December 17-21, 2012 (Last Week Before Winter Break!)

This is our last week of school before Winter Break. We listened to the music from and watched the story of the Nutcracker. We made presents for our parents, and we celebrated Navneeth's 4th birthday. Many of us got C.A.R.E. awards on Friday. It was a very busy week.

Happy Holidays, Everyone!

An almost-straight line in the Blue Hall

(it doesn't get much better than this)

 

Gavrusha the Construction Worker

 

Hugo being silly

 

R1 Princesses

 

More R1 Princesses

 

Principessa italiana

 

One of our lovely guest readers this week (also a princess)

 

Ms. Hogrefe's 3rd Grade read us their personally-illustrated

"'Twas the Night Before Christmas"

 

Ms. Burnell from 1st Grade read us Grimms'

The Elves and the Shoemaker

 

Allegra's mom Natalia read us Der Knussknacker

(The Nutcracker), auf Deutsch

 

Alessio checks out a REAL nutcracker!

 

Joshua built a chocolate factory out of blocks.

If it was real, we could be his best customers!

 

 

HAPPY 4TH BIRTHDAY NAVNEETH!

 

 

Navneeth's super cool birthday cake!

 

We've never seen a cake like that before!

Getting ready to life the birthday chair three times...

Navneeth shared his cake AND toys

with every Reception 1 student!

 

 

C.A.R.E. Awards

On Friday, many Reception 1 students received awards for citizenship, achievement,

responsibility or effort. All Reception 1 students try hard every day. Some students do so well every day that they almost get overlooked. These students were given Bronze awards for continuous hard work, caring for and helping fellow students, always cleaning up the classroom when asked, and leaping ahead with it comes to learning. 

 

First R1 Bronze Award Winners:

 

Lani

Joshua

Mika

Cody

 

Not pictured (sick that day): Devi

Giving the award winners a hand!

Alessio received a citizenship award for helping

so much in the classroom, and helping friends, too

Former cribmates Mika and Cody hold up their honors

Cody and her mom smile big!

Joshua and his mom are proud

Lani shows off her fantastic awards

Jacob displays his award for achievement

Gavrusha's first award for speaking German and English so often