Our Mischievous Elf

Look what Chippy has been up to this week...

Getting a bird's eye view of the room.

Proving that elves can sort too.

Getting into trouble with his friend, Wilbur (Ms. Wyskida's elf).

He chose Read to Someone during Daily Five.

What will Friday bring?

We Have a Special Visitor

Look what arrived for us today...

And inside was a very exciting surprise from the North Pole...

The class named our blue eyed elf Chippy.  Chippy is gonna keep his blue eyes on all of the kids over the next three weeks and report back to Santa on who's being naughty and who's being nice. :)

Happy Thanksgiving

I missed all of you at the feast today, but hope everyone enjoyed the food, and most importantly, the fellowship with your family and friends.

I wanted to wish everyone a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday.  If you are traveling, stay safe.  The weather certainly doesn't want to cooperate.

I'd like to leave you with a few pictures from our Thanksgiving activities...

We read "Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving" by Dav Pilkey.   Pilkey adapts Clement Moore's classic Christmas poem to tell his wacky Thanksgiving tale. The day before Thanksgiving, eight boys and girls take a field trip to a turkey farm. They have fun playing with eight exuberant turkeys but are shocked to learn that Farmer Mack Nuggett plans to kill all the turkeys for Thanksgiving dinners. So the children decide to smuggle all the turkeys home, and all their Thanksgiving dinners become vegetarian this year. The turkeys' lives are saved!

So, if your child says "No!" to turkey this year, you know why :)  Here is a list of what they want to eat instead:

Every PALS class had the opportunity to prepare something for our big Thanksgiving Feast.  The kindergarten classes made butter.  They were surprised to learn that butter was made solely from heavy whipping cream (and sometimes salt).  And they were even more surprised to learn that it thickens into butter simply by shaking the contents - vigorously shaking that is.   We had some aching arms by the time it was all said and done!

 
For the feast our class posed as Pilgrims while Ms. Wyskida's class took on the Indians.  We sure did have the sweetest bunch of Pilgrims, in my very biased opinion :)

I hope you all received the adorable placemats the kids made for you.  I wanted to preserve them better by either laminating them or putting clear contact paper over them.  We ran out of time on Monday :(  If you want to do it on your own, the easiest thing to do is wrap it in clear contact paper - otherwise you can take it to Kinkos and have it laminated.

When we return from the holiday break, we will be celebrating Addyson Milanov as our Star Student!

Addyson has worked so hard to improve in all areas of the classroom.  Her hard work has brought a bunch of pluses and a whole lot of rewards - not to mention lots of hugs and smiles from me.  I am so proud of her! :)

Star Student

We are celebrating Mallory Thorn as our Star Student this week!

Mallory has been working really hard to earn the honor of Star Student.  She fully engages herself in class lessons, she always participates and, most importantly, she loves to learn!  Mallory always has a smile on her face and displays the qualities of a great leader.  We are lucky to have her as a part of our classroom community.

Thanks to Our Veterans

We celebrated Veteran's Day by learning who our veterans are and why they are so important to us.   We give a BIG thank you to those veterans who have fought or are fighting for us and our freedom!

Apples Everywhere

It was all about apples last week!

We made apple prints...

We tasted different apples and graphed our favorites...

We came up with adjectives to describe the apples...

We also did such a cute activity to go along with Dr. Seuss' book Ten Apples Up on Top.  I absolutely adore the kid's faces!

Elizabeth is back from Disney, so we are allowing her this week to reign as Star Student.  A new Star Student will be chosen on Friday!

Have a great week!