Congratulations to Kanden! He was our Catch the Vision award winner for November. He is very deserving of this award. He is a wonderful first grader!
We have two more weeks until our Christmas break. We will have spelling words and poetry performances for the next two weeks. This week we will construct a "Gingerbread Noun Town" and compare and contrast several different versions of the Gingerbread Boy story. We will also do an opinion writing on our favorite version of the story. Hopefully, after reading How Santa Got His Job, we can squeeze in our "Elf job application" and make a cute elf to go along with it.
On Thursday, December 15th at 1:00 we will be making Gingerbread houses. I am sending this information home also because I realized that we have such a little amount of time until that date. I will need help with several items, such as: graham crackers, stick pretzels, small candy canes, foil wrapped Santas, Christmas-tree shaped marshmallows, and any other type of Christmas candy to decorate the houses. Last year, I had things like, green and red M&M's, Christmas Dots, gum drops, gummy bears,starlight mints, Necco brand candy, etc. I will send home a list with your child and ask for specific items, but you can also send something additional if you see something that you think would work well. If you could please help by sending items to help decorate by next Tuesday, December 13th, I would so greatly appreciate it. If any of you would like to help, I would welcome you that day at 1:00.
Next week, we will be making a "secret" Christmas present. I have talked to my students about earning money for these gifts. Could you please help your child earn $1.00 for these secret gifts? You can send the $1.00 with your child anytime during the next couple of weeks.
Please send your child dressed for the weather! Unless it is snowing or raining profusely we go outside, especially during lunch break. Please have your child bring a coat, gloves, boots, hats etc. It is so hard to send cold little kids back outside for break.
I love this time of year and being surrounded by 20 First graders at Christmas time makes it even better. Spend your reading time reading some great Christmas books together.
Happy Reading!!
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