Snowy Day

What a day! It actually snowed all day here in Texas!! It was so exciting!

Winter Math

We read the book "Missing Mittens" and made construction paper mittens to practice skip counting and odd and even numbers.




hot chocolate math- we used playing cards as number generators and made addition equations using marshmallows

We worked on sequencing and using words that show order.

Writing to Inform

This six weeks, we will be learning to write to inform. This week, during our study of animals in winter, we learned about penguins. Then we wrote at least two sentences stating factual information we learned about penguins.

Animals in Winter

This week, we learned about animals in winter. We learned how some animals hibernate, some migrate, and some adapt. We pretended to be bears and hibernate for the winter. We stored up food for winter, looked for a good place to sleep through the winter, hibernated, and then woke up and went in search of food to fill back up on.

snowflake story time

Make a Smilebox slideshow

New Year's

We made snowmen glyphs. Each piece of our snowman represents something about us. The color of our hat tells if we are a girl or a boy. The color of the strip on our hat tells how old we are. The color of the scarf tells whether we have ever seen snow. We have hearts or snowflakes on our hats to tell whether we like mittens of gloves the best and the dots on our scarf tell if we have brothers and/or sisters.




We learned about new year's customs and traditions. We made a circle map to show what we learned. We made our own resolutions for the new year.



We subtracted using black eyed peas. We rolled a die to see how many black eyed peas we would eat.

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.

Make a Smilebox scrapbook

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.