Thank you for coming out to support our team and guest teams at the Milt Brueggemann Hope Classic tournament this past weekend! Thank you to all who volunteered their time and talents to make this event so successful!
Grades 1-8 Crown Center performance – December 17 @ 5:30. This is a required performance for all choirs and bands. Please contact your child’s homeroom teacher in case of sickness. All students should wear black pants/skirts and white tops. Girls may wear all-black dresses. There will be no basketball practice this evening.
Grades 1-8 Christmas program – December 19 @ 6:30. All students should wear their “Christmas best.” This should not include jeans. There will be no basketball practice this evening.
Reading/ Spelling- We have nearly finished reading our novel The Best Christmas Pageant Ever by Barbara Robinson. There will not be any final project. We are finished spelling words from the novel, and will now study for the Vocabulary Test over these words. The test date will be Tuesday, December 17th.
Special Christmas Craft Supplies needed– Please continue saving clean toilet paper tubes and a shoebox for our Christmas project. We will also be needing wrapping paper tubes and paper towel tubes for a project for 2nd semester. Thank you for holding on to these items and sending them to school as soon as it is convenient for you – just, don’t throw them away! Thank you!
Memory– Christmas Program Parts and songs will be the only Memory for the remainder of this semester. We will begin reciting Memory on both Tuesday and Thursday each week in the 2nd semester. The new Memory Sheet will be coming home in the Thursday Folder before Christmas Break.
Multiplication Memoization
We will be going over the Multiplication Tables of 0 – 12 in the New Year! Please practice the tables using flash cards, computer games, etc. so that your child can increase in speed and accuracy. We will be taking multiplication tests over each of the tables at the beginning of 3rd Quarter. Your child will need to know each fact and answer in 2-3 seconds and will need to get a score of at least 90% to pass each timed test and move on to the next one. Students will be working to earn a special treat for passing each of the tests. More information will be coming!
Christmas Program Parts – Students are asked to continue perfecting their parts. Our 1st – 8th grade Christmas Program wil be performed on Thursday, December 19th at 6:30 PM. Put this date on your calendar!
Holiday Gift Shop– The 4th grade has already viewed the gift shop and made their wish list! Please ask your child for his/her wish list to budget how much money your child will need to purchase items. Place the money in the envelope that is being sent home in the Thursday Folder. Information about the Gift Shop is attached to the envelope. 4th grade will be shopping as a class on Friday, December 13th from 10:40 – 11:20 A.M.
Book-It Please continue recording your child’s minutes of reading outside of school. Be sure you and your child sign the completed calendar. Your child will receive a coupon for a Personal Pan Pizza from Pizza Hut for meeting the 600-minute monthly goal! The January calendar was sent home last week n the Thursday folder to be completed and returned by Friday, February 7th.
Christmas Party – We will celebrate our Savior’s Birth as a school on Friday, December 20th with an all-school sing-along before returning to our classrooms for our parties. Our party will run from 10:30 until pack up and dismissal at 11:30. For our Classroom Gift Exchange this year, please allow your child to bring enough of one item to be placed in each of our homemade stockings. We are hanging eleven students’ stockings and one teacher stocking in our classroom from December 9th – 20th. Please send small items such as: trinkets, erasers, new pencils, Bible verses, small treats, etc. Place your child’s eleven or twelve small gifts in a sack or box to be concealed from others. Place your child’s name on a slip of paper inside the container to be delivered to the teacher. The teacher will want to know who is the “secret angel,” but the name of the gift-giver will remain anonymous to the students receiving the gifts. Your child will also receive one of the gifts he/she brings in. Arrangements will be made so that each student will get to help fill each stocking with the gift he/she brought. The students will experience the pure joy in giving to others without expecting to receive any recognition in return. It would be fun to have at least one “secret angel” place his/her surprises in the stockings on each of the days until Christmas Break! Please let the teacher know if you have any questions. The students are truly enjoying the surptises in their stockings each day and are very grateful! Thank you!
Coming up:
Dec. 17 Grades 1-8 band/choir Crown Center performance, 5:30
Dec. 19 Grades 1-8 Christmas program in the FLC @ 6:30 PM
Dec. 20 Christmas parties, early dismissal, no extended care
~ Special Dress-up Days ~
Monday 12/16– Wear Ugly Christmas Sweaters with uniform bottoms.
Tuesday 12/17- Wear Christmas PJ’s.
Wednesday 12/18- Wear Red and Green tops with uniform bottoms.
Thursday 12/19- Wear your Christmas hats with uniform.
Friday 12/20- Wear a Christmas t-shirt & Socks with uniform bottoms.
~ Important Up-coming Dates in 2025! ~
January 6 – School Resumes
January 11 – OPEN HOUSE 9-Noon
January 16 Parent/ Teacher Conferences – Early Dismissal 12 pm
January 17 – Parent/Teacher Conferences NO SCHOOL
