Dear parents,
Thank you so very much for your thoughtful cards and generous gifts. It's too much!
We had a fun last day today, and each student received a little gift from me. It's a blank drawing book and new pack of crayons to use at school, and candy cane to bring home. We have a very artistic class and I'm often being asked for drawing paper at lunch, so now each student has their own cahier de dessin to keep in their desk for moments like these. They were excited to start using it right away!
This morning we did our last kind gesture, which was to write some Christmas cards. We followed the letter template that we wrote together last week and glued our writing inside nice paper. Many cards have already been distributed to classmates, and some are coming home. This afternoon, we watched an amazing French movie, Ernest et Celestine. We often watch individual episodes at lunch, but the movie is just wonderful - such a sweet story of an unlikely friendship with beautiful animation. Please ask what your student thought of it!
I hurriedly prepared some "just in case" work packages and sent them home today. It's not the fun cut-and-paste, rich, collaborative, activity-based stuff that we would do at school, but having these worksheets printed and at home will make life enormously easier, should we have to do some remote learning in January. I've asked the kids to please keep these somewhere safe (best: leave in their backpack) and not work on it over the holidays. Should we be back on January 3rd, as planned, please bring it back to school so that we can use it here. We have also packed every item from our cubbies - except a couple unclaimed pairs of shoes (let me know if you are missing some).
Have a wonderful break and keep your fingers crossed for January 3rd!
Best wishes, Tamara
