December 15th - 19th

Well the final school week of December has arrived and we are counting the days until our break! We are all VERY excited.

This week in whole group, we will be working on the /wh/ as in whale sound. At least we are going to try and work on that sound. The excitement will be hard to overcome, but in class we understand business and fun.

We will also do some fun craft activities. Hopefully, this will help with overwhelming excitement of this time of the year.

THURSDAY:
We are going to cancel the Holidays Around the World that was originally planned for Thursday. Once we got our specialist schedule, we decided that it would be more difficult to try and work around the break time and lunch. We will talk about some of the different customs for other countries in our classroom, but no moving around to other classrooms.

Thursday afternoon is still on though. ALL CLASSROOM PARTIES WILL BEGIN AT 1:30 pm. Any and all parents are invited to attend. If you volunteered for DRINKS, please make sure that you bring JUICE BOXES ONLY, as we can not serve any soft drinks at school. If you have questions or have not volunteered to bring or help out and want to, please contact Cathey Sarris at catsarris@yahoo.com .

FRIDAY:
We will be viewing the movie "The Polar Express". I will be sending home a permission slip for you to sign and return. Students will be allowed to wear their pajamas to school on Friday. I have also told the students that they may bring a beach towel to use on the floor on Friday. We will be having a little snack during the movie...chocolate milk and butter cookies. YUM!

We will do our book exchange on Friday after the movie. Please send a wrapped book that is appropriate for a boy or girl. Please do not spend more than $5 on your book. I would like to have all books at school on Thursday, if possible.

I hope that this holiday season finds your families blessed and in the best of health! I wish you all the most wonderful time off, try to do something fun with your children, remember they are only this age once! Please read over the break!

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas!

Ms. Messick