Mark Your Calendar!  Wise Owl drama performance : February 7th at 10:15 am.

Chinese New Year celebration

It was a positively, perfect week of studying penguins and the letter P.  We snacked on popcorn and pancakes.  We compared our height to the height of two species of penguins, the Great Emperor Penguin and the Fairy Penguin.  We read fiction and non-fiction books about penguins.  We enjoyed it so much that we decided we need another week or penguin adventures.  Next week we will continue our studies by doing more penguin activities and combining this with a study of weather and snow.  Maybe the weather will cooperate.  

It's so good to be back at school with all the wise owls in the nest.  This week we are learning all penguins and the letter P.  Today we made pink and purple polka dot P's.  We also read about Pip the penguin.   The owls are excited about the snow that will be in the media table tomorrow.  We discussed how Santa is at the North Pole, but the penguins live at the South Pole.  We also played a penguin math game.

Today we read two gingerbread stories, Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett and The Gingerbread Girls Goes Animal Crackers by Lisa Ernst.  Then we made gingerbread cookies which we decorated and ate for dessert after lunch.  It was a very exciting day. We are also blessed with a new addition to our class this week.  My mother and her dog, Gracie, are going to visit in our class for the rest of the week.  It's nice to have and extra pair of hands to help with crafts and baking projects and a little furry vacuum cleaner to clean up any food droppings.

Hanukkah, Oh Hanukkah!

The wise owls are brimming with Christmas cheer!!!  They are anxiously awaiting our visit with Santa on December 15.  We are looking for a few drivers to help us get the early learners to the Dumas Center downtown on that day.  We are leaving campus no later than 9:30 and will return by 11:30.  Please let me know if you can help.