A Holly Jolly Holiday

This is the funnest week of the year for a fifth grader! It's a great day to be a Jag! We have the Honor Choir concert tomorrow. We have guest readers each day this week. Starnes Dees invited his grandparents to read today. His grandmother, a former schoolteacher, read Patricia Polacco's Welcome Comfort. It is a story that certainly puts you in the holiday spirit. If you are looking for a chapter book to read aloud to kids, try Kate DiCamillo's The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. It would be a great stocking stuffer. We have the Christmas party this Thursday at 12:30. All parents are invited to attend! I hope to see you there!

Ho! Ho! Ho!

What a fun time of year to be a fifth grade teacher! We have been reading holiday stories and really getting in the Christmas spirit. Ask your child about How Murray Saved Christmas. It was a funny read aloud we enjoyed today. We made the cutest alliteration elves with the students' pictures and oil pastel ornaments which we wrote similes describing. We have guest readers scheduled for every single morning next week and we are going to see A Christmas Carol at New Stage Friday. If you are in my homeroom, don't forget to send a $5.00 gift next Friday for our gift exchange at the Christmas party. Today was the last day to purchase our class Christmas DVD. It was a tearjerker, wasn't it? I think those videos will make a priceless Christmas gift! I hope your days are "merry and bright"!