Hello, 5B families!
We have spent this week enjoying Christmas crafts, buddy time, making creative DIY nativity scenes, decorating our mini-Christmas trees, making snowflakes, and practicing liturgical dance with ribbons and flags in preparation for the January Mass that grade fives are helping to lead. Here are two videos for you…
As well, the students have enjoyed some creative Christmas writing activities…
“White Elephant Gift Exchange”: On Friday morning, we will do an anonynmous gift exchange of second-hand or regifted items. No need to spend money! Some gifts will just be silly or small…like a spoon or paper clip or an old Paw Patrol figurine. Basically, choose and wrap one random thing in your house that you don’t need or want anymore (so long as it is clean and “school appropriate”).
There are two main purposes of this acitivity: (1.) it is silly fun, and (2.) it’s a great opportunity to model and practice social skills and language around gratitude, even when we recieve something unexpected. Don’t worry if you can’t think of anything to bring because I already have enough “white elephant” type gifts for each student, but students often have more fun choosing, wrapping, and bringing their own “junk items” to regift, so they are welcome to do so. We ask students not to bring more than two items maximum. 🙂
Civvies Friday: Remember to wear red, green, and white clothes for fun this Friday. We will have an assembly this day at 10:30am. Then it is early dismissal at 12:00pm
Tiffany Poirier 