Third & Fourth Grade Christmas Notes

Children’s Christmas Program: Tomorrow, December 15, is our last Christmas Program practice from 9:30 – 11:00am in the church sanctuary. Please have your child in attendance so he/she knows when to walk forward, when to speak, etc. Students should meet in the school lobby between 5:30 – 5:45pm on Sunday, December 16, which is the evening of our program. After the program, students can be picked up in the church basement.

Our Class Christmas Party: Next Friday, December 21, will be our last day of school before Christmas break. It will also be the day of our class Christmas party! We will play games, make a gingerbread house, watch a movie, eat snacks, and exchange our home-made Secret Angel gifts. Then the children will have the chance to guess and discover who their Secret Angel was during the month of December.

Remember, you do not need to buy any gifts for a classroom gift exchange. In lieu of students exchanging gifts and teacher/staff gifts, each child may donate toward the clean water project.  For $500 a well can be installed in a village in a foreign country where there is nothing to drink but contaminated water, resulting in much illness and often death. Our goal is to gather enough Christmas gift donations to purchase at least one well—two would be even greater! Think about how much you would have spent on gifts and donate that amount to the clean water project.  A green envelope is being sent home with your child today. Please put your anonymous donation in the envelope and have your child bring it next week. Please do not put any identifying marks on the envelope.  The children will be hanging their envelopes on our Christmas tree and we will open them during our class party time and count up our donations. Thanks for helping to make it easier for children in a remote village to stay healthy and alive.

Parents are invited to attend our party from 2:00 – 3:00pm to play games with the children. Here is a list of what the children volunteered to bring to build their gingerbread houses. If they wish to bring another snack to share, they may but please do not feel obligated. I will be bringing chocolate chip cookies and hot cocoa for the party and popcorn for the movie.

Gingerbread House Items

Logan: 2 boxes of graham crackers

Jack: 2 boxes of graham crackers

Claire: 2 cans of frosting

Cayla: 2 cans of frosting

Emily: 2 kinds of candy to decorate houses (gumdrops, chocolate kisses, red licorice, hard candies, etc.)

Jayden: 2 kinds of candy to decorate houses (gumdrops, chocolate kisses, red licorice, hard candies, etc.)

Brayden: 2 kinds of candy to decorate houses (gumdrops, chocolate kisses, red licorice, hard candies, etc.)

I WILL BRING THE REST! THANKS!