Holiday Parties at SAS- 2009

This is Carington's friend Ellie. Ellie and her family are leaving Singapore after 7 years. They are moving to Ohio. December and the summer months are big transition times for families here in Singapore. Some families have months to plan and some families find out only weeks in advance that they will be leaving. Such is the case with Ellie and her family...they found out only 3 weeks ago that they will be leaving. Carington will miss Ellie!!!

Carington and "Santa"...do you recognize this Santa!!! Carington knows him REAL well!!!!

Mrs. Cullen's 4th grade class and Santa! Santa came around to all the classes to collect school supplies the kids had brought all week to donate to charity. The kids got to plan the Christmas Party. They were divided into groups and each group had to work together to come up with a proposal and submit it to their teacher!! What a wonderful learning experience!! Each team built a "fort" and they got to wear pj's and drink hot chocolate. It was up to each team via the proposal to decide what they would do in their "fort"!!! There are many different nationalities represented in Carington's class. US, Dutch, Indian (not native American but the country), Chinese, Malaysia, Norway...I think that covers it all!!!!

This is Santa and all the supplies he collected from the 4th grade!!!! You can't see it but Santa had on flip-flops...He was a Singaporean Santa!! As you can imagine he was drenched in sweat when he finished. My sweet husband was so kind to help me out and dress up as Santa. I am the 4th grade Head Room mom which means I have 13 room moms underneath me that represent each of the individual classes. Each grade level K-5 has 13 classes. There are Head Room moms for each of the Intermediate grade levels as well as Primary. As Head Room Mom's we are responsible for planning all the class parties, putting all the supplies together and getting it out the individual classes. It is a lot of work but a lot of fun. I work with a great group of ladies!!