MERRY CHRISTMAS
ACTIVITIES
10 Qualities of a total winner
DECEMBER
*Finalize Second Semester Calendar
*Clean out/reorganize Council files
*Report to School Board/Faculty/Parent's Clubs
*Plan holiday decoration event, social activities, projects, etc.
*Evaluate progress, opinion poll, interview students and faculty.
*Plan awards ceremony for Honor Roll students.
ACTIVITIES!
- Secret Santas-candy canes on lockers at night
- Pictures with Santa
- Caroling
- Gift-wrapping service
- Sponsor a shopping trip
- Toy drive
- Skit Day - give a Kris Kringle Award for the best skit
- Letter exchange-answer letter written to Santa by the kindergarten/1st
grade classes
- Baby-sitting services for shoppers
- Locker clean-up
- Celebrate the December Birthdays
- Adopt a family
- Class door decorating contest
- Tree lighting- decorate the outside of the school with lights provide hot
chocolate for the lighting ceremony
- "Teacher Play" - written by students/performed by teachers
- Holiday party for senior citizens
- Shopping service for homebound
- Decorate for business/elderly
- Send holiday greetings to businesses/schools/others
- Red/Green Day
- Santa Look-Alike Contest
CRAZY HOLIDAYS!!
December 1 - Eat a Red Apple Day
December 1 - Rosa Parks Day
December 2 - National Fritters Day
December 4 - Wear Brown Shoes Day
December 5 - National Sacher Torte Day
December 6 - National Gazpacho Day
December 7 - National Cotton Candy Day
December 7 - Pearl Harbor Day
December 8 - National Brownie Day
December 9 - Personal Passion Day
December 10 - Human Rights Day
December 12 - Poinsettia Day
December 13 - Violins Day
December 14 - International Shareware Day
December 15 - Bill of Rights Day
December 15 - National Lemon Cupcake Day
December 16 - National Chocolate-Covered Anything Day
December 17 - Underdog Day
December 17 - Wright Brothers Day
December 18 - Bake Cookies Day
December 19 - Oatmeal Muffin Day
December 20 - Games Day
December 21 - National Flashlight Day
December 21 - National Hamburger Day
December 21 - Look at the Bright Side Day
December 22 - Abilities Day
December 24 - National Egg Nog Day
December 25 - National Pumpkin Pie Day
December 25 - Christmas Day
December 25 - Clara Barton's birthday, founder of American Red Cross
December 26 - National Whiners Day
December 26 - January 1 Kwanzaa
December 28 - Card Playing Day
December 28 - National Chocolate Day
December 29 - Still Need To Do Day
December 31 - Unlucky Day
Positive Self-ExpectancyThe most readily identifiable quality of a total winner is an overall attitude of person al optimism and enthusiasm. Winners understand the psychosomatic relationship-psyche and soma; mind and body - that the body expresses what the mind is concerned with.
Positive Self-Image
Winners are especially aware of the tremendous importance of their self-image - and of the role their imagination can play in the creating and upgrading of the self-image. They know the self-image acts as a subconscious life-governing device-that if in your self-image you can't possibly see yourself doing something, achieving something, you literally cannot do it!
Positive Self-Control
The positive self-control of a total winner is acceptance of one hundred percent responsibility for causing the effects in his or her life. Winners realize they personally have the power to take control of many more aspects of their lives, both mental and physical, than were heretofore thought possible.
Positive Self - Esteem
Winners have a deep-down feeling of their own worth. They know that, contrary to popular belief, this feeling of self-acceptance and deserving is not necessarily a legacy from wise and loving parents - history is full of saints who rose from the utters and literal monster who grew up in loving families. Winner are not outer-directed.
Positive Self-Awareness
Winners know who they are, what they belie, the role in life they are presently filling, their great personal potential-and the future roles and goals which will mark fulfillment of that potential. They have learned these things and are constantly adding to their knowledge, through experience, insight, feedback, and judgment.
Positive Self-Motivation
Thee positive self-motivation of total winners derives from two sources: 1) their self expectant personal and world view, and 2) their awareness that, while fear and desire are among the greatest motivators, fear is destructive while desire leads to achievement, success and happiness.
Positive Self-Direction
Winners in life have clearly-defined, constantly referred to, game plans and purposes. They know where they're going everyday, every month, every year. Their objectives range all the way from lifetime goals to daily priorities. And when they're not actively pursuing their goals, they're thinking about them - hard! they know the difference between goal-achieving acts and those which are merely tension-relieving.. and they concentrate on the former.
Positive Self-Discipline
Positive self-discipline is the ability to practice within. Winners are master of the arts of stimulation. Like astronauts, championship athletes, great stage performers, skilled surgeons and truly professional executives and salesmen, they practice flawless technique in the minds over and over, again and again.
Positive Self-Dimension
Winners see their total person in such a full-formed perspective that they literally become part of the "big picture" of life - and it of them. They have learned to know themselves intimately. They have learned to see themselves through the eyes of others. They have learned to feel tat one with nature and the universe. And they have learned to be aware of time-their opportunity to learn from the past, play for the future, and live as fully as possibly in the present.
Positive Self-Projection
Winners practice positive self-projection. They project their best selves every day in the way they look, walk, talk, listen, and react. They specialize in truly effective communication, taking one hundred percent of the responsibility not only for communication information to, but also for receiving information from, every person they contact.
CANDY CANE SKATES
December Quote
These
candy cane skates are the perfect addition to any holiday party. The
recipe came from comeandeat.com See their site for more great recipes
for Christmas!
Ingredients: |
|
| Cookies | |
| 1/2 | (18-oz.) pkg. Pillsbury® Refrigerated Sugar Cookies |
| 1/4 | cup all-purpose flour |
| Frosting | |
| 1 1/2 | cups powdered sugar |
| 1/4 | cup butter, softened |
| 4 | to 6 teaspoons lemon juice |
| Green food color | |
| 30 | small candy canes |
Preparation Directions: |
|
| 1. | Break up cookie dough into large bowl. Add flour; mix with hands until well blended. Shape dough into 10-inch log; wrap in plastic wrap. Freeze 30 minutes. |
| 2. | Heat oven to 350°F. Remove dough from freezer. Flatten dough down center with handle of wooden spoon. To form boot shape, with fingers, flatten one side of log until about 3/4 inch thick. (See photo.) Cut log into 3/8-inch-thick slices; place on ungreased cookie sheets. Flatten slightly with fingers. |
| 3. | Bake at 350°F. for 8 to 11 minutes or until edges are light golden brown. Immediately remove from cookie sheets. Cool 15 minutes or until completely cooled. |
| 4. | In small bowl, combine powdered sugar, butter and enough lemon juice for desired spreading consistency; blend until smooth. Reserve 1/3 of frosting in another small bowl; add green food color and blend well. Place green frosting in resealable food storage plastic bag; cut off small corner of bag. |
| 5. | Frost cookies with white frosting. Place small amount of white frosting along bottom edge of each cookie; attach candy canes to form "skate blades," breaking off portion of tip of curved end, if necessary. With green frosting, pipe laces and bows on skates. |
Christmas gift suggestions from
Oren Arnold:
*To your enemy, forgiveness.
*To an opponent, tolerance.
*To a friend, your heart. To a customer,
service.
*To all, charity.
*To every child, a good example.
*To yourself, respect.