Oh my gosh

What a looooooooong week! The kids should sleep long and hard this weekend because they are tired. Of me? Of school? They need a break and there's a whole other week to go. We will have a Christmas party next Friday afternoon. On Monday I will send out an email with things for which to sign up. I am going to put everyone in the TO box, as opposed to the bcc box!!! If you don't want your email shared with the rest of the families in 2P, let me know beforehand please. I am going to make gingerbread cookies with your kids next Friday morning. If there is a mom who LIKES preparing the soft, ready to cut and bake stuff, please let me know. If not, your kids could get food poisoning!!! Hate paragraphs. We will spend much time outdoors next week too. Learning and doing is the only way to go! We might even skate on the basketball court rink too! No rest for the wicked. I go take my 14 yr old to swim club now. Kind of a selfish registration because I can swim while he does!! I haven't bought one single xmas gift yet, but for my educational assistants!! Should I be worried?

Dec 12

Great day. We played some math games on the smartboard this morning and had fun. We watched the grades 4-6 concert in the afternoon before we built graham cracker gingerbread houses with our reading buddies. We will decorate next week. Please send in a small ziploc with decorative candy for you child to finish up their house. Homework: Your child should discuss what xmas means to them and their family so that they may write about it tomorrow in class. Got to go decorate tree as I was too pooped last night. If you have a picture or three of the xmas concert, not eighty, please send them. I couldn't take any as I was making sure the actions and volume were good. I hate paragraphs. Later skaters! Oh yeah! One of my students is giving twelve gifts of xmas and I love it! Thanks. I am trying to figure it out:) On that note, I love getting gifts but please don't feel obliged to get me something. If you child is adamant, I love home-made gifts or donations on my behalf. Again, it is not necessary. My gift is being lucky enough to teach wonderful kids and get paid for it:)

Tuesday, December 11

Hello all! 1PM was concert and we rocked it! 6:45PM, you may bring your kids into the classroom. 7PM is xmas concert start time. At 8PM I will go home and decorate my tree with my boys. At 9:30PM I will go to bed. Tomorrow, I will get up and swim from 6-7. When I get to school, I will plan a day that includes an afternoon of tobogganing and then we will start to make little gingerbread houses with our reading buddies. Next week we will decorate them. If you have graham crackers lying around the cupboard and would like to send them in, perfect. If you have extra icing too, thanks. I will buy enough for everyone tomorrow at lunch.


I plan on doing something in the kitchen on the last day before xmas holidays. I will either make breakfast for the kids, or ginger bread cookies and allow them to decorate. I will let you know asap.

December 10....only 15 more sleeps!!!!!

 

 

Cold day and fresh air results in red cheeks and refreshed kids:)

Sometimes I force your kids to eat the food you give them!

The last 8 pictures are of your children reading to a friend. 

Tomorrow is Christmas concert 2012 and your child should wear pajamas and, if they have one, a robe and, if they have them, slippers. No teddies as they will need their hands for actions. The doors for the evening concert open at 6:30PM. Please keep them with you until 6:45PM. At that time the classroom doors will be open for them to come in.

Today we learned about how they celebrate Christmas/December in Czechoslovakia and Mexico. Ask them if they recall from country believes that a saint comes down from the heavens on a golden rope accompanied by an angel and a devil! Ask them where the children don't get gifts until January 6. The answers are Czech and Mexico respectively.