Chrysalis News – December 22, 2011
Chrysalis Announcements:
REMEMBER:
School Begins on Tuesday, January 10th. Happy New Year to you all!
Dear Families,
We want to wish each one of you a very happy holiday season. We hope there will be fun, joy, and peace in your homes as you make memories together.
A Day in the Life of Chrysalis, Your Kids
Thanks for all the support many of you have given in the classrooms.
Parents helped provide and assist with craft projects 3 days last week in Cheri’s and Crystal’s rooms. What fun the children had in creating beautiful Christmas items. Right now many parents are here setting up for a Christmas around the World Breakfast for Cheri’s and Crystal’s students. Parents have fun and form friendships over griddles and mixing bowls when they are cooking together!
There are several parents of Kindergarteners who have brought goodies to eat and craft projects; their table is full of supplies for a very fun day ahead. Miss Jody and some parents are outside with all the kindergarteners and they are all dancing with pompoms (Jody and parents included)!
I saw parents helping their kids bring in homemade mission models this morning. They are beautiful displays of creativity and look wonderful set up in Emily’s classroom. Right now the children are happily tearing through newspaper ads choosing gifts for their different family members.
Casey’s kids have been learning physics and math with Kapla blocks. They built towers on clipboards and then tried to pull out the clipboards without destroying the towers. They discussed how to build a tower that could withstand stress. Some were successful! Right now they are happily creating new and unique towers.
Karen’s students all have lap top computers. They have been working on a type of dynamic Power Point presentation about themselves and what makes them special. I noticed a table full of party goodies brought from your homes. Thank you.
The 8th graders in Laura’s class are very engaged looking at Google Earth, Australia. Laura is giving them a tour of the places she will be visiting this vacation way down under. When I left they were looking at shadows of people on a beautiful beach. Laura was asking a question about which way shadows would fall in the southern hemisphere; I’ll have to find out what the answer is. Bon Voyage, Laura!
Congratulations Gingerbread Man Run Winners! - December 21, 2011
Sara’s Class:
1st Kaila, 2nd Sarah, Trinity, 3rd Caleb, Aidan, Chloe.
Cheri’s Class:
1st Trezden, 2nd Taylor, Serena, Sean, 3rd Madeline, Ava.
Crystal’s Class:
1st Terrance, 2nd Aaron, Owen, 3rd Ethan, Elijah.
Emily’s Class:
1st Evan, 2nd Derrick, 3rd Austen.
Casey’s Class:
1st Bailey, Simon 2nd Jared, 3rd Christian, Zion, Saige.
Middle School:
1st Jacob, 2nd Naomi, Will S., Tyler, Violet.
Spring Electives Teachers
In January, we will start organizing for our spring series of Friday afternoon elective classes. Please let a teacher know if you would like to teach a series of classes. Share your passion! (The time counts towards parent service hours.)
PE Teaching Aide
We are hiring someone to help our teachers with their PE programs. We received applications from many talented people. After careful consideration, we have hired Dianne Nelson who has been doing PE at Evergreen School. She will be starting in mid-January. Hopefully you will start hearing good things about her from your child next year.
Parent Volunteers
Our stream table needs some repair. Some of the PVC plumbing components cracked during the freezes and need to be replaced. If you are interested, please contact Paul.
Spring Campout
The date for our campout will most likely be May 31st – June 3rd. We have been looking for good camping spots close to Monterey. We will get some confirmations made soon. If you would like to search for information on the computer in relation to this campout, please give Paul or Virginia a call at 547-9726.
Lost and Found - Items Left during Winter Break will be donated to Charity
The number of items in lost and found has almost doubled since the cold temperatures arrived. Please have your student/students check our lost and found. Often students find items they didn't know were lost. We have numerous jackets, lunch boxes, refillable water bottles and even items left from our camping trip.
Love & Logic:
Have a Perfectly Imperfect Christmas
What was your best Christmas as a kid? Was it the one where there was a lot of stress about a perfect meal elegantly served-on time-to a perfectly dressed family? Or was it the one where the dog pulled the turkey off the stove and dragged it away through the dog door? There was no perfect meal that day. Everyone rolled with the punches. They rolled up their sleeves and worked together in the kitchen to salvage a makeshift meal.
The beauty of that memory is not in perfection and organization, but in remembering the joy of being together and doing things together. It was the laughter. It was one of those days when the choices were to laugh or to cry, so you all laughed it off and enjoyed one another. It brought you all together in a different way.
Holidays are times for enjoying one another. We are not suggesting that you purposely feed the turkey to the pets, but we strongly suggest that an imperfect day with little stress will create better memories of loving relationships.
We wish you a perfectly imperfect holiday season.
Jim Fay
Community Announcements:
None this week.
Calendar of Events:
Dec. 23-Jan.9 Winter Break
January 16 No School - Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday
February 13 No School - Lincoln’s Birthday
February 14-17 Parent/Teacher Conferences
February 20 No School – Presidents’ Day
April 2-9 Spring Break
April 30-May 4 STAR Testing
May 10 Talent Show at 7:00pm
May 18-20 Spring Camping Trip
May 28 No School - Memorial Day
June 5 Graduation