Valentine Happiness

Happy POST Valentine's Day!

1) I hope everyone got a little extra chocolate, and a lot of extra hugs and kisses this week!
My smarties were very excited for 2/14 to arrive because it was the offical "Passing out of the Lollipop" brigade.  The student council at our school sells lollipops for 50 cents and the kids get to give them to their friends.  I must have had over a 100 lollipops for my students on my desk!

2) This week to brighten our mood before our winter break,
I asked the kids tell me 5 things they are loving in February.

I had to have them add the mustaches to their hearts.. ADORABLE!  They LOVE LOVE LOVE anything that is mustache related.  As you can see, many of them are into our SU basketball team which has the LONGEST home game win streak in the nation.... WOOT WOOT

What I really love is that the kids love their Youth Group.. ski club... SCHOOL! and the BIOGRAPHY unit I'm teaching.. who would have thought!  That was very exciting.  My middles go through a little slump mid-winter.  They don't want to do whole lot of work on their own, basically it feels like they lose their Stamina.. But my heart melts a little when I see these pieces.

3/4) We also wrote in our Communication Journals to our families.  We do this every Friday.  I give the kids prompts about their school week, and they write a friendly letter home to a parent.  The parent then writes back over the weekend.  It is such a great working memory.  I've had students who are graduating from high school and cleaning out their rooms tell me they found their CJs from sixth grade and read them.  AWESOME.

This month with all of the work we are doing in our biography unit, I figured I would add in a little more fun, so we did Farley's Currently!  I had my smarties fill one out, and then glue a blank one in for the parents. They got such a kick out of this!  In March, I'm going to have them do this again, and then write a paragraph about 3-4 of their choices.

5)  This has been spirit week at our school.  We needed a little pick me up mid winter and today was crazy sock day!  I love how this smartie dressed for the day! So cute!

and another of my "cutie pi's"

gave me a dozen cookies from the bakery her family owns! YUM!!

What did you love this week about your classroom?  Stop by and share!
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Enjoy your weekend!