New Year’s greetings
Fill in the blanks to create an amazing story. NEW YEAR’S GREETINGS from your Campus Council. For starters, there are ________ adults in our group and we meet _______ times a year. We plan activities and ___________ improvements for your school.
REMEMBER? You kids said you wished you could choose paint colors and decorating themes, plus playground equipment and new rules and new ideas.
OKAY! Let’s start with a new and very _________ idea. If you really don’t like your name, you will be allowed to choose a new first and last name to be used at school, and you can do this every week. The thing is, you will have to wear a name tag. The name tags will come with stickers showing things like _________, ________ and even ________. We discussed this idea with all the teachers and several teachers felt _______ about it, a few said “________!” and there were some teachers who looked _________ and said if we go ahead with this, they will __________.
NEXT: We handed out a survey and most of our student body said they had no interest at all in learning about ________, anymore. So, we gathered up all those books and donated them to the country of ______. They said to tell you kids “Thank you!” because they had always wanted to learn about this subject. Now, they are sure they can get jobs as _______s.
NOW: Our office has new books about ________, because you voted for this subject, you can learn enough to someday be _________.
SCHOOL NURSE: Our nurse wants you to stop worrying. The things you worry about most are how to stop having nightmares about _______, how to stop staring at ________, and how to carefully tell people that they look really ______.
LUNCHTIME: Our cafeteria ladies have been wearing _______ on their heads. You said you wished they would wear _______s on their heads, so they’re doing it.
PLAYGROUND: You voted for installing a running platform that allows kids to run in place for _______ miles while watching a pop-up film showing _______. We bought it and it cost $__________.
NEW THEME: We are replacing our school’s old theme, which was “________,” with a new and more _______ theme, which is “_________.”
SCHOOL COLORS: New school colors are ________ and ________. and the campus is being painted in those colors, inside and out. There will be posters with pictures of _______ in every area. Also you can buy clothing in these colors, such as cute ________s. Wear it to school!
MASCOT: Our real live mascot, which was a _______, is now gone and we now have a real live ________ that lives in the kindergarten room.
SCHOOL DANCES: No more dancing with a partner. Our P.E. teacher will teach you how to do exciting dances, individually. Then, a school bus will take us to places all over town, starting with _______, where we will dash in, dance, and surprise people!
HAPPY NEW YEAR AND SEE YOU SOON!
Marilynn Anderson is a long-time Vacaville educator and author of “Kindergarten Play Date with First Grade Friends” — First Chapter Books for Beginning Readers and ESL Students — Book One, “Come to My House,” found at Amazon Kindle and Barnes and Noble Nook.