Wright Brothers

We had a lot of fun learning about the Wright Brothers this week and all the work they put into making the first motor powered airplane.  We tried to be like the Wright Brothers in class and we made our own airplanes...paper airplanes!  We had flying contests, and like the Wright Brothers, if our plane did not fly so well we make some improvements on it so that we got better and better!

Broncos Day

I was so sad when the Broncos lost because I just kept seeing all of these cute little buddies dressed in their favorite Broncos clothes!  We had a fun day cheering on the Broncos (and SAINTS even though I tried my best to explain that they did not make the play-offs!) on Friday!

4th of July

We celebrated the 4th of July in January (everyone found that a bit silly!) since we do not have school in July.  We made flags, had birthday treats, sang The Star Spangled Banner and God Bless America to our country and learned about the time when we were only the 13 colonies and not the USA!

Singing for a Veteran

http://www.9news.com/news/article/306148/339/Father-Marine-stands-guard-outside-school

I was humbled today when a Marine stationed himself in front of our school to let us know that we were safe.  I was even further humbled when the kindergarteners wanted to sing the National Anthem for him ("Because he is a Veteran!") What an amazing kindergarten class!

Our Winter Party

Chippy the elf put candy canes in our stockings!!

We got to make a Santa ornament!

We decorated puzzle cookies!

We had a fun book exchange where each kid got a new book!

It was pajama day for our winter party so we were nice and cozy!

Gingerbread Men

Our day started off pretty normal.  We had these wonderful gingerbread men cookies made by Mrs. Jynette to look forward to eating this afternoon.

Then when we were finally able to eat them, we discovered that they had run away!  We quickly got in a line to go hunt for them!

We checked a lot of different classes and even the office.  Everyone had the same answer: the gingerbread men had gone by, messed things up, and run away.

Thankfully our thrid grade buddies caught them!  They even had the gingerbread men write a letter to us!

We had fun eating cookies and reading with our buddies!

We all want to know Mrs. Jynette's recipe now.  How did she make magical gingerbread men?!

Kindergarten Reindeer

A friend in our class brought everyone reindeer antlers and we had a blast wearing them all day.  We had to have a new rule....no flying to the North Pole during class!!