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| The kids have a snowball fight during morning meeting |
I am writing this on Thursday evening (instead of Friday) in order to use my Friday prep time to plan for next week. So it is only based on two and a half days of school and a Winter Program afternoon. I hope yesterday's school cancellation didn't cause too much of a problem for your work schedules. I know I had to spend a good amount of time snow blowing and cleaning up the snow we did get.
I had ordered a variety of new read a loud books over the past few weeks. I have been spending some time finding new and interesting book options. This week I read the book Claude, A True Story of a White Alligator by Emma Bland Smith and Once Upon A Cool Motorcycle Dude by Kevin O' Malley. Claude is the story of the California Academy of Sciences' beloved albino alligator, from his birth in Louisiana to his present day life in his swamp at the Academy. Claude is a celebrity alligator and the mascot for San Francisco's California Academy of Sciences. The 2nd book begins with a boy and a girl who were supposed to tell their favorite fairy tale to their class. They couldn’t agree on which story was best, so they made one up. The girl begins. She introduces the beautiful Princess Tenderheart, who had eight beautiful ponies named Jasmie, Nimble, Sophie, Polly, Penny, Sunny, Monica, and Buttercup. When a giant begins stealing her ponies, Princess Tenderheart cries all day. The boy doesn’t like the way the story is going, so he brings in a cool motorcycle dude to fight the giant and earn the gold thread that the princess spins from straw. The girl says "wait a minute, the girl can fight for her needs too!" The girl doesn’t like the way the story is going, so they end up making an ending together that both of them can enjoy—sort of.
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| Reading with our Classroom Buddies |
NOTES:
*As some of you know first hand, there are lots of colds, stomach bugs and a variety of other illnesses in our school community. Please reinforce the idea of hand washing and trying to use tissues to clear out our noses.
*This is the final time I will post the class list (for Valentine's) before 2/14/25. Please use this if your child needs this list.
Wiley, Olen, Jayden, Hewitt, River, Paxton, Emma, Hazel, Elowyn, Ava, Annabelle, Amelie, Luke, Nora, Edie, Landen, and Finne
That is all for now. I hope you all have a great weekend.
Peace,
Mr. Young
