Elf Yourself and our Elf on the Shelf "Christmas"

Everyone in our classroom turned into an elf for the last week of school before christmas break and we even had an elf visit our classroom. Each day 3 students became an elf and they did a dance on the smartboard. The last day we had a bunch of the staff on the board. I think the entire class was surprised by this! The staff members even came to our classroom to watch themselves being elves.

The elf that visited our classrom was a very special elf. He was there to watch over us and to make sure we were on our best behavior. He liked to do silly things around the room when we were gone. I believe he did these things to get our attention and to remind us that he was there watching us. Our class voted on a name for the elf and chose "Christmas" out of 10 names.

While in our classroom, Christmas wrote a birthday note to McKenzie and sat at the bottom of her desk, he made a snow angel in the flour we used to make our santa ornaments, hung upside down from Llayson's name lights, and climbed to the top of our Christmas tree while holding toilet paper. Yep.... that silly little elf toilet papered our tree! Luckily he was a good elf and cleaned up after himself.

Who can tell me what kind of noun the underlined word is in the last paragraph?

King of the Jungle

Mr. Lund was the King of the Jungle this week in our classroom. He told us all about himself and even brought in a picture of when he was in second grade. I will let you know which one is him when we get back to school! It was a lot of fun to learn about our principal. Make sure you thank Mr. Lund for being our Kind of the Jungle. We have a mystery guest next week in our classroom. Here is a hint... It is going to be a Queen of the Jungle!

Visit from Santa Claus and Mrs. Claus

Santa, Mrs. Claus and Mr. Vedbraaten came to our classroom. Everyone received hot cocoa, a box of color crayons, and a candy cane. Santa gave us a speech about always being on our best behavior because he is always watching. I know that all of you will do this because you are a well behaved class! I even received colored pencils and pencils to use in our classroom! That was so nice of Santa! Enjoy the pictures below!

I Spy Math

We did a fun math activity in our classroom last week. I hid a bunch of math problems around the classroom and the students searched all over to find the problems to solve. The students found all but one problem in the classroom. I guess I must have hid that one too good!

Holiday Program

I was so proud of all you last Friday. It was a spectacular program. All that hard work and dedication really paid off! We may have been getting ready frantically before the concert with so many sick, but it worked out great!  Enjoy the pictures of our excellent cast!

Busy December!

December has been a really busy month already! We have been working really hard on plural, proper, and possessive nouns. You all are starting to get the hang of it, but we still need more practice. Remember practice makes perfect! Below are some pictures of practicing sorting Dr. Suess nouns. They had tons of fun with this activity!

We started out December doing a lot of holiday crafts. Our classroom looks so festive now! The holiday music program is on Friday at 1:30. We will have our artwork displayed in the gym for all to see. They worked really hard on their christmas trees and they look so great! We also made Christmas lights with our name and wow do they look neat hanging from our ceiling. We also wrote letters to Santa and they will be in the hallway. Hope everyone is enjoying this holiday season!

Last but not least, Cody brought in his broken Tae-Kwon-Do board to share with the class. We are all so PROUD of Cody. What an accomplishment! Thank you so much for sharing!