Happy Holidays! Happy Snow Days!

Hola todos!

Wow... Can we believe it? Oregon weather never fails to surprise me... On one hand, I was very disappointed to not have that last week of school with the kids as we had much planned and lots of ongoing projects to be finishing. On the other, what a beautiful experience it has been to wake up each morning and see beautiful white covering the ground!! I hope your kiddos are playing their hearts out in the snow and rejuvenating during the break. I know I am and can't wait to get back in the 3rd grade groove once again.

Special note: So far we will officially be making up 3 of the snow days at the end of the year. The rest are yet to be determined.



Again, enjoy this special Holiday time with your loved ones... I'm going to try to brave the weather today and get into the classroom to start preparing for when we get back! Looking forward to what 2009 has to bring!

Con Carino,

Srta. Cameron

The most wonderful time of the year!

This week our class has been busily preparing and practicing for our Reader's Theatre (Obra de teatro) plays that will be happening next week! Be on the lookout for your personal invitation to attend! We will be doing 5 plays total and each child will be in one of the plays. Its exciting to see the students working in cooperative groups and working on their expression and fluency through the art of acting!!


Today we mailed letters that we wrote to our dear friend Daniel Molina who moved to Floridia in October. His birthday is Friday and thank you for sending stamps with your child and walking with us to help this happen!!!

Next week is our last week before winter break. Stay warm and enjoy the time with your ninos!

Srta. Cameron

It's time to try out the pictures!

Photos 1 and 2: We had a class election in honor of election week. Kids held a primary on the book they wanted to read aloud and then campaigned for the final two candidates. Shown are Tono and Jaden campaigning and Nadia casting her vote!

Photos 3-5: Our class had a big afternoon celebration for Dia de los muertos. We enjoyed making papel picado, mascaras y tomando chocolate caliente con pan de muerto! Mmmmmm muy rico!

Photos 6-7: Representative Cameron came to our classroom to talk to us more about being a citizen and the voting process. He even sang the Friday song and Voting Boogaloo with us!

Photos 8-9: Cristina Garcia una autora cubana-americana nos visito y leyo un poquito de su libro! Jaden and Simon even got to read along with her! She signed two of her books that now belong to our class library!

The first entry! Let's see how this works...

Greetings Families!

I'm very excited to announce that I will be starting a B4 Classroom blog! This is where you can come to get updates about what's been happening in our classroom, find out about upcoming events, and even catch a glance of some photos of our work in progress. I will do my best to post at least once a week.

I'm very excited about this opportunity for communicating with YOU! Technology just keeps getting better and better, doesn't it?

Happy Reading!
Srta. Cameron