New room

On July 15, I walked into my new room. This is how it looked.

Cute photo

These are my parents on their wedding day about 55 years ago. I believe the year was 1958.

Aren't they adorable?

Sharing our yearbooks with each other.

Author Celebration

Our authors had a wonderful time reading to all the family members who came. Thank you so much for taking time to volunteer at school.

Author Celebration

Author Celebration

Author Celebration

Please remember

Please remember parents are invited to bring a snack for their student and themselves on Friday the tenth at 2:00pm. We will be having our author celebration. You can share a snack and listen to your young scholar read some of their first grade writings to you. See you Friday.

A wonderful surprise.

I received a lovely letter from a past student today. She is now a ninth grader at LHS. It truly made my year. If you had a special teacher, don't forget to tell them. You have no idea what it will mean to them.

Describing words

We used marshmallows to practice descriptive writing. You should have seen how they savored those marshmallows when they finally got to eat them!

Seeds

Our poem for last week.

Ladybug Liftoff!

We finally released our ladybugs into the wild!

Inflatable fun

The inflatables are tons of fun. I couldn't resist going down the big slide myself!

Ladybug Land

We are watching our Ladybug larva change into pupa today!

Shapes Video

Spring Break

I had a very nice time over Spring Break. One of the things I did was give Oscar a bath and haircut. He also got to play in the snow. He didn't actually like the deepest part of the snow. It was too cold on his belly!

Poem Cat Kisses

We actually made two poem videos this week!!

Our class leprechaun

This is LTL's house. He is a leprechaun who is visiting our classroom. He is a little crabby. We write letters to him. LTL stands for Lucky The Leprechaun. We are hoping he will write back to us.

A Poem from a couple of weeks ago

Here is a video we did a couple of weeks ago for our unit on counting change.

FYI

Your student probably told you that I scheduled a substitute last Friday so I could spend time with my daughter and her boyfriend who had traveled with her from Maryland. My daughter was a bridesmaid in a wedding on Saturday and they flew back to Baltimore Sunday morning. I had a great time with my daughter. All the bridesmaids and the bride got ready at our house Saturday morning, so that was fun as well.

Your student may or may not have told you a version of what happened on Monday. I arrived at work early to prepare for the day. Toni called me over the PA and said to call the office. As it turned out, my husband was having some of heart rhythm problems and a coworker drove him to the ER. I grabbed my purse and ran out the door to meet them at the hospital. Anyway, after spending a long time at the ER he was sent home with a heart monitor and must now go see a cardiologist next Monday. Sorry if I seemed a little unorganized the next day on our field trip and also that I did't answer some of your emails right away. Hopefully we will find out what, if anything, is going on with Greg's heart, and what to do about it.

Thanks very much to those grown ups who were able to go to the zoo with us. It was a wonderful trip. I LOVED the sea lions!

Oscar's Visit

We recently got to 100 points again. To celebrate, the students voted for Oscar (my dog) to come for a visit. He showed off doing some of his tricks.

Our zoo class

Our zoo class was all about habitats. We also got to meet animals from four different habitats.

Our zoo trip

We had a wonderful time at the zoo. The new sea lion exhibit was a big hit!