Santa Tracker

If you are eager to know where Santa is along his journey on Christmas Eve, check out NORAD's site by clicking HERE! 

I hope everyone enjoyed today's party.  Thank you so much to all of the parents who came by!  Please remember the extra credit reading to earn a Six Flags ticket over your vacation.  Have a great vacation.  I hope you all get everything you wanted, like:

• Adam's Predator season tickets (next year)
• Roshveen's kitchen kitten
• Annabelle's remainder Hermione Barbie
• Zatiyah's German Shepherd
• Jake's female Briard
• Julia's teeth to fall out (not all of them--just three)
• Nora's fake nails
• Adam's video game--All Star Supreme (?)
• Savannah's iPod Touch
• Drew's Kindle Fire
• John's Wii U
• Tania's tablet
• Jea's iPad
• Tre's waterproof walkie talkies (I won't even mention the other item!)
• Emilia's purple camera
• Samuel's chinchilla
• Skyler's German Shepherd and
• Eli's chocolate Lab

How'd I do?

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy New Year!

I'll see everyone back here on January 7th~

Happy Holidays

Technically your holiday doesn't begin until 11:31 tomorrow, but I know how hectic that will all be, so I wanted to take a moment and say thank you for a successful first semester.  I am looking forward to the huge strides we will be able to make when we return in 2013.  Thank you all for sharing your children and yourselves to help our school family be a great one!

I am having trouble getting blogspot to load our mythology videos and our rewritten songs.  I'll keep trying, but until then here are a couple of shots from today's pajama day!

WHAT A CREW!

Happy Holidays everyone!  Blessed travels and safe returns.  See you in 2013!



We've Got a Party to Plan!

**I have been confused about that last week of school before break.  Despite what I have written in newsletters and on earlier versions of this post, the last full day is in fact Tuesday, December 18, and the half day is Wednesday, December 19.  Sorry for the confusion.  I am pretty excited though--I just got a day off that I didn't know about!  

We are down to a couple of weeks to plan our party celebrating the end of our first semester and our winter break.  I am aiming for the afternoon of our last full day, Tuesday, December 18, or the morning of the half day, December 19.  Do any of you have any ideas or suggestions for activities?  Please feel free to use the comments section of this post to share ideas.  I would love for each student to donate an item for the celebration so no one person has to spend a lot.  I am open to any ideas!

The students' last day, the 20th, is a half day.  I am looking at having a read-in that day.  Students can bring in blankets and pillows and plan on hanging out and reading.  It is a fun way to send everyone off into break. 

Finally, this will be in tomorrow's newsletter too, but I am offering a quick, one-week book order this week.  That way, I know we will get them shipped to us in time.  Any orders you have will need to be sent in or placed online by the end of the day Friday.  If you would like to browse or order online, visit https://orders.scholastic.com/HWFT6  There are many more books available online if you would like to check it out.  If you would like to make any purchases for gifts and need them kept a secret, please drop me a note to let me know.  When the books arrive, I'll contact you to arrange a pick-up.

Have a great week everyone!

Happy Thanksgiving

I hope that everyone has a great week and a wonderful Thanksgiving.  If you are traveling, please be safe and get home in one piece.  If you are staying in town, have fun cooking and shopping!  May everyone enjoy some down time with friends and family.  Happy Thanksgiving!  I'll see everyone bright and early next Monday! 

Enjoy the turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, marshmallow stuff, and all the other favorites you mentioned in class!

TIMES LINE

It has been a bit since I've posted the latest TIMES LINE results.  We will have another timed test later this week, but don't tell anyone.  It's going to be a surprise!  Enjoy these results while they last~~

TIMES LINE

(85% or higher accuracy)

1

3

5

6

9

10

12

14

16

18

21

22

100s Club

3

10

12

14

22

MIMers

(15% or more improvement)

2

7

8

9

16

17

21

22

Well done.  I love seeing each list get longer and longer.  That means we are headed in the right direction!  Keep it up!

Election Day

Tomorrow is election day 2012!  I hope you have all early voted or have plans to vote tomorrow.  The students at Shayne participated in a school-wide election today.  Our class even took turns working the polls.  They did a great job.  I hope they tell you about it tonight.

I did want to share a resource that we used in class last week.  In order to track the electoral votes tomorrow night, students can check out the site http://www.270towin.com/ and fill in the map as states are called for one candidate or the other.  It is a cool site, and I hope you enjoy watching the returns.  When our class next meets, we'll know the results!

For those of you coming in for a conference tomorrow, I'll see you then!

Guess Who!

The Hogwarts crew

Artemis

A vampire

 

Dread Pirate Roberts 

 Bat Girl

A snowwoman