Busy Week!

It was great to be back at school but I have to admit it was a little hard getting back into the swing of things!  It's a good thing I have a roomful of sweet, helpful 1st graders.

Here are a few things we learned this week:

* Fact vs. Opinion
*Antonyms and Synonyms
*Words with au/aw (this is very tricky!!)

They have also been working very hard on their animal habitat research project.  We hope to wrap it up this week.  
Just a reminder that the home habitat project is due February 9th.  Letters went home last Monday.  If you lost your letter or need another one just let me know. 

100th Day of School

I feel so sad to be missing out on such fun activities at school.   I have been able to face time with my class three or four times so that has been fun (and it just makes me miss them even more!)

Today they celebrated the 100th day of school with some fun activities.  The best part was Miss Bowling found an app that allows you to take a picture of a child and it "ages" them so they could see what they might look like when they are 100 years old!  Check out these cute, old people! (We even got a sneak peak at Mrs. Klinginsmith and Ms. Inskeep).

A Long Overdue Thank You

It seems these last few weeks have gone by quickly!  When school let out for winter break, I was frantically trying to get some last minute shopping done before my surgery.  Then I had surgery and for the next two weeks I was pretty much in bed, with foot propped up, and in some pain so I didn't do much.  I have many overdue thank you cards for all of the wonderful gifts I received.  I wanted to take a moment to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who donated to my gift card from my class.  It might be one of my favorite class gifts yet!  Unfortunately I have not had a chance to go shopping yet, but plan to do that soon.  I have such an amazing group of kids and families this year.  Thanks for all you do!  I am ready to be back into my normal routine next week!