Welcome to the New Year

Today we had fun getting back together and visiting about all that happened while we were apart. Everyone had a great vacation and are ready to get back to our school routine.

I made small white boards for everyone and that is what we used to practice our spelling with today.

Good Behavior

Friday we went to a teaching assembly and learned some strategies for self control. During that assembly we had such good behavior that we won the trophy. One class from intermediate earns the trophy and one class from primary. SM got his name drawn out of the "Making Good Choices" basket and got to pick out these neat glasses. Good job S. You are always cute, but these just make me laugh.
We have a box full of goodies to send to our friend Chipper, the baby squirrel.
Thank you everyone for helping us fill the box.

Monday our parents club helped us all get weighed, measured,

and checked our vision.

Reindeer Cookies

We received enough compliments to make our monkey moment chain touch the floor so we made reindeer cookies as our reward. Every time an adult comments on our good behavior we get to add a monkey to our chain. This is JM with hers. We also made one for our reading buddy.

We are on our way down the hall to deliver them.

They have no idea that we are coming, so it will be fun to surprise them.

We have been thinking a lot about what the holidays mean.

Everyone was asked to write about their favorite family tradition

and then we printed them. Here is one that is finished. We put

them in our photo album so we will always have them.

Today anyone who has a birthday in December got to eat

at the birthday table. Here are AD and NW.

Happy Birthday!

Concert Practice

This is a picture of us on Tuesday morning at the Vert practicing for our Christmas Concert. Tuesday afternoon we wrote about our Christmas tradition

and this is PS downloading his writing.
Here is LW adding decorations to her Christmas tradition page.

This is RV illustrating her tradition page.

Mrs. Thorne came in the other day and let us practice self control.

Here we are being careful not to BLURT out our answer.

S.T.A.R Readers

Tonight is Our Family Read Night (The Polar Express) and Craft Bazaar.

Hope you can come.

Today Mrs. Miltenbeger brought in our S.T.A.R reading certificates.

Each of these students read at least 4 hours at home during November.

How Big Is That Shark

We are learning about sharks this week in our reading.

Here the kids are working together to see how long 50 feet is.

The largest shark can grow to be 50 feet long.

The smallest shark is only 5 inches long.

(We think it would be easy to catch a small one.)

Tis the Season for Giving

On Thursday we presented our counselor with some money from our card and label sales.

She will use it to help a McKay Family during the holidays.

Here is a letter that TC wrote to remember the moment.

Here is a short video clip of us handing over the money.

Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!

Today it snowed and we didn't go out and play until 1:15.

The snow was too wet and the kids would have gotten soaked.

We did sneak out at 11:00 to measure though. We had 2 inches.

Once we did get out, we had fun! Here is a large group of kids working together to make the largest snowball ever.
This is RV ready for school.

This is CL and her friend with their snowman.

SR decided to make a fort.

CS and JVB with their snowman.

JM, KZ, RV, and LR with their snowman.

Up on Display

Today we finished our beautiful paintings.

We painted ornaments and reindeer. Then with the help of a couple

wonderful room helpers, we were able to get our work up in the

hallway.

In the afternoon our reading buddies came and we made paper chains,

and enjoyed just talking together. I would like to invite everyone to our Reading Night & Bazaar on December 6th. Our principal, Mrs. Milternburger will read one of our favorite stories of all time, The Polar Express. Then families can continue to read or shop for a few items made by 5- 9 year old students.

December 11th is our Christmas Concert. We would like you to come to the Vert at 6:40 pm. Students will all sit together in the reserved front rows.

Happy Holidays

Today we decided to decorate our room and the hallway to make it more "festive".

This is BT painting Rudolph. We wanted our paintings to be large, so we spread out on the floor.

Here you can see a group working hard to get their reindeer just right.
JM and LH worked by each other as they finished their paintings.
I don't know if there is anything better than art work created by young children.
I fell in love with every single piece.
This group is creating the letters for our heading.
It will say "Happy Holidays" when we are all done.

We had a little visit this morning that touched my heart.

I shared with the kids that we have earned a good amount

of money with our cards and labels. I asked if they would

like to spend some of that money (from the cards and labels)

to help a family that might be in need this winter. They responded

with an overwhelming, "YES". On Thursday, we will present Mrs. Thorne

with our gift, which she will make sure finds it's way to a family that will appreciate it. Some of the children may ask you if they can bring some of their

own money from home. I told them that this was already money from them, but they still wanted to bring more. I will leave that up to you.

I am very proud of everyone for wanting to do so much for others.

Thank you for supporting our projects and setting us up for this wonderful opportunity.

Snow Fall

It was so fun to come to school today and play with friends in the new snow.

Above is CS, below is AD.
Here KC and TC team up to roll a large snowball.

While ML and SM work on this one.

Friday we had our awards assembly. Here are the students who

got to walk the red carpet to receive their responsibility reward.

Tomorrow we will participate in the first turkey trot.

Students will earn a turkey charm after walking or jogging

around the track during morning recess. We thought we would

create a few laughs and dress up like turkeys. Gobble gobble.

Happy Thanksgiving.

Turkey Cookies

Today we got together with our reading buddies and made turkey cookies. We had a lot of fun. Can you tell we like our buddies?
Here is JM with her reading buddie CD.

After we got our picture taken....we ate them!

Catching Up

I got so busy last week with things

that I wasn't able to keep up with the blog.

I will try to make up for it today.

We are selling cards as a fund raiser.

We have two different sets. Hearts (like these) and butterflies.

You can purchase six cards for $5.

Let us help you with your Christmas shopping. :o)

Last week everyone was so good for Mrs. Naughton

in the library that she gave everyone a green slip.

Ask your child to tell you the story of how they tricked me

with their straight faces

and hiding something behind their backs.

We also have started another project. You can see on the computer
screens here a few samples. Last year we sold Christmas labels. We
will be making more this year because they were so well received last year.
We are hoping to have a Family Read
Night and a small bazaar on Dec. 6th. More information to come.

We also finished our scarecrow trading cards.
It was a lot of fun watching everyone trade their cards
and then create games with them.

Here is LR counting the cans she brought in for the

can food drive. So far we have collected 13 cans.

Today (Tuesday) was a sad day for many of us.

We had to take our scarecrows apart.

Here you can see us saying good-bye.

Many of us have published books this month.

Here is RV sharing her story with us.

This is AD sharing his story.

This is KC with his story.

And two more, JM and LR with their Halloween books.

With our busy month, we have a lot of scrap booking to do.

Here is LR showing us her scarecrow pages.