Dear Parents-
I hope you are enjoying break. I want to take a moment to tell you how THANKFUL I am each and everyday to be in your child’s life, to share the classroom with them, to watch them grow, to be a part of their emotional growth and maturity, to be able to see the “lightbulbs” flash with peer enjoyment of learning- I am Thankful to have such wonderful parents of our classroom. It takes a village, I am so thankful to have each and everyone of you be a part of this village! Thank you for everything you do- for your time, your donations, your support and your help with our classroom- the thank you is not always said but it is definitely acknowledged- THANK YOU, THANK YOU and THANK YOU!!!
DECEMBER 9– Early Out 1:00
DECEMBER 15– In honor of us recognizing you and acknowledging all of you- our class and Ms. Marlene’s class will be having a Family Holiday Feast in the North Kiva on December 15 at 1:00. Instead of you providing for the feast the students are preparing something special for you! The classes will also be performing some songs and a few other surprises for you. Please if you can get the time off, please come and enjoy this special afternoon with our two classes.
1,000 CRANES–
A few months ago our class read the book Sadako- a book that tells the story of a atomic bomb, cancer and the 1,000 cranes. After being diagnosed with leukemia from the radiation, Sadako spent her time in a hospital folding origami paper cranes in hope of making a thousand of them. She was inspired to do so by the Japanese legend that one who created a thousand origami cranes would be granted a wish. Her wish was simply to live. After reading this book- the class decided they wanted to make 1,000 cranes and send them to people- to give them wishes of hope. In honor of this- our class and Ms. Marlene’s class have come together and decided that they are going to make a 1,000 cranes (approximately 16 per students) by February 10 and we are going to send 100 to 10 different places (the classes decided):
- Primary Childrens Hospital
- A homeless shelter
- An orphanage
- Veterans
- A place in Africa
- A place that has received recent Natural Disasters
- A family shelter
- Animal shelter
- International place that is in destruction from war
- Third world country Montessori School
CELEBRATIONS OF LIFE– We have 3 birthdays coming up in December. The children really like to have their Celebration of Life in class. This is a wonderful time for the students to express their gratitude to the child and to share a compliment or an acknowledgement of the student. Please make sure to email me to schedule a time to have the Celebration of Life- most days at 9:00 or 2:30 work best, it is about 30 minutes. If your child had their birthday during the first six weeks of class please also schedule a time.
SNACK- We do not have anyone signed up for the snack for the last two weeks of December before break! This week Carter Yearsley is signed up for snack. The following is the new snack sign up for Semester 2:
https://www.wejoinin.com/sheets/pvjfq
LONG TERM PROJECTS:
- Continent Study– continent– due December 13. Upper Elementary International Festival is on Monday, Dec. 19- more details to come
- Poetry Book Report– we have working extensively in class about poetry and will continue to do so through December. The poetry book report has been extended two weeks- the new due date is Monday, December 12 poetry-book-report-rubric
- 6th grade SCIENCE FAIR– dates 6th-grade-science-fair-2017-%e2%80%a8–
Thank you for everything,
Ms. Nicoletta