Dance Festival

We have had an awesome last week of school! I cannot believe how much fun we have fit into a few short days. Awards assembly, pool party, mini marathon, field day, dance festival, and more! These are memories to last a lifetime.

Here is a picture of the class after the dance festival. We were pretty hot and tired, but everyone looked so cute!

I am going to miss this class so much. They have been great and I am sad to see them go. I hope everyone has a great summer and we'll see you in the fall!

Crazy Sock Day

Here are some CrAzY socks from the last week in April.

Crazy Hair Day

We had some pretty crazy hair-dos for Crazy Hair Day this week.
See if you can recognize any of these cute kids with their crazy hairstyles!

Reading Date with Mom

We had a fun morning reading with our moms last week. Thank you everyone for coming in to read with us!

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

We celebrated Dr. Seuss' birthday this week. What a fun day! We brought all of our Dr. Seuss books to read and share. We did fun pages and made a "Cat in the Hat" hat.

This happened to be the same day as our Reading Olympic party, so it was filled with fun. Many of the children said this was "The best day ever!" I love it when they say that! Luckily, we have had many of those this year, and I hope to have a several more.

Reading Olympics

We had a fun competition during the month of February for our classroom Reading Olympics. We worked hard to read as many books as possible at school and at home. The kids (and parents) did a great job turning in their home readers every day. What a fun month! Each week I awarded the medals- gold, silver and bronze- for points earned that week. At the end, we had a party to celebrate everyone's success. Everyone is a WINNER!!

Here are pictures of the medal winners on the day of our party.

(some are not pictured)

Book Characters

The last week in February was Literacy Week. The PTA had a lot of fun activities planned for the week. On Monday, we were encouraged to dress up like a book character. 

Here a few from our class looking really good!

100th Day of School

I thought it would be fun to list 100 things we did to celebrate the 100th day of school, but for the sake of time, I'll narrow it down to 11. :)

     11 Fun Things We Did to Celebrate the 100th Day of School

1. Read a 100th Day of School book with our fourth grade buddies.
2. Counted 100 pennies.
3. Did 100 addition equations.
4. Ate the number 100 (stick pretzel & two Ritz).
5. Counted to 100 doing a maze.
6. Counted and ate 100 snacks.
7. Did 100 exercises (jumping jacks, hopping, touching toes, etc.)
8. Listened to "Henry Hooper's 100 Hiccups".
9. Sang and marched to a 100 Day song.
10. Made a mosaic picture with 100 squares.
11. Made a 100 Day crown with Mrs. Rogers.

Game Day

On Friday we had a special day where the kids brought a board game
from home to teach and play with a small group.
Thank you to those who brought games. We had so much fun!

Braden, Gerardo, and Andrew playing Let's Go Fishing.

McKenzie teaching her game, SkipBo.

Everyone loved this game, Pounce, where the cat tries to catch the mice.

Another favorite was Hullabaloo.
Scottie and Harley are listening to instructions for what to do next.


Heather concentrating hard while playing her game, Rukus.

We had more fun games that I didn't get pictures of. Thank you everyone!

Grandparents' Day

Before Thanksgiving, we welcomed grandparents into our classroom. We made a book together and performed a few reader's theaters.

Red Ribbon Week

The week after Halloween was Red Ribbon week. We had so much fun this week learning about saying NO to drugs and alcohol. We participated in a lot of fun activities, including an assembly, spirit day, hat day, crazy sock day, and more. Here are a few pictures of us drawing chalk pictures on the sidewalk.