December 16, 2009 Dear Parents, I am sorry that I have not updated my website earlier. We have just been so busy this month getting ready for Christmas! We have accomplished a lot! The children will be bringing home lots of Christmas surprises for you to see! We had so much fun at our Birthday Party for Jesus at Pump it Up. I would like to thank all of you that could come and help out. We will have a quiet Christmas celebration on the last day of school. We have mass in the morning. One of our moms has offered to bring in pizza for the kids that day. I am thinking about decorating cookies with the children. We will probably watch a Christmas movie or play outside. I hope all of you can make it to our Christmas program tonight. Our class will be singing at 6:30pm. It takes place on the Church steps. Please bring a chair or blanket to sit on. I will try to get some flash cards ready for the students to go over during the break. I know that it is a busy time of year. It would be helpful to just practice some sight words if possible so that we can keep moving forward in the new year. Our sight words are: a come go I like he here my me to the this The short vowels we have covered are; a and i Please try to have your children practice reading and spelling words from the an, ad, at, ap, am, ad, in, it, ip, im, in, it, id word families. DATES TO REMEMBER DEC. 16………….School Christmas Program, 6:30pm – 8:30pm. DEC 18…………...Last Day of School before Christmas break. We will go to mass at 8:15 am Early Dismissal(12pm). Please contact me if you have any questions. Ms. Joanna School phone: 763-1775 School email: sjsk5@knology.net Home email:jiannetti@ .