BEST DAY

     Hi all!  We had the best day ever today!  The children were so well behaved, that I wondered if it was even my class.  We all earned warm fuzzies and signed the gold book as a class.  The day absolutely flew by and was full of laughs.  It was a day that reminds me how much I love my job.

     We started with more Cinderella.  We read Princess Furball, which was quite different than the other Cinderella stories we've read and one that the children have been anxious to read.  We then moved on to the play Cinderella Bigfoot.  Boy did the children enjoy that story!!  Some of them were laughing so hard that they could barely read their lines.  It was great fun.  We loved it so much, I think we will change rolls and read it again tomorrow.

     We got handmade postcards from our pen pals too.  This is their last week of school.  We quickly made them bookmarks with some summer reading suggestions from each of us.  I put them into the mail and their teacher said she'd mail them to the students along with their report cards.

      I am personally feeling SUPER hip these days.  This weekend, I took the family to Library Park for the Relay for Life.  While there, I got this super cool purple streak in my hair.  Then today, a wonderfully creative parent used my hand as a palatte for this totally awesome henna tattoo.  I L-O-V-E it.  My daughter is SOOO jealous and I feel like a million bucks!

tattoo step one 

finished product

Bad Picture but COOL hair

     

     Remember, progress reports go home Friday and closed toe shoes must be worn on the climbing structure for recess.  Pack safe shoes for your child to change into for recess if they are wearing sandals.  

     Here are some more pics from our classroom.

charting our stories

Learing about magnets

Our biographies

     Memorial Day program Friday at 1:30!
 

   

Behavior Management

     Howdie!  I feel like I haven't been updating as much as I'd like.  I think with the nice weather and the boys sport schedule my free time is pretty much nonexistent.  I'm sure you all can relate to that.

     The newest thing going on in our classroom is our behavior management chart.  This was a necessity.  I'm not sure what happened after April vacation but I think there is a BAD case of spring fever going around.  I've been hearing more complaints and have come home with more headaches than I care to.  I was at the breaking point so we started a cloths pin chart.  The details were sent home in the report cards.  We have created a calendar (dated 2012 oops), for them to keep in their home folder and each afternoon they color the date with the corresponding color on the chart they ended the day with.

     Mrs. Zottoli also made us a "lunch sun".  If we earn 15 "rays" we get extra recess.  If we get a bad report, seats may have to be assigned in the lunch room.  I'm hoping we have some incentive to be the best we can be.

     We've been making and reading lots of graphs in class as well as working on our biographies.  They should be ready to go home to practice this week so we can present them Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of next week.  The students are encouraged to dress up as their characters.  This doesn't have to be elaborate.  It may just be a prop.  For example, an apple for Johnny Appleseed.  We also finished reading Horrible Harry and the Dragon War.  Be sure to ask your child what the war was all about.

     Friday is circus day!  Please pack a lunch and snack in two separate disposable bags.  If the weather is nice maybe we can picnic on City Hall Plaza.

COOL???

     Today was sort of a sad awakening for me.  We had a super cool laser show.  The presenter did a little lesson on lasers and space, then we watched a fun laser show to music.  That is when I realized that I'm just not as cool as I thought.  The songs played were all songs I've heard before and every child knew all the words.  Guess what?  I knew maybe one word from the chorus of each song.  The others words.....I couldn't even figure out what in the world they were!!!  When did I turn into my mother?  YIKES

     Wednesday is WALKING WEDNESDAY.  Let's reclaim that trophy.

     The last day of school has been set, Wednesday, June 26.  YIKES again.  That is sooo late.  I hope we can make it  :-).

     The children picked out biographies from the library today.  That does not mean you are stuck with that person for your project.  Feel free to make any changes necessary.

     The newest member to our extended classroom family is due any second now.  Let's all wish good thoughts that BABY D arrives healthy and SOON!!!!!