MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I wanted to thank you for the warm wishes and treats for myself and my family. I feel truly blessed to teach such a wonderful group of students and my true gift is being able to spend time with them. I hope you all enjoy the holidays and time with each other. I am looking forward to doing a lot of baking and cooking with my own kids and getting to play!

May the spirit of Christmas be with you all year long and the New Year bring you all joy, love and good health! See you in 2013!!! (I can't believe it is almost 2013!!!!!!)

Love, Mrs. Fonseca

 

For your information... The Sunday after Christmas is the Feast of the Holy Family. Here is a link to some prayers to share with your own family.

Feast of the Holy Family 

Important Information!

This time of the year, we get a lot of treats in the classroom. Please do not wait until the last day of school to send them all. If you would like to send a treat, please email me and we can figure out a day that works for you. 

Tomorrow is the last Food Bank Mass until Christmas, please be generous as this is a hard time for many families.

Next week is already Christmas concert! Now, I may be bias, but these kids sound AWESOME! I have been able to watch them under the direction of Mrs. Mar on the stage and they are so ready for their big performance. MONDAY is DRESS REHEARSAL. Please send them in their Christmas concert clothes or something similar. They are to wear dark bottoms and GREEN tops.

On TUESDAY (the big day!) students are asked to come dressed in their performance clothes. We have a 1:00 performance and a 7pm performance. If you have extended family coming and they are able to come to the matinee, please encourage them to do so, since it is less busy than the evening performance. Entrance for both performances is a donation to the Food Bank.

For the evening performance, students should arrive in our classroom at 6:30 so we can get organized before heading over to the Parish Centre. Your child will be dismissed FROM THE CLASSROOM after the concert, so please do not take them from the stage or in the centre.

WEDNESDAY is the Annual Pajama Day :) we will be watching a movie and students are allowed to bring pillows, blankets and/or stuffed toys to school.

THURSDAY will be our class celebration. Students each drew a name for their "Secret Santa" and are asked to bring in their gift (either homemade or $5 in value) for their secret person. We will do the exchange then.

FRIDAY is our last day of the year for 2012!!! Dismissal is at NOON!!!

Second Week of Advent

This Sunday marks the second week of Advent. The following except is taken from: 

http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/Advent/secondweek.html


                                



Preparing our Hearts and asking for the Grace

We prepare this week by stepping up the longing.  We move through this week by naming deeper and more specific desires.

Each morning this week, if even for that brief moment at the side of our beds, we want to light a second inner candle.  We want to let it represent “a bit more hope.”  Perhaps we can pause, breathe deeply and say,

“Lord, I place my trust in you.”

Each day this week, as we encounter times that are rushed, even crazy, we can take that deep breath, and make that profound prayer.  Each time we face some darkness, some experience of “parched land” or desert, some place where we feel “defeated” or “trapped,” we hear the words, “Our God will come to save us!”  

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In class, we have been working on a booklet of Christmas Around the World. This week, we worked on Christmas in Canada, Mexico and Italy. The common theme being that we are celebrating the birth of our Saviour, Jesus. This video is a wonderful reminder that even in the commercialism that is modern Christmas, we can still find the central reason of the season.

Christmas Carol Flash Mob