Highlights of the Week March 11

• AB was a great captain.  (DG)
• Next week's captain will be HB.  Everyone will be getting a second turn at being the captain.  (JF)
• We celebrated CH's birthday.  Her mom brought in fudgicles.  (KE)
• We finished reading Superfudge.  (EW)  It was really good.  (KE)
• Today we will start a new chapter book called Fudgeamania.  I think it will be really good.  (CH)
• In gym we played matball.  (JF)
• Today we will celebrate AS's birthday with donuts.  His real birthday is next week.  (MC)
• Everyone will bring home their report cards today.  I bet a lot of parents are going to be really proud of their first grader.  (Miss D.)
• We will have a spelling test today.  (KK)
• We are going to have a Mystery Reader in 1 hour.  (MM)
• We started a new picture in art.  We are painting the sky and are going to add flowers and clouds to the sky.  (JF)
• LMD's painting is going to be hung in the Darien Library for the whole town to see.  (AK)  I bet L's family will take a little trip to see his painting.  (Miss D.)
• In music we learned a kite song.   We played it on the xylophones and the drums and the tambourines.  (MC)
• This weekend we will turn the clocks ahead 1 hour on Saturday night.  This will give us more daylight hours after school.  (Miss D.)
• In Writing Workshop we started writing All About books.  (AMS)
• In Reading Workshop we are studying characters.  (CH)
• In Reading Workshop we have been having a lot of wrap-ups.  (MC)  A wrap-up is when some people share their books with the class.  They tell about connections or something they learned or they do a 'book commercial' where they tell the class how great a book is. (GC)