Christmas Lunch 4-8th Grade

This note went home on November 29th with the students in grades 4-8:

Dear Families,
We will be having Christmas Lunch for 4-8th grade families on Thursday, December 9th. Students in grades Pre-k through 3 will not be called to eat with older siblings.
Please return the bottom portion of this note by Wednesday, December 1st so we can get an accurate count.

______________ will have __Guests to eat Christmas Lunch on Thursday, December 9th
(Student's Name)

Christmas Ornaments Due

Christmas ornaments for our annual contest are due on Wednesday, December 1st by 9:00 A.M. Miss Alice, official Christmas ornament chairperson, will have judges here at that time to choose the winners.

All ornaments will be used to decorate the large trees in the school entrance, so get busy and send us your most creative work!!

Progress Reports

Today, students will be bringing home their progress reports for the middle of the second nine week grading period.

This week Thanksgiving break will be Wednesday through Friday, November 24-26.

Word of the Day

Here is another word from my high school English teacher's vocabulary lists.

inkling

1 a slight indication or suggestion : hint, clue

2: a slight knowledge or vague notion

Thanksgiving Feast

The Food Network, Paula Dean, Rachel Ray nor Bobby Flay can compete with the hard working lunch ladies of Pickett County K-8, because yesterday they fed approximately 875 people a delicious Thanksgiving meal. It's been a tradition as long as anyone can remember, that we invite students' family members to eat a Thanksgiving or Christmas lunch here in our cafeteria.
Our cooks were at work that morning before daylight and for your information here's just a few of the things they prepared:
36 turkeys
8 hams
17 pans of dressing
900 rolls
976 yams

So I would like to say THANKS to Marcia, Janice, Patty, Lori, Bloss and Janet for keeping everyone fed--everyday!

In just two weeks, December 9 to be exact, they are going to prepare their next feast--Christmas Lunch and feed the masses again!

Hooray for Friday!

Click on the image to see how Miss Delilah's social studies class feels about Friday!

Friday Faces

Word of the Day

This is a word from Mr. Hill's vocabulary handouts! (Funny how I can remember this word from 1974 but I can't remember yesterday! I guess I am not impeccable.)

IMPECCABLE

1 not capable of sinning or liable to sin

2 free from fault or blame : flawless

Definitions courtesy of www.m-w.com

Collecting

Don't forget we are collecting food for the annual food drive. Two more items we are gathering up are old phone books and tabs from your soda cans. The phone company is rewarding us for helping them collect old phone books for recycling and Miss Robin's third graders collect tabs from aluminum cans to help the Ronald McDonald House. If you want to help just sent these two things our way!

K-8 Food Drive

The Pickett County K-8 will be hosting their annual food drive during the month of November. We are collecting non-perishable food items that will be used to help those in need in Pickett County during the holidays.

The grade that brings in the most canned items will be rewarded with a popcorn and movie day.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Nicola Smith in the Family Resource Center at 864-6940.

Thank you fro helping teach our children the rewards of giving to those in need.