We are so lucky to have the best volunteers from the community come and help in our classroom! Some of our favorite helpers are grandparents of students in our classes! 

Preschoolers are excited to be back at school after the holiday break. We are welcoming back all our friends and are excited to learn about pets this month! We are loving all our stuffed pet friends and taking care of them. We especially love the snakes!

This week we did a fun Christmas challenge in Library that included silly Would You Rather? questions, naming Santa’s reindeer, and singing Jingle Bells with a mouth full of marshmallows. And of course, reading holiday poems and stories!

The fifth graders are doing a play called “A Christmas Carol,” and they are working very hard so they can impress their parents when they come to watch (or watch the video). The main character is Ebenezer Scrooge played by Luke. My role is the Ghost of Christmas Past. Something cool about my role is that since I am the Ghost of Christmas Past I get to lead Ebenezer through time and show him some stuff from the past. As a class, we have learned from Ebenezer Scrooge that it is never too late to make changes. Merry Christmas!

This week 2nd Grade performed our Christmas program. They worked so hard and did an amazing job. We are so grateful we were able to sing in person this year! Second graders sang Feliz Navidad, Melekalikimaka, Walking in our Winter Underwear, and I want a hippopotamus for Christmas. We even had our special guest hippo join us! 

Over the past week or so. Mr.  Haslam’s class has been hard at work applying for a jobs to be one of Santa elf’s. They are excited to see if they are going to be hired. They are even more excited to move to the North Pole to work. Sad thing is when you get paid in candy canes you can’t buy much. 

 

We have loved having Mrs. Brockbank at our school to help us integrate music into other subjects. During this lesson, we were practicing summarizing a text to a fun beat with plastic cups! 

Now that the cold weather, snow, and rain is here we sometimes spend mornings and recess in our classrooms.  On inside days our class enjoys building and playing games together. Students build skills that help them work together and play together. The weather never stops our students from having fun! 

The 5th graders are learning about the American Revolution, and today Miss Owen's class did a Readers' Theater presentation of a play called No Taxation Without Representation! In groups, they rehearsed, made their own props, and performed for the class. The play is about how King George made the colonists pay taxes they felt were unfair and how the colonists responded. We learned a lot and had a lot of fun!