Christmas Celebration
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Christmas is a time to love our neighbor. While certainly we are called upon to love our neighbor all throughout the year, Christmas is a time we want to be very intentional about where our focus lies. Consumerism gets packaged up in such pretty bows, it can be a challenge for adults as well as children. While we will be holding classroom Christmas parties, we also want to hold another kind of party this year. A giving party. There are children in our city who will go home during the two weeks of Christmas break with little to no food to eat. Their school-supplied meals will be inaccessible and they will face hunger. God calls on us every day to share our gifts so that others will see and feel God through our actions. In answer to that call, we are going to move into action.
This year, rather than partnering with World Renew to reach out to those in need in far away places, we are going to partner with Kids Food Basket. Following their guidelines, we will be able to provide suppers for children to eat during the two weeks they have off of school during Christmas break. Kids Food Basket helps to feed 500 children in the city of Holland. We will assemble a healthy trail mix for these friends of ours, we will decorate their brown bags and we will collect items from their wish list. On Thursday, December 15, all of our students will get busy packing trail mix, decorating bags and loading up food supplies.
Would you be willing to help bring this to life with your child at home? In years past, children have been able to donate money during Christmas time at school and make selections from our World Renew catalogs. This year, would you invite your child to select which items he/she would like to donate from this wish list? Our children understand the discomfort of hunger pangs. Many of our children don't understand the fear that those hunger pangs might not be satiated. Please talk about God's call on us to serve our neighbors and help provide hope by filling hungry little tummies.
Items we would like to collect:
- 100% Fruit Juice Boxes
- Cracker Packs
- Granola Bars
- Individual Fruit Cups
- Individual Pudding Cups
- Boxes of Cheerios
- Bulk Pretzels
- Bulk Cheez-It crackers or Goldfish crackers
- Bags of raisins
- Snack Sized Zipper-lock bags
- Brown Lunch Bags
Staff Meeting
Our next staff meeting will be Tuesday, December 6 over the lunch hour. Please bring your "The Differentiated Classroom" book with you. Thank you.
Delta Math
If you are comfortable and feel prepared, you may lead your class in the Delta Math assessment using your packet from Erin any time throughout the testing window which will be December 5-16. Remember to give the fact test on paper, score those quizzes and then give the digital assessment on the iPads. The packet given to you from Erin provides your script. We will review this during our staff meeting on Tuesday.
Christmas Chapel
Karen VanMeeteren's class will be leading us in our Christmas chapel this year. As you know, we have moved our date to Tuesday, December 20th. In order to allow our preschool students the option of participating as well, let's hold chapel from 10:30-11:00 on Tuesday, December 20.
Chapel January 18
On January 18, we will again be skyping with the children from Beautiful Gate during our chapel time. More details to come.
Take a gander at our calendar. Our Christmas luncheon, hosted by our supportive, loving parent team, will take place on Wednesday, December 14. Wednesday, December 7 is the Christmas celebration hosted by our school board. Have I ever told you? You are LOVED and appreciated!
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