Wow! Where has time gone?

I can't believe it's been so long since I last posted.  We made it though the holidays thanks to all my wonderful parents!  Wasn't pajama day fun for your child?  It's my favorite day of the year, well, that and Field Day.  The animal masks and presentations were wonderful and I love how they decorate the room.  If you haven't seen them, come on by and take a look.  Our new topic is our community.  We have a project to do at home where you and your child build a replica (using cereal, shoe boxes or the like) of a building in our community.  They children will then present what they have learned about that building and who works in it.  We have a fun culminating activity where we get to lay out the buildings to make a map then play in the miniature town!  We also have dress up for playing the roles of the workers and other fun stuff.  We will write about our community, take a field trip to Living Desert, learn about solid shapes, addition and subtraction concepts, and learn about important people in our community.  Parent conference is coming up.  Please keep a look out for the sign up sheet.  Since I mentioned Field Day, here's more information.  We hold a morning where all the PE activities and games they have learned through the year are all played in one day.  Each group of students rotates around the field and plays the games.  We ask the water company to give us a truck of water, we wear a special No Excuses Field Day T-shirt, and we hand out participation awards at the end.  We sell the T-shirt at cost so each child has a T-shirt to keep.  The T-shirt can be worn as a uniform shirt for the rest of the year.  We need lots of parent volunteers for this day, so please come help!  Happy Day!