Students and teachers managed to be festive at the runup to the Winter Break, even at a distance. While it is so hard to have a semester at a distance, we have found many ways to connect, both onscreen and outdoors. Students took part in an online reading aloud of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol on Thursday night. On Friday middle schoolers attended a holiday assembly on the theme of love and light, and Mr. Clausen’s upper school advisory gathered together for a fireside chat in the parking lot outside Ms. Smith’s house, warmed with firepits and holiday spirit.