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Our Holiday Party

After the cubs hit the pinata, they enjoyed a cookie treat.

Itwas Pajama Day at Copper Creek School. Mrs. Pruzin gave each cub their very own Christmas Bear to read books to every night.

The cubs' 4th grade buddies came to sing Christmas carols and give each cub a gift with a Christmas letter.

MERRY GRINCHMAS! (Pictures From Our Play)

"Santy Claus, Why? Why are you taking our Christmas tree, Why?"

"We Wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!"

These cubs are very nauseous!

Our play was a huge success. The cubs were fantastic! The parents came to watch on Tuesday night. We performed the play during the day on Tuesday for some other classes.

Bear Country News for the week of Dec. 7th

Chloe wrote: We are practicing our play. We have four Grinches and we have 6 narrators. The play was exciting and fun! The play was amazing! The Maxes had reindeer horns.

Tiffany wrote: We're doing a play. I'm Cindy in the play.

Alexis wrote: I'm a dog in the play. When the Grinch says, "Oh Max!" I come out.

Zachary wrote: We practiced the Grinch play. I am a Who in the play. It is fun. (We'll be putting on the play for our parents on Tuesday evening.) Lauren wrote: We did a holiday custom book. In the holiday custom book we learned alot about countries. It was fun. Madison wrote: On Tuesday it was reindeer day. We ate reindeer cookies. We made reindeer crafts. It was a checkerboard. We colored the board.

Colton wrote: We made a checkerboard reindeer. We had to color a checker square.

Caleb wrote: We made reindeer candles. We put brown paper on it. Then we put a candle in it and gave it to someone.

Mikayla wrote: We had reindeer day. We got to wear our reindeer shirts and made a reindeer candle. We read a reindeer story. It was a good book.

Jumana wrote: We made presents for parents. It was fun a lot. We made bags because we made reindeer candles before. And we also made wreaths for our mom and dad.

Reis wrote: We made a reindeer cookie. The head was the coookie. The eyes were chocolate chips.

Alicia wrote: On Tuesday we made reindeer crafts, like reindeer candles and a reindeer checkerboards. Reindeer Day was fun!

Jonathan wrote: We made reindeer candles. We made cookie reindeer. We are learning about reindeer.

Ben wrote: We made pickle ornaments. The legend of the pickle ornament is that whoever finds the pickle gets an extra present. The grown-up gets good luck.

Hayden wrote: We made a pickle ornament. The pickle ornament is the last one ornament they hang on the tree.

Shareya wrote: We made the pickle ornament. We decorated the pickle. It is a custom from Germany.
Megan wrote: In Nature's Treasures we got cool stuff. It was fun. There was a coconut head.

Madeleine wrote: In P.E. we ran and ran. It was good. I liked it.

Alex wrote: Last week in Art we made wood sculptures. I put on my wood sculpture 18 parts. This week in Art we made Grinches for our door.

Branden wrote: Ethan earned a trophy in A.R. for getting 35 A.R. points. I have 110 A.R. points. That's like having three trophies. Every time I move up an A.R. level I get a tamborine dance.

Ethan wrote: I became an Honors Reader this week. Guess how many points I have! I have 36. Do you like A.R. ?

Phoebe wrote: I turned into a Super Reader. I have 15 points. I got a new bead. Mrs. Pruzin did the tamborine dance. I got to pick a toy out the treasure chest. I got 100% on tests.

Mrs. Pruzin wrote: I gave the children the Star Reader Placement test in the computer lab. I am so proud of each and every child in my class. Everyone improved their A.R. Reading level. The class has read 2, 518 A.R. books.

The children made Christmas cards for their parents and for Chloe's Aunt T.K. (She is a soldier and is in Afghanastan.) They made optical illusions for their 4th grade buddies. They learned about Hanukkah and played the dreidle game with the students in Mrs. Northam's class and each other.

Bear Country News for the First Week of December

The cubs were so busy this week that they ran out of time to write for the blog, so I am writing for them. They wanted me to write that they made a wood sculpture in Art. We started practicing for our play. Each child made a "Who" to look like him/herself. They are on display in the hallway. I think they did a great job and the parents will enjoy seeing them when they come for the play next Tuesday night. Everyone wrote a retelling of "How the Grinch Stole Christmas". We watched the movie of the Grinch. We made Gingerbread glyphs and learned much about our class. We made a tally sheet that showed the information that was on the glyphs. In the computer lab the children made a graph about hair color. Mrs. Pruzin was very thankful to have Mrs. Grabill and Mrs. Lawson there to help each child get this done! There was a spirit celebration on Friday and the cubs were very proud when Lauren went up to get her trophy. We should have 3 or 4 more children earning trophies in January. Our goal is for everyone in the class to earn a trophy by May.