Thanksgiving & Christmas

Thanksgiving

 

During November, we learned about Native Americans.  We made necklaces with beads and headbands with patterns (we learned the more feathers they had on their head dresses, the more important they were)

 

 

We learned about the Mayflower and Plymouth Plantation.  We wrote about what we would take with us if we went on the Mayflower.

 

 

 

 

Reindeer

 

We learned about reindeer last week.  We learned the parts of a reindeer using a brace map, we read reindeer books, and we made our own reindeer book with facts we learned.  The sentences were scambled up and we worked together to get them in the right order.  The kids did GREAT with this!

 

 

Identifying the parts of a reindeer!

 

We came up with new reindeer names!!!  Here is their writing (which is in the hallway).  We made reindeer and their hooves are holding our writings!

 

 

 

What's Cookin'?

 

Math: Numbers in the teens

Social Studies/Religion: Christmas Around the World

Letter: Uu

Religion: The First Christmas

 

If you haven't heard (which I am sure you haven't ;)  haha) each kiddo wrote a letter to Santa asking if he would send us an Elf!!!  Well, we were lucky enough to be chosen!  The kiddos must have done a good job persuading Santa!!  Our elfs name is Snowflake!!  I will be posting where we have found him soon!

 

In Kid Writing, we are now writing 4 sentences.  This month we are writing in our Elf on the Shelf journals!  We are writing where we find Snowflake each day and what we find him doing!

 

 

We have started learning how others around the world celebrate Christmas!  We are finding out other people in other countries celebrate just like we do and they celebrate Jesus' birth too!!

 

We are also learning about the First Christmas!  We are making books to show the story!  We learned how an angel told Mary she was going to have a son and his name would be Jesus!!

 

 

 

Tomorrow we are having our GRINCH DAY!!  Check back SOON for more Christmas fun!

 

 

I have submitted 2 pictures of our class to channel 5 (WTAJ) for school matters.  They said they never got the pictures before so I resent them and they should be on soon, fingers crossed!  The segment is usually on around 6:40-6:50!