline for orders, Nov. 16th)
Thank you
to all families who decide to take part in this fundraiser to support our Non
Profit Preschool. We would also like to thank families that have decided to contribute
through monetary donations (tax receipts available). Your efforts will help us to
maintain a high quality Early Childhood Learning Program for our children.
A friendly
reminder that all order forms are due back no later than November 16th.
DATES TO REMEMBER
November
6/7 Picture Day 9 (class picture/ individual
pictures)
7/8 Scholastic
Book Orders due
8 Annual
General Meeting 6:30 p.m.
9 STA
Convention, no school
12 Remembrance
Day Holiday, no school
16 Return Order Forms Tupper Ware Fund Raiser
23 M-W-F class Field Trip to Marian
Gymnastics (we are in need of I more parent chaperone)
27/28 St.
Martin Celebration: Parents are invited to join the lantern parade at 11. 20
a.m.
29 Parent Teacher Interviews (4:00 p.m.
-8:00 p.m.)
30 Parent Teacher Interviews (8:30 a.m. –
1:00 p.m.)
December
3 no class
4/5 Nikolaus
Celebration: 10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
All Families are invited to join us for this special
event!
·
Visit from Nikolaus
·
Children’s performance
·
Christmas cookies and traditional German
mulled punch
If you are
interested in special events of various groups within the German Community, please check out www.saskgermancouncil.org.
WINTER WORDS:
Winter (vin’tah) – winter
Schnee (schnay) – snow, Schneeflocke (schnay flaw’ken) –
snowflake
Schneeball
(schnay’bahl) – snowball
Jacke yak’eh - jacket
, Mütze (mut’tzeh) - touque
Schal ( schahl) –
scarf, Handschuhe (hahnd shoo’heh) – mittens, Stiefel (schtee’fehl – boots
Kalt (kalt) – cold Eis
(ice) – ice, Schneemann (schnay’mahn) – snowman
Kind Regards,
Uli Hecker &
Larissa Lorenz
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