December Happenings

It's been way too long since our last classroom update!  We have had a fun and busy December.
Here are a few highlights from our month!

Gingerbread VIP Day
Thanks for taking time to help us build gingerbread houses!
Everyone did a spectacular job on their house.

We listened to the story The Polar Express and enjoyed pajama day.  We also boarded the Polar Express train and watched part of the movie.

SANTA visits Osgood!

 He's here!!

 Waiting patiently... :)

Singing songs as Santa walks around.

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And, from my crazy family to yours...

Merry Christmas and best wishes for the HAPPIEST NEW YEAR!

News from the Week

We were BUSY Little Learners this week!  We talked about our five senses and used The Gingerbread Man book to help us describe gingerbread cookies.  We used our sense of sight to notice the features of a gingerbread cookie such as arms, legs, head, buttons, eyes, and mouth.  

Our sense of smell told us that gingerbread cookies have a spicy scent.  

We did a fun activity using QR codes to use our sense of hearing to guess who quoted the Gingerbread Man when he said, "Run, run as fast as you can!  You can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread Man!"  

Can you guess who said it?

When we used our sense of touch we noticed that a gingerbread cookie feels smooth, crispy, and bumpy.  Finally, we used our sense of taste and ate a gingerbread cookie!  Ask your child...

We also had our gingerbread house VIP day on Friday and had a great time!  Thank you so much for all of the candy donations!  The houses were beautiful and I'm sure quite tasty as well!  I hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did!

Thanks for a great week!

Next Week:

Miss Guhlke is in charge!  She has some fun things planned!

Please remember that library books are due back to school on Thursday, Dec. 10.

Let me know if you have any questions.  :)  Have a great weekend!

Special Visitors

This past week we were so lucky to meet Linda Francis and Judy Kvaale, authors of The Gingerbread Cousins series.  They came to our classroom and read Skip, the Spacey Surfer which is a book about a gingerbread man who is in Florida trying to get away from different animals!

Linda and Judy talked about how they have to do research before they write a book and told us how they learn something new each time they write a new book.  They are currently researching North Dakota, and what they students don't know yet, is that they will be helping Linda and Judy with their research!  In the next few weeks, we will be learning about animals that live in North Dakota and we will send our research to the authors.  Maybe some of our ideas will be in their North Dakota book?!

You can read more about the authors here

Here is a video of Linda and Judy being interviewed on North Dakota Today

Thanks for coming, Linda & Judy! 

#celebsighting :)

News from the Week

Hello!  Here are a few highlights from our week!

We met Miss Guhlke, our student teacher!  

She will be in our classroom until Dec. 22nd. 

We also worked on the comprehension strategy of questioning.  When we don't understand something, or we want to know more, we MUSTACHE a question!

Our good friends in Mrs. Hawkinson's class wanted to learn how to use Seesaw so we taught them!

Peer-to-peer teaching.  

Doesn't get much better than this!

Don't forget to sign up to see your child's learning through this digital portfolio! You received a QR code specific to your child at conferences.  If you need the code again, please let me know!

We will be having another VIP day coming SOOOOON!!! 

If you'd be willing to help out with donations, please sign up through Volunteer Spot.  

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2) Review the options listed and choose the spot(s) you like.

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Note: VolunteerSpot does not share your email address with anyone. If you prefer not to use your email address, please contact me and I can sign you up manually.

Thank you so much!

Feature Teacher: Mrs. Rensch

This week we had the pleasure of interviewing Mrs. Rensch, one of our PE teachers!  She even danced with us as we're getting ready for FAMILY DANCE NIGHT on Tuesday, Nov. 10th!

Check out our interview!

And here's a SNEAK PEEK at what 

FAMILY DANCE NIGHT is all about!

Hope to see you there!

Engineer Visit

This week we were so lucky to have David, a software engineer, speak to our class!  Before we met him, we brainstormed ideas of what an engineer might do for his job.  We thought maybe they drive trains or other vehicles, and we also thought they might fix gears.  

David told us that there are many different types of engineers, but the all are problem solvers.  He taught us that an engineer takes a big problem and breaks it into smaller problems.  He showed us a really fun game about a turtle and a gem.  The goal of the game is to figure out how to get the turtle to the gem, but we have to solve problems first.  He taught us how to move the turtle by putting up our right hands to turn the turtle right, left hands to turn the turtle left, and both hands up to keep the turtle moving straight.  

David wrote our 'program' on the side of the whiteboard. 

We had a fun time working together to get the turtle to the gem!  

Can you believe we got to be engineers??