Friday Cooking

A BIG thank you goes to Lauren's mom for coming to our classroom this past Friday for cooking.  Our cooking friends made Peppermint Play Dough for all of us to enjoy:)  Each child came home with yummy smelling play dough and a list of our kindergarten sight words so each child could practice rolling out the words and letters.  We LOVE our cooking volunteers!

Our New January Mystery Bag!

Nina has been hard at work again and sent us a January Mystery Bag!  She even included some Snowman Peeps and the children cannot wait to have one but I told them that they would have to wait until January.  We wrote another thank you note to Nina.  The children told her that she is a giver and a bucket-filler!  The fact that they realize those qualities in her makes me tear up...I just love my little friends:)

Can you believe it.....Day 70!

Zero the Hero came this past Monday to celebrate the 70th day of school!  He even told us his last name!  Ask your child if he or she remembers:)

Kids' Food Basket Collection ~ Dec. 17- Jan. 18

  Spreading kindness in our community! 

The Kids’ Food Basket is dedicated to attacking childhood hunger.  They currently provide sack suppers to more than 4,800 kids every day during the school year!  For several years, Lakeside Elementary has supported the Grand Rapids Kids’ Food Basket with our spring “Hike For Kids”.  We are continuing our efforts in support of our local Kids’ Food Basket 

with a winter food collection.

January 21^st is Martin Luther King Day.  On that day, we will remember the courage, love and service of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in an all-school assembly.  Following the assembly, students will make Breakfast Bundles, as well as decorate “supper sacks” for Kids’ Food Basket.

Thank you in advance for your support to our 

local Kids’ Food Basket!

Please see below the food item requested for your child’s grade level:

Young Fives & Kindergarten                                            

single-serving cereal boxes                                                                                                                                   

First Grade                                                                                  100% juice boxes (less than 7 oz.)

                                                                    

Second Grade                                                                     

100% Vitamin C fruit snacks                                                   

Third grade

Pop Tarts                                                                               

Fourth grade

Pop Tarts

Fifth grade

single-serving cereal boxes

* Collections begin: December 17^th and ends January 18^th.

Our Latest Chapter Book Read Alouds

Life after Mercy Watson...hard to believe! The Mercy Watson series is a hard act to follow but we are surviving:)  We have enjoyed The Giggler Treatment by Roddy Doyle and recently finished The Chocolate Touch by Patrick Skene Catling.  Just this week we began reading Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle by Betty MacDonald.  Ask you child about these books and see what they have to say!

All School Holiday Concert

Our all school Holiday concert is next week Wednesday, December 19th at 2:30 in our gym.  All of the children will be singing songs that they have learned in music class and the 4th grade and 5th grade choir will be performing as well.  Our music teacher, Mrs. Larson, does a wonderful job with this program.  Hope to see you there!

Our Holiday Party

Our Holiday Party will be next week on Friday, December 21st from 2:00-3:15.  Please know that all of you are welcome to come.  Plan to stop by for 5 minutes or stay for the whole time, we would love to have you with us.  Our party committee has been busy planning the activities for next Friday so it will be chock-full of fun! 

Gingerbread, gingerbread, gingerbread...

We have been busy creating with gingerbread play dough and making gingerbread people.  We have read many, many versions of The Gingerbread Man and are having fun comparing and contrasting the stories.  We enjoyed some gingerbread cookies that Zac's Nina sent to us in our gingerbread mystery bag.  Last Friday, we sampled gingerbread boy and girl cookies that our very own cooking friends made for us.  Most of us really liked them!  We even have gingerbread scented hand sanitizer!!!!  Letter detectives have been searching our room for words that begin with the same letters as in the word GINGERBREAD.  We have also been word detectives and have found small words inside of the word GINGERBREAD.  Some words are: grin, red, bed, read, bad, a, I, in, ring, bring, and more!  We worked on our fine motor by cutting out gingerbread people, hole punched them and then laced them!  That was a lot of work!  We are keeping VERY busy in here so we can all stay out of trouble:)

A Gingerbread Masterpiece!

Max brought in the gingerbread house that he made with his family for all of us to see.  He said that it is a tradition in his family to make a gingerbread house each December.  We were so excited to get a closer look at a real gingerbread house since we have been reading so many books about gingerbread!  We were thankful that he shared his gingerbread creation with us today:)

Birthday Fun!

I LOVE my Birthday Book!  I would like to extend a BIG thank you to all of you for such a wonderful surprise!  I enjoyed reading each page to my Kindergarten friends and seeing the pride in each child's face as I read his or her special page to the class.  Thank you for all of your kind birthday wishes!  We enjoyed root beer floats and A LOT of counting on Monday:)

Friday Cooking

A BIG thank you goes to Olivia's mom and dad for coming to our classroom this past Friday for cooking.  Our cooking friends made yummy gingerbread cookies for all of us to enjoy:)  We LOVE our cooking volunteers!

Library is tomorrow!

Please be sure to return your library book tomorrow if you have not already done so!  We will be going to library at 12:30 on Thursday.  If any parent is able to join us to help the children choose his/her book or assist with book check-out, please email me. 
Thank you:)

Gingerbread Play Dough FUN!

A gingerbread python! 

 

 Cookie cutter creations!

The children have been busy at work making all kinds of goodies using our gingerbread play dough.  Thank you to all of the parents who made a batch of play dough for our classroom.  The children are really loving it.  They are also trying hard to remember that it is play dough and not cookie dough because it smells good enough to want to eat it!

Zero Celebrated Day 60 with us!

Once again, we enjoyed a visit from Zero the Hero on Monday.  

He helped us celebrate our 60th day of school!