December Pictures!

Our debt-free kiddos! They paid their desk off! Now they are desk owners and will not have to pay rent any longer! This will in turn allow them to save more money! Yeah! Good Job! Maybe in January, we will have more desk owners!
Store keeper Price helping customer Maddie!

Bankers, Kaylee, Beau, and Riley hard at work!

Bank customer Brielle making a transaction!

More Christmas trees done!

Here is the end result of all that hard work: a beautiful snow covered forest!

Polar PJ Day! Thanks to all the moms who gave up a few hours to help out! I couldn't have done it without you! Kids, you did a great job rotating through your stations and having good etiquette!

Christmas Party!!

Merry Christmas from my family to yours!

Polar PJ Day coming up!

Volunteers for Polar PJ Day - I sent a note home with your child yesterday about what station you have and when to come. Hopefully, you received it. :) Our stations start about 8:15. Can't wait! Thanks so much for helping out!

Week of Dec. 14th

Wow! One week before Christmas Break! This week will be a fun week with many things to look forward to. We have Polar PJ Day, a Christmas party, a kindergarten program, kindergarten partners, and the Glenwood Christmas Sing-a-long to name a few! Christmas is such a special time of year, especially in the lives of children. Hopefully, 4th grade will be a year of special memories! We will be finishing up our study of animals this week in science. We have also been working on map skills and will continue with that this week as well. Math will be review and we will be reading a lot! The spelling list will be Christmas words. I will add them to spellingcity.com on Monday. Your children have been great fun and such sweeties. They have been so kind to each other and have been doing wonderful acts of random kindness! We talked about anonymous giving being the best kind of giving. They are doing a good job with that! Praise them at home! Enjoy the pictures!


Gingerbread Houses! This was crazy fun.......when I say crazy fun, I mean the kids were crazy having fun! They settled down nicely once we got nestled into a little nap time in the room! :)

Thanks moms for helping with this special day! You're the best!

The children did superb with this tedious, yet beautiful Christmas tree project!

Edible animal cells! Yum! Yum!

Special Day info!

Gingerbread houses are coming up this Friday! If you posted on the blog, emailed, or told me that you could come, please be here at 1:40 to help distribute supplies. Thanks so very much! I greatly appreciate it!

Polar PJ day is next Friday! It will be a very fun day too! If you volunteered for this day, please be here that morning by 8:15. If you want to join in on the spirit of the occasion, wear your pj's! :) Once again thanks for giving up your time to help! I couldn't pull off days like this without you!

Week of December 7th

What a wonderful time of year! The children and I are having so much fun getting into the Christmas spirit! I am SO enjoying your precious babies! They are so much fun and hard workers. I also love their excitement about learning too! Here is what is happening next week:

Reading - Literature circles - The kids are doing great with this! I'm hearing some great discussions about what they are reading as well as hearing good predictions! Predicting is an important reading skill and book discussions help the children learn keys to comprehension from each other.

Math - We've been doing a lot of estimating products. We also practiced multiplying 2 digit by 1 digit numbers on the smart board. Next week, we will spend the whole week multiplying 2 and 3 digit by 1 digit numbers. Please keep practicing the times tables with your child if he/she doesn't know them. When we get back from Christmas break, we will be multiplying 2 and 3 digit numbers by 2 digit numbers.

Science - Animals We had fun this week making "edible animal cells"! I will post some pics soon of the kids! We have also been working on animal reports. These reports and pictures are due next Wednesday. The children KNOW this. We've talked a lot about it in class and I've given them 2 times in class to work on the research part. Most are done with the research and just need to write their report out neatly or type and print it at home. You may help your child with the typing part if they choose to type it. I sent a hard copy of the directions home on Tuesday for this project.

Spelling - Suffixes List 14 on spellingcity.com Enriched words are the "o" list.

English - Possessive pronouns, also daily English review

Spanish - We will have a Spanish quiz on Friday over family member names like abuela, tio, etc. I will send home a study guide on Monday.

Our class won the Box Tops Contest! Yeah! We will be having a pizza - movie party as a reward! We will be watching a movie that relates to the spirit of Christmas and what I want your children to be doing, always of course, but especially this month! ARK- Acts of Random Kindness The children will be drawing names and doing anonymous kind acts for this person. Help your child think of things they can do for his/her person. They are excited about this project!

Don't forget the 3 exciting days ahead..............Gingerbread Houses on Dec. 11th and Polar PJ Day on Dec. 18th. The Christmas party is Dec. 17th at 2:00! Fun times!