Winter Sing Along

This afternoon we had our Winter Sing Along, one of my favorite Chamberlin traditions.  Your children did a great job performing, and then listening to other children for nearly an hour (that's a LONG time for a group of 5 and 6 year olds to sit).  Here are a few photos.

Building and Giving

Dear Families,
Today we did a special project in the media center.  We made small wooden frames with the help of some folks from Lowe's.  Each child got to keep their apron and goggles, so you can look for those to come home.

Many people give gifts at this time of year.  So... our fifth grade helpers are going to visit some folks who live at an assisted living facility to give theirs away.  Mrs. Brown's daughter works at an assisted living facility in Shelburne and will be dropping off our frames.  Some of your children wanted to keep their frames, but we talked about the importance of giving and how good it makes us feel to give a gift to someone.  Here are a few pictures of your children in action.

Super Readers

Today when we got back from music, we found a note and some Super Pointers.

The note said:

Dear Super Readers,

I heard that you are using your superpowers to read.  I thought you might like some super pointers to help with pointer power.  

Read On!

Love,

Reader Man

We are excited and can't wait to use our new pointers in Readers' Workshop tomorrow!

Word Collectors

We read a book called Max's Words.   Max collects words.  Your children decided they wanted to collect words too.  Here are a few pictures of them cutting out words today.  Fred said we would need a much bigger container for our words.

If you have any catalogs or flyers (ones with at least some larger font words are more helpful!), please send them in.