If you are having a birthday or holiday celebration, please send  invitations on your own, not through school, unless all students from  our class are invited.  This pertains to "secretly" dropping an invitation in their folder or handing it to them during school hours.  Please also discuss the potential conversations  that could come about from having out of school gatherings with only  select classmates and the feelings that those left out may have.  I will  be doing the same at school, but believe a follow up discussion can  only benefit!  Thanks so much for understanding.