December Holidays

Our theme this week is December holidays. Our word of the day today was "write". It was a rule breaker, because the "w" was silent. It had a homonyn, "right". It was very popular, so we listed the words on the kite of "ite". We also listed words on the the "light of -ight". In math today, we practiced subtraction on the numberline. We used Mrs. Myers' giant numberline and we each had a turn jumping a subtraction equation. We got to jump backwards!!!! At our seats, we used cubes to jump the equation. We had races and Mrs. Myers jumped, too. The rule to remember in subtraction - The biggest number must come first!!! After lunch and recess, we went to Mrs. Lauber's room to read the story, Mrs. Claus Takes a Vacation. After the story, we went back to our classroom and worked in groups of three or four to organize the events on a GO map. Last, we practiced retelling the WHEN - WHO - WHERE. We also practiced deciding the important vocabulary to include when we shared each event in our own words. Then in was time for new Christmas centers. In games center one, we practiced our consonant blends - gr, cr, fr, br. We put decorations on the correct blend tree. We had to color the code on the worksheets. In games center 2, we matched the contraction "nose" to the reindeer's antler's that had the two separate words. In the sentences strip center, we put holiday words in alphabetical order by the second letter. We also practiced writing adjectives to describe each noun. In the writing center, we practiced proofreading a nonfiction story about the holidays. At writing workshop today, we learned about "'s". This is called a possessive. It means that something belongs to someone. We wrote holiday possessives by giving presents to our friends and family. We will be making a possessive present tree outside the classroom. (ex. Mom's necklace) At the end of the day, we watched a holiday movie about Kwaanza and Christmas.