Star of the Week--Collin!

We are pleased to announce our friend, Collin, is our

Star of the Week  for December 15th-19th.

Here are a few of Collin's favorite things:

Color: red

Friend: Favour
Holiday: Halloween
Number: 100
Toy: Toad
Movie: Spider Man 2
Activity: play video games
Animal: snakes
Candy: strawberry candy

Collin is a sweet friend!
He likes to work in 
math stations with his friends
and listen to stories.
Collin has such a kind heart too!
We enjoyed learning more 
about our special friend.

Oh Jingles!!!

Oh Jingles!!!

We earned 10 kindness bells...so...

Jingles brought us snowman stickers from the North Pole.

We caught Mr. Potato Head and Jingles hanging out...

Mr. Potato Head shared his glasses with Jingles.

Here is his note...

The next day, we found Jingles and him playing in our

Legos together.

They must LOVE showing kindness and being friends.

Holidays Around The World

Holidays Around The World

What a FUN time of the year!

We learned all about different holiday celebrations

from around the world.

Here are the countries we studied:

-Mexico

-Africa

-The Netherlands

-Israel

-Germany

-Brazil

-China

-America

Check out some of the facts and see

 some of the fun activities we created during our adventure.

We made suitcases to carry around our souvenirs from

our trip.

In studying the The Netherlands, we took a look

at some real Dutch clogs.

We made a scrapbook of facts from our travels.

We made a clog just like the Dutch families.

We placed our clogs outside our classroom.

A special visitor, Sinterklass, left us a treat in our clogs,

just like he would in The Netherlands.

We even had to have a passport to travel 

all over the world!

It was so fun! Look at all of our stamps! 

Here is a close up of our scrapbooks:

Look at some of our crafts and activities we made

from around the world:

Mexico: poinsettia

Our Chinese laterns

A stocking from Germany

A yummy gingerbread cookie ornament

Sydney's First Piano Recital

We are so proud of our friend Sydney!

She had her first piano recital over the weekend

and she did wonderful! 

Here is a link to her performance:

 http://youtu.be/hENcYoJ4-DM

Go Sydney! You rocked! 

Jingles is at it AGAIN!

He's at it again....

Our kindness elf, Jingles, is leaving us all kinds of 

fun excitement to look forward to each day. 

After we earned 10 kindness jingle bells, he brought us

back something special from the North Pole. 

Check out his snowflakes and snowballs! 

Jingles brought us snowballs (marshmallows) all the way
back from the North Pole. 

We had to eat them quick...we didn't want them to melt! HEHE! 

On Wednesday, we found him sitting in our share chair reading 

some of our holiday books.

Friday, we found him hanging out by the word wall.

He had added his name to our wall. 

I think he likes being a part of our class! :) 

Comparing Numbers to 10

In Math Workshop, we are working on comparing numbers to 10.

We used marshmallows and pretzels to help us make sets and compare them.

We practiced our "math chat" too using words like:

-more than

-less than

-equal to

We played Break the Train on Tuesday.

With a partner, we broke our trains behind our backs and then

compared our two numbers to see who had more, less, or if they were equal.

Lastly, we used our counters to play Spill.

We grabbed a handful of counters, spilled them, and 

then checked to see which color(red or yellow) had more.

Then, we graphed the information to see which colored "won."

Hippest in the House--Nate

Our friend, Nate is our Hippest in the House 

for the character trait: Respectful.

We are so proud of our friend for all of his 

 hard work and respectfulness.