Polar Express Day

Today was one of our favorite days of the year: "Polar Express Day"!!

All of the kids in their cute pajamas listening to The Polar Express.

Then, they all got to take a turn to sit on Santa's lap.  

Santa gave them a special gold bell like the boy in the story.

The whole group with Conductor Sandy and Santa Claus!

Polar Express Day was so much fun and a special way to celebrate the holiday season!

4 Little Indians

Pumpkin Carving

Today, the classes decided to carve pumpkins in celebration of fall.

Mrs. Allen and Oswin trying to design a face for our jack-o-lantern

Danny helping Mrs. Allen scoop out the seeds

Layla playing with the seeds

Will scooping the seeds

Ta-da!  Our finished product

Mrs. Glenn with the group

 The afternoon class also carved a pumpkin!  Here is Mrs. Glenn cutting of the top.

 "Look at what's inside!"

The afternoon's cute pumpkin!

Looks like they had a great time carving pumpkins!

Good-bye For Now

 Today was my last day of school before having Baby Carsyn.  I am beyond excited about getting to meet my precious baby girl, but I will also miss these sweet babies while I am gone.

 Our class and Mrs. Cureton's class surprised me with a little "going-away" party/shower yesterday.  It was so sweet and thoughtful.  Everything was pretty in pink!

Thank you, Mrs. Glenn, Ms. Charroux, Mrs. Cureton, and Mrs. Wilhoit and ALL of my precious school babies for giving me such a special send off!

Olweus Kick-off

Today we had a kick-off for our Olweus Bullying Program

Waiting for the kick-off to begin

First, Coach Miller and some of the Byrnes High football players explained the River Ridge Anti-Bullying Expectations to us.  They are: 

1. We will not bully others.

2.  We will help students who are bullied.

3.  We will include students who are left out.

4.  If we know that someone is being bullied, 

we will tell an adult at school and an adult at home. 

Next, all of the teachers went on stage to lead the "chicken dance" with us!

Salina doing the chicken dance.

Dancing with Ms. Taylor and Dr. Bigby

Our Class and Mrs. Cureton's class at the balloon launch.

Mrs. Henderson and Mrs. Wilhoit with our class balloon.

River Ridge pledging to be a "bully-free school".

Mrs. Johnson leading us in our anti-bullying chant.

And there go our balloons

Thank you Ms. Yang, Mrs. Johnson and Dr. Bigby for planning such a fun kick-off to a very important program. NO BULLIES!

Walk to School Day 2012

Today we had our annual "Walk to School Day" to emphasize the need to live a healthy life through fitness and exercise. 

 After our walk, we got to enjoy Popsicles for a snack!

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Today we celebrated the end of our If You Give a Mouse a Cookie unit.  We have so enjoyed this book and talking about sequencing a story.  To celebrate, we made mouse headbands and had milk and cookies like the mouse in the book!

Afternoon Trip to Nivens

This afternoon we took our PM class to celebrate the season of fall at Nivens!

Everyone loves a bus ride!!! 

Sweet babies!

Salina and her Mom on the hayride.

Carter and Mrs. Glenn

Looking at the "storybook forest"

Mrs.Cureton helping Carter pick some apples.

Tucker with his bag of apples

Salina reaching high for her apples!

Pumpkin Time

Drinking some delicious apple cider

Looking for the Queen Bee

We even got a little play time!

We had so much fun on our field trip today to Nivens!  We learned about how to grow apples, pumpkins, make apple cider and about farm animals.  It was truly a fun-filled fall day!