Happy Birthday Craig!

Happy Birthday Craig! Thank you so much for the delicious cheese pizza from Papa John's. How very thoughtful of you. Today was a busy day--Student Council speeches, cooking, gym, music...the list continues. The kids had tons of fun making Stoplight Tops out of pretzels, low fat cream cheese and low-sugar Fruit Loops. I have posted some pictures--feel free to check them out (The pictures are of us cooking and enjoying Craig's birthday treat). The kids were so creative and were able to come up with several other variations on the original recipe--including using peanut butter, different cereals, frosting/sprinkles, melted chocolate, etc. We are discovering that food truly comes alive and even tastes better when we use our own hands to create a meal.

We started a new theme in writing today...persuasive writing. We talked about all the ways we can persuade someone to do something, and we are using that list to help us write silly stories (from the perspective of us as 4 year olds) trying to persuade Mom and Dad to let us own a pet. These are no ordinary pets--today we had stories about wanting elephants, giraffes, dinosaurs, horses and humpback whales. I will try and post a few tomorrow as examples. They are absolutely hilarious. We seem to be pros at the art of persuasion:-) We will be working on drafting persuasive business letters to local businesses to help us with our Empty Bowls project.

Student Council voting is Friday. A reminder to all candidates to please have posters removed from school no later than Friday at 3:30. Good luck to everyone. I am so proud of how well you did with your speeches. I took video of all the 4-6th grade speeches. I am working on getting them posted to the blog for you to see. They just take a bit to upload:-)

NWEA student testing schedules will be sent home tomorrow. Students will be taking three tests spread out over four days--Math, Reading and Language Arts. If your student has any special testing needs, please don't hesitate to let me know so I can make sure to accomodate your student.

Wednesday is officially no homework night. Remember, memoirs are due tomorrow! Enjoy your night:-)