12.16.11

I can’t believe this is our last Friday of 2011.  Wow!

Here is the newsletter for next week.  Dec 19-23  We are not starting a new story next week, so we created a fun spelling list.  There will be no challenge spelling next week.

Next week I plan on sending home a letter giving information about my maternity leave, my long term sub’s contact information (Ms. McAuley), and your child’s progress and concerns since our last conference.  My first offical day of maternity leave is January 9th, but I want to give the letter out before winter break in case this baby decides to come early!

Our class did an awesome job on the Johnny Appleseed play this week.  I’m currently working on editing the video together, and will post to the blog before winter break.  Everyone worked so hard, we were able to have the video taping done in an hour!

This week we enjoyed reading with our buddy class, Mrs. Ottinger’s 4th graders.  This coming week, we will be seeing them again to play Bingo.

Zoe, and her mom, Danielle, taught us about the celebration of Chanukuh on Thursday.  We played the dreidel game, made a tasty craft, learned about the menorah, and other customs and traditions of this Jewish holiday.  The students had a lot of good questions. 

Here’s a bit of holiday laughter for you.  Charlie loves to see Santa in books and on TV.  He even talks about how he’s going to give Santa a “Big Hug!” and ask Santa for a “Crane!”  This is how his Santa picture turned out.

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