Wednesday, December 12, 2007

This morning we decorated our Flat Stanleys! Ms. Stern gave us a plain body with a photograph of our head on it. We used paper, felt, and tissue paper to the clothes that we are wearing today. Tomorrow we will get to put on the final decorations. It was challenging figuring out how to cut out the shirt and pants. Ms. Stern showed us how to trace the body onto the construction paper in order to make the clothes.

We had music. Everyone played instruments like the triangle, hand drums, maracas, tambourine, and the jingle bells today in order to play the bird song. Then we did the Cha Cha Slide. Mrs. Fox wasn’t feeling well. She was losing her voice.

Today we had a class discussion about what it means to be a good friend. We are going to work really hard to remember to use kind words. We are also going to remember to let people know how we are feeling. Everyone shared the name of one friend who is kind to him or her and one friend who they are kind to. We also discussed the difference between telling and tattling. We tell when someone is hurt, in danger, or feeling bad. We are tattling when we aren’t involved and no one’s feelings are hurt or people aren’t in danger.

When we checked out the weather this afternoon we found that it will probably snow tomorrow. The whole class is supposed to wear their pajamas inside out so that it will snow and we might have a snow day. If you wear your pajamas half inside out, then we might have a delay or go home early. Maybe.