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We hope everyone is having a great winter break!! We miss you and can't wait to hear all about your vacation on Monday!

 Don't forget to get on iReady over break! 

Auntie Clause Visits Again

Auntie Claus, Santa's sister, visited us last year at this time to tell us about the BB&G list and introduced us to her family! She returned this year to teach us the key to Christmas!  We always enjoy candy canes with Auntie Claus!! 

Snow in Love!

We were "snow" in love with today! We had a silly sock day as we continue to countdown to Winter Break!

Then, the kiddos presented his/her family fun snowman project to the class! We have some really creative students! Can you guess these snowmen?

After reading the book, Snowmen at Christmas, our students wrote their own story about his or her snowman! They were so fun to read!

Seasons of Giving

The first graders at Chets Creek collected food for BEAM as our Season of Giving project this season!! We have been collecting food for the last few weeks in preparation for today when we could stuff the van with our donations!! 

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving!

What a fun filled day we have had today! It has been a Charlie Brown kind of day!

Each child dressed up as his/her favorite Charlie Brown Character:

Charlie Brown:

Schroeder:

Snoopy:

Linus:

Lucy:

Fifi:

Pigpen:

Sally:

Woodstock:

We then decorated for our party!

Each student brought in their special blankey in true Linus form and we watched a Charlie Brown Thanksgiving!

We then had our Charlie Brown feast including toast, gummy bears, pretzels, and popcorn! 

We read books and talked greatly about being thankful! Our kiddos were given the opportunity to write about what they were thankful for and why! We hope you cherish these special pieces of writing for years to come! 

It was a wonderful day!!

Really???

Our book of he month for November is Gingerbread for Liberty by Mara Rockcliff. This book reminds students that each and every person is important and has their own important role to play in the world. 

We completed a  REALLY? chart in our class together. As the students listen to the nonfiction texts we stopped and wrote down things that were interesting or surprised them from the reading. We also asked them why they felt that way. In the third column of the chart we went a little further and made a logical inference about what this information suggests. We want our readers to use text evidence in their answer and all their reading! This REALLY?? chart was a lot of fun for our class and we can't wait to use it again!! 

R Controlled Vowels

Our readers explored "R controlled vowels" today! 

-ir

-ur

-er

The more our readers read and write the more their skills will blossom with this bossy r skill!!

Popping Good Behavior!

Students that filled his or her popcorn buckets over the past month were invited to a special lunch and movie with Mrs. Svrcek and Mrs. Witt!!

We are so proud of our kiddos! They have worked so hard! There are a number of ways to earn pieces of popcorn such as being on task, working hard during independent work time, being kind to a friend, etc. 

We can't wait to see who will fill their buckets next month!

Special Readers

Our very own Mrs. McCloud, a Chets Creek 2nd grade teacher, brought her collection of fall fun books to our classroom to read! Thank you Mrs. McCloud for sharing and reading to our class! I know one sweet girl that loved having her mommy read to her class!!

Mrs. Foster or the sweet spider lady made a special appearance to read one of her families favorite books!! The kiddos LOVED listening to you read Room on the Broom! 

We love guest readers!! Anytime you have a family favorite let us know and we would love to have you read to our class! 

Happy Fall!

Happy Fall!

We started our day off with the Chets Creek literacy parade! Our class paraded around the school dressed up as a character from one of our favorite book. The upper classes and many parents cheered us on and gave lots of high fives as we walked by! Thank You for your support for our love of reading! 

 After the parade we continued the fall fun with some special projects in our classroom! What a fun time our class had making crafts and creating a cupcake to celebrate fall! We couldn't have done this without all our amazing parents! Thank You for all your help and support! 

Library Field Trip

On Monday, we took our first field trip to our Duval County Public Library!

We enjoyed listening to stories and learning about characters' feelings!

The kiddos loved participating in interactive story time!

Some students acted out stories as well!

Our students were able to check out a book as well! The kids really had a great time! We hope you stop by your local library in the future!