Dr. Seuss' birthday

 Lily's mom, Amanda, read "One Fish, Two Fish..."

 Taya's grandmother, Diane, read "Mr. Brown Can Moo, Can You?"

 Brandon's mom, Christy, read "The Foot Book"

 Carrie, Seth's mom, read "I Wish That I Had Duck Feet"

 Lisa, Piper's mom, read "Green Eggs and Ham".  (And also brought special green cupcakes!)

Haley's dad, Jason, read "The Cat in the Hat".
Our class loved having guest readers come to our class last week.  We were happy to have seven guests in all; our former mayor Jim Pedelty, besides four mothers, one father and one grandmother.  They helped celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday by choosing a favorite book he had written to read to us.  When they were finished with the story, they shared some of the ways they use reading in their daily lives.  What a wonderful opportunity for our students to hear these important grown-ups tell about using reading in their jobs and reading books for fun - even instead of watching TV!

Celebrating the 100th Day

We had great fun celebrating the 100th day of school.  The highlight of the week was seeing everyone's collection of 100 items.  Here's a look at what the students brought.

Pictures from Hat Week

In January, we had fun using hats to to help us learn about descriptive writing.  Each student wrote three sentences to describe their hat.  Then we exchanged papers and students tried to match the correct hat to the description.
We also did all kinds of classifying with our hats.  It was interesting to notice many different attributes about our hats.

Happy 2012!

  

In January, our class wrote some New Year's resolutions that we would like to share with you.