Klahanie School
December 2015 Newsletter
Reflections On a Scottish Christmas
by Johnny Cunningham
The dark of winter wraps around us tight.
The lamps are fired, and flickering light
beats time to the fiddle as notes float softly down, like the years' first
snow.
While outside the window a blast of late December wind
whistles harmony to the drone of the pipes.
We push the old year back against the wall
so we can dance a jig for Christmas and welcome in the new
November 2015 Reflection
A beautiful month shared with your children celebrating
family and friendship. Older
children dove into all sorts of extended projects and the younger children
many-times stopped for long pauses to watch, ask questions and seek lessons
themselves. We also had some
wonderful fieldtrips to KVI beach, some neighborhood walks and making an
amazing meal and eating it together in celebration of togetherness and thanks
to the earth.
December Curriculum Topics
Happy
Winter Solstice and New Year!
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Belated
celebration and study of Diwali
(or Deepavali, the "festival of lights") is an ancient Hindu festival celebrated in autumn (northern hemisphere) or spring
(southern hemisphere) every year. Diwali is one of the largest and brightest festivals
in India. The festival spiritually signifies the victory of light over
darkness, knowledge over ignorance, good over evil, and hope over despair. Its celebration includes millions of
lights shining on housetops, outside doors and windows, around temples and
other buildings in the communities and countries where it is observed.
·
Winter Solstice
·
Evergreen/ Conifer Trees
·
Christmas and Hanukkah
Reminders/Thank You
Wow! Where to begin with
the Thank you to our school’s Parent Community? Thank you Kelly Reese for initiating a vastly helpful
project of raising money for Montessori Math Materials for our classroom! This benefits not only your children;
these materials will be well loved and explored by the future students who
attend Klahanie School. Thank you
for your Parent and Community member contributions and helping make this school
more and more enriched each school year!
Merci, Mahalo, Gracias, Thank you! 
