This month, we made a trip to the Art Museum to work with clay. After the clay was fired, we painted and glazed it, then added ribbon as a finishing touch. These wonderful Santa ornaments are the result.
Thank you Mrs. Tolley for taking the pictures and helping the students to finish!
This week we are learning about celebrations. We’ve discovered that some of our celebrations are the same as others in our class and some are different. After we read a story about Hanukkah (which NONE of us celebrate), we tried potato pancakes. Almost all of the students gave them a thumbs up.
Later, we Skyped with Ms Lirenman’s class in Surrey who taught us a lot about Hanukkah, including the dreidel.
They lit a menorah for us to see. We wondered why the candle flame looked like this. Do you know?
Just look at the terrific clay Santa ornaments we made at the Art Museum! Next week, after they have been fired, we’ll paint them so we can take them home for Christmas.
Today was also the annual Christmas Store. For 50 cents, the students could purchase new or gently used gifts for each of their family members. What a thrill for the students to be able to purchase their gifts themselves and to get them wrapped to take home for Christmas.
Over the past few days we have been learning to tell stories about addition. Today we told more stories and then began writing those stories the way mathematicians do.
Later, we told and wrote stories with partners.
This week the students wrote letters to Santa. Check their blogs to see what they wrote!
