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Wesley Kids Korner
                      November 26-30, 2018

Wesley Kids Annual Christmas Pageant will be                      Our annual Scholastic
held on Friday, December 14, 2018, at 4:00pm
          in the First UMC Sanctuary.
                                                                  Book Fair is being held
           The Big Dippers, Explorers,
                                                                         the week of
Rainbows, Asteroids, and Martians classes will                     December 3-7, 2018.
 be singing the beautiful songs that Mrs. Jean                         It will be open
      and their teachers have taught them.        Monday-Friday from 7:00am-5:45pm.
 Following the pageant we will have hot cocoa     It’s a great place to find gifts for every
             and cookies in the foyer.
                                                           member of your family.
  All family and friends are welcome to attend
                this joyous event!                        Here at Wesley Kids, we
                                                 encourage our children to read and this
                                                  book fair is the perfect opportunity to
                                                 take the love of reading home with your
                                                                    child!

                                   Wesley Kids will be closed
                            starting Monday, December 24, 2018
                               thru Tuesday, January 1, 2019.
                                We will re-open on Wednesday,
                                 January 2, 2019 at 7:00am.
                            We wish every one and their families
                                  a blessed and safe Holiday.

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Milky Way
Theme of the Week: It’s Getting Cold Outside
The weather is changing and it’s getting babies to explore mittens on their hands
cold. For the next two weeks the children and see how they feel and what they look
are talking and working on “Winter”.      like. If your child has mittens feel free to
                                          bring them in.
This week the babies are ice painting, we
will have colored ice on sticks and       During the next two weeks we are
encourage the children to use them like   encouraging the babies to sign the word
paint brushes.                            “cold”. This is done by making your
                                          hands into a fist putting them up to your
Teachers are making a no mess sensory
                                          chest area and shaking them as if to
winter bag and the babies are being
                                          shiver.
encouraged to sit, do tummy time, and
work on their fine motor skills by
playing with it.
                                          Have a beautiful week!
In music the babies are listening and
                                          Roberta, Terrie, Rachael, Lori, & Clarita
dancing to the song “The Mittens”. As
we listen to the song we would like the

Little & Big Dippers
Theme of the Week: Cold Weather
This week’s theme is “Cold Weather”. We        In math and science we are making slime.
are taking to the kids about why we need our   The teachers and children are measuring
jackets and to dress warmer.                   ingredients to make snow slime using contact
                                               solution, glue, and glitter.
In circle the children are listening and
looking at the books “Snow” and “Polar         The children are continuing to learn to count
Bear Morning”.                                 from 1 to 10 in Spanish.
In music the children are learning and         Outdoors (weather permitting) the children
singing the songs “Weather” and “If All The    are playing with the push bikes.
Raindrops”.
                                               Our words of the week in English and
In art the Little Dippers are making scarves   Spanish are cold/frio, jackets/chaqueta, and
and mittens using paper, glue, and sequence.   gloves/guantes.
The children are also making snow clouds
using glue and cotton balls.
                                               Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
In art the Big Dippers are making hats using
paint and cotton balls and snowflake shaped    Angelica, Theresa, & Angela
suncatchers with tissue paper and contact
paper.

Explorers
Theme of the week: Hibernate
This week the children are learning about      The children are also making a bear cave for
“Hibernation” and what animals hibernate.      our bears.
We are talking to the children about how
animals sleep and hibernate all winter.        Outdoors (weather permitting) the children
                                               are examining if it’s hot or cold, we are also
In circle are going over the weather, our      playing on the slides and bikes.
ABC’s, our numbers, and shapes.
                                               In music the children are learning and
In book area the children are reading and      singing the songs “Are You Sleeping” and
looking at books “Bear Snores” and             “Row, Row Your Boat”.
“Hibernation Station”.
                                              Our vocabulary words in English and
In art the children are making the letter “H” Spanish are winter/invierno and bear/oso.
for hibernation, a dotted brown bear, a snowy
cave, and a paper plate bear.
We are working on a science experiment        Have a great day!
with the children using shortening and ice     Cherish, Liz, and Lisa
water. This experiment shows how the
animals keep warm during the winter.

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Rainbows
Theme of the Week: Weather Stations
In the Rainbows this week the children In circle the children are reading and
are learning about “Weather Stations”. looking at the books “Weather” and
                                         “Around The Year”.
In art the children are making four
season trees and rain clouds using a eye In music the children are learning and
dropper with paint.                      singing the songs “What’s The
                                         Weather” and “One Little, Two Little
In science we are making a rain cloud
                                         Clouds”.
in a jar using water, food coloring, and
shaving cream.                                                                                            .
In math we are playing a number                       Have a blessed Thanksgiving!                        .
matching game.
                                                      Damaris and Jackquelin                              .
In our writing center the children are
learning the letter “W” for weather.                                                                      .
Our phrase of the week in English and                                                                     .
Spanish is weather stations or
Estaciones del tiempo.                                                                                    .

 Asteroids
Theme of the Week: Artic Animals
This week in the Asteroids the children are In manipulatives children will use a paper
learning and talking about “Artic           plate to poke wholes of the letters of the
Animals”.                                   alphabet and lace the letters using yarn.
In circle the children are listening and              Our vocabulary words of the week in
looking at the books “Polar Bear, Polar               English and Spanish are Eskimo/Esquimal,
Bear What Do You See” and “That’s Not                 cold/frio, igloo/iglu, polar bear/oso polar,
My Polar Bear”.                                       and penguins/pinguinos.
In science we are working to see how artic
animals stay warm.
                                                      Have a wonderful week!
In home living the children will have a
chance to dress up like Eskimos and in                Lena and Alba
blocks the children are making igloos.
In art the children are making polar bear
masks and pretending to be polar bears.

Martians
Theme of the Week: Giving Tree Project
This week the Martians are learning how to spend      In math the children are continuing to count down   .
time helping others.                                  100 days of school and will work on graphing the
                                                      different sizes of Christmas bows.                  .
In circle the children are listening and looking at
the books “The Joy Of Giving’, “The Mitten            In science we are creating fake snow in the         .
Tree”, and “Those Trees”. We are talking to the       sensory table and also making a snow storm in a     .
children about helping others who are less            jar.
fortunate than us and are thinking of things that                                                         .
the homeless might need to help them through the      Outdoors (weather permitting) the children will
winter.                                               play in the sandbox to create snowman and snow      .
                                                      angels with the sand.
In writing the children are making Christmas tags                                                         .
with items on them that the homeless need. The        Wesley kids families we need your help! Please
tags will then be placed on the Christmas tree by     help us with our giving tree project by donating .
the office for others to take to help us with our     items for the homeless. These items will be
                                                                                                       .
project. The children are also writing about the      wrapped as gifts by the Martians and handed
Christmas season.                                     out at Grace Meal on Monday, December 17th. .

In art the children are making a Christmas tree                                                           .
picture and completing a color by sight word          Have a wonderful week!                              .
picture.
                                                      Alex and Marcella                                   .

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el Menu´
                          November 26-30, 2018
                                              Monday
                         Breakfast: Oatmeal, organic blueberries, milk
                 Lunch: Macaroni salad w/ham bits & egg, peas/carrots, apples,
                                            saltines, milk
                        Snack: Sunflower butter & jelly sandwiches, milk
                                              Tuesday
                  Breakfast: Boiled eggs, whole wheat toast, fruit cocktail, milk
                  Lunch: Orange chicken w/brown rice, organic broccoli florets,
                                             plums, milk
                          Snack: Animal crackers & lime Jell-O, milk
                                             Wednesday
                          Breakfast: Waffles, syrup, applesauce, milk
                       Lunch: Bean & cheese tostadas, corn, oranges, milk
                             Snack: Vegetable salad, Goldfish, milk
                                              Thursday
                      Breakfast: Cinnamon toast, organic strawberries, milk
              Lunch: Chicken fajitas, sliced carrots, organic grapes, corn tortillas, milk
                         Snack: Hawaiian pineapple pizza bagels, milk
                                               Friday
                          Breakfast: Banana muffins, fresh pears, milk
                       Lunch: Beef a roni, green beans, canned pears, milk
                              Snack: Pretzels, cream cheese, milk

                                  GRATITUDE
                           “Helps us see what’s there
                             instead of what isn’t.”
                               -Unknown Author

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