Who Dat Girls

It was sports shirt day on Friday! We had 3 girls wear SAINTS shirts (I also wore mine so that made 4!) We called oursleves the WHO DAT girls!!

Of course we had quite a few Broncos fans too!

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!

Harlem Globetrotters

The last week of school before our winter break, our school collected canned foods. Our hope was that we could collect more cans than all of the other schools in Northern Colorado so that we could have a Harlem Globetrotter come to our school. We ended up winning this competition and on Wednesday, a Globetrotter came and did tricks for us in the gym. He was so much fun to watch! He even called on students from the crowd to come up and he taught them some tricks. One of our third grade teachers, Mr. Smith, got to go up and do tricks too!

Indoor recess

Some of our snowy days this week, it has been too cold to go outside. We have had a lot of fun with indoor recess though. Here are some of our dress up pictures!

Happy Half Birthday America!

On January 4, 2011, we celebrated our countries 234 1/2 birthday. We learned about the Fouth of July as well as our country's flag. We had cupcakes in honor of our country's half birthday and learned the song, "God Bless America". We also read a book about Betsy Ross sewing the first ever American flag at General Washington's request. A lot of people though don't think that she really did sew the first flag. We talked about that as a class and everyone in the class thinks that she really did sew the first flag. Their reasoning is:

There were lots of people there with her when she sewed the first flag.

She was really good at sewing.

She kept her shop going somehow after her husband died.

If she didn't sew it, the who did? Why did no oe else come forward and claim that they did it?

It was fun celebrating our country's birthday!

Snow!!

It has finally started snowing in Colorado and the kids are SO HAPPY! Their teacher is not quite as impressed though. One student told me that I don't like the snow because I did not grow up with it in Louisiana. She is probably right! Watching the kids play in it though makes me happy! There is a little snow "hill" that we have to pass by on our way out to the playground. We usually stop by it on our way out and the kids have so much fun climbing up and down it! They also love to make snow angels, hunt for the snow monster, and build snow men.

Tracy Porter says," MERRY CHRISTMAS!"