December Learning
Here we will post photographs of our class hard at work, so you can have a glimpse of life in our classroom!
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Reading Raffle Winners (12/22)
Books Won: My Weird School: Deck the Halls We're Off the Walls, Happy Narwhal Days, Mooseltoe, The Polar Express, and Amelia Bedelia: Wraps it Up
Fireside Reading
We cozied up by our virtual fireplace with a good book or two, to read in our comfy pajamas on Pajama Day.
Pajama Day
Blue Day
Bingo for Books: Winners
Congratulations to December's Bingo for Books winners!
Not so lucky this time? That's okay! Keep practicing your math facts, because we will play again later in the year!
Not so lucky this time? That's okay! Keep practicing your math facts, because we will play again later in the year!
Bingo for Books
To practice our multiplication facts, we played multiplication bingo.
Winners got to pick out a brand new book for their at-home library!
Winners got to pick out a brand new book for their at-home library!
Human Christmas Trees
A fun part of our green day was creating and decorating human Christmas trees!
Students in their Grinchy Green
Helping the Grinch
In this week's STEM challenge, groups worked together to construct a sleigh that was both big enough to help the Grinch steal all of the gifts from Whoville AND to get them back up Mount Crumpet.
Crazy Sock Day
Since most of our day was spent working on on a special, surprise project, we didn't get too many pictures.
But check out these silly feet!
But check out these silly feet!
Reading Raffle Winners (12/15)
Books won: Abby in Orbit #2: Blast Off!, The Thrills and Chills of Amusement Parks, Jo Jo Manoons: Snow Day, National Geographic: Animal Smackdown, and Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (not pictured)
Reindeer Games
The Monday before vacation week we celebrated with Reindeer Games. Groups of reindeer competed in a variety of challenges such as holiday trivia, a candy cane scavenger hunt, I-Spy, and holiday book trivia (based on books we read and books in our classroom library). Then we completed our day by watching Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.
Football Rounding Game
To practice our rounding skills, today we played a football-themed rounding game!
This is a fun way to review rounding skills, while we move on to new math topics.
This is a fun way to review rounding skills, while we move on to new math topics.
Play-doh Life Cycle Models
To practice the scientific vocabulary words associated with life cycles, students used Play-doh to create a model of each stage in the life cycle of a buttery. They then labeled each stage in the life cycle.
Reading Raffle Winners (12/8)
Books Won: The Whodunit Detective Agency: The Swimming Pool Mystery, The Wishing Tree, The Very Impatient Caterpillar, Zoey & Sassafras: Caterflies and Ice, and Magic Tree House: Merlin Missions: Balto of the Blue Dawn
Dreidel Game
After the first night of Hanukkah, we learned how to play the dreidel game! There were so many smiles and lots of laughter during this fun holiday activity.
ELA Menus
Just a few quick pictures of students working hard on the activities on their reading menus. While everyone's menu is a bit different some of the skills we are working on this week are vocabulary, alliteration, similes, metaphors, text features, comprehension, vowel teams, nonsense words, and our weekly Lexia skills.
Reading Raffle (12/1)
Books won: Mindy Kim and the Yummy Seaweed Business, National Geographic: 125 True Amazing Stories of Amazing Pets, The Adventures of Captain Underpants, Butt or Face? and J.D. and the Great Barber Battle (not pictured)
December Book
On the first day of each month, students take home a new, free gifted book. This month each student took home a picture book called Santa Claus from A-Z - a book about how Christmas is celebrated around the world!
Unwrap a Read Aloud
Every day in the month of December, a student will be selected to unwrap a holiday or winter themed picture book that will be our read aloud during snack time. We will then add the book to our classroom library for students to read again and enjoy. We are very excited for this fun reading tradition!