Christmas is in full swing!

Christmas is in full swing in the classroom.  We have Santa's, reindeer, elves, and snowmen hanging everywhere.  This week we will be finishing up a special gift from the students to the parents as well as making a few other crafts.

Wednesday will be our gingerbread day!  We will read several stories about gingerbread men, go on a hunt for the gingerbread man, and make our own gingerbread houses.

Thursday we will have our Christmas party at 2:30.  If you have already signed up for an item to bring, THANK YOU!  If you have not, please go to signupgenius.com and pick an item that is still available. 

Students need to bring in 22 little gifts to pass out to each student.  It can be a candy cane, stickers, pencils, erasers, etc.  If you are unable to send something in, please let me know. 

Friday is Polar Express day! Students may wear their PJ's to school.  We will watch The Polar Express and drink hot chocolate. 

Just a reminder that there will be NO homework, spelling, or lightening words this week!

 

 

 

Happy Grinch Day!

We celebrated “Grinch Day” on Friday and the kids had a blast!!  They came dressed in green and each one got a Santa hat from Elfie to wear!  They were TOO cute!

Of course, we started out the day by reading the book…

Next, we talked about adjectives that described the Grinch.




Then  kids made the Grinch and did a cute little writing activity.  "I would make a Grinch grin by….”  Their responses were so clever!!! 


At the end of the day, I passed out “Grinch-licked” candy canes to all the kids, made "Grinch Juice", and watched the movie, How the Grinch Stole Christmas.





We had a "Grinchy" Fun Day!

Our Special Visitor from the North Pole!

The kids were over the moon excited last Monday.  When we got back from Thanksgiving break, we had a special delivery straight from the North Pole…


I read the letter to the kids and they flipped.  I mean, they seriously had a conniption.  They could barely stifle their screams.  We somehow managed to get through the letter without anyone going too crazy, but when it came time for me to open Santa’s special delivery, we just couldn’t contain ourselves anymore.  It got a little wild.  But it was precious because their little hearts are SO innocent and they just couldn’t hold in their excitement at all.  I just LOVE the magic of Christmas!!!! 
As we were opening up the package, the kids were BEGGING me to be careful so that I wouldn’t touch our special visitor.  Luckily, Santa’s little burlap sack and all that North Pole snow made it super easy for him to stay put as I opened him up.  We read the story that the elf brought to us that explained how this how "elf thing" works. After we learned the rules, we had to give him a name.  We named him Elfie.  The book explained that Elfie will be watching the kiddos during the day at school and reporting back to Santa each night on their behavior.  We also learned that we CAN NOT touch Elfie or he will loose his magic and wont be able to fly back to the North Pole each night.  Elfie is always in crazy places around our classroom and the kiddos LOVE to try and find him each morning.  We were so good last week, Elfie  brought us red candy canes from Santa!