Thanksgiving Feast, Miss Clevenger, and More Updates

It has been awhile since I have written a blogpost, for that I am sorry.  I've been so busy lately.  I'm up super early this morning, so I thought I would add lots of pictures and a brief description about them.

On Tuesday,  November 21st, the first grade held our annual Thanksgiving feast.  In Mrs. Lee's art class, the students made necklaces, pilgrim hats and coifs, and Indian headbands.  Students wore these items to the feast.  Also, in class the students made name plates, place mats, and napkin rings.  We held our feast in the multipurpose room.  In the morning, the students went down and set up their place mats and other items where they wanted to sit during the feast.   A huge thank you goes out to all the parents that donated items and/or helped serve and clean up during the feast.  Another huge thank you goes out to Burger's Smokehouse for providing the meat and for our own cafeteria ladies for providing the mashed potatoes.  Another shout out goes to our custodial staff for helping to set up the feast too!  Here are some pictures of the feast and of us making the turkey cookies in the afternoon before Thanksgiving break.

Last week, we celebrated Miss Clevenger and the time she spent with us.  It was truly my pleasure to mentor such a sweet, kind, compassionate future teacher.  Miss Clevenger is certainly a one of a kind.  We will miss her dearly as the year progresses, but we will think of her often.  We were so blessed to have her in our classroom for the last 16 weeks.  We all wish her the best as she finds a classroom of her own.  Her future parents and students will be very blessed to have her in their lives.  On Monday, we threw her a surprise party.  Thank you to all the parents that donated for her gift.  She was given lots of teacher items such as post it notes, markers, pencils, pens, and stickers.  We also gave her a large box of books that she can put in her own classroom library, her very own teacher whistle for recess, and we made her a special book from the class.  Here are the pictures from the party and from her last day.  WE MISS YOU MISS CLEVENGER!!!

Here are some dates of importance as we finish out the month of December:

Friday, December 9th:  Last day for the PTO food drive.

Wednesday, December 14th:  The students will go out to the High School Performing Arts Center to practice for their Christmas program.

Thursday, December 15th:  Dress rehearsal at the Performing Arts Center (time to be announced); Program at 7:00 pm in the performing arts center.  Please have your child there NO LATER THAN 6:50 DRESSED AND READY TO GO.  They will meet their teachers in the high school music room.

Friday, December 16th:  Grinch Day, have your child wear GREEN!

Wednesday, December 21st:  Annual Polar Express Day; we will serve donuts and chocolate milk in the morning.  Students CAN WEAR PAJAMAS.  We will read the book in the week leading up to the 21st and watch the movie on this day.  This will serve as our class party.  SCHOOL WILL DISMISS AT 1:00 TODAY!

Thanks for Thanksgiving

I hope this week finds each of you relaxing with family and friends.  I am so very thankful for the teaching job that I have had for 10 wonderful years.  I enjoy teaching my group of firsties each year.  My job is extremely challenging and rewarding all the same.  Thank you for entrusting your precious child to me each and everyday.  I am also very thankful for each of my firsties parents.  You all have been so very helpful this year...volunteering when needed.  I am so appreciative of all of your support.  The following are some pictures of our Thanksgiving Feast.  A huge thank you to everyone who helped make this event happen.  (any pictures of students' faces blurred are due to the fact that those individuals are not allowed to be published on the internet.)

Thankful

I hope today finds each of you enjoying your family.  I am so very thankful for my wonderful group of firsties this year.  Each one is so unique and I love helping them grow in knowledge throughout the year.  I am thankful for the challenge of teaching each group of students that have crossed my path.  I am so thankful for all of the parents of each one of my students.  Each of you have entrusted me with your child.  You have offered help when needed through your volunteer work, you have donated items for our learning activities whenever asked.  It is such a blessing to have parents that are so supportive.  I am so very thankful for my life and all the blessings that have been bestowed upon me (too many to list here).  Our annual Thanksgiving feast was a huge success yesterday.  Thank you to everyone who made it happen:  all of the parents who donated items and volunteered to serve, Dale Graff and the cafeteria staff for the potatoes, and Burger's Smokehouse for the Turkey.  Here are some pictures of our day.  I hope you enjoy them.  Have a happy Thanksgiving!