Weekly Update

Dear Families,
This newsletter is filled with interesting and fun upcoming activities.  Please remember that we are on school holiday break next week, from Wednesday December 23rd to January 1st.  School resumes again on Monday, January 4th.

Upcoming Events:

On Thursday morning, December 17th between 7:30am and 8:30 am, Team Harmony is hosting a breakfast gathering for families.  This, we hope, will be a great opportunity for us all to spend some time together while enjoying some special breakfast treats.  Please come and join us for a early morning social hour!  Thank you to those who have already signed up to donate foods and items for this party.

Our Thursday morning breakfast will also provide an opportunity for all of you to meet my new student intern.  Her name is Laura Sullivan and she is a student at St. Michael's College.  She is pursuing her teaching degree and will spend time with our class next semester.  She will join our class full time when we return from break and she is scheduled to be with us until April break.  We are excited to have her join our class.  Please come in on Thursday to meet her!

Thursday is a busy day for us.  Team Synergy has planned a new school-wide celebration because the children filled the BeeHive again!  They have planned a special "Stop, Drop and Play" activity for our school.  This will happen at the very end of the day.  We look forward to this celebration.

Traditionally, Team Harmony celebrates the last day of school in December with a Pajama Party and a movie.  I am happy to announce that we will do this again this year.  Please encourage your child to come to school in his/her Pjs on Tuesday, December 22nd.  Please note, however, that we cannot bring in any stuffed animals or wear slippers.  We will have Related Arts and recess on Tuesday, so please make sure your child is dressed for outside play as well!  We will watch the movie "Polar Express" together on our team.  I will provide popcorn (Smartfood) to the children.  Each child will get a bag, but if anyone is willing and able to donate large ziplock bags, I would greatly appreciate it.  Please let me know if your child does not like popcorn (Smartfood).  It would be great if your child has a bottle of water as well as the popcorn tastes a little salty.

In the afternoon of Tuesday, December 22nd, the students and I would like to invite you all to our end-of-the-year celebration.  This year, we hope to perform our Reader's Theater plays.  We also hope to have some goodies and treats for everyone to enjoy after the performances.  If you are willing and able to donate foods to our party, please let me know.  I feel bad asking for this again as we just asked parents to bring in treats for our breakfast gathering.  Thank you for understanding and thank you for being so generous with your time and money.  For our party on Tuesday, December 22nd, we would like the following items:
cups
plates
napkins
muffins
cookies
fruit
juice
crackers
anything else that the children might like!

We hope to start our Reader's Theater performances at 1pm.  Hopefully, you can join us then!

Thanks again for all that you do to support our learning!
Best,

Maria