Whatcha doin?

Well, we have been out of school for 3 days straight! I have been doing a whole lot of nothing! What have you been doing? If you email me some pictures and write a couple of sentences about what you have been doing these past 3 days, I'll put them on the blog! :)

rcrull@newpal.k12.in.us
and
rebeccacrull@gmail.com

Please send them to BOTH of the email addresses. I don't always get stuff that is sent to my school address.

I can't wait to see what you guys have been doing!

I FINALLY did it!!!!

Well, can you believe it? I FINALLY updated the blog! I had to put the pictures from today on it! And whoever said that I hadn't updated it since Halloween was wrong! ;) Hopefully I will do better...maybe not, but you never know. :)

Enjoy!

P.S. Did anyone else play in the snow when they got home?
I did! :)

Let it Snow!, Let it Snow!, Let it Snow!

Well, today I think we made some cherished school memories! Before the kids had to leave for the day, I decided that it would be fun to "catch snowflakes". I gave all the kids a piece of black construction paper so that they could see the snowflakes better. We all had SO much fun! They "studied" snowflakes on their paper, their coats, their noses, and most of all, their tongues! Thank goodness I remembered to go back and get my camera, because I was able to capture this fun and exciting experience! (Academically speaking...we did this because we just finished reading about, and discussing, the water cycle, the 3 forms water takes, and the four types of precipitation - rain, hail, sleet, and SNOW.) ;-)

Didn't your Mama ever tell you not to eat snow?! I know your teacher didn't! ;-)

I love this picture of Emma!

Matthew K...were you going to walk home? ;-)

As a "side note", every time we could possibly have some sort of "frozen" precipitation, Mr. Meyerrose blares the song "Let it snow, Let it snow, Let it snow", and has his class sing and dance around the room to it. This is his end of the day "Snow Dance" on those wintry days. Since we are getting so much snow tonight, I guess they finally got the hang of it!

Hat Day for "The Hat"

We did a short author study before Christmas on Jan Brett. Jan Brett is an AWESOME illustrator and author. Some of the books of hers that we read were, The Mitten, Armadillo Rodeo, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, and The Hat. On the day we read The Hat, I thought it would fun if we had a hat day. Below are the kids and some of the crazy hats they wore.

Jan Brett also has an incredible website. Here is the link to her website: www.janbrett.com

Snowflakes

Before Christmas, we made made snowflakes and decorated them with glitter. Very messy, but a lot of creative fun! We then strung them on yarn and then hung them from the ceiling in our classroom. Everyone has been very impressed with how well they turned out. I figure that we can leave them up until at least Spring Break. :)

Here are some pictures of a couple of kids decorating their snowflake. I'm sorry that I don't have pictures of more kids, but I forgot to keep taking pictures of all the groups.