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!

Our Valentine's

This week was ALL about Valentine's Day! We got our cards ready, made sure we had envelopes, stamped and ready to go and then headed on out to the Mail Box! Special thanks to the moms that were able to join us!

We dropped them in the letter box and sent them on to you so keep your eyes opened for those bad boys!

WE wrapped up this week with a WONDERFUL Valentine's Day celebration! Thanks to our wonderful room mom for pulling it all together and for all the mommies that were able to come in and help! What a LOVELY day!!
Time to buckle down for our 100th day of school and open house!
Have a safe long weekend!

Our trip to the mailbox is this Thursday, Feb. 12th! We will be walking to drop off our letters about 10:00 am if you would like to join us, or just want to snag a picture or two. I am still waiting for a few of those permission slips and envelopes with your addresses and postage. Please get those in so our trip is a success for everyone!


Bring in your Valentine's for our class as soon as you are done! We are getting so excited to celebrate together on Friday!

Open House is Thursday, February 19, 2009!Classroom visitation is from 6:30- 8:00 pm.Join the Seacliff community for dinner. In-N-Out will be there and for 5 dollars you get a cheeseburger, potatoe chips and a soft drink. 25% of the proceeds come back to our school fpor instructional materials and equipment. Purchase tickets by Wednesday Feb. 18th!

We could really use some cotton balls and glue sticks in room 2 if you run acorss some extra aound your house please send them our way! We are also always open to donations for our "treasure chest."
Thanks so much for all of your support!

Fun Friday

Fridays mean Mystery Story Teller time!! Samuel's mom had us stumped with her clues but treated up to two wonderful stories! Thank you so much for your time and the gift of reading!

Mrs. Harrison came in and gave us our art lesson for this month's artist; Winslow Homer. We are experts with tint now and have some amazing art work to prove it!

Don't forget that this kicks off a three day weekend! We have been talking lots about Abraham Lincoln. Ask your kiddo for some facts about Mr. Lincoln, I bet they'll knock your socks off!

Have a happy and safe three day weekend!

Gala

Tickets have gone on sale for the annual Gala! To thank parents for their purchase the Gala Committee is giving families a free child's ticket to Lego Land for each ticket purchased. The tickets will be stapled to a thank you note with the student's name and then put into the appropriate teacher's box every Monday. Tickets are first come first serve. Are you motivated to purchase tickets early? We hope so!
Questions or concerns can be sent to Kecia Van Mechelen at van.mech@gte.net

The Gala Committee thanks you!

Mr. Groundhog in the ground, pop your head up look around!

Here's a little groundhog, furry and brown
He'll pop up and look around.
If he sees his shadow, down he'll go.
Then 6 more weeks of winter- OH NO!!

Room 2 had fun learning all about Groundhog's day and going on a shadow hunt today.





Just for the record, Phil (and all the keiki of room 2) saw their shadows... Looks like six more weeks of winter folks!