Monday, October 14th

 Hello Weckie Families! There has been so much fun and learning going on in our K2 room as of late! Thanks for clicking to read our blog and learn more about what we have been up to in Kindergarten!

Phonics

In Phonics we have wrapped up our first unit which has had a heavy emphasis on letters and their sounds. We have spent time looking at all of our first names and making noticings, practiced spelling them, counting the letters and noticing the syllables. Then we took time to practice writing familiar names to continue learning about the letter and sound relationships. Names like: Daisy Duck, The Pout Pout Fish, Sponge Bob and more, to name a few! We have also been trying to practice writing lowercase letters 3-4 times a week. We start at ‘a’ and work our way to ‘z’ on our whiteboards. We have noticed how many letters are formed using the “magic c”. You’ll notice: a, b, c, d, e, g, o, p and q all have a “c” formation in them! We have been reviewing our “Alphardy” song with Dr. Jean which helps us to better remember the sound that each letter makes. I highly suggest you sing this one at home too and have your Weckie teach you the hand motions! (https://youtu.be/MTeUONxZYAs?si=o31ETyJOK4uMPENw) 

Readers’ Workshop

We have continued to grow our collection of high frequency word mini-books in our book bins at school to practice reading with! Soon we will start to send the oldest one home weekly. I like to keep about 5 at school. Each week we tackle a new high frequency word with these books. So far we have done: I, a, is and the. We have been working on noticing patterns in the books we read. We have also been looking at familiar texts and practicing retelling the main events from the beginning, the middle and the ending of the story using words like: first, next, the, and lastly.

Writers’ Workshop

In Writers’ Workshop we are well on our way in our authors' part of our unit. We are writing our own books just like real authors do, putting different parts of our story on each page. I continue to encourage the kids to be brave and attempt writing words/letter sounds, anything, to match their picture! This can be overwhelming and scary, but also is the first step in learning to write by ourselves! I remind them daily that the spelling is not important, just getting down the sounds they hear in words is most important right now.

Math Workshop

In Math we have been learning all about shapes! We took time to talk about squares, circles, rectangles and triangles! We explored with pattern blocks. We described sides and corners of the shapes. Then we got the magazines out and cut out different shapes that we could find and sorted them onto three giant shape posters! They turned out amazing! Next we moved onto a look at the number 5! We spent time using counters to make numbers 0-5 in different combinations on our fives frames. We also read a fun book to continue to think about 5s. We have been working hard on number books which will come home later this week with your Weckie!

Science

In Science we have become engineers! Our young scientists have embarked on a unit of study of motion! They are learning about push and pull, force and more! We began by reading a book called, “It’s Not Junk!” which posed us a design challenge. Students had to create a ramp that they could roll a ball down, have it be able to follow a course (like with turns) and then make it to the finish line AND knock down as many crayons along the way as possible that were standing on the course! With some creativity and some classroom supplies, it was AMAZING to see all that the kids built and how well they got their golf ball to travel through their course. We repeated this challenge a second time another day, and each group got to create a new course and try to modify it based on the type of ball they selected. We had groups using: a marble, a ping pong ball, a tennis ball, a wooden ball and a rubber bouncy ball! Check out some pictures below from Day 1!

Classroom Volunteers

We are in need of classroom volunteers. Attached below is a link to a sign-up for classroom volunteers. Please know that you will need a completed background check on file. Before signing up, please contact the Dublin office to make sure you are either all set with your background check (it has been submitted and cleared) OR to find out if you need a form to fill out and have submitted. With our iReady diagnostic taking us a bit longer than planned, we are a bit behind on getting parents in, but will soon :-). This will be our volunteer schedule through December. Then depending on how our Readers’ and Writers’ Workshops are doing (we try to build our stamina and make them longer) we may go away from stations and simply need more parent help for specific activities.

*Please note, if you are signing up to help with stations, it is helpful to have the SAME parent(s) for these days consistently (i.e. if you can help with stations on Mondays, sign up for ALL of the Mondays). These should not be one time sign-ups, but our “Monday Parents”, “Wednesday Parents” and “Friday Parents”.

We will continue to add parent volunteers at different times besides stations throughout the year. Please be patient as this takes some time to accomplish! :-) Thank you!

Please click here:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/30E0444AEA82DAA8-52337236-classroom

Friday, September 27th

 Wow are we rocking and rolling in Kindergarten!! We are learning our routines and following our daily schedule so well! We are learning how to walk in the hallways and how to open containers at lunch! We are having fun decorating our room for Fall and have been enjoying these warm sunny days out on our Kindergarten playground! It has been an awesome 21 days in Kindergarten so far!!

We ARE super excited for our Color Run today and appreciate ALL that you have done to help make today possible!! :-)

Phonics

In Phonics we continue to play with our names! We have been having a "Star of the Day" each day and have been studying what we notice about each name (looking for letters we also have in our own names, counting the number of letters, noticing if there are any double letters and then cheering for each letter of the name! We then do a shared writing where we find out our Star Child's favorite: food, color and thing to do! We have some very interesting favorite foods - crab legs, frog legs, Lunchables... I love it! We have also spent time working on letter formation. This is a HUGE deal in Kindergarten (think: Top to bottom, left to right). Please continue to help your child write their letters at home and notice print around them too!

Readers' Workshop

In Readers' Workshop we have been learning to be "StoryBook Readers!" We have taken time to learn about:

-How to approach a book - looking at the front cover first, how to go from front to back, top to bottom, on each page and how to notice the pictures to see if they could match the words

-Mentor Texts: "The Three Billy Goats Gruff", "Max and the Tag Along Moon", "Big Mooncake and Little Star" and "Caps for Sale"

-Routines for independent reading (how to set ourselves up to read successfully)

-Routines for partner reading (how we sit side by side, one book in the middle, and take turns "telling" the story)

Writers' Workshop

Our young writers are busy, busy, busy! They are learning to draw about stories they want to tell and a few are even attempting to add letters and words (YAY!!) We continue to brainstorm ideas about what writers' do and why writers' have stories to tell... and boy do your kids have stories to tell! I continue to encourage them NOT to worry about spelling and to just put the letters they think down if the sound matches the picture! 

Math Workshop

Numbers are EVERYWHERE! We continue working with numbers daily! The goal is to have all kids fluently counting to 30 (if not higher) and able to recognize these numbers out of order.  We have been noticing numbers around the school, we have been noticing numbers in our books and have even begun writing our own number books where we practice writing numbers and drawing a picture to match the number.

Literacy Stations

Literacy Stations were launched this week and have been incredible! The kids are engaged in 8 different literacy stations with a partner or two and spend about 15 minutes at each rotation. Two of the rotations see me and we have been diligently working on their iReady Reading Diagnostics.

Welcome to Kindergarten!!

 

Wow!! We have had two AMAZING weeks in Kindergarten!! I love to use this blog page to show off all of our activities, learnings, fun and give important updates to parents! Please know that I LOVE to use pictures on our blog. If you would prefer for your child NOT to be featured in pictures on our blog page, you need to let me know ASAP. I try to post two blogs a month. I will post again in two weeks and have SO many fun pictures of the Weckies!

Thank you for ALL of your help in getting your child to and from school! They are coming in each morning excited to learn and that's all thanks to your hard work at home! We still have a few kids confused daily about: if they can get school breakfast (it's free so I always say "sure"), if they are getting hot lunch or packed a lunch, and what truly is their snack verses their lunch. Please continue to discuss this with your children at home!

They are doing an AWESOME job of remembering to bring their yellow everyday folders to and from school. Normally there will not be a ton in their folders daily - we are just really busy getting organized right now, so I feel like a lot has been coming home! I do also try to check daily for any communications you may have written on the front of their folders. If it is something urgent, feel free to jot me an email instead.

Phonics

Names, names and more names! The past two weeks we have been playing with our names! We read the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom!  and did several activities with the tree and our names! We were introduced to our phonics mascot, Mabel, the elephant this week. We spent time learning about the letter "m", brainstorming words that started with an "m" and even looked for kids in our class with names that began with an "M"! Then we took time to start learning each others names through a simple sentence activity. ("My name is _____) and each child has gotten to come write on the giant chart paper, their name! We're about halfway and will continue with more names next week! We also did a fun pencil craft to help us count the letters in our names (and practice following detailed directions). They did so great!!

Readers' Workshop

In Readers' Workshop we launched our workshop this week! We did a fun opening activity to relate to our learning target of "We can read the world" by practicing reading environmental print! The majority began the lesson saying they could not read. Once I started putting things up on the screen like logos for: Target, Walmart, Pepsi, Nike, Amazon, Netflix, Disney, Rice Krispies, Kit Kat, Snickers, etc. they were shouting out the names fast and realized quickly that they CAN in fact read! Reading environmental print is the most amazing way to help build their esteem of their abilities to recognize and read familiar words! Students then had time to read our classroom looking for things they could identify like: books, sink, doninoes, happy birthday, etc.. We spent time with a new book called, Fur, Feather, Fin - All of us are Kin and learned about how we are all alike and all "kin". This was a cool vocabulary word to also start using with the kids. We talked about the beginning of books, the middle and the endings as we build our concepts about print. We have also read SO many other great Kindergarten books! We are loving to hear stories!

Writers' Workshop

We launched our workshop this week with an "on-demand" narrative piece! The kids were given the task of drawing a picture about a time that they did something. We brainstormed all kinds of ideas before they got to drawing. They were even encouraged to add labels or words if they were able. Mrs. Weckstein then dictated a sentence or two for them about their pictures. It will be incredible to compare these September 5 pictures to a story they'll write come June!!

Math Workshop

In Math we have been doing all sorts of fun learning things! We start with a calendar routine daily to practice our days of the week, months of the year, notice the weather and count the days of school! We have also been practicing counting to 100 already! I wanted to stop at 20 but the Weckies said they could go HIGHER! I wanted to stop at 30 but they again said: HIGHER! Phew! We finally stopped at 100 :-). We also did a partner match activity with colored strips of paper practicing using words like: shorter and longer.

Important Dates

*Tuesday, September 10th- Curriculum Night for Kindergarten @ Dublin in our Room K-2 6:00-6:30pm (please just adults only) If you are unable to attend, please let me know by Tuesday morning! This helps for planning purposes.

*Friday, September 13th - Homecoming at WLN - The parade starts at 5pm and ALL WLN elementary school students are invited to participate!

*Tuesday, September 24th - 1/2 Day of School 

Friday, April 26, 2024

 Hello Weckie Families!

Wow have we been busy in 2nd grade! I'm not even sure where April went as it FLEW BY! We have been hard at work and have also been having a lot of fun too! It's even hard to believe we are starting to do some of our end of the year prep work. We had a fun visitor in our room this week and she even said, "Oh my gosh, they are NOT looking like second graders!! These kids look like third graders!!" Michele McKendry was here visiting and was a former Dublin teacher for 19 years before moving to Lapeer Schools to be the principal at Shickler Elementary!

Phonics: 

We have spent a great deal of time in phonics working on tackling larger words! We have spent time practicing five different strategies (shown on the chart) for dealing with bigger words and how to tackle them. As we grow in our reading ability, so do the size of the words we read! Using strategies like: trying the vowel long or short and counting the syllables to break it up part-by-part are two of the most common we see with our young readers. These strategies also can apply to their writing as they learn to tackle bigger words in their writing.

Then we began a new unit where we are calling ourselves "Word Builders". We have been practicing with different strategies now for building big words. Strategies have included: using big parts you already know in a word, recording each syllable, checking for a vowel in each syllable, use words you know within the word and spell those parts correctly first, and when it doesn't look right - ask a friend, find it in a book or look it up!

We ended this week with work looking at the "long a" sound in -ain and -ane. This was tricky for our word builders but also important to learn the differences between!

Readers' Workshop:

In Readers' Workshop we have paused this week in order to take our iReady Reading Diagnostic (which by the way, THEY ARE ROCKING!! It's so great to see growth, even with this diagnostic being harder than the previous two reading diagnostics).

Prior to the diagnostic, we have spent time practicing making our reading more fluent. We spent time using four different strategies for helping us to sound more fluent in our reading! We practiced reading and re-reading parts in our heads, practiced scooping words up into longer phrases, thought about what the words meant and made our voice match those feelings and then practiced reading at the just right pace.

We also took time to fine tune our work in partnerships with our habits and our skills! We talked about how to approach a new book (take a sneak peek), decide how to read it (is it fiction or nonfiction), practice retelling along the way (the important part was...) and then re-read to build our fluency! We also reviewed those tackling big word strategies we had been working with so diligently in phonics!

Writers' Workshop:

In Writers' Workshop we are just wrapping up our opinion writing unit and moving on to an Informational Research Writing Unit. We began the opinion writing Unit writing our opinions about books! Students were able to pick out some of their favorites from our classroom library to write about and were pretty persuasive on why their book was: the best graphic novel, the funniest, had the best illustrations, was a part of the best series, etc. It was fun to hear what they had to say and why! Then we moved into a bend in the unit where writers' wrote to the authors of these books (yes we did!!) and told them all about their opinion of their book(s) and why they love them so much! We have our fingers and toes crossed that MAYBE we will hear back from one of them! 

Now we are moving into this Informational research type writing unit and will be reaching out soon asking for a little help at home soon as we learn to gather research and put the information into our own words!

Math Workshop:

In Math we have been learning all sorts of ways to solve story problems AND double/triple digit addition! We learned several diagrams we could use to help us organize numbers in a number story (Change to More, Start Change End, Part-Part-Total) and practiced filling them in for many different story problems. It can still be tricky for some if you should add or subtract at times when presented with a story problems. Please review your child's Unit 6 Assessment with them if story problems were tricky for them to decipher!

Then we moved onto practiced with ballpark estimates and partial sums for double digit addition. Ballpark estimates brought us to the tricky skill of learning to round numbers. We learned a little chant that has been helpful for our students:

For the digits 5 through 9, round the number up the line.

For the digits 4 or less, round that number down oh yes!

Then we took time to learn how to solve double digit addition in partial sums. This is where you add the tens up first, and then you add the ones up. Lastly you combine them all to get the total. (For example 49 + 34 = 40+ 30 = 70 and 9+4 = 13 and 70+13 = 83). Please pay attention to directions given in the home links so your child can practice the same thing at home that we are doing at school. 

Social Studies:

In Social Studies we are learning all about the government right now! We are exposing our kids to the branches of the government, the importance of the government and the reasons why we have rules and laws. While the concepts are a bit advanced, we have had great discussions sparking lots of interest in our government and all that they do for us!

March 21, 2024

 March 21, 2024

Happy March is Reading Month! What a fun month of Mystery Readers we have had in 202! We have loved meeting all sorts of new "important" people! We have heard so many new books and enjoyed learning about so many new people. Thank you to all who have participated!! Please check our Twitter (X) account @WeAreTheWeckies to see all of the photos of our Guest Readers this month!

Phonics

In Phonics we have wrapped up our unit on that has focused on tackling big words! We have learned so many different strategies that we can apply to these words and have practiced using them in our own reading, in short passages I have given the kids and in shared reading format with the whole class! It has been nice to have this overlap with our Readers' Workshop which took time to stop and also, "Tackle Longer Words". The chart below is one you can use at home with your own child when reading books with longer words!

Additionally in phonics we spent time learning some important rules about endings that we can add on to words. We learned how to drop the "e" and add "ed" or "ing" endings onto words. We also took time to learn about dropping the "y" and adding "ing" or "ies" onto words ending in "y". These are skills we will continual to reinforce all year in our writing and notice in our reading!

Readers' Workshop

In Readers' Workshop we have been doing all sorts of great things! We have spent time tackling longer words, we have spent time reviewing all we know about characters and character traits and we have been immersed in several awesome mentor texts! We are currently focusing on: breaking words into syllables so we can read them part-by-part, learning to try reading words different ways based on long vowel and short vowel sounds and even looking for recognizable patterns we already know within words. We have also swapped partnerships and have spent time talking about our roles in partnerships.

In Language Workshop, a subset of Readers' Workshop, we spent a great deal of time reading Dan Santat books like, "Are We There Yet?", "The Adventures of Beekle", "After the Fall" and "Harold and Hog Pretend for Real!". We did a great deal of visible thinking routines, written retellings and zoomed in on all of the incredible vocab in the stories. We then moved onto the "Otis" series by Loren Long where we are currently LOVING all of the Otis books and learning about this friendly and heroic little tractor! 

Writers' Workshop

We have moved onto an opinion writing unit where we are writing about all things that are AWESOME! We are learning to state our opinion, give three supporting reasons and then write a conclusion summarizing our opinion. It has been fun to hear the different opinions on: best food, best restaurant, best vacation spot, best sport, best sports player, best video game, best movie and more! Then we took a turn this week with our writing and have now learned how to write letters. We are working on letters to the authors of some of our favorite books, explaining why in our opinion, they are so AWESOME! Several are very eager to finish their letters in hopes we can send them off to the author!

Math Workshop

We are in the midst of an addition and subtraction number story unit. We have learned how to use diagrams like: part-part-total, change-to-more and Quantities and Differences boxes. We have used Open Number lines to help us solve these problems and are getting really good at deciding which strategy to use, and explain why! These strategies help students to understand the how and the why behind solving these realistic addition and subtraction problems. We also continue to work on on time and coin value as these are tricky skills for second graders. 

Science

Our Air and Weather unit has been off to a great start! We have explored with air using all sorts of materials and have learned how to: trap air, compress air, use air to propel an object and more! We are now learning all about the different types of weather and associated precipitation! We'll hang out to some of the fun air experiments until the outside weather improves including: bubbles, kites, wind socks and wind catchers!

Friday, February 2nd

 Friday, February 2nd - Happy Friday!!

Happy Friday Weckie Families! What a wild winter season we had in January... and so many days off from school. Yikes!

We have continued to work hard and pick right up where we have left off after each little mini-break! We have been busy working hard and learning lots!

**IMPORTANT UPCOMING DATES** There's a lot upcoming, so I want to put this FIRST in our blog post for today:

1. Wednesday, February 7th - Global Day of Play - Dublin Elementary is participating once more in this fun World Wide event to get kids PLAYING together. We are going to celebrate in the afternoon of the 7th and ask that your children bring TWO toys from home that do not need electricity, batteries, have screens, etc.. Think board games, Barbies, puzzles, etc.. Please make sure that everything is labeled with your child's name so that everything that comes in makes it back home safely. Please make sure your child's toys are "school appropriate".

2. Friday, February 9th - 100th Day of School - This is the day where we want your children dressed as their best senior citizen self day! Please remember we also need a BINGO prize from each child to contribute to our big BINGO game that day. Prizes should be small and no more than $1 in value. If you are not able to provide a prize, please let me know ASAP so we can plan accordingly for ALL.

3. Tuesday, February 13th - Valentine's Boxes and Valentine's cards DUE into school! Please send your box creations and Valentine cards in on the 13th so that we can get everything ready for the BIG day on the 14th! If you need another copy of the class list, please let me know ASAP!! The list was on the back of the original "Valentine's Box" note.

4. Wednesday, February 14th - Class Valentine's Day Party! We will be celebrating the 14th with a craft, a movie and an ice cream sundae bar! We are still in need of donations for our Sign-Up Genius. We are not in need of any parent volunteers at this point. Mrs. Wolfe and Mrs. Chenoweth are our V-Day party planners and they'll be on hand to help scoop ice cream. 

Click here for the Valentine's Sign Up

5. NO SCHOOL - February 19-23 for Mid-Winter Break

Now, have you wondered what we've been up to academically? :-)

Phonics:

In Phonics we have been learning how to break apart big words! We spent a great deal of time on a variety of strategies shown on the chart below. 

This is a great list to refer to at home with your Weckie as they have spent a lot of time practicing each of these strategies! Then we moved on to working with consonants that camouflage and blend in with other letters - combinations like: wr, kn and gn. You'll notice in words with "wr" you only hear the /r/ sound and in words with "kn" you hear the /n/ sound and words with "gn" you hear the /n/ sound. We then dug deeper into the two sounds that c and g can make. Ask your child to tell you about the soft c (cider)/ soft g (gem), and hard c (common)/hard g (garden). We will be digging deeper with those hard and soft sounds next week!

Readers' Workshop:

Our readers have been immersed in non-fiction reading for awhile now and are quite the expert readers of informational texts! We have stopped to talk about reading non-fiction for information and how non-fiction can differ from fiction because with a fiction story you have to read cover to cover whereas with non-fiction you can dip in and dip out for info. We have looked at non-fiction features like: Table of Contents, Glossary, Index, labeled diagrams, bold words, photographs, captions, how-to, maps, tables and graphs! Students have taken time to jot down new information that they have learned that they could teach their partner in workshop time!

We FINALLY completed all of the iReady Reading Diagnostic this week for all. Between snow days and illnesses, this took much longer than anticipated. Scores will be coming home next week and parents will be contacted if their child needs further reading intervention.

Writers' Workshop:

We are beginning to wrap up our non-fiction writing unit this week. We have quite the experts in our classroom on a variety of topics! Next week they'll be picking one of their writing pieces to take through the publishing process. Look for these to come home in a few weeks! I love to leave them in a basket in the classroom library once completed so that other kids can read their work, learn and enjoy!

Math Workshop:

We have been measuring EVERYTHING lately in math!! Our mathematicians have gotten quite good at measuring with centimeters and inches! They have been all over the classroom measuring all sorts of small, medium and large spaces/objects! It's fun to get them up and moving and see their excitement about measuring. We ended the week with Math Stations where they had practice with: fact triangles for subtraction, story problems with friendly 10s, measuring a crooked path, creating arrays and two STEM type activities with building involved. They LOVED learning to play a new game called "Buildzi"!

 

Friday, January 11th - Happy Snowy Friday!

 Happy Snowy Friday Weckie Fams!

We are back in the routine of things here and have had a great 8 days back from Winter Break! The weather this week has been a doozy in true Michigan winter fashion. Please make sure to send ALL winter gear daily as we are going outside for recess daily and many kids are complaining of being cold or unprepared. I would suggest just keeping snow-pants, boots, hat and gloves in a bag that goes back and forth daily. A few are also keeping extra gloves, socks and pants in their backpacks which is also a great idea for days when the playground is extra wet!

                                                                

                                                             

We began 2024 by writing our New Years Resolutions! Lots of great ideas of new goals the kids had for the year!

Word Work

In Word Work this week we are working on tackling long words part by part! We have taken time to:

• Work methodically across big words from beginning to end
• Break between two consonants in the middle of words 
• Keep digraphs together (ie. 'gh' in words)
• Keep endings together (-ing, -ed, -s, -es, and -er)

This is an important list of strategies kids can use when breaking up these two and three syllable words that they are coming across in their reading. We also spent time learning a new rule this week. When breaking a word up in the middle between a double consonant, the first vowel tends to be short (think of the word hopping - the 'o' makes an 'ah' sound, a short o compared to the word hoping, where there is not a double consonant, so the 'o' makes a long vowel sound and says it's name like 'oh'. We compared several words like: hopping/hoping, dinner/diner, supper/super, tapping/taping. New SNAP words were added to our SNAP words book this week including: better, different, happen and follow. Notice, they all have that double consonant in the middle and the first vowel makes the short sound!

Readers' Workshop

In Readers' Workshop we are reading two mentor non-fiction texts all about volcanoes! We spent time this week zooming in on "expert words" within the texts. These are words that help us to be a better expert on the topic of the book. Expert words we found in our volcano books included: crust, mantle, core, magna, lava and erupt! Students then had time to collect their own expert words on non-fiction books during independent and partner reading. It was cool to hear all of these big words being played with and defined by our young experts!

 

Writers' Workshop

The talk of reading expert words in non-fiction has carried over to the ability to use expert words in our own non-fiction writing that we are creating. Each writer is currently working on their own expert non-fiction chapter book and has been challenged now to make sure they are including those expert words. These are word we would expect to see boldfaced in the writing and soon to be included in the glossary they will create for the back of their books! It has been fun to see the wide range of expert topics we are including in our classroom, from how to play different sports, to how to play different video games and then even about the different kinds of pastas and dance classes you can take!

Mathematics

In Math we are working on two big concepts. First we have spent a great deal of energy learning how to tell time! We have created our own clocks and have been practicing learning how to tell time on the clocks to the nearest 5-minute interval. Kids needing extra practice have been learning to play a clock concentration game to make telling time a little more engaging and also meaningful as they have to be able to read the clock to find the match! Additionally, we are working on place value in math. We got out the base-ten blocks this week and practiced making numbers with partners that were representing numbers up to 360 in base-10 blocks. Students were given a challenge today to explain how they knew what number was represented by a large amount of base-10 blocks. It was fun to watch their minds spin as they figured out what number was shown but then also had to explain how they knew the correct answer.

Hundreds Day

Info has come home with the kids on Thursday about 100s Day at Dublin! We plan to celebrate on Friday, February 2nd and need your kids to come as 100 year old students that day! If you have any questions about attire, accessories or the BINGO prize, please let me know asap. It's such an incredibly fun day... please tell your child not to be shy, the more dressed up, the more fun they'll have! Nana Weckstein is excited to see everyone on February 2nd!