One Day in December

This week the students took a hand at writing the blog.  We wanted to tell you a little bit about how our day goes.  Each student chose a photo for which to write a caption.  We then revised and edited each caption as a class.  Please ask your child which caption he/she helped write.  Enjoy reading!

There are bells on the door for Christmas in December.  Each bell on the door has a name of  a classmate.  Mary and Joseph and Baby Jesus are in the stable.

Here is a picture of Jesus and Mary.  They are near a shining star. Jesus is a special hero.

The windows are nicely decorated.  We colored them ourselves.  They are very colorful. 

Here are the trees that we made.  They shine in the dark at night.  We wrote what we do for Christmas. 

The Christmas trees on the lockers are made by us.  We put sparkles and glitter glue on them.   We wish we could do the Christmas trees all day.  We like doing that, we had fun. 

In the morning we get unpacked and then we do what is posted.  Morning work is fun.  When we are done we read a book or study math facts with a buddy.  

Morning work is kind of hard but we still do it.  After morning work we sometimes get to play on ipads.

Math War is fun.  It is a game where two people play.  They put down two cards and add them together.  Whoever gets the biggest sum wins.  There are a couple of groups.  We did Math War today.  

For calendar, first we say, "Today is Tuesday, December 16th, 2014."  Then we say how many days we have been in school.  The number is 69 days.  Then we ask a question. 

Math is cool.  It makes you smart.  Our class is doing math.  My friend likes doing math.  We were doing two digit subtraction.

We are doing math.  It is hard what we are doing in math but it is fun. 

Once a month we read with our reading buddies.  But this time we made a bookmark for our fifth grade reading buddies.  We do fun things together.

Today we were with our reading buddies.  We did a paper about matching  Christmas songs to pictures.

We did really well and we worked really hard.  It was fun. Our fifth grade buddies are nice and good at helping us.  

We like our reading buddies, they help us read.  They are nice to us. 

Today our class had to talk about traditions.  We had to bring something in and talk about the things we do every year.  So this is the class with their traditions.
We all wish you a Merry Christmas!

 I hope you enjoyed our writings.  The students enjoyed writing them!
Below are two photos Mrs. Knuutila took during the Christmas concert.  One of our classmates did a wonderful job playing "All I Want For Christmas is My Two Front Teeth". 

One of our students was excited to have his mom bring in his puppy to show the class this week.  Buckley is such a calm, lovable dog; the students enjoyed petting him.

This week we "traveled" to Mexico, Germany, England, and Spain.  We learned a little about the customs in each country.  Here we are making "crackers", which are popular in England.  Please ask your child about the "souvenirs" your child brought home from their travels.

This is what our tree looked like the morning of our party. 

We started out the day by opening up our presents- just like Christmas morning :-)

Mrs. Parfinski loved the fleece throw the students made for her.  The kids and I will all miss her.  What a wonderful gift she has been for our class.

Our Christmas party centered around Jesus's birthday.  This student is showing some of the party decorations.  We enjoyed several activities today.  We had a lesson in fractions by frosting graham crackers by 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, and finally a whole.  We also practiced different parts of speech by playing Christmas Mad Libs and enjoyed a Christmas movie and popcorn.

Thank you so much for all of the Christmas gifts.  You were very generous to Mrs. Parfinski and me.  I appreciate all of your kind words and support throughout the year.
Merry Christmas to everyone and God bless!
See you next year!