Did you know that Santa has secrets? Things that he never reveals to anyone?
Some six and seven year old students KNOW those secrets. This week, students from several primary classes tweeted about those secrets. Below are a few of those secrets from students in our classroom. You can see all of the secrets here.
This Christmas we received gifts from two wonderful teachers. Mrs. Marrinan, who teaches in Brisbane, sent us a beautiful electronic advent calendar and Mrs. Knee from New Hampshire sent us an Elephant and Piggie book. These books are the hands-down favourites in our classroom. Some of the students helped to say “thank you” in this video.
To make sure the students could concentrate on their dancing at the concert, we recorded them singing Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer ahead of time (thanks, Mr. Orescanin!) and played it as they did their line dance. They were fabulous!
All of the children have their letters to Santa already posted on their blogs, but I was so impressed with their letters that I wanted to share them all here.
Next week is our school Christmas concert. Here is a little hint about what you will see when it is our class’s turn. The class is getting VERY excited. See you there!
We have been working on the writing trait of “voice”. Sometimes, voice means writing as if you are someone else. This week we made gingerbread men and have been pretending that we are those gingerbread men as we write. Today, we wrote what we thought our gingerbread men would say on Twitter using the hashtag #SaystheGBMan. A school from Dryden, Ontario and one from Vancouver, BC joined us. Below are a couple of the pictures and tweets written by students in our class. You can see many more of the tweets by searching for the hashtag on Twitter, or on this Storify.
The students had a fantastic time working with clay at the Art Museum. After these creations dry and are fired, we’ll paint and glaze them.
What do a Giant Japanese Salamander, a Smooth-Sided Toad and a Hellbenders Salamander have in common? They are all amphibians. We learned about them all today when we watched the Discovery Education live event from the National Zoo in Washington D?C. While we watched, the students took notes to help themselves remember what they were learning.
Pyjama Day– the day you can get out of bed and not get dressed before you go to school. It’s a big hit in our classroom!
Our class is sending Christmas cards to a LOT of classrooms this year, so we had to get busy creating them.
The finished cards looked like this.
Then, we popped them into the mail bag. We know we’ll be getting some Christmas cards this month too, and we can’t wait.
