Happy Owlidays

Wishing you "Happy Owl-i-days" this holiday season.
A very special thank you to all the parents for the gifts Mrs. Mueller and myself received. Your generosity is truly appreciated.

Good Bye Miss Wescott and the Grinch

This week marked the end of Miss Wescott's student teaching experience in our classroom.  The students and I both learned so much from this experience.  We treated Miss Wescott with a special cake along with Miss Gizelbach's class, class made pencil/marker holder and t-shirt. We will miss her.

In the final week of  2013 in our class we will be celebrating the work of Dr. Seuss by learning through "How the Grinch Stole Christmas."  We will culminate this special week by having "Grinch Day" on Wednesday, Dec. 18th.  We are going to share this special day with Mrs. DeSantis' class too.  Your child is invited to wear as much green as they can.  We are allowing Santa hats to be worn on this day too.  We will have a lot of fun and at the same time learn about the author's message of this special story.

Planets and Gingerbread

This week has been out of this world.

On Tuesday we went to the Star Lab and learned about the constellations in the sky.  Star Lab is a portable inflatable classroom that the students and teachers crawl through to experience space in the middle of the day.

On Wednesday, we had a great time with Mrs. Hoffman's class orbiting around the gym to different space centers.  A special thanks to Mr. Walsh, Ava's Dad, for making up a fantastic, out of this world planet race.  Here are a few pictures of the our Planet Day fun.

The second half of the week we turned our attention to gingerbread men and girls.  We enjoyed making them in class and eating them even more.  Our delicious treats were sent home to share with families members too. Hopefully they made it home and did not RUN AWAY!!!

We also used all of our reading, public speaking, and acting skills in our own version of the play called The Gingerbread Man.  Each child had lines to read and a special part to say.  Our audience was Ms. Black.  I must admit we have some budding actors and actresses in the class.  Watch out Broadway.

Thank you to all the generous donations for this year's PTA holiday Basket Drive.  Of all the classrooms, our box was overflowing with donations.  Our special little girl is going to be all smiles this Christmas thanks to your donations.