A Double Dose of Mystery!

We were extra lucky last week.  

We had not one, but count 'em, two...two mystery readers!!

First, on Wednesday, a crazy Kindergarten day that we shared with Mrs. Everwine, 

we had.........wait for it...... MR.  COHEN as our mystery reader!! 

 It was so cool that Mr. Cohen came in to read on a day 

that both of our classes were together, 

so that we could all share in the fun.  

He read a really funny story called The New Improved Santa.

 Mr. Cohen did an excellent job reading and showing all the pictures!

Then on Friday, it was Chase's birthday and his mom was the mystery reader!

Mrs. Struzynski read a really great story about teamwork called

  The Biggest Snowman Ever.

Chase knew that it was his mom after he heard just a few of the clues!

He was really excited to have his Mommy be the mystery reader on his birthday!!

Santa's Spy!

In case you haven't already heard....we had a very unexpected visitor to our classroom!  Last Thursday when we sat down to do our morning calendar routine, some of the kids noticed that we had an elf listening to a story at the listening center!!  My kinders proceeded to tell me all about their elves at home.  They told me how he watches to see if they are naughty or nice and then he flies back to the North Pole to tell Santa what he's seen.  I had never heard of such a thing!  ....and to tell you the truth, it kind of freaks me out a bit!  That little stinker threw a bunch of my books all over the floor before settling himself down in a chair to listen to his own story!! 

We read said story and found out that we had to give him a name.  

We voted on a few names and Christmas won out! (Mara suggested "Pat", but didn't actually choose it when we took the survey...how funny!!)  

We even practiced making tally marks as we made our choices on the smart board ;)

Here is Christmas making himself at home in our listening center!

I guess all that flying back and forth to the North Pole really wore him out; 

the next day we found him sleeping in a tissue box!

That sneaky little elf TP'd our tree. 

 (At least I didn't have to climb up to get the tree down off the shelf!)

This morning we found him in the treasure box, 

trying silly bands and necklaces on for size.

I can't wait to see where he pops up next.  

I hope he tells Santa that I've been good!