Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We are going to have our party! For the party our families can come! (George and Logan)

We made reindeer ornaments. (Jackson)

We made reindeer hats. (Caleb)

We did our math workstations. (Liam)

We did the schedule. (Phoebe and Leo)

We had our school sing along. It was fun! (Sarah)

We did play time. (Liam)

We read a book about reindeer. We learned what they eat and what they do. They like the cold, they have lots of fur, and they are super cool! (Presley)

Parents are starting to come! (Cora)

Thank you so much for all the wonderful cards, letters, and gifts! I am so fortunate to work with such wonderful families like you all!

In your child’s backpack you will find a Gingerbread Kid book. That is a gift from me for your child to keep! In the folder you will find a behavior update (this does not need to be returned), a holiday card from me, and a fun list of things to do over break! This, of course, is optional.

Have a wonderful holiday break!!

Hi parents!

Here is what we did today!!

We had blacktop recess. (George)

We made something special for mom and dad. (Jackson)

We had music. We watched a video. We could lay down. (Logan and Cora)

We did math workstations. (Jesse)

Today is crazy sweatshirt day. (Avie)

For math we were on the calculators. We pressed numbers. We played with it. We could play with them at play time. (Presley)

We had our pizza party. We had juice boxes. It was at lunch time. (Sarah)

We did the weather. It was in the blue. (Logan)

We did the calendar. Today is December 19th. (Leo and Zellie)

We wrapped the presents that we made for our parents. (Phoebe)

We read a book about reindeer. It was a non-fiction book. It said real things about reindeer. (Cora)

Hope to see you tomorrow at the winter party at 2:20 pm!

If you haven’t sent in a traditions email we still have time to share some tomorrow! It has been fun learning about so many different traditions!! Here is the blurb from he original email…

We are going to be learning about the holiday traditions of families in our class!  Take a moment to talk with your child about the holidays you celebrate and the traditions your family has each year.  We'd love to hear what special traditions your family has at this time of year!  With your child, send our class an e-mail about the things your family does each year.  We will use these e-mails to spark conversations about different holiday customs our families have.  It would also be wonderful if you include a picture or two!

Have a wonderful night!!

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We talked about holiday traditions. (Olivia) If you haven’t sent in your family traditions you still can!

We got to drink hot chocolate with marshmallows. It was the perfect temperature! We got sugar cookies! And if we were still hungry, we could eat our snack. (Presley and Logan)

After lunch we had inside recess. (Jackson)

Zellie was the teacher assistant. (Caleb)

We did P.E. We played a game where you tried to knock down pins. You had to guard your pins. (Lux and George)

We did the calendar. We did the weather. It is freezing cold because it is in the purple. (Cora)

We saw Chicken Little. (Caleb) This was a Talking Horse children’s play!

We did the schedule. (Sarah)

We did writing. (Zellie)

Our pizza party is tomorrow! You do not need to send a lunch with your child.

Our winter party is this Friday from 2:20-2:50 pm! Parents are welcome to join!

Have a great night!

Hi parents!

Here is what we did today! Check out the pictures and videos on Class Dojo!!

We found the Gingerbread Man! Mr. Miles found him! We ate him during snack time. We also watched The Gingerbread Cowboy book during snack. (Cora)

Our Gingerbread Man left a note on the Smartboard. We saw his crumbs and candies. (Presley)

We had play time. (Caleb)

Today we celebrated Evie’s birthday and she passed out candy canes. (Jackson)

Our Gingerbread Man rolled around in icing and sprinkles! (Sarah)

For read aloud Mrs. Hotchkiss read The Ninjabread Man. (George)

For project we wrote about how to catch the gingerbread man. (Logan)

We hung up our missing posters. (Caleb)

We did the calendar. (Presley)

For math we rolled 1 or 2 and whatever number we got we had to cover. (Sarah)

So much fun! Make sure to email in your family traditions and send in a couple bucks for the pizza party next week! Thank you! Have a wonderful weekend!!

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today! We had a very eventful day! Make sure to check Class Dojo for lots of fun pictures and videos!

We lost the Gingerbread!! He ran away. (Jackson and Avie)

We read The Gingerbread Baby! (Olivia)

We tried to find the Gingerbread! We are hungry! Mrs. Gail tried to catch him, but she couldn’t. He made a mess on her! (Cora)

We took our Gingerbread to Mrs. Gail. She put it in her oven. (Caleb)

We found lots of clues from the Gingerbread kid. (Jesse)

We did the Snowball Shoppe. We had 5th grade helpers. (Logan)

We made gingerbread ornaments. We used a tool to scratch off the details we wanted. (Presley and Avie)

We watched the older kids sing and it was a choir concert. It was good! (Cora)

We also had counselor today with Mrs. Baker! She talked about what we can do when we are mad (take a drink, count to 5, ask for a hug, etc.)

We made missing posters for our Gingerbread Kid that we will hang up in the halls tomorrow! Hopefully we can find him! 😉

Have a great night!

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We did closing meeting. (Ellen)

We did project. We put the parts of the Gingerbread Boy in the right order. We read the book called The Gingerbread Boy. We talked about some of the words in the book. (Presley and George)

We went outside. (Jackson)

We played Guess My Number on whiteboards. (Caleb)

We did library. (Cora)

We did a word family. We did words that rhyme with flag. (Phoebe)

I was the teacher assistant. (Caleb)

We did writing. (Cora)

Just a reminder if you haven’t sent it in already….we are going to be learning about the holiday traditions of families in our class!  Take a moment to talk with your child about the holidays you celebrate and the traditions your family has each year.  We'd love to hear what special traditions your family has at this time of year!  With your child, send our class an e-mail about the things your family does each year.  We will use these e-mails to spark conversations about different holiday customs our families have.  It would also be wonderful if you include a picture or two! Please send this email by Monday. December 16th!

Thanks!!

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We had art. (George)

We did Makerspace. We built stuff! (Logan)

We went outside. (Jackson)

We read The Gingerbread Girl. (Olivia) We compared this story to The Gingerbread Man!

We did the calendar. (Cora)

In Fundations we wrote inside our notebooks. We wrote Aa and Bb. We wrote it 4 times. (Phoebe and Avie)

We had Daily 5. (Cora)

We did word games. (Logan)

Evie was the teacher assistant. (Phoebe)

We did math workstations. (Sarah)

We counted the lunch choices. (Leo)

We worked on our special surprise for mom and dad a lot today!

We have a few sign up spots left for things coming up this week and next! If you would like to help please sign up using this link!

Have a great night!!

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We did the calendar. (Leo)

We had play time. (George)

We had lunch. Me and Sarah had lunch with Mrs. Hotchkiss! (Presley)

We had writing. We did Monday News. (Jackson)

We did the weather. (Caleb)

We are doing closing meeting. (Cora)

We practiced writing A and B. We did a little bit of tapping. (Logan)

We read The Gingerbread Man. He got eaten. (Ellen and Sarah)

We had music. (Phoebe)

Mrs. Hotchkiss gave out some kindness awards. (Jesse)

We played a Gingerbread math game. If we landed on the fox we had to go back a square. We would roll the dice and move our cube. (Presley)

We did word games. (Logan)

We will shop at the Snowball Shoppe on Thursday. This is totally optional!

The kids earned 100 Cougar Tickets last week! They voted to celebrate with a pizza party! We will do this at lunch time on December 19^th. If you would like to donate $1 or $2 to help pay for the pizza you can! Just send in cash with your child this week or early next week! Thank you!!

We have lots of fun things coming up in the next couple of weeks including gingerbread decorating, a pizza party, hot cocoa/cookies, and fun projects! We need lots of items for our classroom! If you would like to help or donate an item, please sign up using this link!

Thank you! Have a wonderful night!

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

I was out part of the day doing assessments so Mrs. French did closing meeting with the class!

We did closing meeting. (Ellen)

We did writing. (Jackson and Logan)

We did math. (Caleb)

We did monster squeeze for math today. (Sarah)

Sarah has 100 dojo points! (Presley)

A few other things we did included Fundations, library checkout, a book on needs and wants, reading The Pigeon Wants a Puppy, working on our surprise for parents, Daily 5, and P.E.

In the folder today you will find behavior reports. Please talk about these with your student, initial and comment (if you want), and return on Monday. We are in a new trimester so the reports start fresh!

You will also find information on the Snowball Shoppe! This is a fun way for kids to shop for family members. If you would like to participate, please send cash in the envelope and write on the outside the names each person they will be shopping for and how much you would like them to spend on each person. Please fill out the gift tags and return those as well! This saves us lots of time! Thank you!! Don’t feel obligated to participate! Our class will shop on Thursday morning.

Thanks! Have a wonderful weekend!

Thursday, December 5th

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We did math workstations. (Olivia)

We had writing. When we were done, we could write in our writing journals. Our surprise is part of writing. (Jackson, Logan, and Jesse)

We did the calendar. (Leo)

We did closing meeting. (Lux)

We had Daily 5. (George)

Mrs. Hotchkiss read The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog. This book had the Duckling. (Sarah)

We had library. We got to work on the computers. We watched a cool video. (Presley)

We did the weather. (Caleb)

We played a game where we roll the dice and write the numbers. (Ellen)

We did project. We glued the needs and wants onto paper. Wants are nice to have but you can live without it. (Cora)

We did word games. (Logan)

We did Fundations. We tapped letter sounds. We used our magnet boards to build the words. (Cora and Phoebe)

We did the schedule. (Leo)

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We get done with school early. (Jesse)

We did something on our surprise for our parents. (George)

We did closing meeting. (Logan)

We did morning meeting. (Sarah)

We did the schedule. (Leo)

We had sack lunch in the cafeteria. It had a Rice Krispie Treat. (Presley)

We read Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late. He was thinking about a hot dog party. The book was funny! (Cora)

We did morning buzz. (Caleb)

Today was the 70th day of school. We did the Zero the Hero Stomp. (Jackson)

We did Daily 5. (Ellen)

We did writing. (Logan)

We did the word family. We did -ap. (Sarah)

We did Fundations. We did more tapping. (Evie)

We did project. We crossed out the wants. (Caleb)

We did word games. (Sarah)

Have a great day! Please have the kids bring back their library books tomorrow!

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We worked on a surprise. (Jackson)

We did closing meeting. (George)

We did the schedule. (Leo)

We did a wants and needs sort. (Caleb)

For math we counted in line and put ourselves in order. (Presley)

We did math workstations. (Jesse)

We did Fundations. We tapped words. (Logan)

We read a Pigeon book. It is Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus. (Ellen)

We did a word family. They all had -at. (Cora)

We did the calendar. (Avie)

We had music. (Sarah)

We did writing. (Evie)

We did Daily 5. We made 2 choices. It was something different than yesterday. (George)

We did morning buzz. We shared about wants. (Presley)

If you need to submit a book order please make sure you do it by Friday morning! Thanks!  https://orders.scholastic.com/H2MBR

We are going to be learning about the holiday traditions of families in our class!  Take a moment to talk with your child about the holidays you celebrate and the traditions your family has each year.  We'd love to hear what special traditions your family has at this time of year!  With your child, send our class an e-mail about the things your family does each year.  We will use these e-mails to spark conversations about different holiday customs our families have.  It would also be wonderful if you include a picture or two! Please send this email by Monday. December 16th!

Tomorrow is an early release (12:50)! Please let me know if your child has a change in transportation!

Have a great night!

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We had Fundations. We learned tapping. (Logan) The kids are practicing isolating each sound within words! 

We are doing closing meeting. (Sarah)

Today was the 68th day of school. We did the calendar. (Presley)

We had writing. We wrote what we did over the weekend on Monday News. (George)

We had P.E. We played Bowling Pin Bingo. (Phoebe and George)

We had Daily 5 choices. (Caleb)

We went outside. (Jackson)

We talked about wants and needs. (Cora)

My sister came to read. (Lux)

We played Bear Tracks. (Ellen)

The December calendar has lots of stuff! (Zellie)

We are going to be learning about the holiday traditions of families in our class!  Take a moment to talk with your child about the holidays you celebrate and the traditions your family has each year.  We'd love to hear what special traditions your family has at this time of year!  With your child, send our class an e-mail about the things your family does each year.  We will use these e-mails to spark conversations about different holiday customs our families have.  It would also be wonderful if you include a picture or two! Please send this email by Monday. December 16th!

Have a great night!