Hoppy Easter!

Hoppy Easter Dream Team!!! I hope you had a super day spending time with your loved ones. I am in New York right now visiting my husband's family. There is just a little snow, but the temperature is right around 30 degrees. It is a HUGE difference from our North Carolina weather.

I also wanted to say Thank YOU for your help with our Egg-stravaganza! We had so many parents come to celebrate with us and help in SO many ways. On the way to New York my husband and I stopped by 5th Street Ministries in Statesville. We dropped off the amazing Easter baskets the Dream Team players made. They were extremely appreciative. Thank you parents for all of your incredible donations. We are so lucky to have such a WONDERFUL team. Thank you for all you DO! :0)

An Egg-Stravaganza

Two holidays in one week! Oh my! This Friday, March 21st at 12:15 will be our Egg-stravaganza. Please remember to send in your items and Easter eggs asap. The team is super excited about making the Easter baskets for the needy children at 5th Street Ministries. We have already received so many wonderful donations. The baskets are going to be AMAZING. THANK YOU! Let me know if you have any questions about anything. The team has been doing a great job this week. I am so proud of their writing progress and their effort on the math time tests. WOW! :0)

Oh, the wee ones are back again! Every year those pesky little Leprechauns visit Lakeshore and create mischief. Somehow they seem to make their way into the kinder rooms and create chaos. SO this year, in first grade, we have attempted to STOP them before they could even get their tiny little feet through our door . . .

The first step, of course, was for the team to write stories explaining how they would catch the leprechauns before they ever entered room C113. Let me tell you- THE STORIES WERE INCREDIBLE!!! WOW! For three days straight all they wanted to do was WRITE. They were so excited and I JUST loved it since writing is our big PDSA goal. After the team published their amazing works of art into little books.

Okay, so then it was time to get down to business. Each team member created the traps and obstactles they wrote about in order to keep the little wee ones out.

The Dream Team made the most amazing traps . . . their creativity was out of this world. We had SO much fun. The best part was at the the end when the incredible TEAM decided to combine their various traps together to make sure the leprechauns could not escape them. Seeing those wheels moving inside their heads was just the absolute best!!! Check out the pictures and see all the excitement!

Thank you parents for sending in the materials. :) Remember to wear green on Monday for St. Patrick's Day! Stay tuned to see what happens with the little wee ones. . .

Charlotte's Web Field Trip

The field trip today was wonderful!! The dream team loved watching the Charlotte's Web play. It was an incredibly funny performance! The actors were marvelous, especially Templeton the rat! The boys voted him best character- hands down.

Thank you to Mrs. Hamrick, Mrs. Cating, Mrs. Evenson, and Mrs. Tucker for chaperoning! You made the trip so enjoyable. We have a such a great TEAM of parents and children. I am just the luckiest teacher EVER!!! :)

County Writing Test

Please be on the lookout for writing samples being sent home today. Review areas that are circled on your child's rubric. Capitals and periods, along with complete sentences, are SUPER important!!! Also remember to add details! Please remember no visitors, volunteers, or dropping off of lunches tomorrow because of the NC Writing Test. Good luck! Sleep tight and eat a power packed breakfast! Go TEAM GO!!!! :)

P.S. Today's book character costumes are INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!!!!! :) Check out the first grade Sneetches... READING ROCKS!

Reminders and Updates

Thank you for the great response about electronically sending the weekly newsletter. Hopefully this will help with our paper shortage and save some trees along the way! I will be sending the first electronic email this week.

Some important reminders: (1) Next Monday the entire first grade will be dressing up as their favorite Dr. Seuss character or their favorite book character. I can't wait- of course! (Secretly I really decided to become a teacher just so I could dress up like I am still 4 years old! It ROCKS!) (2) Tuesday, March 4th is the 3rd quarter writing test. Get lots of sleep and eat a super energy-packed breakfast. Also, over the next few days you may want to do some finger lifts to strengthen those finger muscles. :) (3) Thursday, March 6th the Dream Team will be leaving the campus and attending the Charlotte's Web play. Remember to send your packed lunch. (4) Do to our different schedule next week we will not have a reading selection. Instead we will be doing the quarterly reading tests- DRAs.

Thank you for all you do!