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Room 314 NEWSLETTER

Volume 4,Issue 1

Shebang Elementary

December 1st, 2006

Celebrations of the World in December

During the month of December, our class will be learning about the different holidays celebrated around the world. Monday: On this day we will be learning about the Jewish holiday of Hanukah.
Tuesday: Today we will be studying how the Dutch celebrate Christmas.
Wednesday: Today we will be learning about the non-religious holiday of Kwanzaa. Kwanzaa is a non-religious African American holiday which celebrates family, community, and culture.

Thursday: On this day we will be learning about the U.S. celebration of Christmas.
Friday: Today we will be learning about the Christmas traditions/ celebrations that occur in Mexico.
Note to Parents/ Guardians: Please feel free to come into the classroom on any Tuesday or Thursday from 2:00-2:30 in the afternoon to read a Christmas story or two to the children:

Happy Holidays!

Holiday for all Families

After the students have learned to the best of their knowledge about the different holidays from around the world, they will spend the following week pairing up with the younger grades teaching them what they have learned.

They will then set up a small presentation to show the schools faculty and administrators, all the information they have learned.

Sufang Elementary Field Trip

The following dates our school will be going on a Field trip:
December 8th
December 20th
On the dates above the students will be attending two different plays in the city. These plays will be performed by the worlds tops stage actors. They will out up a show about the Jewish holiday of Hanukah, and on the second date they will perform a short skit about Kwanzaa.
Parents are needed as chaperones, please contact the school for more information.

Get Involved!

One of the biggest concerns our school prides on is how much we wish for families to get involved in the lives of their child’s education. Family involvement is a powerful influence on children's achievement in school. Schools and families can work together to overcome these barriers in productive and mutually satisfying ways. Collaboration, support and

Some Ways You can Help from home are:
Attend Meetings
Attend programs set up by the students
Do outside research with your child on other holidays not learned in the class.

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Saturday December 11th, 2006
On this day we will be holding a toy drive to collect toys and gifts that we can send to the local hospital. These gifts are going to children who are terminally sick.
This is great way to cheer up some children who will be spending their Christmas in the hospital. We will deliver the gifts ourselves to the children’s unit and also sing them some Christmas songs. That will be on Monday December 20th

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On Monday December 20th,
We will be taking the children to sing carols and hand out gifts at the children’s ward in the hospital.
We will be leaving the school at 9:20a.m. and returning at 12. The children will have a list of Christmas Carols that we have been learning in class to sing to the children.

Christmas Carols

Deck the Halls
Frosty the Snowman
The first Noel
O Christmas Tree
Joy to the World
Silent Night

O Come All Ye Faithful
Jingle Bells
Little Drummer Boy
Jingle Bell Rock
Santa Clause is Coming to Town

http://www.christmas-carols.net/
This is a good website if you want to find the lyrics to almost any Christmas song.

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Parents I will gladly accept any volunteers that would like to come along to the hospital. It is a really great opportunity to help other children and to see your child interact with those children

Happy Holidays
From Shufang Elementary

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