More Texas 2x2 and Valentine's Day Fun

For the Pre-K thru 2^nd grade classes, I read another book from the Texas 2x2 list in order to help students reach their goal of at least 5 books in order for them to vote for their favorite in April.  I have now read 3 books to each grade level.  In Pre-K, I read What This Story Needs is a Pig in a Wig by Emma Virjan.  I read We Dig Worms by Kevin McCloskey for Kindergarten.  This was very fitting because they had recently studied soil.  For First Grade, I read We Forgot Brock by Carter Goodrich.  I read The New Small Person by Lauren Child to Second Grade.

We have been working so hard on learning research steps in Third, Fourth and Fifth Grade, that I thought we should have a little Valentine’s Day fun.  We played the AND game.  One student came to the front of the room and picked a slip of paper out of the bucket. They then read what was on the paper with the exception of what was after the word “and”.  The rest of the class had to then guess what the next word should be.  Some examples were bacon and eggs, macaroni and cheese, and bed and breakfast.  Some were really easy and others were a little more difficult.  They all enjoyed playing this game and even asked me if they could play it again sometime.

Our PE department has asked that we pass along these important messages.  Please help if you can.

Dear Parents-

This year Christie Elementary has the opportunity to win some amazing prizes for our wellness program.  Anyone in our community can click on the link below and enter for a chance to win a $30,000 grant for our school's healthy transformation AND a new playground.  While there are other prizes available, this would clearly be an amazing opportunity of our kids!  The sweepstakes runs until March 24, 2017 which is right around the corner.  Please set your alarm on your phone or post a sticky note on the fridge to log on each day and vote.  Also, feel free to share with family and friends to help increase our voting numbers.  Thank you!

http://www.togethercounts.com/at-school/win-for-your-school/sweepstakes

BLOG: FITNESS FLEXERS

The PE staff would like to provide you with an opportunity to help ALL kids at Christie.  We are in need of approximately 27 yoga balls for our fitness class.  We hope these yoga balls will provide us with an opportunity to have drum fit lessons and core strengthening opportunities.  Therefore we have created a DonorsChoose.org classroom request.  Please click on the link below to help support us.

https://www.donorschoose.org/project/fitness-flexers/2447604/

Once funded, we'll update the PE blog with pictures of how our Christie kids are enjoying their fitness lessons while ultimately becoming healthier citizens.  

P.S. If you know anyone who may want to help, please pass this along!