Snow Days

I hope everyone has been enjoying the snow and staying warm!  Just wanted to give everyone an update on our field trip that was scheduled for Tuesday, it has now been rescheduled to Thursday, February 13th!!! 

Penguins

We have been reading and learning a lot about Penguins over the past week to go along with all the chilly temperatures we've been having!  We read Tacky the Penguin, Tacky and the Emperor, and then a few Non-fiction informational books about penguins. 

 

 The kids have really loved reading all about Penguins and I'm excited to show you some of their hard work that they've completed about penguins!

 

 

 

 

Hope everyone is staying warm!  As of right now the field trip for tomorrow is still on but if there are any changes I will make sure to let you know ASAP!  Thanks so much!

Don't Forget...

We do not have school on Monday or Tuesday!  Monday is a Holiday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and Tuesday is a Teacher workday!  See everyone bright and early on Wednesday!

Happy New Year!

We are back!!!  And, have been very busy already in room 1412.  We sent home information about our upcoming fieldtrip in students' folders last week.  We are very excited about our trip to the NC Museum of Natural Science!  We have also been very busy this week with our mid-year assessments!  However, we have still been able to sneak some fun writing activities in with our reading this week!  Monday we read Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner. 

 This cute story tells what snowmen do at night while we are all asleep!  They do things like drink hot coco, have snowball fights, play baseball, and go sledding!  The kids loved it!  After reading the story we wrote about what we think our snowman would do at night if we built one!  The whole lesson and assignment turned out really cute! 

 

 

We also completed a cute project this week for our IB unit about maps!  We read Me on the Map by Joan Sweeny which is about a little girl who maps out her whole life starting in her bedroom, then her house, followed by her street, town, state, country, and finally planet. 

 After reading this cute book we mapped out our own lives and they turned out great, too!!!

 

I hope everyone has been having  a great week and staying nice and warm in these cold January temperatures!  

Gingerbread Houses and Candy Canes

We have been in the Holiday Spirit in Room 1412 lately!  Our Gingerbread houses turned out beautiful as well as their Christmas Tree Ornaments! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The kids had so much fun putting their Gingerbread Houses together!  Hopefully they made it home all in one piece!

These are the Christmas Tree Ornaments we just finished up!  They will be coming home Wednesday in their folders!

 Since today is "Dress Like a Candy Cane" day we used red and white to make AB patterened candy canes!  They turned out so cute! 

Holidays

So far this week we have talked about Christmas and Hanukkah.  Tomorrow we will start to learn about Kwanzaa.  Yesterday we learned what a Menorah is and how many candles they have.  We read the book, "Mrs. Greenberg's Messy Hanukkah" and found out how to make Latkes (Potatoe Pancakes).

 

Then today we read "Who'll Pull Santa's Sleigh" about when all the Reindeer got sick and Santa had to figure out who would pull his sleigh. 

 In the book Santa's Elves got very upset when they heard the Reindeer were all sick so we made Elf Applications to work with Santa. 

Our IB Planner for the next few weeks is on Maps.  So we mapped the North Pole after we checked out what everything looks like up there on www.northpole.com.  If you get a chance, check it out!  It's a really neat website with a lot of educational Christmas things.

 

 

 

    Our Maps turned out great!  We included Santa's House, The Reindeer Barn, Elf School, Elf Village, The Weather Station, and last but not least The Workshop!  Hope everyone is having a great week! 

Hooray!

Our class won the PTA Boxtop competition so they gave us an ice cream and cupcake party!  Thank you so much for all you do for our class and school!