The Big Fun Run

1.     Madison, Ellee, and Mia

2.     Grandma Ellie...boy, we love her!

3.     Ben and his dad

4.     Ellee, Averie, and Mia

5.     Leonardo and Eddie (I really love this picture!)

6.     PRIZES!

7.     Some of the gang

8.     More PRIZES!

9.     Our Shelby won this enormous remote control sports car...lucky duck!

September Lunch Bunch

The goal of each child, everyday is to earn as many blue tickets as possible.  Tickets are earned by doing your best in everything you do. The more you earn, the more chances you have of getting your name picked and then you have the privilege of choosing a prize out of the prize  box.  Two of those puppies are chosen every day.  It's a big deal around here.


As an added incentive, I save all of the tickets and then I draw FIVE names from the collection of tickets accumulated throughout the month. These five names meet together in the classroom around the "teacher table" to eat lunch with each other and with me.  It is affectionately called "The Lunch Bunch"!  I love this time.  The children really let down their hair and we get sort of silly and giggly as we eat our lunches and visit in the classroom.  What sweet little children you all have!  


Our SEPTEMBER winners were:

CHRISTOPHER!

ESHER!

LOVELY LITTLE IMANI!

LEONARDO!

JACOB!

All finished and headed back to the lunchroom. 

Such a fun time to spend together.

You may have wondered why we were all in pajamas.  Well, it just so happened to be our PJ day during the annual Red Ribbon Week.

Cute aren't they??

I wonder who the lucky five will be for last month...October!

I'll be sure to let you all know.

Happy Halloween!

Oh my goodness!  I'm behind again.  So, let's just start out with our most recent event:

Get ready, there are a lot of pictures.  But, boy, they are ADORABLE!  Enjoy!!

Ana, Shelby, Sophia, Unika, Jade, Haegan, Averie, and Madyson

Jacob (Luigi), Quinn, and Jade

Jose and Leonardo

Quinn, Leonardo, and Esher

Shelby, Madison, and Gunner

Eddie, Jadon, and Christopher

Leah (I LOVE her face!  Leah actually wore a clown costume but took it off before pictures!), Unika, Haegan, Averie, Shelby, and Madison

Mia, Ben, Gunner, and Ana

Quinn, Christopher, Neo, Leonardo, Mrs. Anderson (I actually purchased this sari in a market stall in Sri Lanka over 20 years ago!), Gunner, and Luke

Neo, Luke, and Madyson

Shannon and Sophia







And, finally, to top things off I am including a short video presented by Esher.
Two years ago, Esher's sister Tristan was in my first grade class.
Tristan told me a very "SCARY" Halloween story.
Naturally, I just had to include a story from Esher.
Very cute!

Sorry about the "chopiness" of the video.

My Flip camera is on the fritz.

But, you can get the idea.  :)