world view christian center's preschool and academy

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DECEMBER, 2011

WORLD VIEW CHRISTIAN CENTER'S PRESCHOOL AND ACADEMY

NEWSLETTER

DELAYED OPENINGS AND SCHOOL CLOSINGS

weather.

Reminder, when the P.G.

school system is

closed....that is an

indicator that World

View Christian Center

and Academy will be

closed due to inclement Any delayed openings and/or closings

are listed on Channel 7 News. It is also announced

on the Center's outgoing answering machine by

5:00 a.m. if the weather conditions are clear.

UPCOMING SCHOOL CLOSINGS

Reminder, World View Christian Center and Acad-

emy will be closed on Friday, December 23rd

and Monday, December 26th in observance of

the Christmas Holiday Season.

The Center will also be closed on January 2nd in

observance of New Years Day.

WORLD VIEW CHRISTIAN CENTER'S

"PARENT DAY OUTING"

Parents, during this special season, we will be offering two "Parent Day

Outings". This is a special time when some of the team members from

VV.V.C.C. will provide child care services for parents while they go shopping,

out to dinner or etc. The "Parents Day Outing" will be held on Saturday,

December 10th, and Saturday, December 17th (weather permit-

ting). If you haven't already done so, please turn in your consent

form to the office by December 7th so that proper arrangements can be

made.

CANNED FOOD DRIVE

5) A special "thank you" go out to all of the children, parents and

teachers for their donation of non-perishable items during the

Thanksgiving Season. All of the donations (including two turkeys that were

donated by the Center) was placed in the hands of one of our after care

parents, Mr. Battle to distribute to the homeless. Mr. Battle's ministry

(Global Glove Outreach Ministry) took all of the canned goods and the two

turkeys that the Center purchased and fed the homeless in the Washington

D.C. metropolitan area due to the director's family emergency.

LOST AND FOUND

Reminder, please check the "Lost and Found" for lost items.

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CHILDREN THEATRE/CHRISTMAS PLAY

This month's general assembly

will focus on a Christmas pro-

gram. The program will be

from 9:30a.m. until approxi-

mately 10:30 a.m.

Please let your child's teacher

know if you plan to attend so

that proper seating arrange-

ments can be made.

CHILDREN'S CHAPEL

All of the children (four and up) will begin their day in prayer and

worship. In addition to learning songs, the three-year-old through 41.0' academy students learn bible scriptures each day from 8:30-9:00

a.m. Please try to have your children in class by 8:30 a.m. so they will not miss

this important time with their classmates. The preschoolers (2 and 3y/o's)

participate in Chapel every Thursday from 9:30 a.m. until 10:00 a.m.

Each class will rotate in leading the weekly chapel.

The general weekly agenda is as follows:

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*Parents are

welcomed to

attend.

The general weekly agenda is as follows:

*Opening Prayer

*Scripture Reading

*Songs of Praise

*Words of Encouragement

*Children Pledges

*Adjourn

socially and academi-

cally.


T.V. VIEWING

The Center has "Direct

TV" in all classes (2 y/o

and up). This technol-

ogy is used to supple-

ment and reinforce

curriculum materials.

On Fridays, the chil-

dren are allowed to

watch some fun and

educational "G" rated

programming. There is

no need for sending

videos to school. The

teacher will notify the

parents when to bring in

videos that are rated

"G".

All videos/movies are

approved by the pre-

school dept. chair or

director prior to the

children viewing them.

ACADEMY NEWS

Due to the small class

size, the academy stu-

dents are doing quite

well.

Some of the children

who started off quite

shy are now talking and

giggly.

GRADED WORK

Graded papers will be

sent home every Friday.

Please return the empty

folder the following

Monday.

PARENT/TEACHER CONFERENCES

Parents, parent/teacher

conferences are set

quarterly to discuss

your child's progress or

to ask any questions re-

garding your child's per-

formance.

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PROGRESS

REPORTS

Progress reports will be

sent out on the 21st of

December. The pro-

gress reports will give

you a general idea of

how your child is doing

PHYSICAL

EDUCATION

Reminder, P.E. is still

held on Fridays. Please

have your child dressed

in navy blue sweat pants,

white shirt and gym

shoes (black).

EMPLOYEE FOR THE MONTH OF NOVEMBER

We would like to thank all of the team members who continuously provide quality and loving care to the children on a daily basis. We really appreciate you!!

This month, we would like to acknowledge Ms. Bivens for being selected as employee of the month. Ms. Bivens has been working at the Center for close to a year. She' continues to be a hard worker and has excellent attendance. She manages the food program, contin-ues to keep the building clean and sanitized, and she also drives the bus during transporta-tion and field trips. Ms. Bivens also squeezes in time to surprise the team members with a dish or desert. Keep up the good work!!! Our hats are off to Ms. Bivens!!!!

Ms. Bivens will be given a certificate, $25.00 and an extra hour on a designated lunch break.

Amxitt iomm, UPCOMING FIELD TRIPS

There are times when representatives from the "Publick Playhouse" (Cheverly, Md.) will call the Center and let us know of upcoming field trips that are available due to seating availability. When this happens, the representatives will only give us a few days notice to accept or decline.

If the team feel that the children will enjoy the show, we will schedule the field trip; how-ever, there will be child care services available at the Center for any parent who does not want their child to participate.

Most of these field trips will be for ages K-4 and up.

PICTURES WITH SANTA

Every year, the children (ages infants and up) are given an opportunity to take a picture with Santa. Santa will arrive at the Center on Tuesday, December 20th to take pictures with the children beginning at 10:00 a.m. The costs for a picture with Santa is $5.00 and a framed picture with Santa is $10.00. Pictures with Santa will be available to pick up on Tuesday, Dec. 21sth by 3 p.m. if ordered and paid for in accordance with the order form.

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EMERGENCY INFORMATION CARDS

Parents, during the first week in January,

all parents will be asked to stop in the front of-fice to update your child's "Emergency Information Card".

All parents will also be asked to update any items needed in your child's file.

END OF YEAR TAX STATEMENTS

The End of year tax forms will be given out by Friday, January 14th.

FUN BIBLE STUDY

Beginning January, 2012, we will be having Bible Study (at the center) on Wednesdays from 6:30 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. for all ages. The children will be using A Beka and other Christian curriculums.

The teens and adults will focus on topical studies beginning with "The

Spirit and Attitude of Prayer".

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Come out and be blessed!!

KINDERGARTEN NEWS

In Bible, the children are having fun learning about Jesus, singing praise and worship songs and

learning bible scriptures. In Phonics, the children will be learning short and long vowel rules,

writing the blends they hear, circling consonants and marking the vowels. They will also be intro-

duced to more vocabulary words.

The class will also participate in "Reading Circles". The students will also review writing and

sounding out the following letters: Ss, Cc, Dd, Gg, Rr, Ff, Jj, Kk,Vv,Ww,Yy, Pp and sight words.

They will be learning to add final consonants to blends to make one-vowel words and will review

sentences, capitals and periods.

The children will participate in their reading circle three days a week and reading homework will

be assigned two days a week for the remainder of the calendar year.

In Math, the children will be recognizing and counting numbers 13-100. They will also

learn to recognize the value of a nickel and dime, learn time to the hour, add on 0 and 1,

and write ordinal numbers to 10th. The class will be counting by l Os to 100 and telling

time to the hour.

In Social Studies, the children are learning about Mexico, Peru, England, Nether-

lands and Bethlehem. The children will also learn a simple greeting in Hebrew.

Parents, the children have P.E. (Physical Education) every Thursday. Please continue

to dress your children in blue sweats, white or blue shirt and sneakers.

WINTER BREAK HOMEWORK PACKETS

In Poetry, the children will learn to recite: "Mice" and "Long, Long, Ago"

In Community Helpers, the class will be learning about different roles of people

(mailman, baker, pastor, farmers, sales people and etc.). Parents, during the upcoming

Christmas and NewYears winter break, the children will be given a homework packet to re-

inforce material learned so that after the break, it will be a smooth transition to the next

phase of learning. They will still have time to enjoy their break. REMINDER, CHILD

CARE IS AVAILABE ON SOME DAYS DURING THE WINTER BREAK. PAGE 10

In Self-Help, the children are learning to put toys in the their proper lo-

cation after playing.

*Parents, please continue to replenish your child's cubby with

Kleenex, and wipes.

Reminder, try to avoid putting belts and "onesies" on the "busy

bees" who are being potty trained. Also, thank

you for consistently helping your child with

potty training.


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In Bible, the

"Busy Bees"

will be memo-

rizing, The Lord is my

shepherd and I shall not

want". -Psalm 23, and

be read stories about

Baby Jesus.

-YEAR-OLD CLASS

In Pre-Geography, the

children are learning about

the "North Pole" and the

fictional Santa, elves and

snowperson characters. In

Pre-Phonics, the Busy

Bees are continuing to

learn letters that have been

reviewed with a focus on

the following letters (I, J, K

and L).

In Pre-Science/

Cooking, the chil-

dren will help make

a ginger bread

house.

The children will

continue reviewing

the Shapes previ-

ously taught, but will

focus on the "star".

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In Pre-Math, the children will continue counting from

1-10, but will focus on the number 4.

The Colors for this month will be red, green, white and

black and the class will review colors that was previously

taught.

In AmberLamb, the children will be read stories about

Christmas Giving.

The Busy Bees

will learn the fol-

lowing songs:

"Frosty the

Snowman"

"Jingle Bells"

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THREE-YEAR-OLD NEWS

In Bible, the verse for the month is "Every good and perfect gift comes

from above" - James 1:7.

In Pre-Phonics, the children are learning to identify Jj, Kk and Ll and the sounds

that each letter makes.

In Pre-Writing, the children continues to practice tracing their upper and lower

case letters and their name. Some of the children are writing their names.

**Parents, please see me about ordering a writing tablet for your child (if you have-

n't already done so). The writing tablets will be needed by 12/ 13/11.

In Pre-Math, the children will be focusing on numbers 6, 7, 8 and 9, but will

review numbers previously taught.

The Colors for the month are red, green white and blue.

The Songs for the month will be:

• "Jingle Bells" * "We WishYou A Merry Christmas"

"Humpty Dumpty" * "Santa is Coming to Town

In Pre-Science/Cooking, our class will be making a "Ginger Bread

House" and will bake cookies.

In Self-Help, the children will continue to practice putting their sheet on their bed

and folding their linen when they wake up from nap.

The children will continue to view Shapes that were previously taught, but will focus

on the "star" .

In Pre-Geography, the children will learn about some of the cultures in Israel

(Bethlehem where Jesus was born).

The class will be read stories about "Christmas Giving" in AmberLamb.

*Reminder, Please label all belongings (clothing, linen, snacks, lunch and

clothing). ***Fridays are the only days that children are allowed to bring in

age-appropriate toys or etc. for "Show and Tell".

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In Poetry, the children

will learn to recite and

memorize the following

poems:

"My Gift"

"Christmas Giving"

"Baby Jesus"

In Pre-Science,/

Cooking the children

will help make a

"Gingerbread House".

In Self Help, the chil-

dren will continue to

practice tying their shoe

laces".


PRE-K

In Bible, the Pre-K

students will learn to

memorize:

"Every good gift and

every perfect gift is

from above.

-James 1:17

God is Love" 1John 4:8

In Pre-Phonics, the

class will be focusing on

the following letters, Jj,

Kk, Pp, Vv, Ww,Yy and

Zz and the

sounds that

each letter

makes.

*They will continue to

practice sounding out

the vowels.

In Pre-Writing, the

class will continue to

practice writing their

names, letters and

numbers on the board.

The class is also practic-

ing writing and spelling

sight words.

Keep up the good

work!!

In Pre-Math, the chil-

dren will prac-

tice writing

numbers 1

10 and count-

ing from 1 to

50.

In Pre-Geography, the

children will continue

to learn about the cul-

tures of Israel.

The children will review

all Shapes previously

taught and will focus on

10 the shape of the

star.

HOMEWORK

Please let Ms. Janice

know if you desire

homework for your

child on a daily basis.

Homework will recess

on Dec. 10th and will

resume in January,

2012.

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FIRST GRADE NEWS

The first grad-

ers are having a

great time,

learning and reciting

scriptures and singing

praise and worship

songs.

In Phonics, the class

will continue work on

rhyming words, one and

two-vowel rules, suffix-

es, sentence structure

and the use of 11, ff or ss

at the end of a word.

They will also review

compound words, op-

posites, syllables, and

word division between

root words and suffixes.

Doubling the final con-

sonant, dropping the

silent e and alphabetical

order. They will be

taught homonyms,

changing y to i before

adding a suffix , 's pos-

sessives and sight words.

The first graders will

continue to read orally

and will have reading

homework two days a

week for the remainder

of the academic year.

In Math, the children

will continue to recog-

nize time to the hour,

adding on 1, recognizing

and counting numbers

10 100, ordinal, Ro-

man and combination

numbers. In addition

to learning more com-

plex addition and sub-

traction problems, the

first grade students will

also learn multiplica-

tion, basic geometry

(ex. Recognizing and

drawing geometric

shapes {squares, circles,

triangle} andsymmetry).

Reading and interpret-

ing graphs and calendars

will also be taught. Un-

derstanding the concept

of linear measurements,

measures of time, capac-

ity, dozen and half dozen

will also be taught.

Understanding the con-

cept of degrees will also

be taught. Counting

and combining quarters,

dimes, nickels and pen-

nies will also be taught.

In Social Studies, the

class will learn about

"Children of the World"

in Mexico, Peru, Eng-

land and the Nether-

lands. The Class will

also learn of the impor-

tance of people's roles

in the community (i.e.

mailman, pharmacist,

vet, butcher, and etc.) in

the "Community

Helpers" unit. PAGE 12

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In Poetry, the class will learn to recite and memorize the following poems:

*In The Heart of A Seed

*God Gave me Eyes

In Geography/Social

Studies, "My Amer-

ica and My World"

provides an exciting in-troduction to history, geography, and map skills. First graders are thrilled to learn about their country„ to see it

on a map, to learn where on that map they live, and to see how their country relates to the whole world. My

America and My

World stimulates the student's interest in their country through a

study of important symbols, history and places of interest in the United States. It is also a teaching tool to intro-duce young children to a few simple facts about the geography of our world and children who

live in other countries. They will also come to realize that God loves not just them, but chil-dren all around the world.

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