Tomorrow

Tomorrow we dismiss at 12:00 for anyone who's child is not checking out after the party :)

Play T-Shirts

Our t-shirts for the play went home this afternoon. They are super cute!!! If you see Lori Swindall make sure you thank her for her generous donation of the shirts and the time she put into making them perfect for us!!! Kids are to wear them to school on Thursday with jeans, leggings, or red pants.

Party

Our big party is not tomorrow, we are just opening gifts and having pizza because Kate and Campbell will not be with us for the party. The things you are bringing for the party are for Friday at 9:00 :)

Tomorrow

Don't forget to send your gift for the gift swap tomorrow if you have not sent it already. Everyone has to bring a gift to get to play the game! Also, don't forget we are having a pizza party for lunch tomorrow. Just sent a juice or 2 :)

Lunch Wednesday

For lunch Wednesday I will be getting pizza for the class as a Christmas surprise :) so please just sent a drink/juice on Wednesday unless your child does not like pizza! 

Christmas Store

The Christmas store is going on so if you would like to send some money with your child that is perfectly find. I will be sending a few at a time each day to look.

Christmas Family

Pike has decided to sponsor a family that has never been able to have a Christmas. This family includes a mother, 11 year old, and a 3 year old. Instead of everyone sending something I would like to take up a donation from our whole class to give to Mrs. Baggett so she can go buy things they need. If you feel in your heart to give to this family please do. We have to turn in the money by Friday so if you would like to send a donation please do so by Friday morning. Thanks in advance!!

Christmas Gift Update

We have changed the price range for the Christmas gifts. It is now $10-$15.

Gifts

The amount on the gifts is $15-$25, so sorry I forgot to add that :) 

Christmas Party Note

Last week I sent home a note about the Christmas party. If you have not returned it please do so ASAP!! Thanks :)

Tests

I have graded some of last week's tests but not all of them. They will be sent home tomorrow. Our reading tests were not very good so they were scaled 10 points.

Language Test

This week's language test will be on present-tense verbs and commas in a series.

Christmas Gifts

We will be doing Christmas gifts a little different this year. Girls will buy a gift for a girl and boys will buy a boy gift. As they you bring them in they will be numbered (B1-B9 for boys, G1-G7 for girls.) Next Wednesday we will do our gift part of the party because we will have 2 absent on Friday for the party. Each student will draw a number that day and they will get that numbered gift from under the tree. I think this will work out best for everyone. :) So please have your gift here by next Tuesday, December 17th to make sure everyone will have a gift on Wednesday.

Note in Homework Folder

I sent a note home today about the Christmas Party. Please return it by Monday :)

Ornaments

As a reminder please send your $10 for your child's ornament tomorrow. :)

Language Test

Our language test tomorrow will cover: action verbs, contractions, and abbreviations.

Christmas Play Costumes

We have found all of the costumes from last year's Christmas play. They were not ruined so we have costumes for all of our class! No need to get anything :)

Christmas Play Week

Here is some info for the Christmas play and that week:

We will not be having test of any sort that week. It will be far too busy for us to have test.

Our dress rehearsal will be Tuesday, December 17th. I am not sure about the time yet but I will let you know as soon as I find out.

Wednesday, December 18th is POLAR EXPRESS DAY. Students can wear their PJs that day. We will watch Polar Express, do Polar Express activities, and that afternoon have milk and cookies with Santa. This will be a FUN day!!!!

Our play will be at 10:00 on Thursday, December 19th. Your child is free to leave after the play if they would like.

Christmas party will be at 9:00 Friday, December 20th.

Here is a list of parts in the play that need costumes:
Carter- Joseph
Zachary- King
Tyler H.- King
Slade- King

These are the only parts that need costumes out of our class. We are asking that you try to find a costume for them to wear. For example: kings can be a robe and a crown of some sort. If you cannot find anything please let me know in time and I will do what I can to help. :)

Everyone else will have a shirt to wear that day. Ideal Graphics has generously donated Christmas play shirts for everyone to wear. A BIG THANK YOU TO THEM!!!!

If you have any more questions please email me.

PTO Christmas Store

 It is scheduled for 12/11/13 from 7:30 am-3:00pm and 12/12/13 from 7:30 am-1:00pm.  Gifts range in price from $1-$10 with most gifts falling in the $3-$6 range.  Gift wrapping is available free of charge. Volunteers are also needed to work. If you will be available one of those days to work please let Traci Leverette know.  

AR

I am updating everyone's AR folder today. When our computers were down for those 2 and a half weeks we got very behind on AR. I have moved some of the goals down and if I see they need to go down more between now and the end of the 9 weeks I will move them. I started everyone a new paper for December and have written down the tests they have taken for this month. Their goals are at the top the the new paper and how many points they have is written on the back. If you have any questions please email me. Let's get a lot of reading done in these next 2 weeks so everyone can meet their goal. Please sing their AR folder so they can take a test. I am going to start checking it before they take a test so I will know they are ready for sure and you have reviewed the book with them.

Christmas Party

Our Christmas Party will be December 20 at 9:00. The elementary building is doing all of their parties at the same time so if you have children in other classes in this building you will be able to visit with both of them. I will be sending home a sign up sheet by the end of the week for things to bring. We are going to do a breakfast theme.

Language Test

This week's language test will be on action verbs, abbreviations, and contractions. Please study the notes in language notebook and the worksheets sent home.

Christmas Play

Our Christmas play date as of now is Thursday, December 19th. I am not sure what time it will take place. As soon as I find out I will update everyone.

Science

We will not be doing science again until after Christmas. We will be practicing for our Christmas play in the afternoons.

Language Test

The language test we took before Thanksgiving break on possessives and compound words has been thrown out. I will not count nor grade this test. We had so many questions during the test. I looked over these and could clearly see it was not going to be something that needed to be graded and counted. This is very hard for them to understand. We will revisit this skill after Christmas break at some point so we are able to spend a lot more time on the skill.