Winter Break

So, all of Dixon's Darling Dolphins are on winter break! Yay! Yippee! Hurrahhhhhh! And Hallelujah! 

Everyone in our room, Twinkle and Willie included, is so, so ready for a nice, long break! See y'all in 2015!

PS for the students - do your winter homework packet and have fun on BrainPop!

Mrs. Masoumi

I am so blessed - as are every one of my students - to work with an AMAZING instructional assistant, Mrs. Masoumi. 

She is fantastic with the kids, beautiful, smart as a whip and is so much fun to have in the classroom. Above all - she is generous and so creative and just a really excellent friend.

This year she gave me The Twelve Days of Christmas and on each of the 12 days leading up to our break she had another goodie for me - wrapped beautifully in Mason jars. It was beyond touching and I loved every single gift!
These are just a few of the awesome goodies...

Decorating Those STEM Gingerbread Houses!

The next day after construction we got to decorating our houses and we enjoyed some delicious hot cocoa while doing it!

Wow! Our classroom smelled like a bakery - I'm sure Twinkle LOVED it!

Does This Count as STEM?

So today we learned about engineers and determined the best way to secure a structure. Ahem. Ok. We made gingerbread houses. 

The kids had a BALL and some were wrist deep in frosting. All of the houses were unique and adorable - just like my students themselves :)

I Love My School!

My grade level consists of four busy little elves who all pitched in to create some adorable gifts for the 70 or so people employed by our school.  These were so fun to make and came out just fantastic! 

Oh Deer! We Love Winter!

So all over Pinterest and IG I saw these adorable reindeer paintings. They were just so cute I knew I had to do them with my class. It was a 'directed draw" and we used watercolor and oil pastels. 

Such a great project! I finally tracked down the source, I believe the OG First, and want to give credit here. Click here to go to Artventurous!

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