Happy Birthday Elizabeth!! And PJ Day :)

December 19th
We had fun aboard the Polar Express today! We made a train book, did polar addition and liked hanging out in our PJs!:)
Happy birthday Miss Elizabeth, have a great celebration this weekend!

"I like wearing my pajamas on pajama day!" -Zoey
"Feeling warm from the inside, out!"-Ms. Johnson

"I liked my birthday snacks!" -Elizabeth
"Happy birthday Elizabeth and Grant!" -Maddie

"The Polar Express was really fun!" -Cooper

"I like taking pictures with Miss Bales and Ms. Johnson!" -Nola
"Such a fun and cozy day :)" -Miss Bales
"I love having my socks on, they're so beautiful." -Abbie

"That math game helps you do lots of addition!" -McKenna
"I love math." -Quinn

Happy Birthday Quinn!! :)

December 18th

Happy birthday to Miss Quinn :) Thanks for the delicious cookies, have a wonderful birthday celebration tonight! As a class we 'traveled' down under to Australia! We wish we really were there enjoying some sunshine!!

 

"I am six and I am going to StoneFire Pizza tonight :)" -Quinn

"Today was Quinn's birthday, it was very fun." -Nola

"We learned about Australian Kangaroos and Koloa bears!" -Jackson
"We learned that Santa wears shorts, not pants!" -Addi

"I like cutting out puppet kangaroos." -Collin
"I love making white kangaroos, they are called boomers." -Abbie



England

December 16th

Today we traveled to England and learned all about the holiday traditions and celebrations! In math we played a very fun and exciting addition game. We used the large foam dice to help practice writing our addition equations.

NOTE: As the weather is rapidly cooling down now we ask that you remember to send your child with snow pants for warmth purposes.



Gingerbread Baby

December 15th

 

"I love making our very own Mr. Happy Grinch!" -Abbie
"I love taking pictures with our Grinches." -Mason
"The Grinch hates Christmas but he likes cakes!" -Maddie
 

"The gingerbread cookies were so yummy!" -Cooper
"I like gingerbread cookies!" -Connor
"I like those Christmas cookies so much I want to have them again!" -Collin

"I like those Christmas cookies so much I want to have them again!" -Collin

 

"This past weekend I graduated from Winona State University! It was a great celebration and I didn't trip while accepting my diploma ;) " -Miss Bales

 

 

12/12/14- A Festival of lights!

Today we visited Sweden.  On St. Lucia's Day the youngest girl in each household where's a crown of candles on her head to light the long dark winter nights.

In Sweden they speak Swedish words- Elizabeth
God Jul means Merry Christmas- Abbie
Sweden is in Europe- Cooper

Thank you to Violet and family for the beautiful pine arrangement to decorate our classroom!
Happy Graduation this weekend to Miss Bales! 

Happy Birthday Maddie!!

December 10th

Today we traveled to Mexico and learned all about the holiday happenings! Enjoy our video below :)

Also, Miss Maddie Rose turned 6 today, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

"It's me and my little twin's birthday today!"-Maddie

"We learned about Mexico today." -Olivia

"We cut out red leafs and pointy green leafs!" -Abbie

Happy Birthday McKenna!!

December 9th

 

The little "deers" were wild today!! Santa cam only caught a few friends behaving well :( We hope for a better day tomorrow!! :)

 

"My birthday was fun because all my friends were with me!" -McKenna
"Happy Birthday me tomorrow!!" -Maddie

"I love getting pictures taken with my teacher and Connor." -Henry
"I'm a reindeer!" -Connor
"This is me and my 'deers' :) " -Ms. Johnson

"I love playing games in math." -Abbie

 

Dec. 8th- off to South America!!!!!

Santa cam caught Maddie, Henry, Braden,Quinn, Collin,Violet, McKenna and Mason being real good today!   Who will get caught being good tomorrow???

Today we visited the country of Brazil- Henry
The flag of Brazil is blue, green and yellow- Maddie
We like the movie Rio, Rio is in Brazil- Zoey
In Brazil they celebrate with trees made of lights and fireworks!- Elizabeth
We made colorful Rainforest bird ornamnents- Brazil has rainforests- Braden

Guess whose back????????????????
It is fun taking fun pictures with friends!- Nola

St, Nick, Midnight Magic, games, secret Santa Cam and a surprise for Ms. Johnson!!!!!!!

Playing the Gingerbread Man game!- Jackson

Playing a new game "Monster Squeeze"- Braden

New addition to Ms. Johnson's family- Macy Renee-  
10 weeks- Pug, pomeranian,,chihuahua, weenie and a much welcome St. Nick surprise!!!!!!

Juliet Johnson- smiling because of her new playmate!

Have you ever heard of Santa cam????? We have it!!!!!! Our secret Santa cam is excited to pick up good classroom behavior and report it to Santa! Starting next week we will start sending home random/ positive Santa cam reports. We all hope to get one by the time Christmas is here!

Hope your stocking is full of lots of goodies for St. Nick!!!!!

Love, Ms. Johnson

P.S. - We miss Miss Bales and can't wait until she comes back on Monday:)

Dec. 3rd- Run, run as fast as you can........................

Did you know the first gingerbread houses were built in Germany? Today we read two versions of the Gingerbread tale and compared the stories using a Venn diagram.  Check out what was the same and different in the two stories!

We also made colorful patterned gingerbread hats and read little readers to Cheyenne's mom ( thank you!)

Me and Addi having a black and white stripey kinda day!

- then we ran, ran out the door for 2:30 release! ( except for Ms. Johnson who is staying to work on REPORT CARDS!!!!!)