Yesterday, we made jelly doughnuts which are often eaten around the world on the Jewish festival of Hanukkah. We didn’t fry them as is the Hanukkah custom but baked them in the oven. We measured all the ingredients: flour, baking powder, salt, cinnamon, sugar, vanilla extract,an egg and milk. We used an electric mixer to mix it all up and then placed the batter in a donut mold. Off to the oven we went to bake our donuts. We let them cool and placed some jelly on the top. We shared some with Mrs. Walke, Mr. Dunkley and Ms. Booth in the office who loved our baking!

We had our first opportunity to enjoy the fresh snow on the hills and headed out for some crazy carpet fun. It was a lot of work trying to sit on the carpet at the top of the hill before it took off down the hill. Many of us ended up on our tummies or with one leg on the carpet and some of us saw the carpet go down the hill without anybody on it!

Bob the elf has arrived in our classroom from the North Pole. Yes, this is the name we have given him. He is here to be Santa’s helper and let him know if we are behaving and make Santa glad. In order to keep his magic alive the children are to keep their hands off when Bob arrives each morning. He has been found hanging from our Christmas decorations, using Mrs. T and Mrs McLeod’s word pointer, wrapped in Christmas wrapping paper and taped to the wall and today he was hiding in our bug collector at our science table. The children are excited each morning to see where Bob ends up.

We decided to “think globally” as Errol Lee shared with us in his concert here at Fieldcrest. We raked the leaves and picked up garbage at the front of our school. We had a chance to jump in our last pile of leaves before we placed them in the bag. The best part of fall season is jumping in a pile of leaves!