Merry Christmas!

I am so grateful this Christmas to have these eighteen tiny humans in my class. It has been a wonderful 2017. Thank you for making my job such a joy to come to every day. This week the kids worked very hard to get all our units completed. We had so much fun learning about Christmas celebrations in our country as well as a few other places. We hope that you all love the Christmas card and present that we made for you all. Luckily I was able to keep all ten of my fingers in the making of your presents.

Language: We have completed looking at all of the short vowel sounds. In the New Year we will do a review of that the first week back before going into the long vowel sounds. We also did some Christmas themed reading comprehension activities. We read a passage then looked at taking the information from what we had just read to answer questions. We did lots of Christmas writing between our daily Elf journals.

Math:We completed subtraction from twelve last week. We also started looking at Christmas themed patterns. We will continue on looking at patterns briefly in January before continuing on with addition and subtraction all the way to twenty.

Science: We had so much fun finishing our Christmas themed senses unit. We finished looking at each of our senses separately. Talked about how some work together. Ways that we protect our senses and how each sense helps to keep us safe. We learned about how animals use their senses. They wrote their quiz yesterday and they did awesome!

Social: We looked at Reduce, Reuse and Recycle and continued looking at ways we can be good citizens. This is also where we took a break and looked a bit at our own Christmas tradtions and how they were different from ones in other countries.

On behalf of Mrs. Cameron and myself, have a very Merry Christmas, enjoy your break and I will see you all in the New Year.

December 4-December 8, 2017

Odds and Ends
- Our Christmas concert will be next Wednesday, December 20 at 6:30.
-Ask your kiddo how their pencil crayons are doing, I went through our 'lost crayons' and returned to the rightful owner if their names were on it, however a good number of the students crayon collection is looking quite sad- still learning the whole pencil box/ sharpening pencils thing.

Language
We had a new visitor in our classroom, Mimzie the elf! Every morning we have been writing in our Elf journals about the trouble Mimzie gets up to every day. We have been working on the short O sound this past week. We have been looking at Christmas themed short stories and working on our comprehension skills.

Math
We have moved in from addition and have been working hard on our subtraction skills. We played "Hulk Smash" with play dough as an introduction to the concept. We also used a winter themed mitten manipulative to work through problems.

Social
We had another community helper come to visit us on Friday-firefighters! The children were so excited to see all of the bunker equipment and work on what to do in case there is a fire. We have been looking on what the students can do right now to be a 'community helper' until they grow up.

Science
We are working on our sense of smell. We watched a video on the way in which our nose affects our daily life. We did a smell test activity last week, we will be continuing on with this for half of this week before moving on to the next sense.