December has been a month filled with opportunities to show what we have learned. With procedures in place, we are able to break out new ways to review and stretch our brains. This prepares us for this month’s season of semester testing. Grant students encouraged one another to do their best by creating special notes of encouragement for each other. Kindergarten students attached their notes to bottles of refreshing water that third and fourth graders enjoyed immensely during testing breaks.
Sprinkled among the days of testing have been fun festivities that have decked our halls! Students and families decorated Christmas trees that filled our walls for a couple of weeks and then were taken to the Veterans’ Home to brighten their spirits. Many classes made ornaments for the tree or took part in other creative projects that extended their learning in festive ways.
We have also been excited to welcome readers and entertainers that have made our spirits bright.Thank you to all of the community members and students that have given time and talent to Good Ol’ Grant this month.
If December wasn’t grand enough, 3C third graders lit up brighter than a string of Christmas lights when Mr. Vince from Morning Kiwanis stopped by giving EACH student their very own dictionary. This has been a beloved tradition for years! He even told the third graders that they would not have to come back for the second semester if they could pronounce and spell the longest word in the English language located on page 373 of these fabulous dictionaries BEFORE WINTER BREAK!
We are so thankful to the Morning Kiwanas. We will use this second semester school supply often and well. We also want to give a shout out to First United Methodist Church that gave us the gift of reading adventures for the holidays. Each child at Grant gets to choose a book from the Scholastic book order as a gift from the congregation at FUMC. Those books are on their way. If they don’t get here by the time we go on break, those new books will be here to welcome us to our second semester.
We have so many reasons to be grateful. We wish you all the best as 2022 winds down to the end.
