Wet and snowy but a Tremendous Tuesday!

These students are terrific! Today, even with the really odd weather, they stayed focused on our school work. They only got to enjoy one outside recess at lunchtime but had fun with the Gingerbread Man song and a math game. I missed them so much on Monday and got such a great report from our guest teacher. Mrs. Hanel said they did such a good job for her and waited a long time for a special concert on Monday. The Castlerock choir came to Meadowlark and were a little rowdy during their set up when our class was already in the Commons. But once they got singing, the children loved their Rock-n-roll songs that lasted right up to dismissal time!

Today we talked about all sorts of TRANSPORTATION and read a fun book about Max traveling to get a double chocolate ice cream Whamburger with coconut curls and red sprinkles. It was fun to follow the signs as he took a bus, a train, a ferryboat, an airplane and a subway to get there and his sister came to pick him up on a bicycle with a sidecar!

In math we are sliding, flipping and turning shapes for the geometry part of this unit. By the end of the week we will be learning about symmetry!

We are finishing up on report cards, so look for them a week from today. I am so glad that Mrs. Hansen can be here for our Parent Teacher conferences. We are certainly going to miss her joyful ways of teaching the children but we know it's best for her family that she move to Great Falls!

Tomorrow is Library day and Thursday is picture day. I plan to come in so that I can be in the group picture. It's such a nice group of children!

Sincerely, Mrs. Clapper

p.s. Show and Tell can be TWO items this week, one with J and one with W. One boy brought Woody and didn't remember a 'j' show and tell, but we figured out that Woody wears jeans!!!