DECEMBER

WOW! December has been a busy month and has gone by fast so far.  Let's catch up quickly!

We have been learning about holiday celebrations around the world (Israel, France, England, Holland, Sweden, Germany) and the kids have enjoyed learning about the different traditions and customs that other countries have as well as some of the ones that are similar to those you or I  might have in our own holiday celebrations (i.e. Christmas trees = Germany).  Also, we earned all of the letters for LISTENING!  It took a while, but we did it and had a popcorn/movie party and watched a short 30 minute video of The Nutcracker.  Mrs. Gustafson came and talked about her time living in France.  We had a special Rudolph day with many projects and are looking forward to our own holiday celebration on Friday in the classroom!

In math, we have been learning about measurable attributes (longer, shorter, taller, heavier, lighter).  We have been measuring classroom objects using our linking cube towers (a tower of 5 is called a "5 stick", a tower of 7 cubes is called a "7 stick") and weighing items using our balance scale.  We have been really great about making sure to line up our "end points" when measuring.  Don't forget, "bigger" and "smaller" are not measuring words.  They are too vague.  Bigger can mean taller, longer, fatter, older, heavier, holds more....We are trying to be very specific in our measuring.  The kids are loving it!

We had some high school students come last week to do a lesson for their class project. This week we went to art class, too!  Mr. Lowe came to watch our class during Writer's Workshop and he was very impressed with our discussion and hard work.

Whew!  We have been busy.  The kids are looking forward to break.  3 Days To Go- I think we'll make it!

Remind your student that even though break is near, we still need to remember to...
BE KIND
BE SAFE
BE RESPONSIBLE

Thanks!