Holiday:Thanksgiving

It’s Fall and today it finally feels like it.  Thanksgiving is just a week away, so this week was a perfect time to read Thanksgiving stories to all of the classes.

For Pre-K, I read Happy Thanksgiving, Gus! by Jacklyn Williams. In Kindergarten, I read Clifford’s Thanksgiving Visit by Norman Bridwell.  I read my all-time favorite Thanksgiving story to First Grade. ‘Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving by Dav Pilkey.

I read A Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting to Second Grade.  It is another favorite of mine.  For Third Grade, I read Arthur’s Thanksgiving by Marc Brown.  Fourth Grade really enjoyed I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie by Alison Jackson.  I was unable to read Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet to Fifth Grade because they were gone to camp this week. All of the students seemed to enjoy the stories this week.  I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Scholastic Book Fair

This week we held our fall Scholastic Book Fair in the library.  Instead of coming to the library for a lesson or story, each class was able to come to the fair to create a wishlist of books they wanted or to purchase books.  Thursday evening we had a Story Night where the students got to come in their pajamas and hear different teachers reading stories.  They also got to enjoy milk and cookies.

We seemed to have had a great turnout and made approximately $9,000.  That’s wonderful that so many books are now in the hands our students.

Plano ISD Elementary Science and Engineering Fair

It is time once again to prepare for the Elementary Science and Engineering Fair.  The fair is open to students in grades K-5. Through participation in this annual event is voluntary, we want to encourage interested students to take advantage of this opportunity to exhibit their knowledge. 

If your child is interested in participating please return the Science and Engineering Fair letter to your child’s teacher so you may have a handbook. Our campus fair will be January 9^th this year! We look forward to some great entries to represent Christie Elementary!

If you have any questions feel free to email the Science Fair Coordinator at Jessica.Malloy@pisd.edu

Holiday: Halloween

This week started off with Halloween, so I decided this would be the perfect time to read some Halloween stories to the students.  I love sharing the holidays through good books and the students always seem to love them as well.

In Pre-K, I read Clifford and the Halloween Parade by Norman Bridwell. I read Halloween Mice! by Bethany Roberts to Kindergarten and Happy Halloween, Gus! by Jacklyn Williams to First Grade. For Second Grade, I chose to read Froggy’s Halloween by Jonathan London.

Since Third Grade is also studying poetry right now, I chose to read Frankenstein Makes a Sandwich by Adam Rex.  It’s a poetry book about all sorts of monstrous things.  For Fourth Grade I read The Perfectly Horrible Halloween by Nancy Poydar and The Perfect Pumpkin Pie by Denys Cazet for Fifth Grade.

The students loved the stories and now I’m ready to start looking for books to share for Thanksgiving.