Our Special Visitor from the North Pole!

The kids were over the moon excited last Monday.  When we got back from Thanksgiving break, we had a special delivery straight from the North Pole…


I read the letter to the kids and they flipped.  I mean, they seriously had a conniption.  They could barely stifle their screams.  We somehow managed to get through the letter without anyone going too crazy, but when it came time for me to open Santa’s special delivery, we just couldn’t contain ourselves anymore.  It got a little wild.  But it was precious because their little hearts are SO innocent and they just couldn’t hold in their excitement at all.  I just LOVE the magic of Christmas!!!! 
As we were opening up the package, the kids were BEGGING me to be careful so that I wouldn’t touch our special visitor.  Luckily, Santa’s little burlap sack and all that North Pole snow made it super easy for him to stay put as I opened him up.  We read the story that the elf brought to us that explained how this how "elf thing" works. After we learned the rules, we had to give him a name.  We named him Elfie.  The book explained that Elfie will be watching the kiddos during the day at school and reporting back to Santa each night on their behavior.  We also learned that we CAN NOT touch Elfie or he will loose his magic and wont be able to fly back to the North Pole each night.  Elfie is always in crazy places around our classroom and the kiddos LOVE to try and find him each morning.  We were so good last week, Elfie  brought us red candy canes from Santa!