Dear families,

I would like to say a sincere and heartfelt "Thank you" for the wonderful cards and gifts from you and your children. I was really touched by your kindness and I thank you very much for all your kind notes and good wishes. This time of the year is so magical for the little ones and is a special time to remember.

A little update of our last week of school:

The Holiday Craft Party went very well and the children had fun making 6 different holiday keepsakes - they made a silver bell, a dove of peace, a snowman finger puppet, a sparkle bell, a Rudolph/Santa/Earth mobile, and a Christmas Day countdown. I think they were most excited about the Christmas Day countdown craft!

At our Holiday Sharing Assembly the children did a lovely job singing "It's December," "Twinkle, Twinkle," and "Winter Holiday." Congratulations to Chloe, Naomi, Cole, and Angelina who received awards for Kindness and Caring.

The children finished their Bear books, Santa Claus books, Christmas math and Santa letters and really enjoyed writing cards to friends, Santa, family and Alfie the Elf. The afternoon class made a toyland train book with their grade 3 reading buddies and the morning class will complete this in January.

Thank you as always to our parent volunteers of this week: Mystery Readers were Emma's mom and Logan's mom, and the white bags were done by Sienna's mom and Logan's mom. Thank you so much for taking the time to help in the classroom. Thank you also to our wonderful Grade Parents Dee, Timothy, Anne, Liza and Catherine for doing such a wonderful job with the parent volunteer calendars and with the Stonegate gift hampers. You are all very generous to give your time to help others in the community.

I hope you have a wonderful and relaxing holiday with your family and look forward to seeing everyone again on January 7, 2013!


Beverley