We had a great Christmas party! Bayla read a Christmas book to the class: Olive, the Other Reindeer, we sang a couple of songs to our parents, then we ate and showed our parents our Christmas ornaments and Santa letters.
I also got to walk down and see my niece at her class party. Yay!
That made me one happy teacher/aunt!
I love these cute little Santa letters
A "Moostletoe" Activity…I thought they turned out so adorable!
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*Yes YOU.*
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