Valentine's Day in my room was nice and relaxed. We decorated our mailboxes (white bags from Michael's) for morning work.  Read a few Valentine books:
 

Before reading The Valentine Bears, the kids predicted what the story might be about and what vocabulary might be in the story which we charted.  They love doing this, but they especially love when we check afterward to see who had the best predictions.  Then we went to gym, came back and had our Valentine snack ~ heart shaped rice krispie treats-YUM! We worked on a few math activites involving sorting and finally the moment we were waiting for ALL MORNING......delivering our Valentine's.....woo hoo!

February page for Jazzy Journal courtesy of kinderbykim



sorting conversation hearts



Decorating our bags

The finished product

Delivering cards

Hope you all had a nice Valentine's Day Party, now on to the 100th day of school......tomorrow!  FINALLY....with all the snow days I was wondering if we'd ever get to it... But the best news of the week is, drumroll......... it's supposed to be 60 on Friday!  I am so excited!!  I know it's just a tease but I'll take it.  And the crazy thing is we're going skiing that afternoon, that is my kind of ski weather, lol.  Anyway, Danny's class is having International Night tonight that I have to go get ready for.  ttyl

A couple more things...



Painting the puzzle pieces



We finally got to finish our gifts for our moms and dads for Valentine's Day.



The finished products, I LOVE THEM TO PIECES!




So Cute!

 We read a few stories about Abraham Lincoln and made our own little book entitled, Abraham Lincoln's Hat.  Honest Abe kept very important papers in his hat at all times.  I asked the kids what they would put in their hats if they had a hat like Lincoln.  They came up with some cute ideas.

Class Book

                          

working hard on our illustrations and writing

Spongebob of course, cookies-I would agree on that one, and mom and dad

How cute, I would put mom and dad in it :)

Well that's all for now, off to bed.  Happy TGIF!!!

Snow Day #6

Well here we are at snow day #6, what is going on with this weather?  I was watching the Today Show this morning and all of a sudden it clicked off to our local news and has been on ever since, BECAUSE the major news of the day is what else...THE SNOW, that only means one thing, all the good shows will be pre-empted so that the media can dwell on the storm.  I had to turn it off when they actually interviewed someone on how to make an igloo for safety...wth??? So here I am on the computer instead. I read some blogs this morning and  everyone seems to be getting into Valentine's Day, actually my sister has been planning hers for over a month now, it's going to be so adorable, I can't wait to see the pics.  I found these on some other blogs, very cute ideas.....
this idea came from here
and this one came from here. I thought this was very appropriate for our side of the country right now and I think the colors are so pretty.
And this came from here.
I can't wait for Valentine's Day either.....I LOVE CANDY and I love the whole idea of Valentine's.  I have my kids make these Valentine's for their parents, I think it's ADORABLE and it's so easy, just paint puzzle pieces "Valentine" colors glue onto cardstock to make a border and have the kids write "I love you to pieces!" on an index card.  It's in their handwriting which is so cute and just hang with pretty ribbon.

I'll post the ones my class makes next week, I had Ryan make this 7 years ago.  Happy almost TGIF!