The Winter Concert was a success. The children all looked adorable and sounded great too! A HUGE Thank you to Catherine Van der Salm for the amazing job she did making us sound so wonderful!! We watched the DVD of the program, it’s worth $10!! There close ups of the kids and it priceless!! You can still purchase them through Maria.

Our Family Holiday Party is this week on Thursday and Friday at 11:00 am for the morning class and 2:15 pm for the afternoon class. We will have a book exchange for the children. The book should be under $10, gender neutral, and wrapped. The children love getting to pick a new book to take with them, you might want to talk with them about the fact that they aren’t getting the book that they bring but they will get a new one.

I hope the weather doesn’t interfere with our week, because it’s one of my favorites of the year. But just in case this weather gets worse…… If the Vancouver School District is closed or on a 2 hour late start, our school is cancelled for the day. You can call the school for updated info at 693-5614 and I will send out an email as soon as I find out our schedule has been affected.

Thank you all for sharing your traditions with us, its been fun having all the different activities with several Moms coming in our class.

This Week in the Sunshine Class

This week we will be making peppermint bark and decorating a peppermint candy. We will finish wrapping our presents to our families. We will make some decorations for the party and finishes decorating our handprint Christmas Trees. We will read Olive the Other Reindeer, it’s a cute story of a dog named Olive J We will have the a present wrapping station, the children will actually just wrap blocks up but its good fine motor practice. I am going to leave Pumpkin at my house this week, because of the amount of things I have to carry and it would be better for her to stay in a nice warm spot this week.

A note from the teacher

I want to thank you all, for the food donations that have filled our box almost everyday and for sharing your families with us. It was wonderful to hear the children talk about their families. Thank you also for sharing your traditions with us. It’s a fun time of year and it’s makes it even more special when we share it.

Our Winter Concert is this Tuesday at 7 pm. The children need to be at school by 6:40.
Prepare yourself to be dazzled!!

Scholastic Book Fair is here!! Be sure to check out the books before and after school. Thank you to all our parents that help out with all these fun events.

Our Family Holiday Party is next week on Thursday and Friday. We will have a book exchange for the children. So that everyone gets about the same quality book, the books should cost somewhere between $6 - $10 and not be gender specific.

This Week in the Sunshine Class

This week we will be joined by some of our Moms. One mom will read The Twelve Days of Christmas, one will read Olivia Helps with Christmas and one Mom is coming in on Friday to make Reindeer Mix. Reindeer need food too! Last week a couple of our Moms brought in Gingerbread Houses and the Children on Thursday Morning got to decorate a house. I will try to make it as even as I can with sharing the Family Traditions, as far as the activity that your child will get to participate in but not every will be able to participate in every activity because they may not be in the class that is sharing a certain tradition. If you have an activity that you would like to share or a book but are unable to come in, Teacher Veronica and I would be happy to share those with the children. In addition to the family traditions that we will learn about we are also going to be Jingle Bell Painting, Evergreen Painting, and Christmas Tree Painting.

Word Wall

This week’s letter will be the letter Bb. It will be our letter until after the Winter Break. Some of the words that have made it in so far are:
Bridge –Puente
Brother—Hermano
Bird - Pájaro
Bicycle- Bicyle
Brooklyn

A note from the teacher

We are hoping to have the children share their family holiday traditions with our class over the next few weeks. If you have a special book that you read during the holidays or a special recipe. We encourage you to come in and share that with our class. Last year one Mom came in and painted faces. Just let me know what day you would like to come in and share with us.

The Food Drive will begin this week and our class will have a box outside our room for our class’s donations. Donations will be taken until December 18th. This is a great way to talk with your children about helping others. I recently saw a T.V. interview with an eleven year boy in Seattle that was terminally ill and his “Make-a-Wish” wish was to feed the homeless. My hope is that we teach all our children to be caring and compassionate.

There are some dates that you should mark on your calendar’s…..
Breakfast with Santa December 6th
Winter Concert December 9th @ 7 pm
Family Holiday Parties December 18th & 19th


Breakfast with Santa tickets are on sale for those of you that aren’t sure what this is. We have breakfast at Applebee’s (this year it’s the Applebee’s on Mill Plain) and the children can visit with Santa. The breakfast is eggs, bacon, pancakes, and a drink. Tickets are $5.00 and you can purchase them in Maria’s office. This is a great time to visit with other Little Acorn Families and 100% of the proceeds go to our school.

Our Winter Concert is coming up fast. We have been practicing our songs for a few weeks, but will be practicing with the other classes for the next two weeks. I will be sending the words to our songs so you can practice with your child at home :) The children need to be at school by 6:40 on Tuesday December 9th.

Scholastic Book Fair is coming to our school (yea). The Book Fair will be at the school the week of our Winter Concert. More details

This Week in the Sunshine Class

This week we will be talking about our families. I am hoping that if at all possible you could send a picture of your family together at Thanksgiving. We want to talk about how we celebrate holidays with our families and how some things are the same & some things are different. We are hoping to have the children share their family holiday traditions. If you have a special book that you read during the holidays or a special recipe. We encourage you to come in and share that with our class. Last year one Mom came in and painted faces. Just let me know what day you would like to come in and share with us. We also would like you to send in a copy of a favorite family recipe with our class for a class project.