So today about 15 minutes before lunch Mrs. C our Vice Principal called down to my room over the intercom and said that I had a package in the office. I asked if it could wait until lunch and she said that it looked pretty important and asked if I could send a student down to pick it up. So I sent one of my boys down to the office to get it. He came back with the package with Mrs. C in tow - I suspect that she wanted in on the action that was about to occur in my classroom. He brought the package over to me and when I had asked him who it was from he said with an excitedly puzzled exclamation "It's from Santa!?!" Of course this sent all the other students rushing over to see what could be in this box. Mrs. C even through in "I think I heard some noises coming from inside the box" he he he. I asked the kids to predict what it could be knowing that it was a package from Santa. Of course they all thought it could be an elf or maybe a toy or a note... one hungry student even shouted out "MAYBE IT'S A CHICKEN NUGGET!" - it was close to lunch after all *smile*! I carefully opened the box and inside we found this:
Of course the kids were STOKED! We decided that we had better read the book again to find out what we should do next and to see if there were any directions on how to take care of an elf. We read that the first thing we need to do was give him a name. I asked for some name suggestions and threw in a couple of my own. The suggestions were Friendly, Elfie, Elfonzo (mine), Scoobie Doo, Nicey, and Elfredo (also mine). The students voted on a sticky note and the winner was Elfie. After we named him we continued to read the book and were reminded of the rules:
1. You can not touch the elf.
2. The elf can not talk to you - Santa's Law
3. The elf reports to Santa each night
I told the kids that after lunch we would try to get our the Elf Journals that were included in the box but that I didn't know if I could get them out without touching Elfie. When we came back from lunch this is what we found:
Elfie was perched up on the edge of the box so that we could easily get the Elf Journals out of the box. The kids are very excited about our new classroom visitor. They even have students from 2nd grade and their big brothers and sisters coming to see where Elfie is hiding for the day.
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