Rain Forests

Hope everyone is enjoying a break from school. I wanted to let everyone know that we begin a unit on the rain forests of our world when we return back to Trillium. Beth's class will be studying the Asian rain forest, Whitney's class will be studying the African rain forest, and we will be studying the South American rain forest. Anyone excited about jaguars and anacondas?

One of the projects we will be doing is having each child build, care for, and collect data on their very own terrarium. To do so, we need 2 liter clear plastic bottles. 19 of them. So if you have any around the house, please bring them back as early as possible in the week that we return. We have a project fair in late January, so the quicker we can get to building our terrariums, the better. Ok, thanks for your time and enjoy the holidays.

Lice Again

A student in our class was discovered with several live adult lice on Saturday night.  So please check your child everyday for the next couple of weeks to make sure that s/he is lice free.  If you have any questions please check with me...Brian

Intensives

Intensive Learning Classes

Dec. 14 - 17
9:00 - 12:00 pm

Volunteer opportunities: (Email Polly if you can help)

• a classroom helper for as many days as will work with your schedule
• a driver for as many days as you can
• help with logistics, set up and clean up (mostly done Dec 11-13 + Dec18)

Class assignments were placed in take-home folders Friday morning.

Performance Night Tonight!!

Bringing in the Light

A Winter Performance in Four Parts:
how we bring light into a dark time of year

Tonight, Friday, 12/11
6:00 pm

**Students should arrive by 5:45**

Bringing in the Light

As many know, we will be having our first Performance Night on December 11th at 6:00pm at Trillium. We will be featuring 4 varied acts and it will be a blast. More details will come soon as to when students should arrive for preparations the night of.

Our theme this year is "Bringing in the Light".   We explore ways in which different cultures "bring light into the dark time of the year".  We came up with a spectacular idea of allowing each child if they choose to bring in their own light to share with our community. What this means is students may bring in some type of electric light (non-flame) next week and as part of our celebration we will light them at once to brighten our school (and hopefully not short out the whole building). Anything from electric tea candle lights to Christmas lights or even lamps are welcome. We are asking that no one brings any lights with sentimental value as they may end up going missing or broken. Put a piece of tape on the cord with your name on it so you can take it home after the performance.  Please bring the lights to school next week.  Can't wait to see you all there!