Holiday Break

Hi,
I'm hoping everyone is having a great vacation this week. Our family had a very nice Christmas and I'm looking forward to the New Year. Santa and others brought some really nice presents. Thanks to everyone for the gifts of working hard in our classroom, following the rules, and getting along with all. See you on Thursday. We will have to try hard to remember to write 2008 instead of 2007. Happy New Year! Mrs. Riggs

Our Christmas Party

We will have our Christmas party tomorrow. It will be from 10:45 - 11:45. First we will sit in 2 circles. Then we will draw a number to see which gift we will open. We will open one gift at a time. After that, we will make a craft that our mothers will help us do. If we have time, we will play a game or play with our new present. We will open presents before lunch. We don't know which parents will be our helpers. We can't wait till the party. There are already a lot of presents under the tree. I hope our Christmas party will be fun. Some people will be getting cool presents. One craft will be very fun. Some of us still need to bring our presents. Everybody at school will have their party tomorrow. We hope that nobody forgets their present. Have a holly jolly Christmas. Have a very Merry Christmas.

A Christmas Surprise

We have been working hard on something for our family. You will open it on Christmas or sometime soon. We can't wait for parents to open them. One is green and it starts with a silent w. Someone has to hurry to get hers done. One is folded. Two people are almost done with everything. We are decorating some things. We are working so hard to make your presents. One of the things is white and it starts with an s. One is red and green. We have different kinds of presents. Most of us are doing our very best coloring. It is a . . . . I hope you have a fun Christmas and a Happy Holiday.

One Week from Today

People are bringing presents for our gift exchange. Some Moms and Dads are coming to help at the party. It says to a boy or to a girl and then their name. On Friday morning we will have our party. Some people may stay home for Christmas and some might go out of town. Some of us may go sledding with our family on Christmas. A German tradition is to hide a pickle in the tree. Some trees have angels or stars on the top of their tree. Then who finds it gets an extra present. Some relatives from Texas will be coming to Iowa. Some people may have several Christmas parties at their relatives. On Christmas we will have lots of presents to open. Tomorrow will be a good day. Merry Christmas to all and a Happy New Year! I hope you have an exciting Christmas. See you in January.

Polar Express

The Polar Express was really fun on Friday. The movie was long. We had a fun trip to the North Pole. We wore our pajamas to the imaginary Polar Express. During the movie a little key flew out of the window and it cracked the ice. In the movie the tracks froze over. I wish that we could have that day again. We had hot chocolate while we watched the movie. Too bad we didn't get to have hot chocolate when they did on the movie. When we got hot chocolate, they started from the back. Some of the parts were funny. We got our tickets back. When we got back to the room, we each got a bell. One person was gone and missed the hot chocolate and fun. We all loved the imaginary trip to the North Pole and watching the movie.

Polar Express

Today is the Polar Express activity. It will be really fun. We took our chairs out into the hallway. The chairs will be our train. We need a ticket to go on the train. Mrs. Riggs will give us the ticket. She will give the tickets first to good listeners. We will watch the Polar Express movie. We'll tell you more on Monday.

Polar Express

Don't forget to bring your robe, pajamas, or slippers to school tomorrow. Some people have already done that. Don't forget you must be able to put your pajamas over your clothes. Robes will also go over your clothes. I'm excited about the imaginary Polar Express train trip.

Polar Express

We will have a Polar Express activity on 12-14-07. The whole second grade will participate. We will be going on an imaginary trip. We get to watch the Polar Express movie. If you can please bring a robe, pajamas, or slippers to put over our clothes. Everybody may think this will be cool. It will be really, really fun. It will be an interesting show. If you want to make sure, bring your robe on Thursday so you will have it for sure on Friday. We might decorate our room. There will be an engineer that day. Have a fun day! We are hoping to have a fun day on Friday.

Snow

Yesterday it snowed from 3 to 5 inches. It looks like it was around 5. It also snowed today. The snow today was deeper than yesterday. Some of us made snowmen at recess. Others made snow angels at recess. On Monday we are suppose to get 3 or more inches of snow. Some of us scooped sidewalks at home. One person went under the pine tree with his sled. You need snow pants and snow boots to play in the snow. Some of us had fun in the snow. When it snows, it is really fun to jump in. Going down the slide was really fast. Yesterday we didn't go down the slide because it was too fast. Some people will go sledding when they get home. Have a snowy day.

Science in Mrs. Dreyer's Room

In Mrs. Dreyer's science class we are learning about health. We have learned a lot of things about our body. Mrs. Dreyer said that adults have 206 bones. Today in science Mrs. Mudd is coming and she is going to show germs. We will wash our hands to check for germs. Kids have more bones than grown-ups. The four parts of our bodies are bones, organs, muscles, and outer wrappings. There are 5 groups of food. We are going to learn about the grain group. Today in Mrs. Dreyer's class we will be done with learning the food groups. There are names that help us learn the food groups. I hope science is really fun today. It is fun in Mrs. Dreyer's science class. We are going to do something very fun today. We learned a lot from the five food groups.

Monday

Today it was really cold today and some of us got really muddy. Some of us raced others today. Those people also did relay races. Others may have played tag with each other. Football was also played at recess. Some of us went down the slide. Today was a very fun day. Some of us swung on the swings. Don't forget to read for our December Book It. Today we had to do lots of work in reading. We read a lot in reading. We did workbook pages in reading. We had music today. Bring your December Book It at the end of the month or before. Tomorrow we will paint clay in Art. Have a terrific Tuesday!!