Santa Smoke Letters

A True Story

Sandy Prentice

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English

Tellwell Talent
30 November 2023

Worship, rites & ceremonies; Family & relationships; Advice on parenting

Building family traditions is usually something that happens when specific actions are passed from one generation to the next. However, beautiful family traditions can also evolve from an averted disaster. This is one such story about how a young family, whose frenzied working mother forgot to mail her precious children's Christmas letters to Santa Claus at the post office. The letters were discovered by her four-year-old son on Christmas Eve and disaster struck. He knew that Santa wouldn't be coming to their house because Santa had no way of knowing the content of her son's letter. There was no way this frenzied mother could allow her forgetfulness to ruin her young children's precious Christmas. So she dug down and figured out the best way to get Christmas messages to Santa. The result was the most magical Christmas ever.

By: Sandy Prentice
Imprint: Tellwell Talent
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 216mm, Spine: 6mm
Weight: 318g
ISBN: 9781779412911
ISBN 10: 1779412916
Pages: 36
Publication Date: 30 November 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Sandy Prentice is now a grandmother of 3 amazing grandchildren who are the offspring of Kiera and Colin. She is still married to the father of her adult children and continues to live in the same home, on the same property where her children were raised and experienced the magical Santa Smoke Letter event. Sandy has retired from the school district where she previously worked as the District Principal of International Education and prior to that she was a district vice principal of International Education, an ESL teacher, and a classroom teacher. Story was where Sandy felt she could connect with students and as a result, teaching Language Arts was her favourite of all subjects to teach. It was from story that students were able to understand their own lives better and find better solutions to problems that they were experiencing in their homes and with friends. Teaching the writing process was part of a big unit that Sandy created for her grade 6 students and to this very day, students and their parents continue to share with Sandy how much they enjoyed their time in her classes, and some still have samples of their writing from grade 6. Not one to slow down, Sandy started her own education consulting business called, ""This Stuff Matters"". She is currently an Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Justice and Accessibility Consultant and conducts Intercultural Development Inventory education as a qualified IDI Administrator. She does EDIJA course work at the college level, and has conducted numerous workshops for different types of government, private business, and not for profit entities. She is currently employed by Purcell Collegiate School, based at the Aqa'm Residential School in Cranbrook, (formerly known as St. Eugene's Mission School) as the Director of Admissions and Intercultural Education. This is the first ever BC Private International School to be hosted right inside an original residential school. Sandy is so very honoured and excited to be part of this journey of rightful Truth and Reconciliation. When Sandy isn't with her family or working she is curling, bike riding, line dancing, playing the ukulele, and crocheting in the winter evenings. Life is good in the former little, old modest, white cabin."