Today we went in to Mrs. Greone's old room and learned about Safe Touch. We had gym and music. We read the book How the Grinch Stole Christmas and then did a fun thing with it.
From Mrs. Clough:
Once again, it has been a while since we have had a blogger and post! Things have just been crazy busy and we tend to run out of time at the end of the day, so I apologize if any of you have missed us!
Our big news is that we have begun our Christmas Around the World unit. We have our passports and suitcases ready and tomorrow we will embark on a trip to Holland to learn more about how they celebrate Christmas. We talked a bit today about their holiday traditions (the wooden shoe left out by fireplace instead of a stocking, Saint Nicholas comes on a ship and not a sleigh, etc). We made our own shoes to lay out tomorrow night with hopes that Saint Nicholas will come and leave a treat by the time they come to school on Thursday!
We also worked on putting together a color coded map to keep track of what continents we visit over the course of the unit.
In math we have been working on counting groups of ten and working with problems that ask us to sort out groups of 10 and see how many are left over with a given number. Tomorrow we will begin with some data collection about our class and making graphs. We continue to work on our addition and subtraction flashcards that include the following strategies: Doubles, Doubles Plus 1 or near doubles, Plus or Minus 1 or 2, Plus 10 Combinations, and combinations of 10.
Today as Emily mentioned, we had a visitor from St. Luke's Hospital and they presented information and a video on Safe Touching-what are good, bad, and secret touches. A note about this presentation went home last week.
Also, as Emily mentioned, I read the book How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and for writing, the kids had to tell me what they would do to make that grouchy Grinch grin to make his heart grow bigger! I think we all had a really good time with this "craftivity"! :)
A few reminders:
-Tomorrow is an Early Release at 1:40pm
-If you have not already, please send your child's Christmas traditions page to school as soon as possible so they can share with the rest of the class!
-No School Dec. 24-Jan. 2
Have a great night and check back tomorrow to hear about our trip to Holland!
Mrs. Clough
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