Mrs. Heflin, Thank you for the information you gave us and all the cool pictures. Ms. Harrington happened to be in our classroom when we were reading your blog so she got to see what you were doing too. The kiddos had a few more questions for you...They want to know a few Chinese words and were also curious if the Chinese people celebrate Thanksgiving and Christmas. We have been crazy busy lately! We now have 8 popcorn words (have, is are the newest)and will get 3 new ones next week (we, my, like). You would be very impressed with the Kindergartners as they are starting to write sentences in their journals...with capitals at the beginning and punctuation! I will post some pictures later. We are going to begin repeating phrase structure in Writing Workshop next week and we just finished opposite books and yummy/yucky. Each Reading Mastery group is also reading words with some of the groups reading sentences. Yahoo! The weather has changed here and we are now experiencing SNOW! I am sure you know what that means...SNOW CLOTHES. Like I said before, have we mentioned how much we miss you?! :) We will keep in touch...Hugs to you! The Bury Bunch