Hello Everyone,
Thank you for your supporting and making sure your child has winter appropriate clothing. It is great when everyone can enjoy being outside in the snow for recess without the kids feeling miserable and getting overly cold.
We are going to start our class GALA art project tomorrow, Monday, afternoon. If you have any magazines you can donate for it, please send them tomorrow. We are hoping to finish it tomorrow, but if we don’t we will continue working on it Wednesday morning. We need lots of magazines so please send any you don’t need. Also, mark your calendars for the GALA. It will be Saturday, March 21. This is an awesome fund raiser for our school and allows you to get out and enjoy good food and good company.
Monday, tomorrow, night is our elementary concert. Ms. Sarah has been working really hard with the students on this. They are singing beautifully (our class has been practicing in our classroom as well). If you are able to come, lower el’s concert starts at 5:30 in the Jr. high gym. Students should wear black pants and a solid colored top. Their top does not have to have a collar. Hope you can all make it.
The next Box Tops store is this Tuesday. Please make sure the box tops are cut out nicely. It also helps if you can check the expiration dates and count them. Please send them in a bag with the number of box tops written on the outside.
Friday is our class holiday feast. So far, I have only heard from a few of you that you will be joining us. All are invited to join us, but we really do need to know if you are attending ahead of time so we have enough seats and enough food. So please let me know if you are coming and how many will be with you. Also, if you are able to donate something for our feast, please sign up on Track it Forward. This feast is for us to celebrate all the different holidays we are learning about this month. So far we have written a small information piece on how we celebrate at our house, and we have learned about Hanukkah and are working on writing about that. This week we will learn about Diwali and how the holidays are celebrated in other countries such as Germany.
Next week is Parent Teacher Conferences. If you have not signed up for a time yet, please get on Track it Forward, there are still plenty of slots open. Conferences are Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, the 17-19. School gets out at 1:00 pm on these days so please plan on picking your child up then. During conferences the book fair will be open in the library as well. These conferences will be mostly student led so please plan on bring your child with you.
We will not have school on Friday, December 20. This is a teacher development day and the start of our Winter Break.
As always, thank you for all you do!
Jalee