5th Day of Christmas: Snow Day!
Our 5th Day of Christmas was perfectly timed since it was on the day that we had our first real snowfall of the season! We read Snowmen at Night and Christmas Magic.
We also decided to try a little indoor snowball fight with paper. We were going to play an additional round, but it got a little too loud, so we called it good at one battle! Imagine 25 kids playing dodgeball with little balls of paper!
Next, we settled down and made super cute snowmen to put on the wall! The kids were frustrated when I told them they couldn't use their scissors, they had to tear their paper to create the snowmen! They turned out awesome though!
6th and 7th day of christmas: santa and stockings!
We read 'Twas the Night Before Christmas for Santa Day. It was a version that featured a sweet little mouse family and we noticed the slight differences from the traditional version as we read. For Stocking Day we wrote Acrostic Poems with the word Stocking (some of the kids shared theirs on their Seesaw). The kids also designed their own stocking and then filled out little kind word stocking stuffers to put into the other students' stockings.
On the 7th day of christmas
We studied Kindness! We read Kindess is Cooler, Mrs. Ruler
This was actually one of the days that I was in Minneapolis at the TIES Technology conference so I don't really have any pictures of the kids doing their kindness study. I did come home from the conference with a TON of cool Swag and LOTS of inspiration for new ways to incorporate technology into my classroom.
This is all of the TIES keepsakes I brought home to my students!
They LOVED all those pens, highlighters, etc.!
They LOVED all those pens, highlighters, etc.!
The 9th Day of christmas: cookie day!
Today we read The Christmas Cookie Sprinkle Snitcher. It was a fabulous book and we made a connection again to The Grinch. The Cookie Snitcher, realized that the meaning of Christmas was about helping to bring happiness (and sprinkles) to everyone around him, not about getting as much as he could for himself.
The kids wrote some creative recipes today and many of them shared these on their Seesaw today, so make sure you check those out! The kids had a choice of what they wanted to share on Seesaw, so some of them also shared the Acrostic poems or a Christmas story they wrote by rolling a dice to decide on topics for the characters, setting, and plot.
Watching the kids at a time like this is golden! They are creating, sometimes collaborating, and so engaged in their own learning! It doesn't get any better than that!
Well, I guess it does when you add Christmas cookies to the mix! How could we possibly have Cookie Day and not actually eat cookies??? The kids wrote their letters to Santa while they snacked!