A Special Visitor

Last week we welcomed the month of December with a very special visitor all the way from the North Pole!!! On Wednesday, we returned from PE to discover a box wrapped in gift wrap and tied with a bow sitting in front of our classroom door. We were all very anxious and excited to find out what exactly was inside that box!

When we opened the package, we found a tiny little Elf, a book, and a class set of "Elf Journals".

                          Student #21 wrote a cute little bit about wanting to name him Mark.
Hmmmmm...we were intrigued. We read the book and discovered that our Elf visitor was sent to us directly from the North Pole!!! He was a spy for Santa watching to make sure we were behaving and making good choices! We also learned that we had to choose a name for him, and write about his visit in our special Elf journals. After much deliberation, we voted on "Ethan the Elf" as his name. We also found that he doesn't speak, and we must not touch him or we could risk him losing his "magic". He spent his first day in our classroom hanging out on the book shelf.
The next day we found him sleeping in our tissue box...

 

We figured he must have been tired after his long journey from the North Pole. The next day he was hanging out on top of the lollipop tree enjoying a lollipop! He didn't even throw away the wrapper! What a naughty elf!

The following day he left us a message with the magnetic letters...

He also had an unfortunate accident and toppled off one of the boxes he was sitting on. We were really worried about him, but thankfully the next day he seemed to be okay, just a little banged up. Looks like he found my bandaids in the drawer though!

This morning he wrote our whole class a letter and thanked everyone for the nice notes and bucket fillers they have been leaving him. But he also warned us that he has been taking pictures of our classroom at the end of the day and sending them to Santa, and it has been very messy!!! Uh oh. 

Wonder what kind of shenanigans he will be up to tomorrow...