What if you had three Christmas trees and a lot of decorations? How would YOU divide the ornaments between the trees? The students all solved this problem in different ways. Check their blogs for their solutions. (We were inspired to solve this problem by other classes talking about this on Twitter.)
Month: December 2014
It’s Tuesday. What Are You Reading?
Last Tuesday, following the example of some students in Chicago, we posted some of our favourite books on a Padlet to encourage others to read what we were reading. You can see all of our books by clicking on this link. Some of the books are in the image below.
What are YOU reading? We’d love to know.
Secrets About Santa and Mrs. Claus
Did you know that Santa goes to the beach for vacations? That Mrs. Claus likes to wear bows in her hair? Last week, the students made up and tweeted secrets about Santa and his wife. Ms. Lirenman’s class from Surrey, BC also tweeted secrets. You can see all of the secrets here, but below is a small taste of the students’ creativity.
The Christmas Store
One of the best things we do at our school is the annual Christmas store. The generous people from our school community donate new or gently used items and our School Community Council sorts them onto tables for twenty five cents, fifty cents, seventy five cents and one dollar.
Our big buddies came with us to the store to help us sort out the money issues and we gleefully shopped and shopped.
When all the purchases had been made, more wonderful volunteers wrapped the gifts for us.
There was a class full of happy children who couldn’t wait to get home with their gifts!
New Books for Our Classroom
Each day in December, someone gets to open a gift from under our tree. Each present contains a new book for our classroom. Opening the parcel to find out what our new book is is a definite highlight each day.
Making Christmas Trees
Letters to Santa
Check the student’s blogs to see the letters they sent to Santa today.
Making Advent Calendars
How many days until Christmas? My students can all tell you!
Today we made Advent calendars that we could take home to count those oh so important days. First, we cut out and decorated the Christmas trees…
Then we made patterns out of twenty-four coloured paper strips. We wrote the numbers (grade one) or the ordinals (grade 2) on the strips and then made them into chains.
Here’s our finished product. We’re going to take off one link every night until Christmas.
