Highlights of the Week December 7

• (GP)  We had gingerbread making after school.
• (DP)  We have a new special starting today.  It is Spanish!
• (MRS)  Some kids are making gingerbread houses after school.
• (RS)  We have Spanish today.
• (VS)  Our classroom elf came this week!
• (LS)  We sang new songs in music.
• (ES)  We have a wreath on our classroom door.
• (BT)  We have a Mystery Reader today.
• (BV)  Our elf is named "Jingle".
• (JB)  hWe put up a new flag for the holidays.  The flag has two nutcracker soldiers on it.
• (WC)  We have a spelling test today.
• (RC)  In Reading Workshop we started a new project called "The Twelve Books of Winter".
• (MD)  We have library on Thursdays from now on.
• (AD)  We made presents for our family.
• (WD)  We are not telling what the presents are.
• (SD)  We cut out mittens in art.
• (GG)  There are three Grab Bag presents on our gift table.  Two are boy gifts and one is a girl gift. 
• (LM)  We start Spanish today.
• (GM) We played hockey in gym.
• (CN)  We painted winter scenes with Q-tips and white paint.  Miss Dineen is going to hang them up on the bulletin board.
• (BO)  We read a good book called "Gingerbread Mouse".  It is a story about a mouse who lives in a tree.  The tree house gets messed up.  So the mouse goes to live inside a gingerbread house.  Santa Claus comes and brings a dollhouse.  The mouse moves into the dollhouse.