Merry Christmas!

Sorry, but this is going to be a quick post before I head home for break! We have had a great week of watching Prancer, making Christmas gifts, cards, birthdays, caroling, and many other things! 

Us as Santa!

Mason celebrated his half birthday this week! Happy Half-birthday, Mason!

 Morgan celebrated her birthday a little early yesterday. Happy birthday, Morgan!

 Playing with our new dice for Christmas!

 Caroling around the school! The kids loved to see the joy we brought to other by singing!

Have a Merry Christmas! 

One more week until Christmas!

We have been learning about number partners in math. We learned that the number 6 can be made by 2 and 4, but also a 5 and 1. We have been using our math trays for this, but this week we have been using our bodies! Here we are showing 4+3=7.

 Owen got a GOLDEN ZERO with the dice game! The kids were so excited! He is only the second one this year to get one! (Payton got it her first time playing.)

 TWINS!

Friday we had Grinch day and watch the movie How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Since we could dress up in green or like a character in the movie, Leah and I dressed like Cindy Lou Who! It was a pretty quiet day for us because we had 5 kids sick! Brynn and I were the only girls in the class! 

 After hearing about everyone's weekends today, I think this quick little flu bug that has been going around has hit almost everyone in the class! Good thing most were sick on the weekend so they didn't have to miss any school!

Thursday we video-conferenced with Mrs. Claus! We rode the bus all the way to the high school to see her! I bet most of you have already seen the video of us... the end shows us doing the reindeer pokey!

We were busy making gifts this week! A couple for our parents and one for our Kindergarten buddies! I did take a few more pictures, but I didn't want to spoil the surprise, so I will add them to my blog later. 

Holiday Happenings at the Cobb Public Library

MOVIE MATINEE

SHOWING: BFG

              

WHEN:Thursday, December 22 @ 1:30pm - 3:30pm

RATED: PG 

~ This is an early release day for Iowa-Grant.

~ Children 7 and younger must be accompanied by an adult.

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LEGO Morning        

WHEN:Tuesday, December 27 @ 10:00am - 11:00am

~ Children 7 and under must be accompanied by an adult.

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MOVIE MORNING

SHOWING: The Secret Life of Pets

              

WHEN: Thursday, December 29 @ 10:00am - 11:30am

RATED: PG

~ Children 7 and younger must be accompanied by an adult.

Concert Week!

 We had so much going on this week! Wow! Our week started with having extra practices for our concert on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Our new sight word is do.

Tuesday we started our morning with a Big Screen Production in the gym. The  movie was called Let's Be Friends. We learned about being a HEALer. H- help, E- empathy, A- adapt, L- love one another. The video had some pretty amazing kids in it!  Hopefully we learned about how we can be an even better friend!

Wednesday we started off the day visiting the Christmas Store! The kids were so proud to pick something out for you!(Thank you to the families that sent extra money so all students were able to get gifts!)  Wednesday was also our concert day. I hope you all enjoyed it! The kids were so proud!
You may have noticed a program in your child's folder yesterday. We made 150 copies and the kids helped to fold them. When I got back to the room at the end of the day I found a bucket with about 80 left in it! I know parents probably wanted to see the program during the concert, but at least you will have one now if you want to keep it! :) Here is the link to the Concert video if you missed it, or just want to watch it again!  https://youtu.be/wLVtnVol7Do 

Thursday I had a sub in the morning. When I got back, Mrs. Schroeder said she could tell there was a blizzard coming... or possibly a tornado! She said they were good, but very chatty! That is how the rest of the day and Friday went! I rarely have anyone move down on the behavior chart, but the last two days kids were all over! Hopefully we will be back to normal next week.
Also on Thursday we got to watch the middle school band and chorus concert! The kids loved seeing the instruments and listening to them sing!

We played some math games with dice.

 Friday morning we met with our buddies. They read us the letter they wrote for us and then we walked down together to mail it to the north pole!

 Our cute little elves!

Instead of a student gift exchange, if you'd like to send a gift for the entire class you may do that!  Some suggestions are: books, games, play doh, sparkle crayons, matchbox cars, Legos, kid sized chairs and other fun things.  Your family does not have to send a class gift, this is something you can do if you'd like to.  Again, we will NOT have a student gift exchange, this is in place of that.

Aunts to lunch is coming up soon, during the week of January 9-13!  Lunch tickets can be purchased in the office prior to coming to the room.  We head down to lunch at 11:00am and recess is about 11:30am.  

Upcoming Events

December 22nd- Early Release (There is a calendar that you might have gotten at the beginning of the year that has it listed as a full day.)

December 23-January 2nd- No School

January 3rd- School Resumes

Specials

Monday	Day A- PE	Thursday	Day D- PE & Art
Tuesday	Day B-PE & Library	Friday	Day E- PE
Wednesday	Day C-Music & Guidance	Monday	Day F- Music & Art