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I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! I enjoyed my time off, but am always eager to get back to school.
Here are a few things you might want to put on your calendar. Breakfast With Santa is this Saturday morning. I will be working at the breakfast somewhere. I haven't yet received my assignment. Dec. 7th is an early dismissal day at 1:40p.m. The winter music program is Dec. 14th at 9:30a.m. Our classroom party will be Dec. 16th at 2:00p.m.
One thing I am very sorry to tell you is I will be missing our party this year. I will be on a plane to Ithaca, New York that day. My daughter is graduating from Cornell University. However, I do have a wonderful substitute lined up. If you are the head room parent for this event please send me an email and we can plan things a little in advance so I can give my substitute a heads up.  

I sent this week's spelling test home today. About nine students received 100%, but some of the others missed several words. I told them if they had 100% on their test they would not have to take the test next time. Any student who missed one or more words will be tested on the same list the Wednesday after Thanksgiving. Here is another copy of the list if you need one to help your child study. get, yes,all,our,big,is,saw, let, run, put 

Have a wonderful weekend, and please remember our Kids Who Care collection! Thanks!!!

FYI: We have a spelling test tomorrow. 
          Tomorrow is early dismissal  (1:40)
                       Thursday is library day!

Veteran's Day

What a wonderful Veteran's Day celebration! The students did a super job sitting and listening to all the veterans talk about their experiences in the service. Our Character Choir was superb as usual. Have a super weekend!

Tomorrow is library day. Please remind your student to bring their library books tomorrow! We go to the library every Thursday at 12:30p.m. 
Friday is Veterans Day. We are asking all the students to wear blue in honor of this occasion.
We love guest readers! Stop by our class any day at noon and you may read your favorite children's book to the class!

Attention, First Grade Artists!

The character-inspired artwork that first grade students created in Art class will be on display during the Holiday Reading Festival at Crestwood Court (the old Crestwood Mall, closest to the LensCrafter entrance).  The festival will take place on Friday, December 2 (11a.m.-8pm), Saturday, December 3 (10am-5p.m.), and Sunday, December 4 (12-5pm).  In addition to the Art display and book fair, there will be visits from Clifford the Big Red Dog and Bruce Degen, the creator of the Magic School Bus series.  If you would like more information, please email Mrs. Mikolajczak.

                                          Answering questions about their pumpkin.
 

                                           How many marbles does your pumpkin weigh?
 

                                          How many unifix cubes tall is your pumpkin?
 

                                           Labeling the bones of the skeleton.
 

                                           What is the circumference of your pumpkin?
 

Halloween 10-31-11

We had a wonderful Halloween party. Thank you to everyone who came and helped with the parade and party! I took a class photo of all the students dressed in their costumes. I will post it on this blog as soon as I get a chance. Since we had so many late baseball games last week and trick or treating this week, I did not give a spelling test. I sent home a new list today that the students will be tested on next Wednesday.