I just wanted to let you know that we had a surprise delivered from the North Pole on Monday! She came in this box and was ice cold!
Inside there was a letter introducing us to our classroom elf, Jingle Kringle.
If you have not heard, she is a mischievous elf. Just this week she has hung from a trapeze, had a snowball fight with a Lego man, hidden inside our first aid kit, toilet papered our Christmas tree, and even found us a new friend! Meet Randall Reindeer...
He was delivered in the same packaging as Jingle Kringle so we think Santa sent him! Randall Reindeer even came with a Naugty List...
Be sure to ask your child where Jingle is hiding each day- it will be a great way to start the "What happened at school?" conversation!
Last week we had an opportunity to do for others. Mrs. Albright shared with us that there is a six year old little girl, in first grade - just like us, who is very ill. Instead of presents and gifts, this year she is asking for a lifetime of Christmas cards. We took our independent time and created handmade cards with thoughtful letters included. Many of us shared our similarities, sent love and best wishes, etc. The kids were giving of themselves and putting others ahead of themselves. It was heartwarming to witness! I wish I would have taken photos of the beautiful cards; however, I mailed them without thinking. I believe this post is worthy even without photos...such giving children I get to spend time with each day! Thank you parents!!!
We are THANKFUL for all of our supportive parents and special guests who were able to join us for Thanksgiving Lunch this year. If you missed it, please feel free to stop by and have lunch with your child. We eat at 11:15am.
We were so excited to have earned 10 Dolphin Dollars!
Our entire class has to be caught being a respectful, responsible, role model in order to earn just one. We are thrilled to say we earned ten and picked our first reward -a guest reader.
Mrs. Ginn, our amazing principal, was our visitor.
She came to read a special story to us in November
Friday was an AMAZING day! To be honest, it is one of my favorite days we have at St. Simons Elementary. We started the day with our annual Storybook Character Parade. Here are our classroom participants:
The witch from Room on the Broom...
Hermoine from Harry Potter...
Little Red Riding Hood...
(once)
(and again)...
Amelia Bedelia...
Fancy Nancy...
R2D2 from Star Wars...
Lego Ninja from Ninjago...
Fly Guy...
Iron Man...
Bumblebee from Transformers....
Pirate Pete...
Skippyjon Jones...
The Purple Dragon...
Ninja Boy...
Wolverine...
and the penguins from Hop on Top.
We waited patiently in the hall for our turn.
When we came back,
we took advantage of more photo opts.
The Brunswick News even stopped in!
Our class was featured in Saturday's edition on page 4.
We enjoyed a special treat sent in by our room mom -
thank you Mrs. Roberts!
Finally it was time to go to the Fall Festival.
We had tons of fun jumping on the bouncy houses, playing games, earning prizes, braving the haunted house, and yes...even the dunk tank! Here is the before picture....
and the after video!
We had a picnic lunch on the front lawn with some of the parents who came to volunteer...THANK YOU
for giving your time to our school!
By the end of the day we were exhausted -
but still celebrating the special day.
We made a Witches Brew for our afternoon snack.
Another big THANK YOU to all the families who sent in items for our activity!
Here is the poem I shared with the class as I added in the "ingredients" to the pot...
Before we ate, we did a little sorting, tallying, and used our math vocabulary!
Today was wonderful and fun for all!
I am thankful for an extra hour of sleep this weekend...
