America the Beautiful

It strikes me how amazing our country is as I upload some America the Beautiful pictures from our Workshop on Thursday as I am in Atlanta, Georgia!  What a vast and  beautifully diverse land we call home!

For those of you worried that I am working on "vacation"...
I am actually waiting for my son, Graham, to get home
from his job as a structural engineer!
I am soooo proud of him! 

 And I am not a good waiter so I am blogging....

We had 15  awesome volunteers help all 3 classes of K Kids  illustrate the pages to
"America The Beautiful".  Wow!  What messy, creative fun!

These first 3 are actually from Wednesday as
we began our enrichment day with a
little sneak peek at
USA projects....

Here they come!!!!

Oh Beautiful for spacious skies....

for amber waves of grain...

for purple mountains majesty...

above the fruited plains...

America, America

God shed his grace on thee...

 And crown thy good...

With brotherhood

From sea to shining sea!

These lovely books will be sent home next week!

Thanks to all who helped make this day possible!

Ice skating

Family Update:

Really, this was such a crazy week!

I was only home 1 evening last week and with 2 early morning meetings 

I was ready for the weekend!

Friday night, Mrs. Pilger and I had a girls shopping night in LaCrosse!

Saturday John and I had a couples shopping trip in Winona.

I felt so "metro" getting my nails done and then meeting my sweetie for lunch!

I made Fionn the fish hat he's been begging for on Saturday night...

he loves those weirdo hats!

And Sunday we went ICE SKATING!

I've been meaning to tell you about the free skating 

(free skate rental and hot cocoa, too...REALLY!!!)

on the large lake in Winona!

The Warming House is set up and ready to go!

Try it!!!  It really is fun!

(I bring my own ski poles cuz I am a very poor skater!)

 and now for this week in Kindergarten:

Join us Monday evening for Reading Night...the info is in the Cardinal...see how fun reading can be plus have supper for FREE!

An additional sheet will go home Monday with details.

Tuesday we will have Valentine celebrations in our classrooms.  What fun!

Here's the rest of the week:

Reading: letter Ll, sound for /l/, short i, ending sounds, punctuation
Math: dominoes, numbers to 50, printing to 20
Theme: Valentines and America the Beautiful (thanks in advance to volunteers...see you at 1:00 on Thursday!)

Color week for Tina,our cook, as she focuses on foods of each color:
Monday is green
Tuesday is red
Wednesday is yellow
Thursday is blue or purple (wear red,white, blue for our special day!)
Friday is orange 

Have a great week!

Marcia O'Duggan

Kindergarten

507-459-4442