Ray’s Ramblings
December 17, 2009
Dear Parents,
Please read carefully. I am getting a lot of questions about the Christmas program tonight and the party tomorrow. I have put this information in the last three newsletters, posted the information on my BLOG and have e-mailed it to everyone who has given me their e-mail address. If you are not receiving this information (or if you are NOT on the e-mail list and wish to be), please let me know!
TONIGHT’S CHRISTMAS PROGRAM: Students are to dress nicely, but not overly dressed. We will be sitting on the floor, criss cross so choose dresses carefully! There will be four performances tomorrow night. Our performances are #3 and #4. There are 20 minutes between each ‘showing’. Each class is to meet their teacher in the cafeteria prior to the performance. Parents will then go into the gym and find their seats. After the performance, I will walk the class BACK into the cafeteria where parents will pick up their students. The next group will be held in the front hall until the prior group has been picked up and exited the cafeteria. My AM class performs from 6:50 to 7:15 and PM performs from 7:35 to 8:00. It is my understanding that at 7:15, I will bring my AM class BACK to the cafeteria where parents will pick them up. PM students will be held in the front hall until all AM students are picked up. At that time, you will bring your children into the cafeteria to me and proceed into the gym to get your seats. We will be on the front row, facing the bleachers on the left side (your right as you look toward the stage). After our performance, you will pick the children up in the cafeteria, where you drop them off.
FRIDAY’S CHRISTMAS PARTY: Students are to wear their pajamas to school on Friday. Robes and slippers are fine, once they arrive at school. (Regular shoes and coats must be worn to school.) We will have our meal, as usual at 8:28 and 12:28. Once we return to the room, the students will sit in a circle on the floor with their Christmas gift bag set up in front of them. (EACH CHILD MUST HAVE A GIFT BAG TO COLLECT THE PRESENTS). Children will take turns distributing their gifts to each child around the circle. These gifts can be anything you want. There is no price limit, just so you bring the same thing to each child in the class. (AM has 24 students, PM 22) I have received everything from little boxes of nerds, to pencils, to handmade craft bags filled with goodies to homemade goodies, to personalized gifts. There is no guideline and the price limit can match each individual budget. Each child will pass out their gifts and every child receives the very same bag of goodies! It's wonderful! There is NO other gift exchange. Be sure to send in a large gift bag to collect the presents in! There is no need to put names on the presents unless they are personalized in some way. In fact, it will be easier if there are no names! Once the presents are delivered, we will sing Christmas songs while parents get the tables ready for our treats. We will eat, look through our goody bags, and then return to the carpet for a Christmas story. At 10:00 and 2:00, we will go to the computer lab where we will “board the Polar Express” for the North Pole. We will view a video of the book, The Polar Express. We will return to the room at 10:30 and 2:30 for Motor Mouth and be dismissed at 11:10 and 3:10. We will be putting our Christmas presents for our families in the gift bags, as well as our Gingerbread houses and our Christmas count-down bells.
I am very sad to tell my PM friends that we will be losing two friends over the Christmas Break. Abriel Phelps and her family are moving to New Mexico. And Gabe Hetherington will be moving to Lexington. We will miss these friends terribly but wish them both well in their moves. This will bring my PM number down to 20 but will also put me at the low end number-wise. This means that we will probably welcome any new children who move into our school!
I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe holiday. We will return to school on Monday, January 4. This Friday is the end of our second nine weeks. Report cards will be going home on Thursday, January 7.
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