Week of November 28, 2010

Hello Parents!

Thank you to everyone for an amazing amount of corn donated by my class! The Thanksgiving Feast would not have been a success without your help!

The spelling words for this week are:

1. Kitten

2. frog

3. dog

4. fish

5. puppy

6. pet

7. little

8. funny

9. snow man

10. winter

Speaking of winter, it is getting COLD in the morning! Please make sure your child has a coat or jacket available to them. LPA sweatshirts are available for purchase at the front office. Also, please make sure that you have your child's name on his/her jacket... we have so many that look alike. Hats, hoodies or gloves are not to be worn IN class.

Thanks! Mrs. C

Week of Nov. 22, 2010

Happy Thanksgiving week to my students and families!

We will have a very short week this week, with a regular school day being Monday, followed by our school wide Thanksgiving Feast for staff and students on Tuesday. The first grade classes are responsible for providing corn for the ENTIRE school, and already I have had several cans of corn show up in class! Thanks to all who have been helping out.

If you are planning on bringing in a dish of HOT corn on Tuesday, if you need your container back, please make sure you have your name, your child's name, my name and grade level clearly marked on the outside of the container somewhere... masking tape works great.

Due to the short week, there will be NO spelling words this week OR nightly homework.

Please be sure to look for our annual "Thanksgiving Cookbook" that the children made for your enjoyment. There are sure to be some yummy and very unique recipe's in there this year.... one that I know I'd love to try but the meat would probably be cost prohibitive!!

Enjoy the holidays with family and friends! We will see everybody back on Monday, Nov. 29th!

Thanks, Mrs. C

November 15, 2010

I hope everybody had a great day off in honor of the Veteran's Day last week!

We have a lot of things going on this month and next before the winter break.

The 3 first grade classes are in charge of providing corn for the entire school including teachers for our Thanksgiving Feast on Nov. 23rd. Please help us out and send in either hot corn in a dish the morning of Nov. 23rd OR cans of corn prior to the 23rd. Thanks for your help.

The spelling words for this week are as follows:

1. is

2. are

3 was

4. were

5. has

6. had

7. have

8. come

9. winter

10. holiday

Parents please keep an eye out for a couple of special things coming home prior to the winter break. The first item is our annual "thanksgiving cookbook" which will be sent home the Monday prior to Thanksgiving. It is full of yummy recipe's from the whole class!

The second item is our winter special project which is a take off from the book "Flat Stanley." We change it a bit for the holidays... and make it the "Flat Gingerbread man." There is a full sheet of instructions for you to send it to a friend, or relative in another city, another state or perhaps another country. The host is to keep a daily log for about a week of the events and places that the Flat Gingerbread Man goes... and then either email the events and photos back to me or send it in the regular mail. This is a great adventure for the kids and they LOVE getting mail and hearing the adventure that their gingerbread man had while visiting out of town!

Thanks again for your help and support! Mrs. C