Poetry and Reading Celebrations!

We've had a surprisingly busy week! Our math penguin unit is coming to a close and this week everyone drew, painted and cut out a life-size penguin! Many are hanging in the hall outside our classroom and several are hanging in our classroom. Ask your child to tell you about his/her penguin!

Today we had a school-wide assembly to kick off our "I Love to Read" reading celebration. February is "I Love to Read" month and HCS has an annual celebration with a variety of activities. Today I sent home a reading log to be filled in each day until the 24th when all forms are due back at school. During an afternoon assembly, all entries will be in a huge box and a winner will be chosen and given a prize! Each day next week, a book trivia question will be asked during morning announcements and students may enter their answer and a winner will be chosen from all correct answers. As well, each child will have the opportunity to design a bookmark. The winning bookmark at each grade level will be copied and distributed in the library! It's a very exciting week to celebrate books and reading!

One special highlight from our week was a Thursday visit from a group of public speaking students at CVU. Their first assignment was to learn a poem and then perform it for our class! The poems were silly, children's poems and our class LOVED them! They loved them so much, that after a little encouragement from me, several students memorized a poem to perform for our class! I will videotape them and then post them for you to see! The first poet performance is Griffin and his video link is below! Very exciting!



Have a great weekend!

Happy Valentines Day!

What a loving, happy Valentines we had in our classroom! First thing in the morning as children arrived they filled each other's collection envelopes with love...and valentines and candy! They had to wait until the end of the day to open the treats and declarations of friendship and love! Knowing there would likely be candy to eat, I made each child one sugar cookie! You'd be happy to hear that the words heard most frequently that afternoon were "Thank you" as children opened valentines!

100th Day of School!

Wow! What a great day we had on the 100th day of school! Our day began when we put 100 children and a few adults in the conference with the principal...who was having a "public safety" meeting! Hee! Not sure how "safe" it was, but it sure was fun! Later, we shared our 100th day projects and then we took a walk around the wing checking out projects by kindergarten, first and second graders! Fun, fun, fun! 100 days of fun!