He’s a boy! Miss Molly is having another son. He’s just darling, and she is delighted. “My three sons,” she said. He was tumbling with joy at 15 weeks, a stunning three ounces, and definitely all boy. He has everything in all the right places, and he’s healthy as a horse. I’ve included his picture. We are all blessed. That’s five grandsons for Miss Judy, and one granddaughter.

We had a splendid day. Two days before Christmas break, and the kids were really good. Tomorrow is cookie baking day. It should be a remarkable day! Justin’s mom brought two containers of cookie dough. We will make some more tomorrow. We thank her very much.

The Santa prize has been awarded and will be announced on Thursday. Two children achieved seventeen angels. We are so proud of them.

Ty’s mom brought a freezer full of bread, so tomorrow for breakfast we will be having French toast. We thank her for her kindness.

Parent’s support has been outstanding. We are very excited about finishing the season, and we have been talking about doing something different in January.

As most of you know, we teach geography, history, literature and Bible stories in the afternoon after French and music. It is sometimes connected, but generally, the teachers pick their own topics, and do a class or a series on a particular idea or theme. Starting in January, we will be doing a month on puppets and connecting the afternoon classes to that theme. We will do the history, geography and literature of puppets and use puppets to teach religion class and use puppets to discuss certain properties of science like shadows and perspective. All the teachers are very excited to do this. We will need a puppet show stage, and we will do a lot of back drop art, and some paper mache puppet work along with hand puppets, string puppets and stick puppets.

We are hoping to teach the children how to make, and then invent for a puppet. Please let us know if your child develops an interest in puppets.

On to baking!