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100% attendance on Monday!  It’s so good to have everyone healthy again.  We know you’re pleased about this, too.  We will continue to be vigilant about handwashing and other simple preventative measures.  Hopefully, the worst is past.

Thanks to Alan Dater, David Rountree, and Jen Carr for volunteering to help with the 5^th/6^th grade basketball team!

The food drive for the Deerfield Valley Food Pantry (sponsored by the Primary students), rehearsals for the Primary play and the Holiday Concert, poetry with Ann for kindergarten and Junior High, and High School Night for the Junior High students are some of what’s making the school hum in these weeks leading up to the holiday vacation.  In addition, Aliza a Junior High student, is in the kindergarten this week for her internship, the kindergarten is working with Ellen and Linda to prepare a puppet show, and students in all classes are singing songs and practicing dialogues in Spanish.

Report cards are going home this week.  We are trying to improve communication and develop more consistency in reporting what your children are up to when they are in “specials”.  For kindergarten through 5^th/6^th you will receive a brief description of skills and activities in art, music, PE, and Rhythms (not 5^th/6^th).  At the end of the second trimester, these teachers and Elissa McLean, the new Spanish teacher, will send out reports on each child’s progress and then another general description of activities will come home with end of the year report cards.