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Hello Thunderbird Nation!

We are excited and looking forward to Santa’s breakfast tomorrow! It is a great time for the Thunderbird nation to get together have some social time and for the kids to enjoy some of the holiday festivities. We are hoping everybody can come to this wonderful event!

This week at school and for the next two weeks, the excitement level of our students has been extraordinary! Of course students are looking forward to the holidays that are coming up and the time off from school, but they are also enjoying all of the special activities That makes him well with our regular curriculum progression. Please make sure you’re talking to your child every night about their day and find out what they’re learning and what good things happened at school that day! It is indeed a great time to be at Tahoe Valley!

Our next event is Santa's Breakfast on December 7th.

Quick note: PARENTS PLEASE PUT NAMES ON YOUR CHILDS JACKETS OR ANY OUTSIDE CLOTHING THEY BRING. Our lost and found has grown quite a bit. So if your child is missing a jacket, hat, or gloves please take time to come look at the lost in found in our cafeteria.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to reach out to your child's teacher.

At the bottom of this newsletter, this week and every week, you will find an important date section. Please refer to that for your planning purposes and so you know what’s on the horizon.

Have a great week!

Have an extraordinary week!

Have your best week yet!

Pat Harnett

Principal

Upcoming events and important dates:

December 7th - Santa's Breakfast

Important dates for the remainder of the year can be found at the bottom of this newsletter in the "Year At a Glance" section.

Here is the link to our Tahoe Valley Spirit Wear Store

See the notes above from Mr. Harnett for important dates and information.

It was wonderful to see everyone's smiling faces after the week on break. We jumped back into learning and started our Holidays Around the World exploration. We learned about our first December holiday, "Hanukkah", and ended the week making latkes and playing spin the dreidel. Ask how to play at home!

If you haven't finished your Gingerbread Baby disguise project, there is still time to bring them on Monday so they join the bulletin boards.

Genuine and abundant thanks for the donations to our Holiday Baking gift baskets. They turned out amazing! May you have all the luck at Santa's Breakfast.

Kindergarten had so much fun at the Festival of the Trees today- it was truly magical. Ask your child to tell you about it!

Tomorrow is our Santa’s Breakfast! We hope to see you there! Thank you to all of you who donated for our raffle basket! We received so many items, we are making three baskets! Here are some of our items!

Good Evening Everyone and Happy December,

We are glad to be back in school with our amazing first graders and we wanted to extend a huge thank you to those of you who were able to donate coffee and chocolate items for our grade level basket! Thank you!

This week was another great week in first grade with even more learning to be had. This week our classes took a closer look at the nonfiction genre to explore where animals live together. We also discussed some additional blends including the -nd, -st, and -nk ending words for our spelling patterns for the week. You children have also begun to learn about what a main idea is and what supporting details are which we continue to learn about throughout the school year. This week in math, our classes learned about various attributes of 2D and 3D shapes and we are beginning to learn about the teen numbers up to 20 and skip counting by 10’s and 5’s. It is so exciting to see some of our students who are still wearing their Thanksgiving bracelets, hopefully your child was able to recite the story of Thanksgiving to you using his/her bracelet to create a visual. In December we will look at holidays around the world and U.S. holidays and the similarities/differences. We will also be exploring soft and loud sounds and what volume is and how we can control the volume of a one-string guitar and a xylophone.

A Few Reminders:

Santa’s Breakfast is this Saturday, December 7th from 9-11am. All are welcome. Come join us for a great event with concessions, prizes, and even a photo opportunity with Santa! We look forward to seeing you then!

TK-1 Holiday Performance for Parents: Please come join us for our annual Holiday Performance which is scheduled for Friday, December 20th from 8:30-9am. At this performance, you will get the opportunity to see your child sing some holiday tunes! We hope to see you there!

Minimum Day: There is a minimum day scheduled for Friday, December 20th. Students are scheduled to get out of school at 12:05 on Friday, December 20th. *If you would like to pick up your child after his/her holiday performance earlier that day, please notify your teacher on the day of the performance and sign out at the front office before leaving :)

Winter Break: LTUSD’s winter break is set for December 23rd to January 3rd.

If you have any questions, please email your child’s teacher or contact our amazing staff members at the front office.

Have a great weekend,

Tahoe Valley First Grade Team

December 7th - Santa's Breakfast

We've been having so much fun in Second Grade this week! We've been playing warm-up games in math and reviewing place value. In our Wonders lessons we've been talking about things we see in the sky and words with the long i sound. We've also been learning about winter holidays like Christmas and Hanukkah.

Don't forget that Santa's Breakfast is this weekend 9am-11am.

Keep an eye out for your child's report card next week. Have a safe weekend!

Upcoming Dates:

December 7th - Santa's Breakfast 9:00am-11:00am

December 10: Choir Concert at Bally's - 6pm

December 20: Minimum Day dismissal 12:05pm

December 23- January 3: Winter Break - NO SCHOOL

Don't forget the annual Tahoe Valley Santa’s Breakfast event is this Saturday, December 7th from 9:00-11:00am. This event features a FREE pancake breakfast, photos with Santa, and a fundraiser gift basket raffle. All proceeds from the raffle tickets support the Tahoe Valley PTA and our students.

Thank you for all the wonderful donation to our Holiday Wrapping basket!

Upcoming Dates:

December 7: Santa's Breakfast

December 10: Choir Concert at Bally's - 6pm

December 20: Minimum Day

December 23- January 3: Winter Break

We were so excited to see so many of you at our Fourth grade performance on Monday, the kids worked hard learning all their songs and lines. We had a visit from Joe at Soul Shoppe where we talked about conflict resolution this week. We hope you can join us for Santa's Breakfast Saturday morning at 9 am. A big thank you to those of you who donated items to our grade level basket.

Upcoming dates:

12/20 - Minimum Day

12/23-1/3 - Winter Break

Happy holidays! Fifth grade hit the ground running after Thanksgiving break. We are continuing our work on decimals. See some of the scholars below that are proficient in adding and subtracting decimals! In writing, we are about to publish our first informational draft on our animals. In science, we have continued to learn about the solar system. In social studies, we are working on tribe presentations. We will be going to Heavenly, January 15-17th for an awesome field trip. You should have recieved a form on Tuesday.

🎤 THUNDERBIRD CHOIR 🎤 3rd - 5th Grades only! We will meet in Miss Little's room every Thursday from 2:30-4. Student MUST be picked up ON TIME - promptly at 4pm!

4th Grade put on an awesome show this Monday! Get in the game was a hit! Great Job 4th Grade!

🕎🎄⛄School Holiday Concerts - Friday 12/20

8:30am - TK - 1st grade (including Mrs. Whitson's class)

9:15am - 2nd - 5th grade

For any questions or comments, please email Ms. Allyssa Little alittle@ltusd.org

Check out the monthly newsletter from our site counselor Katie Bongard!

December 7th- Santa's Breakfast

If you would like to help for SANTA'S BREAKFAST here is a link to join and help out!

https://signup.com/go/VAYmiGx

Join PTA using this link https://jointotem.com/ca/south-lake-tahoe/tahoe-valley-pta

or stop by the office to pay your dues in person.

Winter Schedule:

Mindful Art Progression (Hosted by the TDRPD Community Arts Center)
Start the new year with creativity and mindfulness! Join Coach Makaylin for a 4-week art progression focusing on watercolor, acrylic, and pastel techniques. Open to kids 8 and up.
Tuesdays in January:

• January 7th, 4:00 PM

• January 14th, 4:00 PM

• January 21st, 4:00 PM

• January 28th, 4:00 PM

Nordic Skiing with Nevada Nordic
A community-supported event to bring cross-country skiing to North Lake Tahoe!

• Sunday, January 26th, 9:00 AM

• Sunday, March 16th, 9:00 AM

Alpine Skiing with Achieve Tahoe
Achieve Tahoe helps build confidence and independence in people with disabilities through skiing and snowboarding.

• Sunday, January 12th, 12:00 PM

• Sunday, March 9th, 12:00 PM

Snowboarding with Ski Ducks
SkiDUCK enriches the lives of at-risk and minority youth by teaching skiing and snowboarding. Join us for these community-building days!

• Sunday, February 9th, time TBA

• Sunday, March 30th, time TBA

• Sunday, April 6th, time TBA

If you're interested in signing up your child for any of these free events, please visit our website at www.courageproject.org/schedule for more details. For any questions, feel free to contact me directly at makaylin@courageproject.org.

Please note that these dates are subject to change as the year progresses.

Santa's Breakfast - Saturday, 12/7 9:00-11:00 am

Choir Christmas Concert - Tuesday, 12/10 6:00-7:00 pm at Bally's

Minimum Day (12:05 dismissal) - Friday 12/20

Winter Break - 12/23-1/3

No School, MLK Day - 1/20

Read-a-Thon - 2/3-2/14

President's Holiday Break - 2/17-2/21

Family Dance - 3/14

Minimum Days (12:05 dismissal), Parent/Teacher Conferences - 3/18-3/20

Book Fair - 3/17-3/21

Minimum Day (12:05 dismissal) - 4/4

Spring Break - 4/7-4/11

Talent Show - 5/9 6:00-7:30

No School, Memorial Day - 5/26

Minimum Day (12:05 dismissal), Open House - 6/5

Field Day - 6/16

Dance Fest - 6/17

5th Grade Promotion - 6/18

Family Picnic, Last day of School - 6/18