One the 3rd Day of December....

Today began with the first of 12 Days of Christmas activities set out by our school SRC. Five Christmas songs were played over the intercom and we had to guess the song title. I had to help out a bit: they thought that all of the songs were "Jingle Bells", even though that one wasn't played at all. :) Since we're missing tomorrow's activity, I did the trivia activity with them today. Also tricky! They weren't sure how to complete the lyrics, "On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...." so we had to google the song! We also read A Porcupine in a Pine Tree and Merry Christmas Mouse. They actually tie in really well with our numbers unit in Math, including counting backwards. Mouse has a different number of ornaments on each page, starting at one and going up to 10. Then he has 100 more ornaments!

We worked on an art activity today that was Christmas related as well~ we turned ourselves into elves! The students did a great job and they had a blast. Students from other grades also enjoyed seeing our elves on display in the hallway.

 

Another exciting part of our day~ the SLP came for a visit! He always comes with exciting learning adventures. Today he showed us an app on his I-pad that helps us learn our letter sounds. He also read a story called Time Flies, about a bird that flies into a dinosaur museum and travels back in time. It was unique because it had no words in it. Students had their try at 'reading' the pictures and inferring what was happening through viewing. Finally, he showed us some really cool magnetic shapes (good shape review!) and demonstrated how to make a large ball with them. He left them in our classroom for students to explore for the rest of the day.

 

 

 

We rounded off the day with another holiday story about a sheep who saves Christmas (the title is evading me right now). We then brainstormed some things that we think about when Christmas comes to mind. Students then worked on drawing a picture to be published in a special holiday edition of a local newspaper.

 

It was a busy day and the buzz of holiday excitement is definitely in the air!

We'll be back on Friday. :) See you then!