Week 18 News

 
This week we continued our Christmas around the world theme. We traveled to Italy and read Old Befana. This story told us how the tradition of La Befana started in Italy. 

We traveled to Israel to learn about Hanukkah, the winter festival of the Jewish religion. We learned about the Menorah and that children love eating the “latkes” on this special festival. We also made Star of Davids.

We traveled back to Germany and we read The Legend of the Candy Cane and made glittery candy canes. We also read Rudolph and made Rudolph out of our hands and feet. 



On Friday we invited our fifth grade buddies to our room to help us make these Holiday Wreaths. 

Thank you to all the parents who helps decorate the christmas trees.
 They look great!

Here are the Christmas light names the kids made in Art this week. 

**Just a reminder the Holiday Party is on December 20th at 2:15. Please try to have a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle or family friend come help with this very fun project.

Week 17 News

This week we started our Holidays around the World unit. On Monday we made our passports and packed our suitcases. We also made our December Quilt. 

Tuesday we traveled to Germany and learned about Tannenbaums. 

Wednesday we went to Holland where we learned about Sinter Klaas. He comes to the house and fills little boys and girls’ wooden shoes with surprises.

Thursday we traveled to Mexico and learned about the legend of the poinsettia.  We made marble painted poinsettias and lanterns.  Next week we will be making a piñata that we will be breaking during our holiday party.

  Today we traveled to Africa where we learned about Kwanzaa. We made Kwanzaa woven mats using the three Kwanzaa colors; red, green, and black.  

**Just a reminder the Holiday Party is on December 20th at 2:15. Please try to have a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle or family friend come help with this very fun project.

Week 16 News

Holiday Party
On December 20^th at 2:15 we will be having our Holiday Party. During this party the children will be designing their own gingerbread house. It is really fun to have a family member here to help each child with building and decorating their house. Please try to have a parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle or family friend come help with this very fun project.


Thank you for all the wonderful family trees. The kids loved sharing them. We are displaying them in our room and then we will put them in our memory books. Some other fun family activities that we did this week include, graphing the number of family members we have, making all about me books, and graphing the color of our houses

Math

In math we started our unit on Geometry. We practiced identifying shapes and learned that shapes are symmetrical. We made symmetrical christmas ornaments using all the different shapes. 

Don't forget to return the decorating tree project! 

This month's Scholastic Book Club flyers are ready for you to explore with your child. Children read more when they choose their own books, so I encourage you to look at the flyers together. Don't forget books make great Christmas presents:) 

You can return the order form and payment to me, or give online ordering a try. It saves time, offers more book choices, and earns extra rewards for the classroom! I would like to get the order back before the holiday break so please have your orders submitted by Tuesday December 4th. 

Happy reading, 
Mrs. Schmeckpeper

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