Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts

Monday, December 21, 2009

Polar Express Week

This week we had a Polar Express Day. We wore our pajamas to school and Mrs. Oliver read The Polar Express to us in the library. In our classroom, we made a train with our chairs and watched the story of The Polar Express narrated by Lou Diamond Phillips on Storybookonline sponsored by the Screen Actors Guild.Then we drank chocolate milk with whipped cream and sprinkles and ate cookies. Afterward, we brainstormed a list of things the Polar Express train could have seen on the way to the North Pole. Then we made construction paper trains, painted them with white snow, and glued the words to our sentences on in the order.

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We had a class picture taken and Mrs. Yancey made trains for all of us to take home.



We read the New York version of the gingerbread man and made a gingerbread man glyph.
The gingerbread man glyph key:
The buttons = how old you are
The white rick rack = you are a girl
The green rick rack = you are a boy
Red stripes = you like to eat gingerbread cookies
Yellow stripes = you do not like to eat gingerbread cookies
The color of the buttons = your favorite color



We read the book The Wild Christmas Reindeer by Jan Brett. Then we focused on the story elements of problem and solution. We worked together, at our tables, to make large reindeer.



Friday, December 11, 2009

Christmas Around the World

We began our study of Christmas celebrations around the world this week. We learned about Christmas celebrations in Mexico, Africa, and Germany. We, also, used holiday cookies for counting and adding.

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Story Time with Ms. Tricoli

For story time this week, Ms. Tricoli read the book Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree by Robert Barry. They created a bubble map of other words that mean "big," looked at problem and solution, and sequenced the animals in the story.



Too Many Tamales

This week, we started our study of Christmas celebrations around the world. One of the countries we learned about was Mexico. We read The Legend of the Poinsettia and learned about Las Posadas. We made paper poinsettias to help us remember what we learned. We also read the book Too Many Tamales and ate homemade tamales made by Natalie's grandmother. After eating tamales, we made a real-object graph to show who liked the tamales and who did not. Most of us loved the tamales and wished we could have eaten more!