Friendship Day

Love, kindness, laughter, and joy spread across our classroom today. We began our day with a special heart greeting and then got together with Mrs. Wrigley's class to sing two songs about love - Love Grows and Magic Penny.  During literacy, students focused on a book about hearts - that was left by word bird in attempts that students would find all his words!  During math, we headed downtown to count all the hearts left by the Valentine Bandit.  Unfortunately, our plan and attempts at tallying failed and we decided to make estimates or count and not worry about keeping track. Students counted by 1's, 5's and 10's for each store/restaurant and decided that Skinny Pancake had the most - with about 65 hearts just on the front!  This afternoon we decorated and filled an envelope with "friendship day" words and exchanged cards for one another. The appreciation that filled the room was abundant as each child thanked one another.  Thanks to families who donated a special classroom snack for all to enjoy.  We even got a special visit by our buddies who delivered each of us a card!  

Valentines for the maintenance/custodial staff!