Knightly News

MCS Weekly Announcements
  • Nov. 24-26: Thanksgiving Break - NO SCHOOL
  • Dec. 1: Donut Day
  • Dec. 1: A Time to Give Campaign Begins
  • Dec. 3: Pizza Day
  • Dec. 8: Hot Dog Day
  • Dec. 9: Popcorn Day
  • Dec. 9: Christmas Program
  • Dec. 10: Records Day - NO SCHOOL
THANK YOU!

A huge thank you to Sara Peterson, Red Apple Grocers, and to each of the parents who helped prepare and serve our Thanksgiving Feast. The food was delicious! We wish all our families a warm and wonderful thanksgiving!
POINSETTIAS ARE HERE

The poinsettias have arrived and are ready to be picked up. Please be sure to get your poinsettias before we close for the Thanksgiving break.
SAFETY

We always want to offer a warm and inviting atmosphere to all our parents and to each of our students. Our classroom doors are often left open so that our younger students can enter and exit without struggling with the door handles. For safety reasons, no student will be allowed to leave class unless someone from the office goes to the classroom and gets that student.

We want you to know what is happening in our classrooms and you are always invited to help but it is important to remember that during school hours, students are busy learning and sometimes the smallest of interruptions is distracting to their learning.

If your student is leaving early, please call the office and we will get your student. If your student is sick, we will have them waiting in the office for you. Always stop by the office window and we will help you. But we are asking that you do not go into classrooms without working that out in advance with the teacher.
HELP US HELP YOU

We are very grateful that so many of you can help throughout the week. We are noticing that once the job is finished some are stopping by the office and staying sometimes for long periods of time. We love that! But the office staff is being forced to stay late most nights and come in on the weekends to get our work finished. We would love to visit but some important tasks are not getting accomplished in a timely manner. We wish you had a place on campus to gather and visit but our office just can’t be that place.
COVID PROCEDURE

  1. Please notify the office if anyone in your family has tested positive. 
  2. We will discretely notify the teacher.
  3. The teacher will email the notice to each of the parents in the classroom.
  4. The office will then give each teacher a hard copy for the students to place in their backpack to take home.
  5. If you have any questions, please contact the office.
  6. Do not assume that if a student is missing from the class that this is the reason, they are absent.
  7. We have had tremendous transparency and support. We want this to continue. 
TAPP’S Cozy Basket Raffle

TAPP is raising money to put on a Christmas party for our hard working teachers. Please come and support our fundraiser by purchasing raffle tickets for our Cozy Basket. Items in basket and cost of raffle tickets are below.

(All items were donated by TAPP Committee Members. Thank you!)

Items in our fabulous Cozy Basket:
Woven Basket, Warm Fuzzy Blanket, Winter Scarf, Beanie, Two Bottles of Wine, Wine Glass, Ferrero Collection of Chocolates, Lindt Gourmet Truffles, One Pound of Starbucks Coffee, Pumpkin Caramel Scone Coffee Flavor, Starbucks Hot Cocoa, Snowflake Marshmallows, Teavana Teas, Get Cozy Mug, Young Living Essential Oils, Scented Wax, Two DVD’s, Two Coloring Books with Colored Pencils, A Gratitude Journal, Décor Plant, Sand + Fog Candle, Three Pairs of Cozy Socks, Barr-Bath Salts, Homemade Body Scrub, Vanilla Mint Body Butter, Pure Romance Body Oil, Pure Romance Heart Massager, Four Face Masks and other goodies.

Cost:
1 ticket for $5
3 tickets for $10
6 tickets for $20

Stop by the office to check out the basket and pick up your tickets.
(Please pay with cash or check.)

Raffle ends November 30. Drawing will be December 1, 2021.
CHRISTMAS PROGRAM

The students and staff at Monroe Christian School are busy preparing for our Christmas program that we will be sharing with all of you on December 9th! Below is a link to a YouTube playlist with all the music in case your kids are wanting to listen and practice at home. The more they listen to the music, the better! (Sorry you may have these songs stuck in your head for the next month…they’re pretty catchy!)
LOVE AND LOGIC

If children are going to survive and thrive in tomorrow’s complex world, they need to practice solving as many problems as possible… today! The following process is designed to get kids thinking more about their problems than we do.

Step 1: Provide a strong and sincere dose of empathy.
Empathy allows the child to stay calm enough to solve the problem… and learn from it. Experiment with saying something like:
Oh no. This is a problem. I bet that’s really upsetting.

Step 2: Hand the problem back.
After you have proven that you care, ask:
What do you think you might do to solve this problem?
Don’t be shocked if the child mumbles, “I don’t know.”

Step 3: Ask permission to share what “some kids” have tried.
Avoid giving suggestions until you have asked:
Would you like to hear what some other kids have tried?

Step 4: Provide two or three alternatives for solving the problem.
Remember to avoid resistance by saying:
Some kids decide to _______________________________________.
How would that work for you?

Step 5: Allow the child to solve or not to solve the problem.
Resist the urge to tell the child which alternative to pick.
End the session by showing your faith in the child and say:
Good luck! Let me know how this turns out.
Our scripture theme for this year is based on Galatians 5:22-23, 25
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. 25 Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit
Monroe Christian School
www.monroechristian.com