Summer Time!

A great big thank you for making this year such a memorable one!

From our home to your, have a happy and safe summer!
Aloha!

good times

Our Darling room mom wanted to be sure our kiddos with summer birthdays didn't feel left out so she made them ALL birthday crowns! What a special treat to be remembered! Thanks Melissa!

Today we hiked on over the "the spinning park." We had a great time and besides a few "are we there yets" they did great!

Don't forget your sunscreen and tennis shoes for Kindergarten field day tomorrow and your books and blankies for the read a thon on Wed... and of course your smiles and cameras for our big day on Thursday!!

our totally "tweet" week

We had some sweet little visitors this week!

Let me zoom in on these little chicks!


In addition to our feathered visitors, Master Claire came in as our Mystery Story Teller this week. The kids went nuts!

It wasn't long before she had all out little ones wrapped around her little finger!

She had lots of friends in our room already but was fast friends with all of us!

What a sweet treat!

What a week!

Spring Sing Practice... check
More Spring Sing Practice... check
MORE Spring Sing Practice... check
Dress Rehearsal for 1st grade... check
A stellar performance for our parents.. check
A sweet Mystery Story Teller... check

A surprise fire drill... check
No T.V. walking trip to the park... check
LOADS OF FUN... check
Inching closer and closer to wrapping up this fun-filled year.. check, check!!

We are on the home stretch room 2!
Thanks for all the fun thus far!

We love Rubio's

We walked on over to Rubio's this past week. We had a blast! A special thanks to all of you who joined us and to Mr. Juan at Rubio's for making it a trip to remember!




We finished up this week with Sophie's mom as our Mystery Reader. She had all the kids stumped with her clues and laughing with her stories! Thank you so much for sharing your time and love with us!

Mahalo!

Thank you, thank you, thank you for the beautiful flowers and sweet notes this week. What a pick me up! Thank you for the love!

We had lots of laughs with our MST for this week! Thank you so much for those of you who take the time out of your crazy days to come share the joy of reading with us!


We talked lots about the letter J this week, worked more with some wood for our science unit and became experts on subtraction. But on to the main event...

We tried to be so sneaky getting ready for this special day this week! Moms we hope you feel the love! Happy, happy mother's day to our mothers dear!!

May Day

Happy May! Can you believe how quickly the time is going?? I guess it means we are having fun!

The Gala was a HUGE success! Just as a side note, there is a last chance bid on Monday fro those items that didn’t get snagged up yet. Come join the fun!

This week has been loads of fun in room 2! We made particle board as well as plywood and kept up our hard work in math with adding. This week our kiddos really took off with our spring theme of plants and flowers. Ask your child to tell you about how plants and people make the perfect team!



We were treated this week with Milo’s dad as our Mystery Story Teller. He had us all laughing with Baby Brain. I need to pick it up for our classroom for sure!




We wrapped up our time together with our art lesson from Mrs. Harrison. We studied Picasso and tried our hand at it. We have a room full of artists!

By way of announcements…

Hands that Help Hearts that Care
A special thanks to our wonderful volunteers! Please let the Seacliff staff treat you to an afternoon of treats and mingling! Playground supervision will be provided.
This year, our volunteer celebration will be on Thursday, May 21.
The volunteer celebration will begin at 1:40.

Spring into Savings!
Box Top campaign kicks off on Monday May 4, 2009 and will end on Friday May 15, 2009.
The 2 top classes earn a Popsicle party!
Turn in your box tops in a baggie with your child’s name to make sure that our class gets credit!
Let the clipping begin and help our school earn money!
Any questions contact 2pelcboys@gmail.com or Quezada.shauna@gmail.com

Y week

Well this week we all became experts on the letter Y!
We kept up our hard work with our science unit on wood. Ask your kiddo what happens when wood gets waterlogged. We also got in some Earobics and Type to Learn on the computers. These kids are working so hard! We had music with Mrs. Sibley as well as Kindergarten and are really getting ready for the Kindergarten Spring Sing!
We finished up this week with our wonderful Mystery Story teller whose clues had us all guessing. Dad's let's just say a bunch of your kids ratted you out for snoring like bears:).

Thank you for putting smiles on all of our faces!

Calling all Seastars!

I just wanted to put in one last plug for the Gala. If you don't have tickets yet, you can buy them at the door. Come support all of the wonderful programs that enrich your child's learning! See you there!

We talked lots about the letter "W" by learning about weather, the wind and wood! Ask your kiddo about their favorite type of weather as well as the five type of wood we are studying. They are learning so much! Kindergarten is so much fun!

This week Taylor turned six and to top it off, his mama was our Mystery Story Teller! What a treat!

And a special reminder that our district art show will be at the H.B. Art Center
538 Main St. H.B.
Friday, April 24, 2009 6:00-8:00 (Yes, next Friday!)

Everyone is invited. Come check out some fo the artistic kiddos from our district! A fun and FREE night on the town with your whole family! See you there!

Spring Break

This week was a fun one! We got ready for April to roll in and hopped into Spring!
Thanks to our wonderful room mom, we had some "egg-stra" special spring activities too!
As an added treat, Amy, Benny's older sister visited us as our Mystery Story Teller! She did a GREAT job!

We are working hard to get ready for our Spring Sing, as well as the Gala. I got a sneak peek at our class basket and it is AMAZING! Thank you all so much for working so hard on behalf of our little seastars! A special thanks so Melissa who makes it all happen with such class!

This week I was the "BIG Cheese" in room two. Usually I get to be the first one to show the kiddos how it is done but I was out when that ball started rolling so I went last this year. As Friday's BIG Cheese activity, as you all know, we are able to bring in something to share. I could think of nothing I wanted to share more than my little guy ;).


Happy Spring! Have a wonderful and safe holiday!

Good As Gold

This week we started up with our "Good As Gold" tickets. I am sure your kiddo told you all about it but save those little star tickets! Five of them are good for a "Super You's" and those go into our Friday raffle! (Don't forget once you have 10 Super You's they can be turned in to Mrs. Sullivan as well!)

Speaking of Mrs. Sullivan, she popped in this week to hand out awards for those kids who had turned in 10 Super You's! What a bunch of Super Kids!!

Friday wrapped up with a wonderful visit from Taylor's Aunt! She shared a story with us and send each child home with a new book! What better gift can we give than the gift of reading?! Thank you!!

Don't forget to put your heads together at home to fill that "Mystery Egg" for Friday. Think of something you would be excited to receive, you need not spend any money. Find something fun around your house!
Our Gala basket is coming along and the Gala is right around the corner! If you don't have your tickets yet, stop on the office and get on board!

St. Patty's Day, The Farm and Fun Friday

Well we survived another eventful week!
We kicked things off with some St. Patty's Day festivities! Thank you so much Mrs. Rubly for that festive green treat!

I am not sure if you heard but we had a visit from a very sneaky leprechaun as well. He even took a tinkle in our toilet and forgot to flush... we know because he left the water GREEN!! Eeeww!

We got ready to head to the farm on Wednesday and although we shared the fairgrounds with heightened security for the President's arrival, we had a very smooth day! A VERY special thanks to all of the moms who joined us and helped things to go so well!!



We have been working hard to learn our animal and farm signs in ASL. Ask you kiddo how to sign pig, dog, horse, cat, farm, barn, mouse, farmer, goat, sheep, chicken, rooster, bunny, cow, donkey and crops. It is impressive. (If they get stumped, look up the signs on ASL pro, that is the best ASL sight I have found).

We wrapped up our week with a special Mystery Story teller... Taylor's Grandma! She had us all laughing with her story and grateful for her gift of time!


We finished up our time together on Friday talking about and graphing what we like to do in the spring. The activity that got the most votes was taking a bike ride, what a great idea for this weekend! It was followed closely by playing baseball, jumping rope and reading a book. All great ways to enjoy the spring and your family! Whatever the weekend holds for your crew, have a good one and Happy Spring!

Fun Friday

Friday means FUN!
We had Friday Fun Time, Art Masters and our Mystery Story Teller!

Mrs. Eve helped us with our Van Gogh art.
Room 2 is busting with talent! Cristina's mommy came in to help us with art.


She headed out and then popped back in as our Mystery Story Teller! What a treat!


Room 2 also helped me round up all the pennies from our school wide drive for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

Our grand total was $947.50. That is a lot of pennies! Thanks for all of your support!

"D" week

YEAH for "D" week!
A million thanks to all of you who remembered your Dr. Seuss books to start our week off right! We reads lots and lots of great Seuss stories and even had a member of Student Council come and read to us- what a treat!


Our week wrapped up with a Daddy coming in as our Mystery Story Teller. A perfect touch for "D" week!

We talked about Dogs and Ducks this week but I think the favorite had to be.. DINOSAURS! Check out some of our "D" week festivities!
We measured and weighed Dinos...






We made Dino hats..


We made donuts.. (who knew D could be so delicious?!)




We also read lots and lots of dino books!



I don't think these kiddos will forget good old D any time soon!

Special Guest

The Mystery Story Teller is always exciting, but this week was a real treat!
Carson W. has a big brother at our school who came in and shared a story with us!

Brothers are so much fun!

Garret, you did such a great job! Thanks for sharing with our class!
Speaking of reading, don't forget your Dr. Seuss books on Monday!!

Pennies for Patients

Aloha!
Just wanted to let you all know we are jumping on board with The School & Youth Program for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's "Pennies for Patient" program again. Despite the name, any money is welcome of course and it all goes directly to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The drive will be ONE WEEK ONLY and will begin on March 9th.
a few facts...
*Every five minutes someone is diagnosed with a blood cancer. Currently there are more than 894,543 Americans battling blood cancer.
*Leukemia causes more deaths than any other cancer among children and young adults under the age of 20.
*Every ten minutes, someone dies from a form of blood cancer- an estimated 53,920 deaths in 2007.
*WE CAN HELP!!

Loads and loads of aloha and happy coin collecting!

Seacliff Book Club

We'd like to remind you about the "Secliff Book Club." When you buy a book for the library, your child's name will be placed on a book plate in the front of the book. You can choose a book from the list on the Seacliff website (www.hbcsdk12.ca.us/Seacliff) or better yet just send a check for $20 (or cash) and let Mrs. Woods pick the most current book that all the kids are dying to read right now! We appreciate your help. The Seacliff Book Club is one of the ways that we add to our library collection and keep our kids motivated to read!

Our Room Mom

This week was a wild one! We celebrated our 100th day of school and got our classroom in tip-top shape for Open House. (Thank you so much for your support and attendance)! Through these adventures, our dear and darling room mom was there to help us through! I am sure you all know her but Melissa is AMAZING! She is such a huge helper and blessing to each on of us in room 2! She is always working on something for us and doing it with a smile! Right now, she is working hard to get our Gala item all together (among a million other things) and it doing a wonderful job! That is enough to keep anyone busy but she wrapped up our week as our Mystery Reader- What a gal!

She had us all cracking up... the comic relif at the end of this week was just what we all needed! Thank you so much for ALL that you do Melissa!!

Happy weekend to you all and be thinking about what you might be able to add to our "Family Fun" Gala item!

Happy Heart's Day!

I just wanted to wish you all a happy, happy Valentine's Day!
Mega Mahalo (thank you so much) for showering me with loads and loads of LOVE yesterday! My HEART is full!! I hope you all have a LOVELY weekend!! XOXO!