Thanksgiving Break!

I hope you are all enjoying your Thanksgiving Break. I am in North Carolina spending the week with my sister and her kids. Coby and Sydney were glad to see me. I know you are all having fun staying at home spending time with you families, or playing your gaming systems. Most of you admitted that was what you were looking forward to most on this week off from school. I am heading back to Alabama tomorrow for the long eight hour drive back. I know Kookie will be glad to see me when I get home. She stayed home and Isabella, Amos, and Genoa took care of her. I will go ahead and say I will be out of school Wednesday for sure and maybe Tuesday. My sister is having surgery and I will be taking and picking up her kids from school and helping her with anything she needs. She plans on being able to move around more by Thursday. Her surgery is Tuesday. She told me she knew she needed me Wednesday, but she thinks her husband should be able to handle things Tuesday. Hope you are ready to work and get back into the swing of things next week. I have missed you all and can't wait to hear all about your week.

This week in Miss Hardison's class

We are working on a new story "Go-Around Dollar" In this story we learn a lot about how money is made and some neat facts about money. We are still working on subtracting with regrouping or as most parents know it as borrowing. Please work with you children at home with this. We are getting lots of practice in class, but it always helps when parents work at home on the skills as well. We are learning about adjectives in Language. You will be seeing a worksheet for homework tonight. My camera has not been working well lately so no pictures. I am hoping to get it working soon. We have a field trip Friday morning. We are heading to Huntsville around 8:30 to see "James and the Giant Peach" at the VBCC. We will be returning to school around 11:30. After that is Thanksgiving Break. YEAH! We are all excited about a week off school.

Up Coming Events

• Progress reports came home today. I hope that we can all work hard to get our grades to where we want them, if they are not already there.
• Friday- Reading test "It's A Deal!" is our story, Spelling Test, D.O.L. Quiz, Language Quiz on joining sentences.
• Next Friday we will be going on our field trip to Huntsville to see "James and the Giant Peach"
• Thanksgiving Holiday starting November 24-28.

Decatur Elks Lodge

Yesterday the Decatur Elks Lodge had two members come and deliver dictionaries to the third grade students at our school. The kids were excited to get their very own dictionary. Students are keeping them in their cubbies to use at school. The class is having fun looking up words. (I wonder why they fight me on definitions)

Play

Third grade did a fabulous job on the play. We had a great turn out for the Thursday night performance. Unfortunately my camera did not save the pictures that were taken. If you have any good pictures that you could email to me I will try to post them. I was so proud of how well everyone did. Everyone knew their lines and sang the songs so well. Students were excited and nervous about being on stage. Alyssa told me she did not think that so many people would be there so she was a little nervous. All in all we are glad to have the play behind us, so that we could get things back to normal for a little bit.

We have had a busy week!

We have been so busy this past week. We have had two play practices a day, plus trying to fit in everything else (Math, Reading, Language). We have not had Science or Social Studies last week or this week due to the time put into the play. We will hopefully get back on our regular schedule next week.
We had a great time today at the play. The students really seemed to enjoy the Paper Bag Players. They got to participate in the play by answering questions and singing. We will be performing the Veteran's Day play tomorrow at 8:15 for the school and then again that evening at the PTA meeting that night. Students should arrive by 6:00 pm. All students should be in a plain red shirt and blue jeans. We look forward to seeing you there.