Lewis Family Playhouse

We had a nice morning out at the Lewis Family Playhouse located in Victoria Gardens. The show was The Secret Garden.

Thank you to all the wonderful moms who drove for us that morning!

My favorite part was at the very end when the characters all sang the Doxology! What a pleasant surprise to hear that in a public show. Do you know the lyrics to the old hymn? It goes like this: 

Praise God from whom all blessings flow

Praise Him all creatures here below

Praise Him above ye heavenly host

Praise Father Son and Holy Ghost. Amen.

Happy Birthday Jesus!

This blog was sitting here since December, patiently waiting to be posted. So sorry about that! 

I just wanted to let all of you see a little glimpse of the beautiful Christmas Party that we were able to have, celebrating the birth of Jesus. 

Our fearless room mom did it all...not too many people can lead 28 excited kids to make a craft during a party, but she did it! 

I hope the little baby Jesus ornament will appear each year on your tree, and remind you of the true meaning of Christmas. 

And oh my goodness...we had delicious FOOD! Real food...pizza, fried chicken, veggies, and dessert. I think we were all quiet for a moment as we stuffed our mouths:) 

Thanks to all the parents for bringing the Favorite Snack present for our Secret Santa gift exchange. 

They were an absolute HIT! 

They were quite excited about their candy bar, salty snack, and drink! It was neat to see how thankful they were for such a simple gift. 

Happy Birthday Jesus!

How to Build an Ice Cream Sundae!

We had a very productive week of writing in our Writers' Workshop! The objective was to write an "Explanatory Essay" on how to build the ultimate ice cream sundae. 

                                       We worked on using excellent action verbs such as "drizzle, sprinkle, crumble, layer". We also made sure to use adverbs to describe our action verbs.  

After writing the skeletal outline (coming up with Star Ideas and Red Details), we transferred them to the rough draft page, making certain that everything was written in complete sentences. 

 

After editing, the students wrote their final copy on Friday morning. They were quite motivated to finish because they knew what was coming in the afternoon:) 

And then it happened...the Ice Cream Sundae PARTAAAY!!!

The students voted to have chocolate ice cream, Oreo Cookies, Twix, Butterfingers, and Gummy Worms. I added Reeces, marshmallows, sprinkles, whip cream, maraschino cherries, and 2 other kinds of ice cream. 

Yes, we did go through 2 large bottles of whip cream. And yes, it was all a part of the plan!

I think Miss Rice and I were just as excited as the kids! We were looking forward to it all day long, too :) 

A special thanks to Sharon (Vy Kay's mom) for coming to take pictures for us! All photo credits go to her for this blog!