Countdown to Christmas!

The countdown is on and we have a guest in our room!

December 1st, when we arrived to our class we were shocked to see an elf hanging from our walls! His name is Snowflake Jingles George and you might have heard a bit about him!
Snowflake Jingles George was sent here by Santa - with no name, we gave him that - to watch our class and see how they behave! Every night he flies back to the North Pole to tell Santa who's been good and who's been bad! The only catch is he's quite the sneaky elf! He's been swinging around our room, eating popcorn out of the garbage!

On the first day we wrote home about our elf, drew his picture and wrote his name.
In Work on Writing, we learned how to write a letter this week. We took sometime to write to our elf a little something about us.

We are continuing to practice our Read to Self in Daily 5! We are now up to 7 minutes of reading stamina!! Next week we are aiming to read the WHOLE time for 10 minutes.

We are still working on practicing our addition facts this week. We have been practicing through lots of games!
In groups of 4 the students played Horse Races, an addition race! In teams of 2 they rolled dice, added the numbers together and the highest sum gets to put their dice on the horse track! The lower sum goes to the pond. They really enjoyed this game and did very well with adding!

We also played addition war! Much like regular war, but you draw 2 cards, add them together and the highest sum wins! This is a really easy game to play at home to practice math facts. - all you need is a deck of cards!






In Science we have started our Senses unit! We have 5 senses, which work through 5 body parts. Sight - Eyes, Hearing - Ears, Touch - Skin/Hands, Taste - Tongue, Smell - Nose.

As our first experiment we had to use our senses to describe the making of popcorn! I had the popcorn machine hidden behind a divider and started it up. First we used hearing, then we could start smelling! Once I removed the box we used our eyes to describe what we could see, our hands to tell what it felt like and finally our tongues to taste!

For some Christmas Art we did a guided drawing lesson of a reindeer! They are sooooo adorable. We outlined them with oil pastels and have completed step one by colouring the background with water colour paints.

It has definite been a busy week! Here are a few reminders about the next weeks until Christmas: 
Dec 10th - Alix Mac Sr. High Band Performance at 10:30
Dec 11th - Christmas Explosion Day! Dress up like Christmas Exploded all over you! 
Dec 16th - Christmas Concert dress rehearsal (we will be wearing pajamas for our song, please pack some this day)
Dec 17th - Christmas Concert!
Dec 18th - PJ Day! Wear your jammies to school! We will also be having a party this day, if you would like to sign up to supply snacks for the party click here.