It was really hard getting up for school today. I really enjoyed my 5 day break, I was good and only did school work yesterday! I have forgotten how good it feels to take time for myself and not constantly work on school things.
Last year, I started Elf on the Shelf with my class. They loved our elf Jingle Peppermint Bell, yes our elf has a full name. My students would bring in candy canes for Jingle to eat, in his first letter he talked about how he loved to eat candy canes. Jingle ate many candy canes last year, he would eat parts of them when we were at resources or at lunch, he is such a sneaky elf!
Today was Jingle's first day with our class. Jingle wasn't very creative today in his hiding place, he was just sitting on the top of our SmartBoard. Jingle is ready to play some tricks with my students this year! Tomorrow he is making a tower using paper cups! He is also planning on having another glow-stick party with our "quiet critter", class turtles, and our fish, going fishing for Millie (our beta fish), making a snowman, bringing in and decorating a small Christmas tree, and wrapping up our desks with wrapping paper for our last day before break!
My fingers and toes are crossed that having Jingle in our class will help with some of the behavior issues that we are having. I have a group of first graders that love to talk, they also love to tattle on each other and are too concerned with what everyone else is doing to pay attention to our lessons. I'm hoping that these issues stop soon!
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Amber
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