December 12-16

We are only 8 days away from our Christmas break! Boy, can you feel the excitement! Please make sure your child is getting to bed on time and starting the day with a nutritious breakfast. This helps them to focus on the lessons, make better choices and perform better for assessments. This week I will be giving the final assessments for their report cards. Please make sure they are at school every day so that there is no missing work. Report cards will be going home with your student on December 21st.

Homework will be simplified this week. Focus on sight word recognition, spelling (long e sound), and reading fluency. The goal for 2nd quarter is 26 (correct) words per minute.

This Friday is your next opportunity to support Mill Creek with the Papa John's fundraiser. Mention Mill Creek and our school gets 20% of the purchase price.

Please send in one large (9x12) Christmas gift sack for your child to use for your Christmas gift. I would like to send those home on Friday. If you have an extra, I am sure there will be some who forget or can't. Thank you for sharing any extras you might have.

We will be having our Christmas party on December 21st, starting around 12:00. If you have any ideas to share or would like to help organize it, I would be grateful. I will be sending home a volunteer sign up sheet in their homework folder. Please return these ASAP.

Don't forget to send in a wrapped gently USED book for our book exchange. Make sure your child's name is on the tag so we know who to thank.