Friday, October 24, 2008

Fall Festival Festivities


Boy did this week sure fly by! The students and I had a very fast and thrilling week of the first 9 week grading period. We were busy with literary pumpkins, our class party, Literacy Character Day, and the Fall Carnival. Sounds like a tough week huh?
We started the week off with decorating our class pumpkin for the Literary Pumpkin Contest. If you are not familiar with this, each class decorates a pumpkin based off of a book. Then, it is sent up with all the other class pumpkins to a huge display in the front of the school. Our class decorated our pumpkin to the book, Mr. Tanen's Ties. In the story, Mr. Tanen wears a tie for every little occasion at school. The students each decorated a tie with their own personal touch. Mr. Tanen was transformed into a pumpkin and you can see the many options of ties he now has thanks to our class!

On Thursday our school celebrated Literacy Character Day. Students were allowed to dress like their favorite character from a book. We had so many creative costumes! They were so excited to explain their costume. Any excuse to dress up at school is always fun right?


Is that a lion in our room? Oh no, just Miss E dressed like Leo from the book Leo the Lion.




We ended our Thursday with a little celebration. Thank you so much for the donations for our party. These fun events are possible because of you!We had cookies, doughnuts, candy, pretzels, goldfish, juice boxes, candy, candy, candy, and I think candy. YUM! We all loved this end of the day pick-me-up.





Thank you again Mrs. S for coming in to help with our party! Kids and candy can be a dangerous combination.

The Fall Carnival was a huge success too. Thank you Mr./Mrs. A for running our class football toss booth. It was so nice to get to chat and visit with parents and students.

When we return back on Monday, we will start the 2nd 9 weeks. Don't forget to check out our new Standard Based Bulletin Board for your child's Narrative Writing. Also, remember that every 9 weeks Mrs. Tsengas and I switch classes. Therefore, if you have me as a homeroom teacher you will now go to Mrs. Tsengas in the morning. See you Monday!