Newsletter November 13th

Hi, Everyone! It's been another wonderful week of fun and learning here at NCS! Veteran's Day was the highlight of our week! We talked about what this holiday means and shared our Flag Projects with one another. They were soooooo creative! We wrote about the meaning of this holiday, too, and today at chapel we brought our flags for the whole school to see!

Here are some other things we did and learned:

• We practiced singing the song that we will be performing during our Thanksgiving on the Lawn Celebration next Thursday, November 19th.
• We practiced the play we will be performing on the morning of December 11th.
• We learned what a fairy tale is.
• We read "Cinderella" and used the reading strategies asking questions, visualizing, and monitoring & clarifying while reading to help us understand the story.
• We wrote fairy tales with our turkeys as main characters. These are so funny!!!
• We reviewed quotation marks and comma usage.
• We learned about finding the nearest ten, comparing numbers, ordinal numbers, and odd/even numbers. We practiced counting coins and telling time, too!

Here are some announcements and reminders of upcoming events:

• Next THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19TH we will have our Thanksgiving on the Lawn Celebration. The orders were due this past Monday. If you did not place an order for your child to eat Boston Market, please be sure to pack your child a lunch that day. I hope that many of you can join us for this wonderful time of giving thanks. Our second graders will be singing a song! The festivities begin at 10:00!
• Be sure to send in your items for Operation Christmas Child ASAP! We will be assembling the boxes on Thursday. Thanks so much to those of you who have already sent in your items!
• Remember, it costs $7.00 to ship each box, so we're hoping that each family can contribute $14.00 so that we can ship your child's 2 boxes. You may make the check out to Samaritan's Purse. We are also in need of some plastic shoebox containers. Thanks!
• We will be taking another field trip to the Mahaffey Theater to see Santa's Holiday Revue on TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8TH. Please send in $6.00 ASAP so that we can pay for this wonderful trip. Thanks so much! If you were unable to chaperone last time and would like to this time, we are able to take only 2 chaperones per class...so the first 2 I hear from will be able to join us! It should be fun!
• Our Christmas Program at Northside Baptist Church will be on Thursday, December 10th.
• Our second grade chapel will be on Friday, December 11th around 8:15 AM. Be sure to send your child to school dressed in costume that day!
• We would like to make some Christmas crafts with the children and are asking any family that is able to send in a $5.00 donation to help pay for the craft supplies. Thanks soooo much!
• Please also send in your Entertainment Books if you haven't done so yet!

For my personal devotion time this week, I have been reading in the Book of Philippians. The verse that really impacted me was Chapter 2 verses 3-4 which says, "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others." We all need to put others before ourselves...that is what the Lord wants us to do. This time of year, it can be easy to focus on our own needs and desires. There are so many things to do to get ready for Thanksgiving and Christmas. But this time of year, we should be giving thanks for all that we have and thinking of ways that we can be a blessing to one another. Thanks so much for always being such a blessing to me!!!

In Christ's Name,

:) Mrs. Corsino and Mrs. Lupia

PS Mrs. Corsino's Star Student next week will be SARAH.

Mrs. Lupia's will be PATRICK.

SECRET WORD: Gobble, gobble!