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!