We decorated cookies for our PBiS reward, made our own butter and corn muffins, and enjoyed a small Thanksgiving feast…somehow we even squeezed in Daily 5 and Math Workshop!!  Tremendous thank-yous to Mrs. Elsersey and Mrs. Chehimi for joining us this afternoon and to everyone who donated items – you are AWESOME!

Here are some pics (in no particular order):

Happy Thanksgiving!!  Enjoy your break 🙂

Just a few notes…

1.  Next Tuesday afternoon, we will be enjoying a small Thanksgiving feast together.  The plan is to make cornbread muffins in the morning and then shake, shake, shake some whipping cream into butter to go along with them.  We will pair that with a few other simple ‘feast’ items, but we need your help.  Below is a list of items that we need to have our feast on Tuesday.  If you can help by sending in an item below, please comment on this post so I can plan accordingly.

The items we need are:

• 2 boxes of Jiffy Corn Muffin mix
• 2 pints of heavy whipping cream
• 21 apples (maybe split this between a few people?)
• 2 containers of caramel dip
• popcorn (already popped please!)

The students will go to lunch like every other day.  This is an afternoon snack 🙂

2.   There will be no spelling words or new books for reading groups next week.

3.  THANK YOU to all of you for making conferences go so smoothly!  I am so lucky to have a classroom full of wonderful, hard working students with such supportive parents behind them 🙂

Today we started talking about, and working on, informational writing.  We had a great group discussion on what that means and brainstormed ideas on what types of things counted as informational.  While we discussed writing a “how-to”, somebody mentioned (it might have been me :))  that we can only write about things we actually know how to do or have done ourselves.  I asked them about writing ” how-to make hot chocolate”, and there were a few students who have never made it before, so, before we could write about it…WE HAD TO MAKE OUR OWN 🙂

Here are a few pictures from our research 😉

Somehow I missed this picture in the upload…EVERY turkey was awesome and I don’t want to leave these guys out 🙂

Now that the turkeys are up in the hallway, I wanted to post a few pictures.  Everyone was so creative.  Our turkeys are AWESOME!  Great Job 🙂      

Wow!  We had a pretty action packed day today, I think we all may need an early bedtime 🙂

Here are a few pics from today.  It was National Read-In Day, so Mr. Denison sat outside the office all day and read books to different classes.  Of course, the best part of our day was our game reward.  It was truly an excellent time to relax and enjoy each other 🙂

Mr. Denison has gotten back with me about our game reward. He supports board games and those kind, but said he is not in favor of students bringing electronics. He is worried things will get lost or broken. I know the kids will be bummed 🙁 but please reassure them that we will still celebrate with games and it will still be fun!!!!

The students have earned a behavior reward for earning all of their compliment points.  They have voted on having a game time in the classroom.  Some students have asked if they could bring their DS to school.  My response was that it was up to their parents, but if you allow them to bring electronics, I need to say that it is AT YOUR OWN RISK.  We are not responsible for lost or broken items.  Students are welcome to bring a board game or a game of another kind as well.  We will spend the last hour of the day playing our games 🙂

These are the students I have conferences scheduled for tonight:

Saad

Ahmad G.

Haidar

Erik

Brendan

Hadi

Adam

See you soon 🙂