Countdown to Christmas!!

Hi Everyone!!  I'm sure your house is buzzing with the spirit of the approaching holiday.  If you are like me, your daily "work to-do list" and "home to-do list" are both a mile long.

 I have lots of fun planned for this week!  In the spirit of Little House in the Big Woods  we will be making some gifts for loved ones, we will be publishing our opinion writing to the blog (a must see for any last minute Christmas shopping), and comparing various food chains.  As you can see, there is a lot happening in room 205! 

On Friday, we will celebrate the end of 1st semester with our 4th Annual Hawthorn Reindeer Games!  For those new to Hawthorn, this is a fun all-school event.  Parents are welcome to come and join in on the games (or just watch).  If you have any questions, send me an email or give me a call.

Have a great week and I hope to see you on Friday!

Jodi

The yummy crackers By Ryann buster

after 2nd recess our teacher Mrs.Coen  the best teacher of all washed the butter off. Put the butter on 1 cracker and.put apricot jam on another cracker.Put the butter and jam together and passed the crackers out! The crackers were  AWESOMELY good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!we got seconds. it was good!I love these crackers.you should make them!

Making Butter By: Luke

Last week we made butter. It was so fun! First we put heavy whipping cream in the churner. Then we took turns churning the butter. You have to be strong.  After we were done churning we put the butter on crackers and ate it. It was really good!

Opinin Writing By Raquel Tenbrink

This week we did opinion writing.We wrote about what we like and don't like. Like why cats are better then dogs or why you should save the Polar Bears (that was mine).We had to write in our notebooks about our opinions. I didn't know when we were going to start drafting but I was existed to draft!!!!!
Time to put our notebooks away mrs coen.   We are going to draft next week.

Winter Extravaganza!

I hope your 3rd grader told you about making butter. We had a great time taking turns at the butter churn. Then we enjoyed our fresh butter on saltine crackers! We are having such fun reading Little House In The Big Woods and comparing our lives with Laura's. One thing we could all agree on...churning butter takes some muscle!

I will be out of the classroom tomorrow (Dec. 7) for an all day co-teaching workshop. I plan on sharing more details with you next week.

Finally, I want to invite you to our WINTER EXTRAVAGANZA Saturday, December 8. I will be here at Hawthorn early and hope to see you!