Monday's Tattler

Good Morning! As I sit here at 5:30 I want to report that we are still in an Advent theme. We are "waiting" for Christmas. We are slowly decorating the school as the Advent theme continues. This week we will hold regular classes all day. Today the weather will be warmer, so we will get outside as much as we can between classes.

We are focusing on making our own Christmas decorations in the preschool class. We have have finished our introduction to letters and children are practicing all of them now. In French class we are learning two Christmas songs. The children are going great guns with this. We are also designing our own Twelve Days of Christmas, and for homework the children are supposed to come up with an extraordinary gift that will fit into a four syllable slot. So far we have five days.

We are also learning Clement Moore's Night Before Christmas. This takes some practice, but some of the kids are progressing very nicely.

The tree goes up on Friday with kid help to decorate it at Fine Arts class in the afternoon.

We are getting tougher about the Santa Race. Medals are dropping like flies these days. We have a few children who are doing extra things to earn points. Not sure they really understand this year, but we are working on it.

We have had a lot of kids continue to fall from this mighty illness that seems to want to plague us into Christmas. Even Mr. Terry has had a version. It begins with feeling puny, and continues into an attack of the head, chest, stomach and lower regions. Some children have run an incredible temp of 105. It lingers for days. It's a virus, and my best guess is RSV or a spin off of that virus.

Please keep abreast of the weather this week. It will be in the upper fifties today and Tuesday, and drop into the upper thirties Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. We go outside if the weather is in the mid to upper thirties and higher.

Beve's pictures will be back 3-4 weeks after the shoot.

Please be kind and think about the poor ill family we have adopted. The little girl is a year old. This is her first real Christmas.

Santa Gifts for your child are due next week on Wednesday. I picked up a battery operated robot at the Dollar Store the other day that has no name brands and would be a splendid gift. Normally we don't do battery operated toys, but this toy looks like it came from a home workshop. We hope there is no confusion.

Blessings always!