Sunday's Plate

Lots going on at school in the early Advent days. Lots of things you should know about like the race to the Santa Prize. Every Advent, we encourage the children to take care of one another. We explain a lot about charity and giving and doing for others. We talk about playing indoors and about order and cleaning up after ourselves and helping the little guys put things away. Then, as a tangible, we have something in the back of the school building called Santa Strings. Each child (who has an operative medal) has a Santa String. Every day, every child can earn lots of paper presents to go on his string. The child who has earned the most presents will receive the Santa Prize at the party on December 17th.

The whole point of this is to bring to the children's attention, that they are responsible for their play and also for children younger than they are. We are a group activity place, and the cohesion of the group is very important.

There is also an Advent Box, filled with goodies and presents, that goes to the best behaved child at the school on the day before. The kids LOVE this, and are always curious about their chances of getting the box.

We have and will continue to make candy a couple of times a week for those who behave themselves. Last week we made fudge, and this week we will make caramel.

Every morning, Miss Amy is trying out a new Christmas cookie for snack later in the day. We are making postcards for parents who would like to take home the recipes and make these wonderful cookies at home. The cards are issued every day, and you can find these on the front desk. Please take the cards you think your family would like.

A letter was sent home with your child about our Christmas party. We will be having a "Sing in Santa" party on December 17, at 3:00 p.m. Every child must have an accompanying adult. Every child in attendance must have a small gift. Please bring your gift to school in a brown paper bag with your child or children's names. These gifts are a secret and will be brought into the school by Santa. Please consider the weight of your gift.

Your gift should look as if it came from a workshop like blocks, a wooden puzzle, a rag doll, a stuffed toy, a wooden truck or car, a plain ball, or something with out a logo on it.

We will be going to the Nutcracker Suite on December 17 in the morning at the Victory Theatre.

More about this later.

If you have any questions, please see Miss Judy.

If you want to say something nice about the recipes, please see Miss Amy!

Tree trimming will commence on Friday. We will set up an enormous tree and deck it out in the p.m. on Friday.