Mrs. Caudill’s Classroom Connection

Our Thanksgiving break is finally here!  I am thankful that we have 6 days of no school.  Hopefully the break will slow down the spread of the flu bug that has been going around our school!

I hope you all enjoy the break.  I hope you stay healthy, get to eat lots of food and visit with family and friends.  Most of all, I hope you stop to think about all that you have to be thankful for! 

I am thankful for my family and friends, my students, my coworkers, and that our family is getting healthy again!   I am also thankful that I get the opportunity to teach at Laurelville Elementary-the BEST!

We’d like to wish the very best of luck to the Lady Braves volleyball team in their Division II State semi-final game tonight against Lake Catholic.  This is the first time in school history that our volleyball team has made a Final-4 appearance.  We are very proud of all of these girls.  Two teams members, Rebekha Lucas and Nikki Young  are former Laurelville Elementary students! 

The Logan Elm football team also continues in their tournament run this evening against Springfield Shawnee.  We wish them the best of luck, as well, and hope that their season continues!  Former Laurelville Elementary students that are on the football team:  Chris Eversole (senior); Nick Hart, Dustin Fox, and Kyle Eveland (juniors); Eli Dickson and Stephen White (sophomores); and Rod Lucas, Dominick Graham, Nick Sheumaker,  JJ Osborn, and Jesse Kerens (freshmen).

Win or lose tonight, we are so proud of all of them for their hard work and commitment to their team!

Well, we were blessed with yet another beautiful day for our annual Laurelville Halloween parade!  The streets were filled with every type of character you can imagine and MANY of our community members turned out on the streets of Laurelville to watch our students parade through town.  We were also entertained by a wonderful performance of the Logan Elm Marching Band both during the parade and afterwards.  What an exciting day this was for the Laurelville community.  The Laurelville Halloween parade is truly a remarkable tradition.  Enjoy the pictures!

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>Great news for Laurelville Elementary and our community:  Our school now has 2 paper recycling bins in our parking lot between the office and the library.  These green and yellow PaperRetriever bins will accept ANY paper products to be recycled-magazines, newspapers, school papers, junk mail, etc.  The only thing they DO NOT accept is cardboard. 

If you were looking for a way to be more “green”, then this is your opportunity.  Save that junk mail and those newspapers and bring them to Laurelville to put in our recycling bins!  You will be helping our school and our environment!

Today was the Grandfriend’s Day Picnic at Laurelville Elementary. What an absolutely beautiful day to welcome our grandfriends to come and dine with their grandchildren! We certainly could not have asked for more perfect weather. It is always so exciting for our children and the staff at Laurelville to have so many wonderful guests. I hope all that were able to attend enjoyed themselves.

Thanks to all the parents who filled out addresses in those booklets that were sent home.  I know it took some time to complete, but please know that it was well worth it.  Remember, for each booklet that is returned, our school gets $2.25.  Our goal is to raise some more $ for some new technology at Laurelville.  Every booklet that has been returned has helped, so thanks again!

Thanks, also, to Destiny’s C’s grandma.  Destiny let me know that her grandma has been checking out the blog.  I was glad to hear that.  Please continue to check in and leave a comment!

I can’t forget to thank Ashleigh Martin, either.  Ashleigh, the Dove dark chocolate was delicious, and it gave me the idea for the Daily Math Review question that we worked on today!  I appreciate that you were thinking of me!

The wood bowl that Alden Wyckoff made is beautiful.  I’m showing it off on my desk.  Alden, I think you have a future in woodworking (I wonder were you get that from? )  Thanks.

While I’m thanking everyone, thanks to Lisa Deluse and Susan Young, our volunteers who bravely face the copier each Thursday.  I am so grateful for the time that you save me and the hassle of fighting with the copier!

Happy birthday to Branden McNichols!