11/21 - Week 12
11/28 - Review Party Day - start at 9 AM and bring a lunch like always.
12/2 - Medieval Feast at 6:30 PM
12/13 - Raptor Center and Review Games with CC Newton - We need a couple of moms to volunteer to head up a review game. If you are interested, please email Emily Stewart (or Amber if you don't have her email address.)
REMINDERS
1. Don't forget to bring cardboard boxes, paper towel and toilet paper tubes, cereal boxes, oatmeal containers, etc. You can put them in the fellowship hall Monday morning. We're going to need A LOT of them to make castles on November 28 at our review party.
2. Please RSVP this week with the number of people your family will have in attendance for the medieval feast. You can email or text Amber with the total. We've opted to have a sign up where everyone will bring a dish for part of the meal and once I have a final count, I'll put together a list of what we need and send it out for sign-ups.
3. If you want to sponsor a child or family for Christmas through Highways and Hedges, those details are now available. Email Amber for details.
4. Next week, feel free to bring a little gift for your child's Foundations tutor. Look for an email soon with some tips on this if you need ideas. ;)
5. For science time on Monday, we're going to be launching rockets together as a community. We will all do science together outside at 11:30 and then eat lunch afterwards.
6. Expect a call from Amber this week or next just to do a little check-in on how your family is doing with CC after the first semester. This is a time when you can share any struggles you're having or ask for support in specific ways. Be thinking about anything that our community can do to better serve you so you can share that!
7. Just a personal note here - thank you for your grace this Monday at CC as I was a bit scattered during assembly. I had some extra little ones with me due to a personal emergency in their family and had a couple hours sleep the night before. You guys were so gracious and loving when I wasn't at my best and I just want you to know how much I appreciate that!
RESOURCES
Here is a huge list of ideas and fun extras you can explore with your littles over the next couple weeks and over our Christmas break. I tried to include some activities that you could use even with the preschoolers who need something to stay busy while big kids are doing school.
Review Game Ideas
- Candy Land - assign a color for each subject and when they draw a card, ask a question before they move their play piece.
- Trashketball - easiest game ever and no prep is needed! Wad up a ball of paper and let them toss it in the trashcan after each review question they get right. My kids never get tired of this. Ha!
- Tic-Tac-Toe - Ask a question and then let your child make an "x" or "o".
- Hangman - Make blanks for the question and when they solve it, let them give the answer. For example, you could put blanks for "French Revolution" and then when they figure out that's what the puzzle says, they can sing the history sentence.
- Jeopardy - there are tons of printable jeopardy games for CC review on CC Connected.
- Say It Like - let them answer questions in silly voices - say it like a pirate, an opera singer, a robot, a fish, a grumpy old man, a baby, etc.
A Huge List to Explore
Russian cookies (week 10 inspired)
More Tips
Remember that kids learn by play! Don't feel like you have to keep them sitting at a desk like little soldiers. Play dress-up and make an astronaut costume, build a space shuttle out of cardboard boxes, use play dough to try to form the shape of the European countries or seas. Make sugar cookies and cut them out in different shapes to be the planets. Learning happens all over the house and students remember more when it's hands on and fun! Keep playing that memory work in the background as you make the days fun and they will retain, retain, retain!
As we finish out the semester, burn out can happen fast. Cut yourself a break, momma! You are doing just fine. Look at how much your children have learned in just 11 short weeks... your director is cheering you on and only a phone call away if you need some extra support or ideas.
Love you guys! I'll leave you with these little funnies to brighten your day...
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