December 13th News and Notes

A Band of Shepherds
We are eagerly anticipating our performance of our Christmas Musical "A Band of Shepherds" which is set for Thursday, December 19th at 7:00pm at the school gym.  All students will be provided with a Musical t-shirt at no cost.  They will receive the shirt on Wednesday (at Dress Rehearsal) and will be able to take it home Wednesday after school.  Please make sure that they come to the program on Thursday night with the shirt on.  Jeans or black pants will work for the bottoms. 

The Dress Rehearsal will be Wednesday at 1:30pm in the school gym.  We would like to have a small, practice audience.  If there is someone in your circle who will not be able to come on the 19th, please encourage them to come in for the Dress Rehearsal on Wednesday.  If you could let me know who to expect, that would be great!

On Friday, December 20th, we'll be taking the show on the road to Luther Manor Nursing Home.  We will need parent helpers to shuttle students over starting at 8:30am.  If you would be available to help us, please let me know!  Thanks!

Religion
No additional Memory Work for next week.  Please continue to practice all of the songs that we have had thus far in Memory working toward our performance of "A Band of Shepherds".

Reading
 First Grade Reading Story:  Smile, Mike!
Vocabulary:  call   how   more   funny   there   so

Second Grade Reading Story:  Abuelo and the Three Bears
Vocabulary:  medium   stubborn   noticed   cozy   arrive   argue

Spelling
Please keep in mind that our Spelling Test will be on Thursday this week!  Also, Reading homework will be coming home on Monday and Wednesday evenings!

First Grade Words:  like   spike   ride   hide   bike   mine    make    came
Bonus:  funny

Second Grade Words:  near   ear   dear   where   here   steer   deer   cheer   verb   perch
Bonus:  medium

McDonalds Superstars of the Week:
First Grade:  Eric Forney
Second Grade:  Landon Rickey

Next Week's Book Nook Topic:
Christmas Stories ... continued

Thanks for all that you do!  Have a great weekend and week ahead!
Mrs. Bradshaw
kbradshaw@stjohnshannibal.org