On Friday we had a special visitor in our classroom. Brendan’s grandma came to visit all the way from Michigan. She shared information and books about Michigan with the class. We learned that Michigan is similar to Oregon in a lot of ways! There are also some differences between the two states.

Friday morning we finished writing valentine cards to our friends and we decorated individual envelopes that we could use to collect our valentines. Then we passed out our valentines to all of our friends.

In the afternoon we had our friendship/Valentines Day celebration. We started the celebration by decorating the sugar cookies that we baked for the Dolphins’ class. We put a lot of care into decorating our yummy cookies!

After decorating our cookies we gathered with the whole school community to watch a Charlie Brown movie. Then we presented our sugar cookies to the Dolphins. The Sharks gave us some chocolate chip cookies. Thank you, Sharks!

We ended our valentines celebration with the friends in our classroom community. We enjoyed eating the chocolate chip cookies from the Sharks while we read all our special valentines from our friends.  Each valentine we received was handmade and contained a personalized message from a classmate. Ask your child to show you his/her valentines. The valentines contain wonderful compliments and memories that classmates wanted to share with your child!

We have developed some great friendships in our community so far this year! We enjoyed taking some time to celebrate those friendships and let our friends know how much they mean to us this week.
View more photos from last week in our Feb 8-12 Photo Gallery