Lunar New Year and Snowshoeing!

We had a very busy Friday today!  Jordan's mom came in and shared with us about the Lunar New Year.  We learned a lot about Korean celebrations.  In Korea they have 11 days of fireworks and everyone wears red for good luck during this time.  They often get new clothes to wear.  Boys wear pink and girls wear blue!  Cathy brought in examples of "Hanbok" which is traditional Korean clothing.  We learned how to say "Saehae bok manhi badeu seyo" which means "Have a lot of luck in the new year"!  We enjoyed fortune cookies and clementines and spent our choice time today doing Lunar New Year activities.  Many thanks to Cathy for teaching us about the Lunar New Year!
We also had a visit from Gracie's mom today for Gracie's birthday.  She shared about Gracie as a baby and brought us a birthday treat of cupcakes and Rice Krispie treats.  In addition to that, Claudia's family sent in cucumbers and grapes for our Friday healthy snack.  Many thanks to Gracie and Claudia's families for providing these delicious snacks for our team today!
Wednesday will be our 100th day of school!  We are sending home sashes with each child for them to decorate with 100 things and bring back to school to wear on the 100th day.  In addition to that we are asking each child to bring in 100 of some kind of snack so we can make a big "mixed" snack to share as a team on the 100th day.  We are also expecting a visit from "Zero the Hero", who appears to be a little shorter this year than he has been in the past!
We had a fantastic day of snowshoeing, and aerobics and yoga today.  Many thanks to Zynnia, Cathy, Holly, Kristen, and Amelia for helping out with these activities!  Next week we will swap, so if your child didn't snowshoe this week, he/she will have the opportunity to do so next Friday.

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Finally, I would like to share about how much fun I had looking at homework this week.  I am so amazed by the creativity and clever ideas all my students have.  Looking over homework is actually something I look forward to every Friday!  It is often another window into who my students are.  The comics,mini- books, poems and other ways they showed their learning this week were terrific!  Thank you for supporting this at home!  

***Evan has lost his snow pants and they are nowhere to be found!  Could everyone please check at home to make sure they didn't come home to your house.  They are black bib snowpants. Thank you!