Memory work:
The Lord is near to all who call on Him, to all who call on Him in
truth. Psalm 145:18
November 26, 2018
Dear Parents,
Welcome back! I hope that everyone had a wonderful
Thanksgiving break. I enjoyed spending lots of quality time with my St. Louis
family and friends. Now we have four weeks
and until our Christmas break begins. These will be very busy times!
This week we will take
a quick look at our government and at rules and laws in our Social Studies
curriculum. Then, next week we will begin our Christmas around the World unit
with our country reports. Please let me
know if you need any additional resources or assistance. Mrs. Ladd shared with
me a website to help with Christmas traditions.
The web address is www.whychristmas.com. Also, if you need other country information,
go to Mrs. Ladd’s blog page (click on her name on the CCLS website), click on
her websites tab and scroll down to see all of the country links that she has
listed.
This Wednesday, we will
take an afternoon field trip to Global Foods grocery store in Kirkwood (located
on North Kirkwood Road next to Walgreen’s).
This is a very interesting store with foods from all over the
world. The purpose of the trip is to see
the variety of foods and to allow the students to look for and possibly
purchase foods from their country or a food that they would like to try. It is
also a good lesson in spending money and receiving change. It is suggested that
each student bring $3.00-$5.00 for spending money. I have several parents who
are joining us or meeting us there to help with the shopping. We can use as many assistants as
possible. Just let me know if you will
be joining us. We will leave school
around 12:30 and arrive at the store at 12:45.
We will spend about an hour there.
In math, we will finish
up our addition fact review and move on to subtraction. We will also be working with polygons this
week as well as measuring line segments.
Next Monday, December 3rd,
we will be going to Laclede Groves Nursing Home to sing some Christmas songs
for the residents. It is always very
warm there, so please dress your child in short sleeves and/or layers to be
peeled off as your child gets warm. Our plans are to leave at 1:40 and to return
by 2:45.
Santa’s Workshop is
next week and we will be shopping on either Thursday or Friday. More
information will follow about that.
This week and into next
week, we will be collecting canned goods for Kirk Kare. I have challenged the students to bring in at
least 4 items each and we should easily meet our school goal of 1200 cans. These items may come to school at any
time.
Remember that the end of the quarter is December 21st. That means that all of the service project
sheets should be turned in before the Christmas break. At this time of year, I am sure that there
are lots of service opportunities. Have
fun completing your project.
I was once again reminded of what a very special place
our school is when I read a Family Circus cartoon. The little girl arrives home crying and says
"I needed a hug at school today, Mommy... But Mrs. Clarke said she's not
allowed to do that." How special it is that we can begin and end our day
with hugs, sharing God's love with each other, here at CCLS.
Yours
in Christ,
Janet
Leet
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