September- These sweeties, along with some precious moms and my sweet husband, gave me a surprise birthday party filled with cupcakes and ice cream and wonderful gifts. I brag about my kids on a daily basis because they are such a great group. They have some really sweet hearts, which I will talk about in a little bit. Also in September, my DonorsChoose project for a document camera was fully funded!!! My kids and I are so thrilled and love using the document camera!
October- We did a book study on Charlotte's Web during a short week for Fall Break. My kids LOVED the book and activities we did with it. We watched the movie after reading the book, and some of my sweeties had a few tears in their eyes. It is such a sweet book and really lets you see the tender hearts of little ones. In Social Studies, we have been learning about America and being good citizens. We are doing a fundraiser for UNICEF where we have a contest going on with each class in our school. Whoever donates the most gets a special snack. I showed my kids video clips about what UNICEF is and what they do, and their sweet little hearts were so opened to how good we have it even on our worst days. They were broken to see kids suffer and were all saying they would bring all their money to donate. We will find out Monday whose class won. *Crossing my fingers that my sweet ones did because they earned it with their hearts.*
November- This upcoming Tuesday, we will be doing our Veterans' Day program at my school. Both 2nd grade classes will be performing The Star-Spangled Banner and they are loving it! I thought they would be nervous about it, but they literally walk around everywhere singing it. I have had parents message me telling me the song is stuck in their heads. I am so proud of my patriotic sweeties and how they are taking this performance to heart. In Social Studies, as mentioned before, we are learning about America, and I think that makes them proud to be an American. Soon, we will be doing activities for Thanksgiving and beginning prepping for Christmas. I am the type of person who refuses to put up Christmas decorations or play Christmas songs until after Thanksgiving, but we are having to make Thanksgiving/Christmas art projects to sell at our Art Show. I'm trying to bend just for it. Also coming up, we have an Animal Habitat project to be looking out for. I will post about it once they turn their projects in. :)
