Play With Your Food  We had a lot of fun last week with our characters and now we are starting to write about it. Each students character turned out beautiful.  The photos will be displayed on the school's web site later this week. Book Fair - This week there is a Book Fair at our school in the library.  It starts on Monday and runs to Thursday.  Family night is on Wed. So come on out to see what is there and spend some quality time together as well.    Christmas Dinner will be available for students on Wednesday, December 9.  A turkey dinner withdessert will be served.  If students are interested we are asking that the dinner be prepaid by next Wednesday, December 2. The cost is $5.00  No other food will be available in the cafeteria that day.           Texas Buddies will be back to school this week and we will resume our weekly Skype sessions with them.  They were off all last week for Thanksgiving break.  Also we are hoping to receive their package with our pen pal letters in it.  We will soon be preparing our Christmas cards and other surprises for them so we can get it all mailed out before the holiday break.  Wow where has the year gone.                    The weather is changing everyday and it mostly is cold down by the water at school. We would like to see that all students have the proper clothing on now.  They should have winter coats, hats, mitts and boots and usually ski pants if at all possible. Playing outside is fun when you are dressed for it!   We have a Word Work sheet and a organization piece of Writing that always turns out well as it gets the students excited about their writing. I can't wait to see what each student writes this year.  For Math we are still working on place value and working with tens and ones using base ten blocks. On Friday we will have our weekly spelling test and of course we need to read and RECORD  our books on our Borrow - A - Book sheet each and every night. Let's keep working hard as there is not many days left before our Christmas break.