7 Habits

Saturday, December 23, 2017

Week 17

Congratulations to Damian for passing off a level in 
RAZ KIDS last week!




Our graham cracker house STEM Project was a huge success!  For the past 2 1/2 weeks the children have been earning pennies by being proactive in class. The money they earned was then spent purchasing their graham crackers, frosting, knife and of course...candy.  I was really impressed with the thought and planning that went into their houses.  I think we might have some future engineers in our class.






















To all of the parents that donated supplies and came and helped!


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On Thursday OPA got a visit from Kris Kringle.  The children each put 1 shoe in the hall and Kris Kringle filled it with a book, bookmark, and candy cane.  I was so happy to see and hear how ecstatic they were with the book they received!









Also, Thank you for the thoughtful Christmas gifts.  I truly feel loved and appreciated by you and                                                        your children!  



I sincerely hope that you all have a relaxing and enjoyable break!  Don’t forget to do some reading on Raz Kids.


I will see you back at school on Wednesday, January 3rd.

Sunday, December 17, 2017

Week 16


Once again Congratulations goes out to some pretty fabulous RAZ KID READERS: Dominic, Evie, Camilla, and Miguelangel!  They all passed off a level of RAZ KIDS last week.  I love it! 





We are excited to announce the newest member of OPA’s Eagle Team Evangeline Farley!  
All of the students that wanted to be on the Eagle Team had their name written on the white board on Monday.  As we went throughout the week the students that remained Proactive, Responsible, and Respectful got to keep their name on the board.  Then on Friday I created a ballot with the names of those 10 children.  We talked about the voting process and they each got to vote for the 1 student they felt would be a good representative from our class.  I wish we could have picked all 10!  But the class decided that Evie was a great example of all of our class expectations.  Congratulations Evie!


I would like to give a “Shout-Out” to Arianna’s father, Mr. Bills!  He asked me if there were any donations we needed for our class.  I mentioned that we still needed candy for our graham cracker houses and colored pencils, too.  Then on Monday he showed up with 22 boxes of colored pencils and 2 grocery bags of candy.  ALL donated by WALMART!  Oh, the power of parents!  Thank you Mr. Bills for contacting Walmart a getting the wonderful donations and Thank you WALMART!!!

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OPA SPIRIT DAY

WEDNESDAY, DEC. 20th









Wednesday, December 20th will also be our graham cracker STEM activity starting at 1 pm and going until 3 pm.  All parents are invited (PLEASE no siblings). 






  Thursday, Dec. 21st ~ Minimum Day &                                         $1.00 FREE DRESS DAY

  Dec. 22 – Jan. 2 ~ WINTER BREAK 
                                      (No school)


Monday, December 11, 2017

Week 15


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Take a look at the AMAZING Raz Kid Readers that 

passed off a level last week!





Qu is for queen in a quilt.





Uu is for under the umbrella that is up

We are now finished learning the alphabet phonemes and are exploring putting CVC(consonant/vowel/consonant) words together. 

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We say, “Letters make words.  Words come together to make sentences.  Sentences begin with a capital and end with punctuation.”  Ask your child to show you the actions we do to help us remember how to create a sentence.


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Q & U Wedding

The wedding of Mr. Q (a.k.a. Aaron) to Miss U (a.k.a. Genesis) was fabulous!  They will now forever be known as Mr. & Mrs. QU /kw/.  Never to be apart as long as they have words together.

The QU wedding cake was donated by Aylin’s mother and was so pretty and yummy! The wedding ceremony was performed by our very own Mr. Kennington.  We gave our favorite QU words to Mr. & Mrs. QU.  Then we danced.  

The flower girl, ring bearer, best men, bride's maids, and Mr. Q & Miss U all getting ready to walk down the isle.

























We had such a great time at the Nature Center last week!  It was cold, but we bundled up and hardly noticed it.  Take a look at what we saw and did.  Thank you to all of the moms that came, too!  We learned all about animals in winter and the -ate words that they do:  hibernate, congregate, migrate, propagate,  generate, and insulate.


























STEM Graham Cracker Houses

These are the candies I have received so far: 

 



We could use more variety like Skittles, gumdrops…



The children are still busy earning pennies to buy their supplies to build their graham cracker house.  Ask your child how many pennies they earned in a given day and what they did to earn them.

Have a fabulous week!

Mrs. Scalise