I have so many Thank You’s to say!!!  First, thank you to everyone who donated supplies, food and/or their afternoon to help us with the party on Thursday.  I hope everyone enjoyed the adorable snowman your child brought home – they had so much fun making them and they turned out great!!  Second, thank you for all the gifts, cards, and kind words 🙂  I hope you have fabulous break and a happy new year!!!

Just a few pics from today 🙂

Just a reminder that our holiday party and book exchange is tomorrow! (Thursday)! If your child is participating in the book exchange please make sure they bring a new, wrapped book.

With me being out sick last week, we are behind in party planning, but I have confidence we can pull it together by Thursday!  Our party will be in the afternoon on Thursday starting around 1:15 and end when the students go to Art at 2:30.  We will do a craft, eat snacks, and exchange gifts (books).

For Thursday, each student should bring in a NEW, wrapped book to exchange with the rest of the class.  Chapter books are very popular, but it can be anything that is around a 2nd grade reading and interest level.  I am sure if you let your child pick it out, they know what their classmates like to read.  Students will not get to choose who they give their book to, we will play a game that allows each child a chance to choose a gift from the table.

SNACKS:  If you are able to send in a snack to share with the class for Thursday, please comment on this post so I can start a list of who/what we will have.  Some ideas are:  fruit, cheese/crackers, sugar cookies, carrots/hummus, juice boxes/water, etc… We will also need plates and sandwich size ziploc baggies.

If you have any questions, please send me an email 🙂  THANKS!!!

• OOPS!  We spent so much time today making glittery snowflakes and writing poems about them, that I forgot to give the spelling test.  The test will be on Monday.  I know many students left their spelling notebooks at school, so in case they need to study some more, the words for were:  play, black, clown, glen, plot, blob, plop, plant, glass, cup

• Santa shop is coming!  Our class will be going shopping on Wednesday morning.  All items are $2.00 each.  There was a note in the homework folder today that explains in more detail.  Please include a list of the people your child is buying for with their money.

• Thank you for the canned food donations!  We collected 100 cans 🙂

• In social studies we are talking about landforms and bodies of water (natural characteristics).  If you have a picture of your child or family visiting one of these, please send it in.  We would love to see pictures of you climbing a mountain, fishing in a lake, tubing down a river, swimming in an ocean, relaxing on an island beach, running down a sand dune, etc…

Happy Birthday Adam!!!

This week only we are collecting canned goods to donate to families who need it.  Our classroom goal was 3 cans per student (and me!).  If you are able to help us with our goal, please allow your child to bring in a few cans to donate.  Thank You to everyone who has already sent theirs in 🙂