Next Week’s Skills in Pre-K

                                      February 1-5, 2016

Bible – Mary and Martha, Jesus Raises Lazarus

            “A friend loves at all times” Proverbs 17:17

 

Themes – Letter Pp; Imagine It, Make It

Skills – Writing Names (Please practice writing with the first

letter capital and the rest lowercase)

             Rhyming Words, AABB pattern, Identifying numbers 1-20,

             Counting to 100 by 1s and 10s

                       

Show and Tell – Something or Someone you LOVE

Dates to Remember:

Friday, February 5^th  Pajama Day (see attached note)

Friday, February 12^th  Valentine’s Party (send in an empty cereal box)

Friday, March 4^th  Father’s Breakfast from 8:15-9:00

Thank you! 

To Anna Elise for our Nn snack

To Caitlyn for our Oo snack

Mid-Year Assessments are included in today’s papers.  Please review these and contact me if you have any questions or concerns.

Lower School Newsletter from Wade Putnal

January 28, 2016

THANKS for all the supplies you collected during Spirit Week! Your generosity will benefit Bo’s Camp, Backpack Ministry, Children’s Hospital, and L.H. Williams’ Tutoring Program.

Visiting Author: Local author Conie Mac Darnell, husband of our wonderful Lower School Librarian Cyndi Darnell, will jumpstart our Mixon-Fincher Young Author and Illustrator Week by visiting 1^st-5^th graders on Thurs., Feb. 4^th, 12-12:30 pm in the Fine Arts Auditorium. **Pre-order forms and checks due Friday, Jan. 22^nd

Mixon-Fincher Young Author/Illustrator Celebration for 1^st-5^th grades will take place in your child’s classroom on Friday, February 5^th – 8:15 to 9am. Parents are invited to visit as students celebrate being young authors and illustrators.

LIBRARY NEWS: It’s 5^th grade quilt time! We need volunteers for Miss Brown’s and Mrs. Murnan’s classes. (Many thanks to Isabel Stokes’s grandmother for volunteering for Mrs. Hollingsworth’s class!) Each mom or grandmother volunteer will piece together squares made by a 5^th grade class, and then quilt the crib-size blanket for that class. We provide all supplies, and this can be done by machine or hand - NO rush. The quilts hang in the library until their junior year when they are auctioned at the Fall Festival to help fund the Junior-Senior prom. You may stop by the library to view previous years’ quilts any time. Please consider volunteering for one of the 5th grade classes. Thank you!

MATH-A-THON – 1^st – 5^th grade “Funbooks” have been sent home. Please return your donation envelope and prize order form by February 26^th.

All FPD Bands, including our 5^th Grade Band, will perform a concert February 9^th at 7:00pm in the Clark Fine Arts Center. Parents, you know the most important audience in the world is a child’s family, so please join us in supporting our talented musicians!

FPD Center for Discovery spring class registration is underway! Open to the community, classes are available for 3K through adults. Pick up a program guide and registration form in the Elementary Office or online at: www.fpdmacon.org/center-for-discovery

The Viking Store: Winter Sale Week is Friday, Jan. 29^th to Friday, Feb. 5^th. All outerwear and long-sleeve shirts are 20% off! “Viking Bucks” spending cards make great gifts for Valentine’s Day or any occasion. Remember we have everything a Viking needs for cold weather: headwear, scarves, long-sleeve spirit shirts, sweatshirts and jackets (all uniform-approved) as well as blankets. We carry Land’s End uniform shirts and girls’ sweaters also. Open school days 7:45am - 3:30pm and located in the MAC building near the cafeteria. 

Please label all jackets, coats, sweaters, hats, mittens, lunchboxes, etc. If you are missing something, please check Elementary “Lost & Found.”

*** COMING UP ***

·         Re-enrollment Due – Monday, February 1^st

·         Moms In Prayer meets Feb. 8^th – 12:30 pm – Elementary Multi Purpose Room

·         Lower School Chapel: Feb. 9^th (3^rd grade will lead) – 12:05 pm in auditorium

·         Red Cross Blood Drive – Friday, February 12^th, 8am-1pm, Clark Fine Arts Building

·         President’s Day Holiday – No School – Monday & Tuesday, February 15^th and 16^th

·         Dress Down Day – February 19^th – for Daybreak Center for the homeless

·         March 4-13: Goodwill Donation Drive Competition! As you begin spring cleaning, please donate items during this week. FPD Elementary will compete with other area schools to see who brings in the most donations. 

 Next Week’s Skills in Pre-K

                                      January 25-29, 2016

Bible – Jesus Heals a Blind Man; Jesus Heals the Roman

Soldier’s Son

 

Themes – Letter Oo; Imagine It, Make It

Skills – Mid-Year Assessments are going on now.  You will receive these assessments next Thursday.

                       

Show and Tell – Bring something that begins with the letter Pp

Dates to Remember:

Sunday, January 24^th  from 3:00-5:00  Prospective Family Open House

                Please invite your friends and neighbors!

Friday, February 5^th   Pajama Day

Friday, February 12^th  Valentine’s Party (more information to come)

Friday, March 4^th   Father’s Breakfast from 8:15-9:00

Understanding Misunderstandings

by Susan Causey, M.Ed., LPC

Misunderstandings are a part of life. Why? Since we are all sensitive people, sin is intrinsic in our nature and communication is difficult. Jeremiah 17: 9 tells us, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?”

No matter what age, people want to be loved, approved, accepted and appreciated. This is the common ground for all mankind. People fight for this in different ways. Some through fame or fortune. Some through being people-pleasers.

However, most children are not mature enough to seek the fulfilment of this need in productive ways. They may be clumsy at social skills, just as a toddler is clumsy at walking. They are learning how to relate to different personalities and protect their own emerging sense of self. Most are not thinking of the struggles and goals of the other person, but only of what they want. At school many issues will arise. Because of the myriad of different people, each will come into contact with others who are struggling to meet their own needs in conflicting ways. This is a great environment to learn how to deal with people – an essential skill to develop for a healthy adulthood.

For this reason it is important to use these opportunities to train your child to deal with others effectively. The book of Proverbs teaches excellent social skills. Reading from this book of wisdom each day can help prepare your child for optimal social skills development.

As a parent, it’s easy (when your child comes home with hurt feelings) to react with a fighter’s instinct like a “momma bear,” but it is more productive to help him to examine himself. Could there be something in his behavior which is antagonizing, alienating, not engaging, or frustrating? Secondly, encourage your child to seek to understand the other person. Often, “hurt people hurt people.” The other student may be going through challenges that cause him to strike out. Pray for that person. Be kind to them and draw him into your circle if possible. As we seek to love and understand the other person, often our own needs are fulfilled. “It is in giving that we receive.” (St. Francis of Assisi)

Teach your child early to look to the needs of others. Self-absorption and being easily hurt can aggravate the wound and escalate the conflict. Being others-focused and forgiving creates channels of warmth. This can be difficult when someone is chilly toward us. But, training your child to say kind words and build others up, even at tough times, can warm and open hearts as well as develop confidence, strength and success in all relationships.

 

Outwitted

by Edwin Markham

 

He drew a circle that shut me out –

Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.

But love and I had the wit to win;

We drew a circle and took him in!