Ok, he didn't. It's October. But my kids were convinced. Everything was about Santa today for some reason. I didn't want to tell them that they still had over 2 months until he made an appearance.
We received our pen pal letters today. I have an aunt who teaches second grade in California and we decided a few years back to have our classes be pen pals throughout the year. It's so awesome and the kids love it.
We got our first set today and I hadn't mentioned it to my student at all. So I showed them the package that it came in (which my aunt always decorates and I forgot to take a picture of!) and asked them what they thought was in it.
"Letters from Santa Claus!"
Um. Nope. Sorry kid.
And since when does Santa write letter to children? I thought it was the other way around?
Anyway, we moved on and started writing our letters.
Yummy cupcakes! My brother dropped off 6 of my favorite flavor for me and my friends. He is a pastry chef and he works for a company called Sweet Indulgence. Yeah, he makes cupcakes and candy for a living, how awesome is that?? Check them out - they make ahh-maazing stuff! My IPhone photo does not do it justice!
Sooo, 2 Santa Clause shout-outs in one day? It's going to be a long two months till Christmas!
And now I have blog news. Every once in a while I check my blog stats. I am always curious which posts get the most attention and where my readers are coming from. This helps me become a better blogger!
More often than not, my readers come from Pinterest. Today, however, a lot were coming from this site:
I had never heard of it before, so I checked it out. I then realized that they did a whole blog post on one of the posts I had written - so cool! Check it out here. It is my most popular post and it is about using dancing to teach subtraction.
We received our pen pal letters today. I have an aunt who teaches second grade in California and we decided a few years back to have our classes be pen pals throughout the year. It's so awesome and the kids love it.
We got our first set today and I hadn't mentioned it to my student at all. So I showed them the package that it came in (which my aunt always decorates and I forgot to take a picture of!) and asked them what they thought was in it.
"Letters from Santa Claus!"
Um. Nope. Sorry kid.
And since when does Santa write letter to children? I thought it was the other way around?
Anyway, we moved on and started writing our letters.
I created this poster to help my students understand how to set up a letter:
Get it here for free!
While we were writing our pen pal letters, a large box was delivered to my classroom:
This box with such a pretty bow, prompted students to shout, you guessed it, "Santa Clause came!"
Nope. Sorry kids. That's a birthday present for Mrs. S.
This is what the inside of the box looked like:
Yummy cupcakes! My brother dropped off 6 of my favorite flavor for me and my friends. He is a pastry chef and he works for a company called Sweet Indulgence. Yeah, he makes cupcakes and candy for a living, how awesome is that?? Check them out - they make ahh-maazing stuff! My IPhone photo does not do it justice!
Sooo, 2 Santa Clause shout-outs in one day? It's going to be a long two months till Christmas!
And now I have blog news. Every once in a while I check my blog stats. I am always curious which posts get the most attention and where my readers are coming from. This helps me become a better blogger!
More often than not, my readers come from Pinterest. Today, however, a lot were coming from this site:
I had never heard of it before, so I checked it out. I then realized that they did a whole blog post on one of the posts I had written - so cool! Check it out here. It is my most popular post and it is about using dancing to teach subtraction.
