Dr. Seuss Week!

It's Dr. Seuss' Birthday Week! 
Tuesday: Wear Green for Green Eggs and Ham!
Wednesday: Silly Socks Day!
Thursday:Hat Day to honor Cat in the Hat!
Friday: Pajama Day!

AM Valentine Party

Avarie's mom came to do an art/science project. The kids loved it!

Emma's mom came and made Valentine necklaces. It was a great way to strengthen fine motor skills!

Emma's mom brought a beanbag game and they were able to retrieve a prize from the cups!

We all love Mrs. Patrick!

PM Valentine Party

The mailbags were lined up with care

Three Amigos!

Kinnley and her mom made the robots!

Thank you to everyone who donated treats and treasures for our party!

Mr. and Mrs. Rowe came and helped make party hats!

Javin loved his party day!Eva

Eva was a Valentine princess

Pretty Brooklyn!

Afternoon Class Buddies!

The afternoon class also did the buddy program...they did a great job! They worked well and stayed together for half of our free-choice time!

Jesse and Jackson

Lillian and Olivia

Preston and Javin

Kinnley and Kendra

Eva teamed up with Mrs. Halcomb!

Morning Class Buddies!

We decided to work with buddies this morning! We are encouraging positive peer pressure and teamwork. Half of the children picked their buddy and the teams worked together as they started their day during free choice time...it was awesome to see them compromise on what activity to begin at! They watched out for each other and helped each other along!

Violet and Olivia M

Tucker and Olivia J

Cyrus and Spencer

Avarie and Gabriel

Clara and Loghan

I Love My Readers!

I work hard to instill a love for books and reading in my students! Even though they might not read words, they can read the pictures...and many children memorize the text of their favorite stories.

Alex is one of our high school helpers. He comes over a few mornings a week and the kids really like him!

Elizabeth is also one of our twice-weekly morning helpers. She walks in and automatically starts working with the students!

Reading to self

Reading with a buddy

Everyday when we first get to school, the children are taught to grab a book and 'grow their brain' by reading from one of their favorites.

Jackson loves Kinnley to read to him

Valentine Party

Our morning class will have a Valentine's Day party on Friday, Feb 12, at 10:15. We will dismiss at our normal time.  
Our afternoon class will have their Valentine's Day party on Thursday, Feb 11, at 2:25. We will dismiss at our normal time. The afternoon class will not have school on Friday, Feb 12 due to an early school dismissal.
The children are welcome to send in Valentines for their classmates. I've included a class list at the end of this post. You can address each one individually or just sign the 'from' part. (They can start coming in any day next week.)
If you would like to sign up for an open slot, just let me know. If you sign up for a craft or game, you can attend that day and instruct the class (I'd be happy to help you gather supplies, if needed)...game ideas are just any fun "old-school" party games like a beanbag toss or pin-the-arrow-on-the-cupid, etc... craft ideas could be as easy as decorating a white party sack...

AM Valentine List                       PM Valentine List

Boys:                                             Boys:

Spencer                                         Jackson

Tucker                                           Javin

Cyrus                                            Preston

Gabriel                                          Jesse

Girls:                                           Girls:

Loghan                                         Kendra

Ava                                               Brooklyn

Emma                                           Olivia

Olivia J.                                        Lillian

Olivia M.                                      Kinnley

Violet                                            Eva

Clara                                             Jordynn

Avarie

Pancakes, Pancakes!

We read the book, "Pancakes, Pancakes" by Eric Carle and then made our own pancakes! We followed the book and topped our pancakes with strawberry jam (some students chose to have a plain one), yum!