tomorrow’s spirit week theme is wacky/crazy hair!
come to school with crazy hair!!

our classroom is very much in need of wipes.
we only have one more package left.
wipe donations would be greatly appreciated!

thank you!!!

wow!
what a fun week!!!
we had a blast at school this week thanks to the beautiful weather!
funny how we had 3 days of outdoor recess and then a snow day! 

anyway,
this week
we…

-reviewed our school and classroom rules and procedures after a week off of school.
-celebrated taha’s 6th birthday!


-practiced our language and preposition skills by learning how to play hide and seek.
we read the story, ‘hide and hug olaf‘.
the story comes with a stuffed olaf to play hide and seek with.
we played with him inside and then went outside to play hide and seek with each other! it was so. much. fun. !!!

MY FAVORITE PICTURE~ I GUESS I AM A GOOD HIDER. ABDUL COULDN’T FIND ME! 😉

-Did a research project on penguins.

-enjoyed pizza thanks to our speech-language therapist, mrs. gallery. her and her intern, Ms. Melanie, gave us a pizza and had us practice our language skills by requesting pizza and using our manners.
taha was a great delivery boy!

-learned about our new month, march.
we reviewed our new march vocabulary words and chose which words we ‘see’ for our march writing projects
(we will complete those next week).

-kicked off ‘March is reading month’.



-celebrated amir’s 7th birthday!

-were able to enjoy the absolutely beautiful weather during outdoor recess!!!
the kids were over the moon being able to play outside – and so was miss bowdell!

  

MS. CULLIP’S CLASS CALLED US ON WEDNESDAY AND ASKED US IF WE WOULD LIKE TO GO OUT FOR RECESS WITH THEM. OF COURSE WE SAID YES!

MORE PICTURES FROM OUR FANTASTIC WEEK:

 

JOUMANA LOST SOME TEETH DURING BREAK!
SHE WAS SO EXCITED TO SHOW US ALL.
I JUST LOVE HER SMILE.
ONE OF MY FAVORITE THINGS ABOUT TEACHING K-1 IS THE TOOTHLESS GRINS 😍

I GUESS I’M NOT AS GOOD AS DOING HAIR AS I THOUGHT… 😜

(MARIAM DIDN’T THINK SO EITHER…
SHE TOOK THE HAIR TIE OUT ABOUT 3 MINUTES LATER. HA!)

***don’t forget***

OUR CLASSROOM IS IN NEED OF:

WIPES

KLEENEX

(SORRY FOR THE DOUBLE POST, BUT I DIDN’T REALIZE THE OTHER DAY THAT WE WERE ALSO IN NEED OF WIPES)

THANK YOU!

next week is spirit week.*

*Our spirit week will be different than the rest of the school because we are going to Life Town on Friday.

The Spirit Week schedule is as follows:

*MONDAY – PAJAMA DAY
WEAR YOUR PAJAMAS TO SCHOOL!

*tUESDAY – wacky hair day
do a goofy and wacky hairstyle for school.

*Wednesday – hat DAY
wear a hat to school.

 *thursday – sports day
wear a shirt with your favorite team on it.

*friday – no spirit day theme.*

1) OUR CLASSROOM IS NEED OF KLEENEX DONATIONS.

IT WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED IF YOU COULD PLEASE DONATE SOME.

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2)our life town field trip is next friday, march 9.

we still have a few students who have not turned in their permission slip and money.
please return as soon as possible!
the cost is $8.
the cost covers our lunch at leon’s.
we go to leon’s coney island in dearborn after life town.

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3) we have another field trip coming up on march 27.
we will be going swimming at the hype athletic center in wayne.
i will be sending the info out soon (either this week or next).
i am so excited for this field trip! it is one of my favorites!

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4) thank you to the aljeburi family for their generous snack donation to our classroom!

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5) on february 15 we celebrated our 100th day of school!
we had a special 100th day snack.
it helped us learn about sorting,

WE HAD A FUN CELEBRATING VALENTINE’S DAY TODAY!
HERE ARE PICTURES OF OUR DAY:

passing out valentines…

EATING LUNCH WITH OUR FANCY VALENTINE’S DAY TABLECLOTH.
WE ALSO GOT TO EAT A YUMMY HEART-SHAPED DONUT FROM MS. BOWDELL!
 

WE HAD YUMMY HEART-SHAPED COOKIES FOR SNACK TODAY.
(MS. BOWDELL SPOILS US JUST A LITTLE! ;-] )

WE TOOK A LOT OF SILLY VALENTINE’S DAY PICTURES TODAY!
  

these are our 5th grade service squad members,
memori and zealin.

they are so helpful and we really appreciate them! they eat lunch with us, walk with us back to our classroom, and help us wash our hands after lunch.

I would like to thank all of the families for my wonderful gifts and cards! They mean so much to me.
I feel so blessed and thankful to be your child’s teacher.

-Miss Bowdell

Please send in your child’s addressed valentines to school tomorrow (tuesday, february 13).

we have 11 children in our class and 4 adults (you do not have to bring valentines for the adults, but the kiddos do enjoy giving the adults a valentine as well).
here are the names of the people in our class:

If you would like to bring a treat in for our class, please remember that we are a nut free classroom.

Thank you!

SNOW DAY TOMORROW!

DEARBORN PUBLIC SCHOOLS WILL BE CLOSED TOMORROW (FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9).

enjoy your day off and stay safe!

Handwriting Letter of the Week: K
Phonics Letter of the Week: R
Math: Counting, Comparing, and More or Less
Story of the Week: Chrysanthemum

A PEEK AT OUR WEEK…

*We learned about Valentine’s Day
-We decorated our own valentines
-We chose who we wanted to give our valentines to

-We took pictures with our valentines and made a class book with them called The Little Valentine.


~Here is a link to our class book:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hvWPqcPZx2uXcx0yXQZqKCQi7xx-y-ZQ/view?usp=sharing

The students REALLY enjoy reading this story!

Our story of the week was Chrysanthemum
-We discussed Chrysanthemum’s feelings
-We discussed how to be a nice friend and how being mean to others makes them feel
-We practiced talking by answering the question, “What is your name?”
-We practiced spelling our names
-We counted the letters in our name
-We made a graph with our names and how many letters are in our names and then discussed which students’ name has the most letters and the least letters

-We did a Chrysanthemum name craft

We had fun!

On Tuesday was Family Science Night at Snow.
We did our class science experiment a couple weeks ago when we made fake snow.
The students predicted whether or not they thought fake snow was cold or not.

Here are the results from our classroom Super Bowl predictions:

WOOHOO! Go Eagles!!! 😉 

UPCOMING DATES:

*February 12: valentines due
(see pictures below)
*february 14: valentine’s day
*february 19-23: mid-winter break
*march 9: lifetown field trip
(information will come home soon)