Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Mayas' Class: Jammin' with Jack!

The students of BSLK enjoyed going to the Jack Hartmann concert at the Albertville Fine Arts Center.  Pictured below are students from Mrs. Lee and Mrs. Mayas' class.  Jack Hartmann is a children's musician.

Mrs. Mosley's Class

Mrs. Mosley's class had a lot of fun learning about insects this week!! They worked together to make up their own insect. It's called the Flinger Stinger!! With six legs and eight wings... it's the fastest insect around!! By the way, watch out for its stinger!! Ahhh!!  The students also wrote about their favorite insect!!! They also had a blast dressing up and reading Dr. Seuss books.

A Special Guest from Switzerland

In December, Mrs. Henderson and Mrs. Maddox’s kindergarten classes studied Christmas Traditions around the world. The classes were able to FaceTime with Tabea Hess from Switzerland. Tabea had been in Albertville as an exchange student during the 2015-2016 school year and was excited to share her Christmas Traditions and answer questions from the two classes. As the classes FaceTimed with Tabea, she was able to show the students where she lived, how her house looked, talk about her school, and she shared about her family’s Christmas traditions. She had also given Mrs. Henderson a Swiss Christmas cookie recipe and the children were able to sample the cookies that Tabea has as a part of her Christmas tradition.  On February 9th, Tabea surprised Mrs. Henderson and Mrs. Maddox’s classes when she came to Big Spring Lake and shared a few hours with their students. She told the story of Little Red Riding Hood in Swiss German and spent time with both classes. Tabea also brought miniature Swiss chocolate bars from Switzerland for the children. Each bar had a picture of a place in Switzerland. The students were very excited to share a day with Tabea!

Mrs. Jones' Class

Some exciting things have been happening in Mrs. Jones' classroom this school year!  Here are a few of our favorites!!

100th Day Celebration!!

A visit from Buddy the Elf!!

Hippie Day!!

A very special visitor!!

Mrs. Jackson/Rutledge's Class

This week in Mrs Jackson and Mrs Rutledge's co teaching classroom, the students learned all about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  We read the story, My Brother Martin, written by his sister.  We learned lots of new things about the historical civil rights leader.  We discussed that the character of a person is what is most important, not the color of their skin.  The students also participated in a directed drawing of MLK.  This has been one of our favorite lessons this year.

Mrs. Harris' Class

We have had lots in fun in Mrs. Harris' classroom!  We celebrated Red Ribbon week by having Aggie football players come read to us.  Then we ended the Christmas break off with the play "Elf" and a surprise visit from Buddy the Elf himself!

Mrs. Handley's Class: Christmas Around the World

Students in Mrs. Handley’s Kindergarten class are learning about different Christmas Traditions from around the world.  They began by looking at different countries to see how children there celebrate Christmas.  Next, they look for differences and similarities from how we celebrate Christmas here in America.  So far they have talked about Christmas in England, Mexico, Italy, and Germany.  This week they are going to visit Holland, Israel, and Africa.  As they are learning, the students make a page about each country to put in their Christmas Traditions from Around the World book.  In the pictures, the students are completing the page for Germany where children get treats in their boots if they are on Santa’s nice list or switches if they are on Santa’s naughty list.  All of her students decided they wanted to be on Santa’s nice list so they could get treats instead of switches! How about you? Merry Christmas from Mrs. Handley's class to you!