Marian Bergeson Elementary School
Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
(949) 643-1540
From Bergeson’s Bulldog BARK
Friday’s Weekly Newsletter
December 19, 2008
Our Bergeson Teachers and Staff would like to wish you and your family
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and Happy New Year!
Math and Reading Intervention Classes
Letters were sent out this week for students who qualify to receive the reading or math intervention classes. Hooray! Free tutoring! The qualification is decided with some of our assessments such as: STAR, CORE, PMAS and others. If your child received one of these letters, please send back the permission slip so that we can include them in these free after-school classes. The schedule is as follows and our Bergeson teachers will be teaching the classes:
Reading, Grades 1 and 2 – Monday and Wednesday (Library)
Math, Grades 2 and 3 – Monday and Tuesday (P-28)
Reading, Grade 3 – Monday and Wednesday (F-16)
Math, Grade 4 and 5 – Tuesday and Wednesday (G-18)
Reading, Grade 4 and 5 – Tuesday and Thursday (G-17)
Adopt-A-Family
Thank you to our very generous Bergeson families who donated over $2,000 in gifts and gift cards to this wonderful program. We were able to sponsor 20 needy Bergeson families and make the holidays a little nicer for them. Thank you so much for your generosity! Thank you also goes to Joan Sprick for organizing this program.
Mr. Handyman
One of our Bergeson dads, Chris Lambert would like to donate $50 to Bergeson School (through our BES Foundation) for anyone who books 2 hours of handyman work with him. He is licensed, bonded and insured and his phone number is (949)367-1271.
Variety Show
The famous Bergeson Variety Show will be held on February 20 at Wood Canyon Elementary School. Auditions will be scheduled for the end of January so get ready!
Pageant of the Masters, Laguna Beach
Open casting calls will be held 1/10, 11, 15 for children and adults in Laguna Beach. Call 494-3663 for more information.
January Birthdays!
1/1, Rebecca France (3rd grade teacher)
1/14, Evangelina Gonzalez (special education aide)
1/19, Stephanie Manneart (special education aide
1/24, Sue Jensen (special education aide)
Missing in Action
2 Star-Wars Transformers were missing from the 4th grade area on Friday. Have you seen them?
A Holiday Challenge – Just for Fun
Can you name that tune? Each line below is a clue to a well-known yuletide song. You’ll have to decode some lofty language to come up with the carols, so if you’re reading…get humming!
Listen to the celestial messengers produce harmonious sounds.
Embellish the interior passageways.
Twelve o’clock on a clement night witnessed its arrival.
The Christmas preceding all others.
Small municipality in Judea south of Jerusalem.
Omnipotent supreme being who elicits respite in distinguished males.
Nocturnal time span of unbroken quietness.
Obese personification fabricated of compressed mounds of minute crystals.
Tintinnabulation of vacillating pendulums in inverted, metallic, resonant cups.
In awe of the eventide characterized by religiosity.
Answers to the Christmas carols: (I wish I could write them upside down like they do it in the magazines…) 1. Hark the Herald Angels Sing; 2. Deck the Halls, 3. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear; 4. The First Noel; 5. O Little Town of Bethlehem; 6. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen; 7. Silent Night; 8. Frosty the Snowman; 9. Jingle Bells; 10. O Holy Night.
