Polar Express Night Pictures!

Thank you so much to everyone who made it last night for our Polar Express Family Fun Night!

It was a HUGE success and we look forward to holding more events like it in the future!

Here are some pictures from the evening!

Enjoy and have a wonderful weekend!

Family Fun Night TOMORROW NIGHT!!!!

This event is open to the CUMC community and guests, so please feel free to bring a friend!!

And don't forget to wear your PJs!!!!  :)

Christmas Sing-a-long

 

You and your family are invited to

Children’s Discovery Center’s

Annual

Christmas Sing-A-Long

Wednesday, December 18 or 19*, 2013

Sanctuary

11:15 am

Come join the 2s, Pre-K 3s, 

Pre-K 4s and TK

 as we all sing Christmas carols.

Remember this is also an Early Release

day at 12 noon!

*Your child's class will sing on their regular day to be at school.  The TK class will perform on the 19th.*

December mission: Project Hope Stars

For our December mission project, 

we are adopting two Project Hope stars!

To learn more about Project Hope, please click HERE!

We will be collecting money through the month of December to help:

*  Susan - a single mom of one child that would like to take a certification class in the technology field

and 

*  Alisha - a single mom of 4 children that needs assistance to be able to provide dental care to her family

If you would like to donate toward this amazing cause, please place cash or checks (made out to CDC) in the candy cane stripped box outside of the CDC office.

Thank you in advance for your support!

Save the Date for Family Fun Night!!

Please mark your calendars and save the date for CDC's first

Family Fun Night!!

The kids will have crafts to do, games to play, a special reading of The Polar Express, cookies and hot cocoa and more!

This event is open to all CUMC families so wear your pajamas and please join us! 

**If you would like to help with this event, please click HERE to sign up**

Rosemary Grace Garcia is HERE!!!

The CDC family is so excited to announce the birth of our newest member!!

Rosemary Grace Garcia

was born yesterday at 4:23 pm!!

6 lbs. 10 oz   *   18.5 in

Mama and baby are doing well!!!!



Thanksgiving Feasts

 

Yesterday and today, the kiddos watched the Transitional Kindergarten class put on an amazing Thanksgiving play as well as celebrated with their class! 

Here are some pictures of the festivities!

 

A HUGE Thank You to all of the parents that helped make this a fun-filled event for all of our teachers and kids!

CDC's Thankful Tree

November is the perfect time of year to tell those around you all of the reasons you are so THANKFUL for them!!

We are so very thankful for all of our teachers here at CDC and want to give families the opportunity to share just how thankful they are as well!!

Just inside the south hall doors is our Thankful Tree.  Families are invited to take a leaf from the envelope hanging beside it to share with everyone exactly why our teachers are amazing!!

Monthly Teacher Appreciation Luncheons

This year, we are putting together luncheons to celebrate our teacher's birthdays!

In November, we are celebrating

Judy Cochrane

and

Julie Patterson

and in December,

Libby Gordon

and

April Fortner

are celebrating birthdays!

If you would like to help with either of the lunceons, please click here for November

or

here for December

Thank you in advance for all of your help! 

(And a HUGE thank you to Carey Veselka for setting up the sign ups each month!)

Help us fill the platter!

This year, the CDC is joining forces with Serving Others at CUMC to donate food to Minnie's Food Pantry!  The food drive will run from

Monday, November 11-

Friday, November 22

CDC families are welcome to bring donations to their classrooms during the next two weeks!  The classes will be discussing what it means to give to others as part of their Chrisitan Curriculum.  They will also be able to add the paper food items to our platter display as a class!

CDC families are always so very generous, so we would like to thank you in advance for your dedication to helping those in need!

November Chapel Time!

This month in chapel, Pastor Stacey Piyakhun came to talk to us about what it means to be thankful!  We talked about being thankful to God for the ground we walk on, the air we breathe and all the people around us!  We also talked about being thankful to our families, teachers and friends for all of the wonderful things they do for us!

Mrs. Patterson led us in two of the new songs we have been learning in music! 

Below are the lyrics and video clips of part of each song so your kiddos can teach them to you!

Thank you, Lord

Let everything that God makes say Thank you, Lord

Let everything that God makes say Thank you, Lord

Let everything that God makes say Thank you, Lord

Thank you, Lord, for making me

The monkeys (bears, gators) in the jungle say Thank you, Lord

Thank you, Lord ooo,ooo,ooo (grr, grr, grr/ chomp, chomp, chomp)

(repeat 3 times)

Thank you, Lord, for making me

OOOOOOOOOOO

Repeat Chorus

Hide Them in My Heart

I'm gonna take God's promises and hide them in my heart

So I won't forget, I'm gonna hide them in my heart

I'm gonna take God's promises and hide them in my heart

Hide them in my heart

Repeat

We are so thankful to all of you and each of your children! 

God bless!!

Pink Pumpkin Patch

This year, Ms. Kristen and Ms. Reagan in room 110 had the WoNdErFuL idea to do a pink pumpkin patch in honor of two CDC teachers, who have survived breast cancer!  It was also a wonderful opportunity for the children and teachers to be able to honor those they know who have fought against this terrible disease. 

The Pink Pumpkin Patch is just inside the south hallway doors and has really brightened up our school! 

If you would like to decorate a pumpkin, we have extras!  Please feel free to grab one from the cradenza outside the CDC office!

Halloween Party Fun!!!

This week all of our classes have been enjoying yummy snacks, spooky crafts and fun games during their Halloween parties! 

Here are a few pictures so you all can share in all the fun!

Visiting the Pumpkin Patch

Each of the classes has had the opportunity to visit the CUMC youth's Pumpkin Patch over the last two weeks!  If you haven't had a chance to visit with your family, be sure to stop by!

Here are a few of the classes' pictures!

Check out our new art displays!!

We are so excited to have our new art displays up! 

What a wonderful way to brighten up the new blue walls!

A HUGE CDC Thank you goes out to Jessica Bader and Sarah Wehkamp for all of their help on this project!!!  Thanks, ladies!!

CDC Book Fair dress up days!!

We have had so much fun dressing up for

the Book Fair this week!! 

Here are a few of our cutie pies all dressed up!

Logan and Angelle LOVED hat day!!

Lucy and Jacob were ready for the beach in their hats!

Brayden, Gracie, Clara and Parker are all dressed up for Hawaiian day!

There is ONE MORE DAY for the book fair so if you haven't made it in yet, come on in!!  It will be open tomorrow before and after school as we wear our best surfer gear!

Thanks to everyone who has volunteered,
dressed up and shopped at our fair!

We had our first Chapel this week!

This Tuesday and Wednesday, the 2s, 3s, 4s and TK had our first Chapel of the year!  We walked down to the sanctuary where we sang songs, learned the signs for "Jesus" and "God" and talked with Ms. Mindy about the sanctuary!  We discussed what a sanctuary was used for, as well as the differences between it and our classrooms.  Some of the differences the children noticed were:

*  The size of the lights

*  The seating (we discussed the word "pew")

*  That there were no toys

*  The pipes on the front wall (we discussed the organ and how the sound comes out those pipes)

*  The stained glass windows

Ms. Mindy then showed us a picture of a cross and asked if we knew what it was and who it represented.  We talked about how Jesus died on the cross so that we could live forever in heaven! 

We then turned our attention up to the large stained glass window and found the cross made of peacock feathers.  We learned that peacocks shed their beautiful feathers so they can grow new, more beautiful ones!  Christians often use peacocks as a symbol of the new life we have in Jesus!

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