A Ride on the Polar Express

Today we had a Polar Express/ craft afternoon. The kids came in and we had the table set with hot cocoa, a mini candy cane to stir, marshmallows and donuts. Then we made these cute candy cane reindeer. It was a fun time.

Colin found the silver reindeer bell hidden under his chair and received the first bell of the party. We also made candy canes out of beads and pipe cleaners.

The family we adopted

Yesterday I had the privilege of delivering gifts directly to one of the families that our school adopted. It was so special to see first hand how truly appreciative these kids were for what we gave them.

The older girls wrote thank you letters to our families and I wanted to quote a bit for you "...You made me realize that there are still good, caring, loving people in the world and when I grow up I want to do the same things you are doing for us and to other needy people. You are an inspiration to my life. . . Thank you for bringing a smile to my face and all of my families face. . .I didn't know other people could bring joy to others life God bless you a million times. " I just want to share the appreciation with all of you. Thank you to those families that donated items.

Star of the Week

LAUREN

Little Reader

During some free reading time today Lauren was reading her favorite Dr. Seuss book to Colin and Jack.

More great artwork

Frosty the Snowman

I am always amazed at how artistic my class is, we made these cute snowmen and they did a great job. We drew them with white crayon then traced the white crayon with glue, let it dry over night then colored them in with pastels.

Flower Man Visits Us

Today a guy from the Flower Fields came to do a presentation in our class, it was a lot of fun and our kids are excited to visit the fields in the spring. Each child got to plant a flower but we are waiting until we get back from break to water them that way we will be able to see them sprout.

Star of the Week

Colin

Fall Festival

Today was the fall festival and we had a great time. This morning we started out with the parade around school, then we came into our class and had a snack then we played musical chairs and Halloween twister. This afternoon we went to each classroom and played games, it was very exciting. The class favorites were the feely box and the donuts on a fishing line.

This weeks Star is. . .

COLE

Last week's Star of the Week was. . .

I goofed and didn't get his picture posted last week. Sorry Jack you were a great Star.

Jack

Happy Diwali

Ketan's mom came in today and share with us the celebration of Diwali ~ The Festival of Lights we learned that it is a celebration in India and they get to eat a lot of sweets and light candles to celebrate victory of our good over our evil. She drew lanterns for us and we got to decorate them with sequins and crayons, markers and colored pencils. She also made a very sweet rice pudding.

Inside P.E.

Yesterday morning it was very wet here at school so Miss Deven came to our class and did P.E. our favorite game was "Ghost, Ghost, gobblin" it was so much fun.

Halloween Painting

We got to paint halloween boards with our 2nd and 3rd grade friends, it was very fun.

Look at what they did!

Thank you for helping if you came to the campus beautification on Saturday, the campus looks amazing. On Friday when we got back from the Pumpkin patch all the dead "monsters" were gone and then on Saturday they planted all these great flowers outside our classroom. We are having fun taking care of them. My stepson is going to make a planter box for us and we are going to grow our own vegetables. We can not wait.

Pumpkin Patch

We had such a wonderful time at the pumpkin patch yesterday, it was super hot and dusty, but the kids had a great time as soon as they got out of the maze, that was the worst for them. We also went on the tractor ride, ate lunch, played duck duck goose, saw a lot of animals and picked out our own pumpkin. It was a great trip. I will send out all the pictures on Monday.

Spiders, spiders everywhere

Today we made these cute spider webs and spiders. How much fun it was to draw our own webs, they did a great job. You are so lucky to have such wonderful children.

Pumpkin T-Shirts

Today we painted our faces on our t-shirts they came out so cute! We are going to be the best dressed school at the pumpkin patch.

Columbus Day

Today in class we talked about Christopher Columbus. We made these cute hats and read the book In 1492. We pretended we were on one of his ships and what it would be like. It was great to watch them pretend they found land.

Happy Birthday Cole

We went on a pumpkin hunt . .

One of the local temples donated 12 Mac Daddy pumpkins to our school, so after snack this morning we went on a pumpkin hunt to see how many we could find. We found them all! These pumpkins will become some of our math and science activities over the next couple of weeks. Check them out next time you are on campus.