Christmas 2

We have been busy making holiday decorations and practicing our songs. We will be having our programs beginning at 9:30 on Monday and Tuesday of next week in the gym. My class will be the furthest on the right if you are looking at the risers the students will be standing on (furthest side from the gym doors that you will enter). After the concert, we ask that you come up to the risers to find your student rather than us send all of the students toward the bleachers. There will be refreshments following the concert. Please be sure to stop by the classroom to collect their decorations and gifts. 

I sent home your child's bedding for rest time as well as their change of clothes (to see that they have winter appropriate clothes to change into if needed as well as to see if they have outgrown what is here) this week. You do not need to send these items back until after the holiday break. 

Christmas

This past week and the upcoming week our theme is Christmas. We have been busy making lots of Christmas presents for family and friends. We have also started making decorations for our classroom to celebrate the season and our Christmas program. This past week we also focused on the letter Ii. 

Our Christmas program will be held in the gym at 9:30 on December 21st and 22nd. Refreshments will follow in the lunchroom. Your student will have some goodies for you waiting in the classroom, so please stop down before you leave. 

Today we had our FBI event of cookie decorating. Thank you to those families who joined us! 

Reminders:
--Please be sure to send back the form from the Christmas program invitation to let us know if your child will be staying for the remainder of the day on the 21st/22nd or if they will be going home with someone. Most students go home afterward but are not required to, there will not be academics planned for this day. 
--If you have not sent back a picture of your child, please do so as soon as you can! These will be used as part of a Christmas present. 
--We will be having a $5 gift exchange in our room prior to our Christmas program. Girls buy for girls, boys buy for boys. Please address the present "To a girl, From: __" or "To a boy, From: ___" In order for your child to get a present, they must bring one. If this is a hardship for your family, please let me know so I can make arrangements. Gifts should be brought in by December 16th/17th. 

Cookies and Christmas Trees

This week our theme was cookies and Christmas trees. We made fun and gingerbread decorations, pretended to decorate cookies for our shape cookie books, and painted special Christmas trees. We also focused on the letter Cc and the number 5. 

For the next three weeks we will be having the theme of Christmas! Our days will be filled with making festive decorations and special gifts for your families. We will be having our Christmas party prior to our program on Dec. 21st and 22nd. Our class will be doing a $5 gift exchange-girls buy for girls, and boys buy for boys. In order to receive a gift your child needs to bring a gift by Dec. 16th or Dec. 17th. If this will be a hardship for your family this year, please let me know. 

Our program will Monday, Dec. 21st and Tuesday, Dec. 22nd beginning at 9:30. Refreshments will follow. Please send back the bottom portion of the program invite that was sent home this week so we can make plans for who is being picked up after the program and to have an idea of how many students will be staying afterward. Most students go home after the program, but are not required to do so. There will not be academics planned for the afternoon for those staying at school. 

Please continue to send your child with snow pants and boots. These are a requirement to go outside for recess until further notice. Be sure to label all of your child's winter gear. 

A reminder to those who signed up for the cookie decorating FBI event. This will begin at 9:00 on Friday, Dec. 11th. Be sure to bring a container to take your cookies home in, unless you plan on eating them while you are here. :-) 

We have a collection taking place to help out Huey's Hideaway Children's Museum being built here in Medford! During this coming week, students can bring in coins to help support their grade level in earning a pizza party for their classroom. Pennies will count as positive points in their own coin jar. Silver coins will count as negative points-so be sure to put those in a different grade level's coin jar!!! The fourth grade students who developed this idea will be in the lunch room each morning and afternoon this week to collect the coins. If you send coins with your student, we will take the students with coins down to the commons to distribute them into the jars. Thank you for helping support this great addition to our community!