{"id":4963,"date":"2010-12-17T21:18:45","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T02:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=4963"},"modified":"2010-12-17T22:38:07","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T03:38:07","slug":"1st-grade-christmas-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=4963","title":{"rendered":"1st Grade Christmas Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC_0265.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"DSC_0265\" src=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC_0265-680x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"326\" height=\"491\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Today, I helped McCanless&#8217; class with an ornament swap. \u00a0I found a cute story about &#8220;Lefty, the Elf&#8221; and took it to her class to read aloud. \u00a0I had the class sit in a circle. \u00a0Each student brought a wrapped ornament and as I read the story (which was written exactly for a swap such as this), the students passed their ornament to the left when I read the word, &#8220;left&#8221; and right when I read the word, &#8220;right.&#8221; \u00a0 It was hilarious. \u00a0It took them a few minutes to figure out the whole process, but once they got it, I read faster and faster and they passed faster and faster. Unfortunately, I didn&#8217;t snap any photos of the swap. \u00a0I was too involved and had to pull out my teacher hat for this one. \u00a0So fun!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the swap, I gave them &#8220;naked&#8221; cupcakes, as McCanless said, tubs of icing, sprinkles and candy galore. \u00a0A few of the results&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC_0284.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DSC_0284\" src=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC_0284-795x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">McCanless&#8217; cupcake (the tallest)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC_0274.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4966\" title=\"DSC_0274\" src=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC_0274-1024x922.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC_0274-1024x922.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC_0274-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC_0274.jpg 1629w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC_0283.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4967\" title=\"DSC_0283\" src=\"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC_0283-954x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC_0283-954x1024.jpg 954w, https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC_0283-279x300.jpg 279w, https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/DSC_0283.jpg 1545w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 343px) 100vw, 343px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">By the way, that teeny, tiny, itty, bitty tooth to the left of McCanless&#8217; two front teeth (the one hanging on for dear life) fell out tonight, finally! \u00a0The permanent tooth is already coming in right behind it! \u00a0This will be #9 permanent for her!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I helped McCanless&#8217; class with an ornament swap. \u00a0I found a cute story about &#8220;Lefty, the Elf&#8221; and took it to her class to read aloud. \u00a0I had the class sit in a circle. \u00a0Each student brought a wrapped ornament and as I read the story (which was written exactly for a swap such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4963"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4971,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4963\/revisions\/4971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}