5. As classes are making gifts for their families, what about custodial, kitchen, and office staffs? Is there something you can make for them? After all, it does take a team to make a school run smoothly!

6. Have primary students write and illustrate cards to give to intermediate students. The older pupils can then share their own holiday poems or stories with them.

7. After receiving a present, have your children write a thank-you note or make a phone call to say, "Thank you!" to giver. Not only will that simple act show good manners, but it will provide an opportunity to reinforce written or oral communication skills.

I hope these ideas are useful and have inspired your own creative thinking. And remember...Reading is FUNdamental!!

The Aymará Code:

Sister Serena Serghetti of Franciscan Order is a great linguist and she used Peruvian Aymará language in very interesting ways which support theory that binary math was part of ‘Quipas’ (said to be able to keep poetry) and Ogham as a root for all languages which we have and will continue to touch upon. Another recent report from Steve Connor of The Independent says these things that confirm following quotation.

“… a leading scholar of South American antiquity believes Inca did have a form of non-verbal communication written in an encoded language similar to binary code of today's computers. Gary Urton, professor of anthropology at Harvard University, has re-analysed complicated knotted strings of Inca - decorative objects called khipu - and found they contain a seven-bit binary code capable of conveying more than 1,500 separate units of information.”

This next quote is taken from a whistleblower site on Web, article dealt with Antarctica and some fishy things going on there at Lake Vostok, so please forgive choppiness of my excerpting.

“But members of archaeological community in Near East point out that Serghetti is also one of Vatican's top linguists… Serghetti first made waves as a linguist in late 1990s when she presented a universal translator software application at a United Nations Earth Summit. Building on work of Bolivian mathematician Ivan Buzman de Rojas, Serghetti used ancient Aymará language of Andes to translate English into more than 26 languages.

‘The rigid, logical structure of Aymará itself is ideal for transformation into computer algorithm,’ she said at time. ‘Its syntactical rules can be spelled out in kind of algebraic shorthand that computers understand.’

Since then U.S. National Security Agency has been trying to get its hands on Serghetti's system, according to one codebreaker from Britain's MI-6 intelligence branch who tried and failed to recruit Serghetti. ‘The Aymará language is so pure that NSA suspects it didn't just evolve like other languages but was constructed from scratch,’ MI-6 source said. {A Sacerdotal language like Hebrew, used by university chaos science types?}

In fact, earliest Aymará myth says that after Great Flood, strangers attempted to build a city on Lake Titicaca -- Tiahuanaco with its great Temple of Sun – but suddenly abandoned it and disappeared.

According to legend, they came from lost island paradise of "Aztlan," Aztec version of Atlantis. ‘In other words,’ said one Meso-American linguist, speaking on condition of anonymity, ‘Sister Serghetti may well know language of Atlanteans.’”