Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!

I hope that all of you have been able to enjoy the snow this year! After I made it safely to work this morning for conferences, I received this cute picture from Davidson's mom. I love that even while you're away from school, you can still show pride for Team Dees and the Razorbacks!

Updated Parent/Teacher Conference Times

Parent/Teacher conferences will begin at 10 am tomorrow. Call me at 447-8387, or email me at erin.dees@lrsd.org, if you need to reschedule. Remember that students will not attend school Friday or Monday!

Spelling Bee

I promise I haven't forgotten about the blog. We've just been so busy with life (learning, playing in the snow, etc.)!

I'm so proud to have such a fantastic group of learners on my team this year! I gave them a Spelling Bee right before Christmas Break. Man, I didn't think we'd ever find our top spellers for the school Spelling Bee...we went through so many rounds! Way to go Team Dees!

Presley and Davidson did a great job of representing our team in front of the school. They even received "dog tags" for participating.

Check out that concentration!

Way to help the Earth!!!!

Mr. Spencer just announced that Team Dees won the recycling contest for the first semester! WAY TO GO TEAM DEES!!!! This announcement is a perfect way to end our semester. I am so proud of all of teammates. Now we get to celebrate with a pizza party when we come back to school in January!

Team Dees has Local Artists

Do you need some new art for your house?

There are over 2000 works of art from our Roberts Elementary Artists posted on http://www.artsonia.com.com.  To take a peek...just type in 72223 for our zip code. Roberts is the first school listed.  Click on Roberts to take you to our school gallery.

You can order many items imprinted with the artwork if you see something that you like.

Mystery Readers

We started our Friday Mystery Readers back in November and have enjoyed every visitor that we've had! They especially love the clues and trying to figure out who it will be! If you haven't signed up for a date and would still like to be a Mystery Reader, I have plenty of available dates!

Ms. Gardner, the PE teacher, really stumped them with her clues!

Mrs. Adams has already been twice! She first read I Know an Old Lady who Swallowed a Pie at Thanksgiving. Then she read If You Take a Mouse to the Movies. Abby even helped us visualize the story by acting it out. I think you'll need to be looking for Abby's name in celebrity news in a few years when she becomes a famous actor! :)

We also had Anne's mom read to us one week. Sadly, my pictures didn't turn out for some reason.

Thank you to all of my volunteers!!!!!

Our research papers are complete!!!

I am so proud of these kids! They recently completed their first research paper about animals for the year! I don't think I had to do a research paper until Jr. high! But they handled it so well! They searched for information by reading non-fiction books, reading magazines, and even surfing the web!!! After all of their hard work, they all presented their findings about their animal to the rest of the class. We learned so much about all sorts of animals. Way to go, Team Dees! Keep up the hard work!