Thank you for the great collection of donations that you sent in for our ‘baking’ basket! Mrs. Alves picked up our box today and was very impressed with the amount of items in it. She, and her helpers, will be putting the baskets together shortly and then tickets will be going on sale from the office. There will be a notice sent home with more details shortly.
Day: 4 December 2012
Term One Student Work
As we are wrapping up our first term of the school year I have been busy writing the students’ report cards. These will be sent home on Monday, December 10th. I will also be sending home a large portion of the students’ work from this term. Art pieces, Journals, writing books, and other ‘year-long’ items will be kept until June. You will be receiving this term’s: math booklets; DOL (daily oral language) sheets; spelling units; reading response papers; Science (bats) items; Social Studies (All About Me); along with any other term specific work. Please refer to these items when reading your child’s report card and the enclosed Term Overview of things that we have done this past term.
Our Christmas Concert
Mr. Phelps has been working with the students preparing them for this annual event. We are all looking forward to a wonderful show – with no power outage this year! The shows are both on Thursday, December 20 with the matinee at 1:00 p.m. and the evening show at 7:00 p.m. Students will be getting 2 tickets per family for the evening show. Extended family members are encouraged to attend the matinee show where no ticket is required. Don’t forget to bring a non-perishable food item for entrance to the show.
The Nutcracker Ballet
This Friday we are all going to the Michael J. Fox Theatre to see this ballet. The Nutcracker has long been a Christmas tradition. The costumes are generally spectacular and the music by Tchaikovsky is magnificent.
Mrs. Schwarz has been introducing the music – one song each day – during the Music Listening programme this week. My personal favourite song from this ballet is the “Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies”.
Mrs. Levington will be reading the story of this ballet to our class during our regular library session on Thursday afternoon. This will help the students understand the storyline as the story of ballet is told strictly through music and dancing – without dialogue.
As we will be leaving early on Friday via school bus we will be eating lunch earlier than normal. Please ensure that your child brings lunch with them when they arrive in the morning. A lunch delivery at noon will be too late for them to eat as we will be gone by then.
This trip to the ballet is a great opportunity for the students to experience. I am looking forward to it and hope that the students also enjoy it.