Week of 12/13 - 12/16

Hi Bumblebees,
MERRY CHRISTMAS!! Thank you so much for all the kind and thoughtful gifts we received this week. We so appreciate you! Enjoy the pictures....it was all about Christmas this week!

Working on our Christmas tree magnets
Drawing a picture of what we want to open on Christmas morning!
Decorating our magnets
Dress rehearsal for our Christmas program.....aren't we the cutest kings?
RED DAY show-and-tell!
Reviewing all our letters we've learned with Alphabet Al
Who knew Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer could be so cute and tasty?
We sang and played "jingle bells" a lot this week!
Mrs. Darcie came and read us a special story about what GOD wants for Christmas......ME!
Graphing December's weather!
Aren't we beautiful? Just a reminder that your child's school pictures came home today in their back pack. They turned out gorgeous!
Playing pass-the-present!
YEAH! New books!
Pizza and cookies! Can't end the year better than that!
Even Santa dropped by to say hi!
WISHING YOU AND YOUR FAMILY A VERY BLESSED CHRISTMAS AND A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR!
We will see you back at school on Monday, January 3.

When we get back:
*The letter K (if you get a chance over vacation please send in a K picture the MONDAY we get back. The letter envelope is in your child's folder)
*Winter
*If your child has a birthday over vacation or soon after we get back, please send in their birthday poster when we get back. Also, please email me asap and let me know when/what you would like to do to celebrate with the class.

Week of 12/6 - 12/9

Hi Bumblebees,
You will notice there are not as many pictures on this week's blog. This is due mainly to the fact that we spent a good majority of our time this week practicing for our Christmas program. We did manage to squeeze in some fun and learning though!

Decorating stockings to decorate our room!
We were so impressed with the gingerbread projects! They were each so different, and the kids were so proud to tell us how they made them! Thanks for your help!
Stockings hanging by the "fire"
I hope all you parents got a chance to check out our Christmas wish list!
Thanks so much to Samantha and her family for sending in the beautifully decorated (and yummy) gingerbread men!
YUM!
After reading many variations of the Gingerbread Man story, our class made our own! I hope you got a chance to read through it!
We got to make our own play-doh gingerbread men!
We had so many different versions of the story, and we got to take turns reading them with our class gingerbread man.
Reading Chester's journal about his fun weekend with Brianna!
To round out our studying The Gingerbread Man story, of course we had to decorate our own! Thanks to Zach and his family for sending in the gingerbread!
Fun!
and cute!
Not much going home this weekend, please check this picture to see if your child is responsible for anything. Have fun!
NEXT WEEK:
*Continued focus on Christmas, so no letter-of-the-week
*TUESDAY--RED DAY! Please wear red and bring something red for show-and-tell
*TUESDAY EVENING: Our Christmas program! I will write in more detail about this in my email to you.
*WEDNESDAY: We need your child's Christmas CD of "We 3 Kings" back to us
*WEDNESDAY: We need $3 from you for our class pizza party. We will collect the money and give it to Kate's mom who has kindly agreed to order, pick up, and deliver the pizza to us for our party on Thursday.
*WEDNESDAY: We need your wrapped book for our book exchange on or before Wednesday. A note about this came home in your child's folder today. Please ask if you need any clarification.
*THURSDAY: Our class pizza party and book exchange! and last day of school before Christmas vacation! Reminders for those of you who volunteered to send something for the party will come home on Monday.

Week of 11/29 - 12/2

Hi Bumblebees,
Welcome back! I trust you all had a restful and blessed Thanksgiving vacation with your family. Now it's only 2 more weeks until Christmas vacation! This year is flying by!

It's all about the letter J this week!
Reading Chester's journal about his super-fun Thanksgiving vacation with Mrs. Valeria!
Getting our rockets ready to blast off!
Mrs. Valeria showing us all the stuff she brought in the J sound box!
J is for jump, jumping jacks, and jump rope with Alphabet Al!
We have been practicing our Christmas song daily with the Zebra class, please keep practicing with your child at home! They are doing great!
We graphed November's weather....sunny won again!
Haley took our letter-of-the-week book home....Jamberry by Bruce Degen!
Of course you can't read a book about jam and not eat any!
Jam is yummy!
Spreading our "jam" on our toast!
Thanks to Zach for sharing his astronaut costume with us this week!
Learning about the biggest star in outer space....the sun!
Bumblebees blast off!
The cutest Christmas tree ever!
Jam!
Who lives in the jungle?
J is for jelly beans! We sorted, counted, and graphed them! Got to eat some too!
Thanks to a mom from the Frogs class who came in to read us a kid's book she wrote!
Working on our new pattern for December!
Making a jungle in our journals!
We had a whole bunch of star students this week! Keep up the good work!
Please check this picture to see if your child is responsible for something this weekend. Have fun!
NEXT WEEK:
*No letter of the week. (In fact, our next 2 weeks before Christmas vacation, our them will just be Christmas...we will not do the letter K and continue on in the alphabet until we come back in January)
*Gingerbread! (please send in your decorated gingerbread on MONDAY)
*Lots of school-wide practice for our Christmas program!

Class wish list:
*If anyone likes to bake and would like to make 13 REAL gingerbread men for us next week, please let me know asap. Thanks!