Holiday Celebration!!!!!

We made rudolph, necklaces, stockings, and Santa hands.  We played pin the nose on Rudolph and watched Franklin's Christmas.  It was an incredible celebration. 

Thank you to all our amazing volunteers who made today magical.

Magic Tree

We watched our Magic Tree grow right before our eyes. It was a great sight to see. We poured magic water in the base and watched the tree grow from paper into a beautiful Christmas Tree!

Holiday Patterns

We practiced making patterns using our holiday colors. Our final products were some very cute candy canes.

Check it out!

Tomorrow is

POLAR

EXPRESS day!

Have your child

 wear their

PAJAMAS to school.

We will read the book Polar

Express, have hot chocolate

(really just chocolate milk),


 have an all day long pajama

party, and focus our whole day

around this wonderful holiday

story.

Be sure to look for pictures from this fabulous Friday!

One last reminder, tomorrow is

last day for the Book Fair!

Only two more days of Book Fair left!

If you would like for your child to go, please send money and a note designating it for the Book Fair and any additional instructions (i.e. no toys, etc.)

Thanks!

Chik-fil-a Night Tonight!

at Chik-fil-a on the corner of Peace Haven Rd and Robinhood Rd.

See you there!

DON'T FORGET!

PTA is tonight at 6:30!  Come see the fourth graders perform!

Congratulations to all of our fourth grade siblings on a great show!

Gingerbread Houses

On your mark.....

(our supplies)

Get Set.....

DECORATE!!!!!!

(Happy Birthday, Avery!)

Thank you to our wonderful volunteers!

And thanks to all of you for being so wonderful about providing our supplies!

Today was Lauren's final day in our class as she will be going to a new school. 

WE WILL MISS YOU, LAUREN!

We are talking about crayons this week in science.  We learned that crayons are made of wax, resist paint, and we graphed our favorite colors.  By a vote, PINK is the class' favorite color (sorry boys). 

Tomorrow we decorate our gingerbread houses, if you have not sent in your requested candy, please do so tomorrow with your child.  We'll have pictures up this weekend of this exciting event.

Just a reminder, tomorrow is Day 6, we have PE with Mr. Graves.  Please have your child wear tennis shoes!

It's December already!  We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend, but it's time to dive into our winter festivities. 

All this week we will be talking about the gingerbread man.  We will be comparing the many stories we read.  Here's a list of other great stories to share this month:

The Night Before Christmas (Jan Brett's has amazing illustrations), Clifford's Christmas, How Santa Lost His Ho, Ho, Ho, Bear Stays Up For Christmas, The Biggest Christmas Tree Ever, The Biggest Snowman Ever, Snow Party, How the Grinch Stole Christmas (our theme book of the month), If You Take a Mouse to the Movies, The Gingerbread Man, Gingerbread Friends

and many, many more!
Again, every title is a link to more information about each book (author, illustrator, version of story, etc.).

Make sure you check back for pictures of decorating gingerbread houses.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!!!!!!

Just a reminder:  please send a drink with your child tomorrow to school for our Thanksgiving feast.  Everything else will be provided and you do not need to send a lunch, but every child needs a drink.  We will be giving thanks for all the joys this class has had and much more...

what we are thankful for:

William:  "My bed"

Tyler: "My family"

Chris: "The three kings"

Anna: "Air"

Sarah: "My family"

Andi: "Things I have"

Ana Christina: "Everything"

Quinn: "My toys and video games"

Olivia M.: "To live on this planet"

Aidan: "Numbers"

Lauren: "My sister"

Kate: "Mrs.  Shepard" (thanks Kate!)

Jon: "My computer"

Avery: "My family"

Olivia R.: "My stuffed animals"

Janani: "My friends"

Rebekka: "My family"

Ben: "Mrs. Moss"

Corrinne: "My three cats"

As teachers we are very thankful for each and everyone of our students.  They are very sweet and make teaching a joy! 

(we are also very thankful for all of you following the blog)

Friday was Native American day in our class.  We had a great time at the Museum of Man presentation brought to us by Wake Forest.  Our students learned all about long houses, hunting, played instruments, and even reenacted a Native American story. 

We sat in a circle around the camp fire to hear lots of stories .Our presenter had bear and fox fur for us to feel.  Very soft, but many of the kids kept asking where the eyes were.

After our presentation, we continued Native American day by making beads with our curriculum chums, Mr. Kremidas' 3rd grade class.  We meet with their class every Friday and each third grader has a kindergarten chum that they partner with.  It's become one of the highlights of the week for both of our classes.

Everyone did a great job wearing their green shirts on Friday.  We all matched and so we will close this blog with the class picture we took. 

Just a reminder.....please have your child wear their Green Shirts tomorrow Friday, November 20.  Even if you have not gotten the letters on the back yet, they need to wear it.  Thanks!

We asked parents to get iron on letters for the t-shirts that were sent home yesterday, but there is another and maybe easier way.  Soccer Unlimited located at 3051 Trenwest Dr, Winston Salem, offers printing on the shirt in black letters for $3.00 a line (as many letters as you want that fit on that line).  This option may be a better one for you. 

Turkeys and Our Smartboard

Our November family project was a great success. Our turkeys were so cute, we just had to share them with you all. The turkey’s are escaping the Thanksgiving table by pretending to be princesses, ninjas, polar bears, Batman, peacocks, and many more….

Our Smartboard was set up last week and this Monday we got to play on it!  The Smartboard is used in all types of lessons, including having some fun.  Our students played a find the turkey game to get used to using their eagle eye on the Smartboard...

We are very thankful for our Smartboard.  This week we continue to talk about what we are thankful for, the Mayflower and pilgrims, and (of course) turkeys!

Check back soon for what our students are most thankful for.