School Website: www.moretownschool.org

Maddie Baughman and Maggie Nowlan

PTN MEETING

The next PTN meeting will be Monday December 3^rd, 6:30-7:30 @ Moretown School. All are welcome and encouraged to join.

Parents or family members are welcome to join the kids for lunch. However, if you are planning on coming, please call the school in the morning, before 9:00 a.m. to let us know you’ll be coming and what you’d like so Marilyn can make sure she has enough food. Thank you.

Moretown’s Artisan Sale, held at the Moretown Town Hall on December 8^th from 10am to 4pm, will feature nearly thirty artists and crafters. You will find fine locally made items including pottery, handbags, fine art, crocheted hats, quilts, photography, jewelry, natural body care products, fleece blankets, folk art, and stained glass. While you shop, enjoy the sound of live banjo and pedal steel guitar with Gordon Stone, winner of the best instrumental album of the year in Vermont in 2005 and Boston Emmy nominee! The refreshment table is free as usual, and donations will be accepted to support Vermont Food bank. There is no admission fee for this exciting event!

Library News:

The Scholastic Book Fair was a huge success! The school library has earned a book profit of $981.77! I was able to select some books directly from the fair and the children have been excited to see books that cost money at the fair last week become "free" because now they can check them out. Their eyes just light up! This money goes a long way toward making sure our collection has just the right books for all our children. Thank you for supporting our literacy efforts and for helping your child choose books from the fair.

Thanks also goes to parents who volunteered at the fair - Jennifer Mead, Dawn Haywood, Kelly Collar, and Sarah McNamee as well as students who helped during their recess and afterschool - Taylor Yandow, Michelle Doney, Corey Remick, Dominic Moreno, and Addie Naikus. Thanks also for all the offers of help, too - it's nice to know there's help available if you need it!

Eli Holden from the Harwood InterAct Club sends the following message…

What our goal is: To give gifts of kindness to local shelters who in turn distribute it among the families of that shelter making the holiday season a little easier and a lot happier.

We look at the needs of the local shelters and ask for these items to be donated by kind people such as you. This year a perfect gift of kindness could be:

Any new or like-new condition toys, winter clothing such as socks, hats, mittens, or gloves, watches, alarm clocks, gift cards for gas, food, or clothing, toiletries, educational videos, or crafts.

There will be a Gifts of Kindness box outside the library so just send your donations to school with your child and they can contribute to the box as they come into the school.

PARENTING FORWARD

January 15 Redefining in the 21^st Century: Creating Possibilities for Families in the New Millennium

January 22 Everything is Possible: Motivating Our Children Toward Appropriate and Responsible Behavior

January 29 Listening Doesn’t Mean Agreeing: It is Possible to Hear Our Children and to Have Our Say

February 5 Loving Limits: Creating boundaries that Encourage Cooperation and Mutual Respect in Families is Possible

$15/person for individual sessions

$40/person for series with advanced registration

Childcare available with advanced registration

Call Deborah Feldman with questions or to register: (802) 223-2288

Deborah Feldman, MA holds a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology

from the Adler-Dreikurs Institute in Bowie, MD. Deborah’s learning alsoincludes degrees in Education and the Applied Healing Arts which combinestheories and perspectives from East and West in science and philosophy.

December 3 PTN Meeting, 6:30 p.m.

December 8 Moretown Artisan’s Sale

December 12 Early Dismissal

December 13 Green Mountain Orchestra comes to Moretown

December 14 Popcorn Sale

December 24 – January 1 NO SCHOOL, December Break

January 21 NO SCHOOL

January 31 Winter Concert, 6:30 p.m.