We had a busy last week getting ready for Christmas and celebrating the holiday, all while squeezing some fun learning in too! Centers this week were all Christmas themed. We matched stars on Christmas trees that had the same sight words.
We made real and silly sentences about elves in the pocket chart.
We filled in Santa's beard by rolling teen numbers.
We did a few writing around the room activities and hunted for Christmas words.
We recorded sight words written on gingerbread boys and girls.
We used magnifying glasses to compare and contrast Chistmas pictures and recorded our findings on a Venn diagram.
And we practiced our letter and number fluency by playing a fun roll and read game with our finger puppet pointers.
In math, we worked on addition by rolling two dice, showing the action of the numbers on a Christmas math mat, and recording the number sentence.
We also played a game where we crossed out a number around the Christmas tree when we rolled it using two dice.
This week we discussed needs and wants. I forgot to take pictures, but we made stockings and cut out pictures of things we needed to survive and things that we wanted and would just be nice to have. The kids got pretty good at distinguishing between the two! We also did a needs and wants writing center.
This week in writing, we used our five senses to observe a candy cane. We listened to, touched, looked at, and smelled our candy canes.
And of course at the end, we tasted them! Then we wrote about candy canes and what we thought about them.
We also watched a little summary of the Grinch and wrote down adjectives to describe him.
This week, a 5th grade class came and performed a Reader's Theater for our class. They did the story, "Santa's New Suit," which we had read in class, so it was fun for the kids to watch.
Look what our classroom got this week! (I know the moms who have been in to help with painting projects will appreciate this as much as I do)! I was able to redeem all of the Box Tops we had collected and bought a drying rack for our classroom. No more laying projects out all over the room and getting paint everywhere. Keep sending in the Box Tops, they really do make a difference and add up! :)
Thursday was the day we celebrated Christmas at school with our class. Mr. Hansen invited us down to the office to listen to a couple of Christmas stories and get a candy cane.
Then it was time for the Polar Express! I have to apologize, I was so busy doing things that I didn't have the chance to take a lot of pictures.
I decorated the room with train tracks and signs and moved the chairs into a train formation. The kids thought it was so fun when they came in.
I punched their tickets and they came in and found a seat on the train.
Then we had hot chocolate with marshmallows and cookies.
Then the train departed the station, the lights went out, and we watched the story of the Polar Express. If you would like to listen to it at home, you can go
HERE, just scroll down a bit and then click on the Polar Express link. At the end of the ride, everyone got a special bell and then the kids had free choice center time!
On Friday, we attended the school sing-a-long.
We sang Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer while wearing some little red paper noses and Jingle Bells.
Then we got to listen to the rest of the school sing and participated in some sing along songs too.
This week our star student was Brecken. He had a good time showing the class his stuffed animal monster with sunglasses.
And we celebrated back to back birthdays this week! Aiden turned 6 on Wednesday and Burke turned 6 on Thursday. Happy birthday boys and thanks for the treats you shared with us!
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