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I enjoyed seeing some of you at our first round of parent-teacher conferences and appreciate the support you give your children and their teachers. It’s fun to have you in the school.
There’s never a dull moment in our school, and the coming month will be no exception. Wednesday, November 4 is the deadline for Reflections entries. The theme this year is “Beauty is…” If your child hasn’t already submitted an entry, pull up a chair and talk with him/her about the things both of you find to be beautiful in this world. At a minimum, you’ll have an enjoyable conversation. Who knows? Your conversation may lead to a story, poem, picture, or photograph that your child could submit.
Our school choir rehearses Tuesday and Thursday mornings in the media center starting at 8 a.m. They’re preparing for a concert on November 23. The program will include patriotic and playful songs coupled with a few selections from the musical we’re planning to produce next spring, “Peter Pan.” The kids already sound great. Mrs. Gorringe, who will be overseeing the production of the musical, is encouraging every student who wants a part in “Peter Pan” to join the choir. Prior mastery of some of the music will make production that much easier in the spring. It’s getting late, but Mrs. Christensen would welcome the addition of some new voices!
We’ll kick off this year’s science fair activities with an assembly produced by Mad Science of Salt Lake on November 17. Detailed information about our school fair will be sent home with 5th and 6th grade students. Judging will take place in February, but it’s never too early to start thinking about and researching projects.
I’m ready to fire up Principal’s Book Club again. For those of you who are new to our school, I select books with embedded character/values lessons to share with your children in class. Students then take turns sharing the books with their families. When all of the students in a class have had a turn to take the book home, it becomes a part of their classroom library, accessible to all students present and future. I hope you will make the time to share the book with your child when he/she brings it home. These books will create opportunities for you to openly discuss your family’s feelings/philosophies on various values and character traits – and there’s no better place than the home for those discussions to take place.
We have much to be thankful for at this time of the year. In spite of economic uncertainties in the world, most of us still easily fall in the top 5 percent of humans to ever live on this planet in terms of material goods, health, lifespan, and creature comforts. Most important of all, we have these beautiful children. May your heart be full of gratitude this Thanksgiving season, and may you speak of it often in the presence of your children.
Sincerely,
Principal Ken Westwood
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