Valentine's Day week!

This week has been filled with a lot of excitement for Valentine's Day, which is coming up this Saturday.  We have been working hard on decorating our bags, writing names on Valentine's at home and then delivering all of our cards!  Not only have we participated in Valentine's traditions but we have learned all about what Valentine's Day is.  Please remember that if you have not already sent in your Valentine's cards, they cannot be sent in with any kind of candy, food, or small treat.  This is a District policy.  I hope that you and your families enjoy this special time of year with one another!
 

Jump Rope for Heart!

We had Jump Rope for Heart today!  It was so much fun cheering on our friends and working our hearts.  We have learned so much this week about the heart and cannot wait to start exercising more to keep our hearts healthy!!

Kindness Challenge

We have had so much fun with our "Kindness Challenge" this week!  Throughout the week we have been dressing up, but we have also been learning a lot about what kindness is and how to be kind to everyone.  We have still been recording our "acts of kindness" at school and we are hoping that the kids are participating in the "Kindness Challenge" at home too.  The check off sheet that we sent home on Monday is filled with great activities to help encourage and teach your children about kindness.  Here is a picture from our "superhero day"!  Our superpower is kindness!!

Ice Experiments

Well unlike last week, we are enjoying our time outside in the beautiful, warm sun!  We have started our ice experiments this week and are so excited to learn more!  Here is a picture of our first ice experiment.  We are using our five senses to help us learn about and describe ice!

Cold, Rainy Weather

This week has been a great week!  We have made great choices, continued to give and receive "Gifts of Nothing" and got several compliments from other teachers, other students and even from parents!!  Unfortunately the weather has not been as great.  The cold, rainy weather has kept us from playing outside during recess.  We have had a great time during free centers, but hopefully next week will come with some sunshine and warmer weather!!

Gifts of Nothing

Many of you have probably heard your kids talk about "gifts of nothing" at home. After winter break we decided to read the book The Gift of Nothing by Patrick McDonnell again.  We have had a great time thinking about and giving others "gifts of nothing" this week. Some of the things that we have been doing in class is pushing in chairs for others, letting other people go first and helping our friends clean up their area.  I hope that the excitement of giving "gifts of nothing" have been showing up at home too!  We look forward to giving and receiving even more "gifts of nothing" during the month of January.

2014-2015 Blog

Ok, so I am finally going to try and get our classroom blog back up and running!! Please continue to check back for coverage of some events going on in our classroom!