Holidays Around the World

The class Christmas tree was set up and the students got to do a little “show and tell” with their special ornament they brought in from home. After sharing, they got to pick a spot and hang their ornament on our fabulous pink Christmas tree.

This week, first grade did a rotation on “Holidays Around the World.” Each teacher taught a winter holiday. The kids learned that not all countries celebrate the holidays the same way. Some countries taught were Czech Republic, Mexico, Vietnam, Greece, Germany, Israel and Sweden. Ask your child what they learned! The kids were really excited to be traveling every morning. They would come into class asking me where they were going to travel to that day. This whole week’s lesson will tie into our field trip to “Holiday Hereos” tomorrow. They even had their own passport stamped : )

These are some activities done during “Holidays Around the World.”

 Mrs. Cardosa did a guidance lesson on Wednesday about teamwork. The mission was to get the kids to work in a group to successfully make a tree that stands up without arguing. The only supplies they were allowed to have were 2 pieces of green paper, two pieces of tapes and 4 popsicle sticks. Most of the groups were able to get their trees to stand up. It really amazed me on some of their creations. I can tell some of these kids might grow up to be engineers! : )

We received our new class pet on Wednesday. He is a box turtle. If we’re quiet enough, we can hear him scratching his cage and trying to climb up. He will be with us for two weeks!

 If you haven’t signed up yet, please stop by the class to sign up for an item! We have lots of empty slots. We will be having our class party on Monday, December 19^th.

 Tomorrow, we will be going on our field trip to watch a play. Please have your child wear their class t-shirt!