while you are reading about it. Please also remember to have your child picked up by 5:30. Our WATCH staff is only paid until 5:30, and it causes inconvenience when they need to wait for par-ents to pick up children. Thank you!

I invite you all to the Christ-mas Concert on December 17 @ 2:00. Santa Claus will be here for children to visit. The PTO will hold their annual Christmas Raffle, and you will be treated to wonderful holiday music by our students.

I want to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Remember that you are always welcome at our school. I appreciate when I have the opportunity to visit with community and family members about the great things happening here.

“Oh, the weather outside is frightful, but the fire is so delightful. Since we’ve no place to go, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!” Okay, I love this song, but I do have to selfishly say that I wish it would quit snowing. I am weary of shoveling snow and unfavorable driving condi-tions. That being said, it is a great time to remind par-ents of some safety precau-tions.

• Make sure your chil-dren come to school prepared to be outside for recess. They should have warm coats, gloves or mittens, hats, snowpants, and boots.

• If your children ride the bus, be sure someone is available to pick them up from the bus stop in the afternoon and someone waits with them at the bus stop in

the morning. Due to road conditions, the bus may run behind sched-ule.

• Use caution in the parking lot. Remember that it gets slick out there so please watch for pedestrians. We try to keep sidewalks cleared off, but some-times there are icy patches so walk care-fully.

I also want to inform you that beginning December 6, the front doors to the school will be locked at 4:15. If you need to pick your child up from WATCH, please ring the doorbell and someone will come and let you in. If no one comes, you can also call the WATCH phone number @ 217-6937. It would be a good idea to save this phone number in your mobile phones right now

From the Dean...

Character Counts for December: Have a Heart...Do Your Part!

Vaughn Public School

Inside this issue:

From the Dean 1

Character Counts 1

School Calendars 2-3

Kindergarten News

4

HeadStart Thank You

4

Third Grade News 5

PTO & Christmas Concert

6

December 2010 - January 2011 Volume 4, Issue 4

Have a Heart…Do Your Part! That is going to be our theme in the month of December to teach about the importance of caring. Students will learn and be reminded about: being kind and compassionate to others, how to express gratitude, forgiving others, and helping people in need. Our hope as a staff is that students will realize that giving is as rewarding as getting. They will understand that you don’t have to have lots of money to give to others or show them that you care for them. You just need a little creativity and a lot of love to make another person’s day brighter. Teachers will brainstorm with children little acts of kindness they can do to spread good cheer throughout our school and community. Senior citizens will once again be invited to a delightful Christmas dinner at school. Kids will start to ponder how they can prove that they are an essential part of the Vaughn community. We know you care about the school by the way you support the many things we do. Now, it’s our turn to let you know how much we care about you and what you do for us. So, we’re going to have a heart and a do our part to make this a great month of December.

Special points of interest:

• Early Out @ 1:15 pm the 1st.

• School Board Mtg. 6:30 pm the 6th.

• Booster Club Mtg. @ 6:30 pm the 14th.

• Senior Citizen Lunch-eon @ 11:10 am the 16th.

• Christmas Concert @ 2:00 pm the 17th.

• NO WATCH the 20th - 22nd.

• Early Out @ 1:15 pm the 22nd.

• School Board Mtg. 6:30 pm on Jan. 3rd.

• Early Out @ 1:15 pm on Jan. 5th.

• End of 2nd Quarter Jan. 14th.

• Early Out @ 1:15 pm on Jan. 14th.

• Award Assembly @ 2:30 pm on Jan. 28th.

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat 1

Early Out

1:15 pm

2 3 4

6

School Board

Mtg.6:30

7 8 2nd Quarter Mid-Term

9 10 11

13 14

Booster Club Mtg. 6:30 pm

15 16 Senior Citizen

Luncheon 11:10 am

17 School-Wide Christmas

Concert 2:00 pm

18

20 No Watch

21 No Watch

22 Early Out

1:15 pm

23 24 25

27 28 29 30 31 1/1/11

Boys’ Basketball Tournament @ MSDB

School Resumes Jan. 3rd, 2011

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri 3

School Resumes

School Board Mtg.6:30 pm

4 5

Early Out

1:15 pm

6 7

10 11 12 13 14 Dental

Screening

End of 2nd Quarter

Early Out

1:15pm 17 18

AR Movie Party

1:30 pm

19

5th- 8th Ski Trip

20 21

24

31

25 26

2nd Quarter Grades go

home

27 28

Award Assembly 2:30 pm

Happy Holidays from Kindergarten!! We have fif-teen students in our class-room, four girls and 11 boys. We are learning the beginning skills that are necessary to begin reading . Through the use of Zoo Phonics, we have practiced the sounds, signals, animal name, and letter name of the letters of the alphabet. With this beginning knowl-edge, we have now begun read-ing through the use of pre-decodable books and Readwell.

We are learning sight words to help us become fluent readers. We have delved into mathe-matics, and learned about plane shapes such as squares, rectangles, triangles, and circles; and also solid shapes such as spheres, cones, rectan-gular prisms, and cubes. We continue to practice the writing and identification of our nu-merals 1-30. We continue to practice the writing of our names using a capital letter at the beginning followed by

lower case letters. It has been a joy to see the growth of each one of these kindergarten stars. We are always looking for classroom helpers, so if you would like to volunteer to help us practice reading, practice our numbers, read for AR, just call me at 965-2231 and I would be happy to set you up with a time. The more we practice the better we will get!!! Mrs. Neumann

Kindergarten News Page 4

~The world is hugged by faithful arms of volunteers~ Terri Guillemets

Head Start would like to thank:

Vaughn Volunteer Fire Dept. MAFB Fire Dept. MANG Fire Dept.

Sun River Valley Food Drive Mon. November 29th – Fri. December 17th

1 Point Per Lb 1 Point Per Item The class with the most points receives a movie party. Please bring food to help your class!

What do you like to do in the snow?

Carsten: I like to go down the slide and hit my bum.

Trent: I would like to make a snow-man, and dad will make one too.

Cassy: I like to make snow angels and go down the slide.

Andrew: I like to go out and tackle my sister in the snow, and I like to make little naps in the snow.

Hayden: Make a snowman.

Trevor: Make a snowman and play in the snow on my snow mountain.

Bro: Make a snow fort and dig a snow tunnel.

Emily: Everything. I like to jump in the snow and I like to make a snow-man. I like to make snow balls.

Bianca: Make a snow angel with my auntie.

Brandon: Go down the slide.

Colby: I like to make snow balls and have my dad bury me in the snow. I like to eat snow.

Taylee: I like to have a snowball fight and ride my sled down the mountain. I like to jump on Shirley’s trampoline.

Nathan: I like to make snowballs, and run around.

Kyler: I like to play and write words in snow.

Jacob: I like to make snowmen and slide on the slide with snow on it.

tion, basic division (which we just started), responsibility, independ-ence, writing complete sentences, cursive hand-writing, and we did a unit book study on Char-lotte’s Web that taught us a lot about friendship. We hope this winter weather finds you in the holiday spirit and wish you all a Happy Holiday.

I cannot believe that we are celebrating the holi-days already. In third grade we have been learning and mastering so many new skills that I am sure they will be glad to rest their minds for a little while. Here are a few things that we have done so far this school year: learned place value up to the ten thousands, multiplica-

Third Grade News

Vaughn Public School Non-Profit Organization

P.O. Box 279 US Postage

Vaughn, MT 59487 Paid

Vaughn, MT 59487

Permit #2

Rural Route Or Boxholder

With the Christmas concert on Dec. 17th, the PTO will once again

be holding a raffle. We will have two baskets. We are asking that grades K-4 do a "red" Christmas basket

and donate any red holiday items toward it, and grades 5-8 do a "green" Christmas basket,

donating green holiday items.

Please bring all donations to the school before Dec. 15th. We will gladly accept any other donations that any

in the community would like to make.

The raffle tickets will be 50¢.

Thank you for your support.