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December Birthdays

 

No K/1 students

 

December Classroom "Stars"

 

"K" Star - Serena

1st grade Star - Teddy

 

Quotable Quotes

From the Editorial Page of The New York Sun, written by Francis P. Church, September 21, 1897

We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:

"Dear Editor--I am 8 years old.
"Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
"Papa says, 'If you see it in The Sun, it's so.'
"Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?

Virginia O'Hanlon
115 West Ninety-fifth Street

Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the scepticism of a sceptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no child-like faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

CHRISTMAS QUOTES

 

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.
- Mary Ellen Chase

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
- Charles Dickens, Ebeneezer Scrooge, A Christmas Carol

 

I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
- Harlan Miller (Better Homes and Gardens)

 

Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmas-time.
- Laura Ingalls Wilder

Christmas is forever, not for just one day,
for loving, sharing, giving, are not to put away
like bells and lights and tinsel, in some box upon a shelf.
The good you do for others is good you do yourself.
- Norman W. Brooks, “Let Every Day Be Christmas”

The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us the magic of Christmas.
-W. C. Jones

The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
-Burton Hillis (Better Homes and Gardens)

Grinch Quotes

And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before! “Maybe Christmas,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas … perhaps … means a little bit more!” And what happened then … in Who-ville they say [is] that the Grinch’s small heart grew three sizes that day!
- Dr. Suess - How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Charity Quotes

Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent,
tolerance. To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity.
To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.
- Oren Arnold

Christmas Signs

Toy Store: "Ho, ho, ho spoken here."

Bridal boutique: "Marry Christmas."

Outside a church: "The Original Christmas Club."

At a department store: "Big pre-Christmas sale. Come in and mangle with the crowd."

A Texas jewelry store: "Diamond tiaras -- $70,000. Three for $200,000.

A reducing salon: "24 Shaping Days until Christmas."

In a stationery store: "For the man who has everything... a calendar to remind him when payments are due."

Upcoming Events

December 4-8th Secret Santa Shop

December 8th - Friday - 5-8th grade Elk Hills Dance

December 9th - Saturday - 1st Annual Community Christmas Faire

                                         - Parade @ 11am

                                         - Dinner from 2 to 4pm at TOGs or The Ranch

                                                                                                Retreat.

                                         - Student Program 4pm @ Ed Oakley Hall.

Followed by the Christmas Tree lighting, a Live Nativity, Christmas caroling, refreshments, & Santa @ the Ranch Retreat.

Dec. 13th - Wednesday - CUSD Spelling Bee @ Piute Mtn. School

Dec. 16-Jan. 7th Winter Intersession Break.

 

See you back at school Monday, January 8th, 2007!

 

Have a Merry Christmas & a Safe and Happy New Year!

 

*Check your children's daily lessons, homework, & grades at http://onlineschoolsystem.com

 

 

HOMEWORK FOLDERS

Please help your child remember to check for important papers and complete and return their homework and folder, the next school day. Be sure to keep any papers in the "Keep at Home" pocket, so the folders don't get too full. There may be some important information from the school in that bundle of papers, too. At the end of the month, I ask that you look over your child's calendar (stapled in the left pocket of the folder) for any teacher notes regarding behavior amp; sign and return the folder to school, the following school day.

Computer-related ideas for your child to do at home

Please visit www.scholastic.com This web site has lots of on-line activities, book suggestions, and helpful information for both parents and children. At www.eduplace.com there are both reading and math activities for your child to do at home. Educational, safe, & fun websites! www.Saxonpub.com is the website from our Math curriculum publishers that also contains lots of information and math activities for our students.

Contact Information

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns please feel free to contact me before or after school at 867-2301. You may also reach me at my home email leaanne63@hughes.net 

Working with you, as partners, in your child's education

~ Mrs. Tedrow

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