We hope everyone has an amazing Christmas and a Happy New Year!
More photos of our afternoon! Here are a few finished products. This was too fun! Thank you parents for sending items in for our houses and a special thanks to Jodi Wooten, Mason's mommy, and Chris Armstrong, Christian's dad, for helping me assemble the houses yesterday. AND thanks to the Armstrongs for coming today to help with decorating our houses. Did your child arrive home today a little hyper? Well it is probably because the kids consumed about eight pounds of sugar this afternoon while we were making our gingerbread houses but... It was SO MUCH FUN! We made cards for some soldiers stationed in Afghanistan. The children are excited to have a part in making their holidays brighter! Here are some of their cards. Merry Christmas to everyone (currently and formerly) in the armed service from our class! Our class elf, Belle, is quite the character. We never know where she will pop up when we return to our classroom! One day she was peering out of our treasure box! Today she ate candy and got into our air refresher! We received a special delivery today and it was a BIG surprise! We have a elf! We named her (yes it's a girl, complete with an adorable snowflake skirt) Belle. The other suggested names were Sarah, Kendall and Kira. Belle received 15 votes which was an overwhelming majority. Mrs. Fowler and I thought the name Belle was a very clever idea since it makes us think of jingle bells! Already Belle has surprised us. While we were at lunch she escaped her box and climbed up to hang on the Promethean board. If that were not enough, she got into Mrs. Fowler's breakfast muffin and made a mess on her table. That Belle! We look forward to her antics over the next two weeks she is visiting us. If you have an elf at home, please send us a photo via my email address. Thanks! We are learning about tally marks and how they are used to count by 5's. It is still a little hard for us! Here is a photo of Belle! She is really cute. What a HUGE difference in the children's reading since the beginning of the year! They are REALLY reading and not 'pretending' to (but that pretending is part of the process of reading). |