Well we didn't win The Great Door Contest!  No first place finish this time.  I was very proud of our class, we did our best, and we lost with dignity.  Do remember the name of the movie with the boxer who lost, but lost with dignity that Mr. McCallum likes? We did recieve honorable mention, mostly due to our presentation today with the judges.  It went as follows: 1. (Camden)  Unlike the other classes who just did a door, we did an enterence, an experience actually.  Please follow our team to learn more! 2. (Michael)  At first glance you might see an igloo at the North Pole, BUT some things dont seem right?  Do we have a mystery at Ian Baillie? 3. (Robin)  Penguins at the North Pole?  Of course not, these are statues!  They put gargoyles on castles to scare off evil spirits.  But who are the penguins meant to scare? 4. (Spencer) Do you think its strange that the direction arrow says "North Pole" and it points away, when clearly this is the North Pole! 5. (Zoe)  Please follow me (into the igloo).  This looks like a normal igloo at first, with handmade snowbricks, but if we push further what will we find?  (push past mat into the class room) 6. (Eryn greets judges, the rest of the class has on elf hats doing Daily 5 work)  Hi my name is Eryn the Elf!  You've found the secret enterence to Santa's workshop and solved the mystery!  Congratulations!   The kids knocked it out of the park!  Great job everyone!  The magician was amazing, other than the fact he tried to cover me in egg yolk good thing I had some magic to save me!  Have a great weekend, and hopefully next week we will have another special guest from China come visit us!  See you Monday!  

Im back!  I was sick for the last few days of school but Im feeling much better now.  Zoe did a great job for the Ian Baillie Christmas Count Down (check it out on the main page).  In our Clementine book today, Clementine had a great idea that involved Cherrio's, do you remember what it was?  We also had our first joint practice with Mrs. Hache's class for the Christmas Concert!  IM getting excited!   Stay tuned for a video preview (coming soon).  The agenda did say to get spelling tests signed today, but we didn't even have the test today!  Its our first order of business for tomorrow!  Im sure everyone will do great.  Christmas is coming quick, and things are starting to get very busy, so try to get lots of sleep and we'll see you in the morning!