A Package from Santa!

Today was a VERY exciting day in first grade! This morning, while we were completing our morning work, Ms. Coburn stopped by our room with a large package wrapped in paper! She said she was up at the office checking her box and saw it had been delivered to us so she brought it back.

We gathered around on the carpet and read the tag.

Can you believe it?!? We got a package from SANTA! There were cheers of excitement all around! :)

Upon opening the package, we found a letter from Santa himself on his official Santa letterhead.

The letter told us that we were going to have one of his special elves joining us starting tomorrow. It told us our elf's name is Dash, and he got his name because he is in charge of taking care of the reindeer Dasher at the North Pole. Also in the package was a book for us to read explaining a little more about the elf.

In his letter Santa told us that our elf, Dash, wanted to send each student a gift before he arrived. Inside the box we found a package of Elf Kisses for each student!

Also in the box was a stack of Elf Journals, one for each student. This will be our morning work each day and help us record everything our elf does from now until winter break. We got right to work designing our cover and filling out the first page about our elf.

Everyone is VERY excited to see our elf in our room tomorrow. He will be here watching over us each day, and at night will fly back to the North Pole to report to Santa. Santa told us that each day we will have to look for him, as he will be hiding somewhere new in our classroom. Elves are known to be a little mischievous, so check back soon to see some of our elf's crazy classroom antics!