Christmas Party 2008

Our Christmas Party was Friday, December 19th! Wow, we sure did have a lot of fun! The kids had been looking forward to this all week...wait....all month! :) Our party started at 1 o'clock and it could not have come soon enough. We had so many goodies. (thanks to all the parents) Mrs. Walter, my field student from UALR, joined us to help out! (Thanks a million Mrs. Walter!!!) We passed out food forever it seemed! The students had a blast!!!

A special thanks goes to all the parents that brought goodies for the class! Also, to Ciamara's mom for making the cutest cupcakes for the students (see pictures below) and Jasmine's dad for joining the party!!! Another big thank you goes to Madison's dad for bringing us ice! :) You guys are all wonderful and we appreciate your kindness!!

Below are some pictures from the party! Enjoy.....and MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

These are the "cutest cupcakes EVER" that Ciamara's mom made!

Here are all the students having a great time!! (if you look closely in the last picture you can see Mrs. Walter....Thank you so much for helping out!!!!

During the PARTY:
Ciamara's mom had a GREAT activity to do with the students that they just loved! Everyone got into it! Below are the students doing a special "beat" with Mrs. S.

Everyone is having a great time! :)
Mother and daughter make a great team!!!

When the party was almost over EVERYONE decided that they needed a picture with their friends....so here they are! (Mostly, I think they are dying to show their parents their picture on the blog!! They think we should blog everything we do these days!) Enjoy these precious faces!


If, I didn't get everyone's pictures posted... I'm so sorry!! :( The bell for dismissal was ringing and everyone still had to pack up....check the blog later in 2009 for more pictures!!!

A special thanks goes to everyone that helped make 2008 a great year for my students!! I am so blessed to have such a wonderful group of studnets this year!!! I love spending time with them!

To everyone: Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!! See you January 5, 2009!!!

-Mrs. Pilkington

P.S.

Thanks for all the wonderful gifts for me and Addison! You are all too sweet!!!!

AR Goals Galore!!!

We have yet another AR Goal announcement! This week Kiana reached her 9th goal!! :) Kayla reached her 1st goal! :)
Way to go girl!!!
-Mrs. Pilkington

More AR Goals!!!

Yea!!! Kiana and Arianna reached more of their AR Goals this week! Good Job Girls!!!
Kiana reached her 7th and 8th goals and Arianna reached her 2nd goal!
I am very proud of them for all their hard work!!! :)
I can't wait to post more goals reached!!!

-Mrs. Pilkington

Congrats goes to Madison's family!

Mrs. Pilkington's class would like to congratulate Madison's family on the arrival of a new baby sister yesterday! Her name is Talia. Madison is super excited about it! Congrats to the family! We can't wait to meet her! :)

Below are some pictures of Super Excited Big Brother!

Charlie Needs Your Help!

As most of you have heard, Charlie is our classroom pet. He is a guinea pig that we recieved from a student in our classroom, Bradley! Each week Charlie needs new bedding. This is getting very costly for Mrs. Pilkington. If any parents would like to donate some bedding for him....IT WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED! You can purchase pine shavings for him at Wal-Mart in the Pet Department for $3.97. The children love having him in our classroom....he has become one of the students. They include him in everything. The students will post pictures of him later as one of their projects!
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
-Mrs. Pilkington

Spelling Words - Week of December 15th

This week we will be working on making words plural. Our spelling words are below. Please help your child study these words each night and quiz them Thursday night before the test! :) This will help a great deal! Our test will be Friday, December 19th. Thanks in advance for all of your support!

Plural Spelling Words
1. arches
2. bonuses
3. shadows
4. crashes
5. guesses
6. lunches
7. statues
8. roaches
9. foxes
10. ferries
11. tosses
12. guppies
13. supplies
14. cousins
15. trousers
16. leashes
17. buggies
18. boxes
19. diaries
20. atlases

Mrs. Walter leaves Mabelvale

Recently, Mrs. Amy Walter left Mabelvale as a field student through UALR to pursue her internship in Pre-K. Mrs. Walter was a student teacher in my classroom. She came every Friday to our class. Last Friday, December 5, 2008 was her last day at Mabelvale. We all worked really hard to create a slide show for her to tell her how much we appreciated her being at our school. We added music and photos to help her remember us. We were very sad to see her go but we wish her well in her new teaching experience.

Below are photos of Mrs. Walter and our class:

Homework for the week of December 15, 2008

The Homework Schedule for this week is as follows:

Monday night: Spelling Sentences, Study for Math 9X's, and READ for 45 minutes!

Tuesday night: Math 2 digit multiplication (using Box Method), Study for Math 9X's (test Wednesday), and READ for 45 minutes!

Wednesday night: English Worksheet (Helping Verbs) and READ for 45 minutes!

Thursday night: Study for Spelling Test and READ for 1 hour!

Friday is the last day of school for the year 2008!! See you all in 2009!

-Mrs. Pilkington

AR Goals Reached

Our AR (Accelerated Reader) Theme this year is "Ice Cream" for Books! When each student reaches their set AR goal they recieve an ice cream scoop to go outside our classroom door on a huge ice cream cone. The class with the most goals at the end of the year not only gets to eat ice cream, but they get to make our very own Mr. Smith into a "human" ice cream cone!!!

I would like to congratulate the following students for reaching their latest AR goals:
Kiana - 6th goal
Preston - 4th goal
Ciamara - 3rd goal
Jose - 3rd goal
Kyle - 2nd goal
Jasmine - 2nd goal

Each of the students received a prize from Mrs. Clark (our librarian), got their pictures taken for the Mabelvale Morning News, and recieved a free personal pan pizza coupon from Pizza Hut from me!!! Congrats Guys!!! Keep up the good work.

Our 1st Blog

Well parents, It's here!!! Our very own classroom blog!!! You would not believe how excited the students are to be taking part in this incredible project!! Today is the first day of many more new and interesting blogs. I will be posting pictures of what takes place in the classroom, as well as, homework schedules and important dates to remember! I look forward to keeping in touch with you through the web!!!



-Mrs. Pilkington

**Below is a picture of "Snuggle up with a Good Book Day". These were all the students that participated in National Children's Book Week in October. ENJOY!!!