Week of December 15-19

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all!

Thank you for your kind and generous support over the last few months! We look forward to making lots of happy memories in the New Year!

Love, Mrs. Johnson and Ms. Santiago

Here is our Poem of the week by L.A. France:

Little Christmas Carollers
We are a band of carollers,
We march through frost and snow,
But care not for the weather
As on our way we go.

At every hall or cottage
That stands upon our way,
We stop to give the people
Best wishes for the day.

We pray a merry Christmas,
Made bright by Christmas cheer,
With peace, and hope, and gladness
And all they may hold dear.

And for all those that happen
To pass us on our way
We have a smile, and wish them
A merry Christmas-day.

Week of December 8th - 12

Families, Thanks for joining our blog again this week. You'll notice we now have a game of chess on the sidebar. Several children in the class have expressed an interest in learning and/or practicing the game. Have fun with that!
We are asking that each child please bring a christmas hat (I've seen them at the dollar store for a dollar) so we can use them at the Christmas-Sing-A-Long. Thanks so much!


This week's spelling words are:
Whole Class (all contain a short vowel 'o' plus a blend of two letters (e.g. st, mp, dr):
chomp
cost
drop
pond
frost
blot
flock
stock
stomp
prod

Challenge program (all contain the ending with 'y'):
crafty
jumpy
nasty
thorny
springy
puppy
pesky
kindly
scary
strongly

Spelling test on these words will take place Monday December 15th.
As always, please review the word and its meaning.
Thanks!

And it's December!!

Hello all,

I can hardly believe how the days have flown past us and we find ourselves in December already! The children are busy preparing for the upcoming Christmas Sing-A-Long - and I've heard from our music teacher that they sound divine. In our classroom we are beginning to work on some fun Christmas crafts. I'll try to post pictures so you can peek in on the children as they prepare for Christmas.

There will be no list of spelling words this week as this is a Dictionary week and each child will compile their own words to learn and study. Congratulations to everyone in the class who did so well on this week's poetry test - excellent work, all of you!
Mrs.J