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Enjoy Your Holidays!

Share some quality time with your family, and we'll see you in 2016!

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HO! HO! HO!

HO!  HO!  HO!  I'll be coming soon to BEAR gifts for all the boys and girls!  Thanks to my teddy bear friends at Pleasant Hill Elementary who are helping Mrs. Broam decorate her Christmas Tree with kindness:

Good ideas so far include:

offering a hug when others are sad

sharing a smile

making cards for others

listening

learning and following directions so others can too

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If they won't let you play the Reindeer Games . . .

If they won't let you play the Reindeer Games, what CAN you do?

(a) beat up the reindeer who won't let him play -- BONK!  That doesn't work with "Nobody Gets Hurt". . . 

(b) Tell Santa -- Well, you could, but have you tried to solve the problem on your own first? 

(c) start a new game with other friends -- BINGO!!!  Make some happy with others try to take yours!

Holiday Traditions

My Grandma Rawls made this holiday hat and vest to wear when she volunteered at Lexington Extended Care!  She also dressed up when she volunteered at elementary schools, cleaning library books!  What kind of traditions are you nurturing and growing in your family?  Maybe solving problems in a "healthy" way -- (1) nobody gets (2) hurt nothing gets broken -- would be a great one?  What will future generations remember about you?  Today I remember and honor my Grandma's generous spirit and the colorful ways she went about her work in the world!

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All DOLLED Up and Ready to GO!

I'm a Raggedy "Elf" on Monday!  We're working on solving problems this week.  Here's some "okay" ways to puzzle out a problem: take turns, share, agree to a "do over," negotiate, get help .  .  .

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Santa Needs a Helping Hand (or hoof or paw)!

"It takes YOU!  It takes ME!  Working TOGETHER .  .  . SYNERGY!"

Penguin Fun on Thursday

Penguin Race

https://youtu.be/ApEsKvXT2Z0

Penguin Reads

Run, Run

Run, run as fast as you can!  You can't catch me .  .  .  but you can catch the Gingerbreadman in a Porkchop Productions performance this holiday season!  The performances are posted on their Facebook page on the Events tab.  I'm going (again) next Monday to see them at the Batesburg-Leesville public library!  It's worth the trip.  :-)

Feel the Magic

Frosty danced around when he felt the magic in his hat!  How about you?

Having Fun at the North Pole!

We're managing feelings in okay ways at the North Pole this week!  How do the elves feel when making toys for girls and boys?  Is it a pleasant or unpleasant feeling?  When you feel _________, you can tell someone, draw a picture, listen to music, move your body, play with your toys, read a book .  .  . it's a an "okay way" if (1) nobody gets hurt, (2) nothing gets hurt, (3) you don't hurt yourself!

"I'm Not Santa!"

Thanks for asking me to read this story today, Courtney Greenleaf!

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TREEmendous Wisdom on Thursday

"What day it it?" 

"It's today," squeaked Piglet.  

"My favorite day," said Pooh.

~A.A. Milne

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We learned like our hair was ON FIRE today!

I've got my "ear" on and am ready to listen?!

It's my "corny" joke for today!

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