It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

I’m so sorry I have been MIA for a while.  Now that it’s the Holidays season, things have been busy with Christmas shopping and trying to plan for the next few weeks of school before winter break. I put up our fabulous class pink Christmas tree during Thanksgiving break. The kids got to share their special ornament that they brought in and hung it up on the tree. In the picture, some of their ornaments are hard to spot on the tree. The kids loooove the tree. Sometimes we work in the classroom with the lights off to enjoy the pretty lights on the tree J

Here is our class Christmas party list. If you have not signed up, please help us out and pick an item to bring. This picture was taken before Friday afternoon so it’s not completely updated. We do need 2 more volunteers though!

This week we had a very funky schedule. Even though it was totally out of the norms of what our schedule usually is, the kids did great adjusting. We did a “Holidays Around the World” rotation in first grade where each first grade teacher taught a different holiday celebrated around the world. Ask your children what they learned about Sweden, Israel, Spain, Czech, Germany and Africa! The kids got their own passport too!

Below is a picture of the Christmas trees they made while they were in “Germany” with Mrs. Skalaban. I hung them up on our English Language Arts bulletin board to be festive for Christmas.

This week in math, we started our unit on money. Money is one of the hardest concept taught in first grade in my eyes. It gets more complicated when the students are counting mixed coins. This week we worked mostly on identifying pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. We also worked a little bit on making different coins amounts as a whole group in our circle spots. Please make sure your work with your child on mastering the concept of identifying coins as extra practice at home. This upcoming week we will be working on adding up coins.

We played a memory match game as a table matching the coin picture to the coin name. The kiddos really enjoyed playing this. It is a new addition to our math centers.

In Mrs. S’s class, they wrote 3 wishes for Santa. Look at how cute they turned out. Some of the kids wrote about how they wanted to help the poor. So sweet!!!

 In science, we have been learning about different seasons and different weather.

This upcoming Monday is our first field trip!!! Please make sure your child wears their orange tie-dye shirt and some comfy shoes. We will be watching “Holiday Heroes” at the Zachary Scott Theatre. We should be back by lunch so your child does not have to bring lunch unless they want to.

ONLY 10 MORE DAYS OF SCHOOL LEFT!!!!!