Three Days Until the Big Day

It was a different morning for our class today. Mrs. Myers was home with her daugher Madeline, who was sick. We had a substitute named, Mrs. Forney. Our word of the day today was "way". It was rule follower, because it belonged in the "hay of -ay". This word is a homonym for the word weigh. In math today, we practiced subtraction using dominos. We learned to subtract horizontally and vertically. We word as a class and in small groups to write subtraction equations. The rule to remember is "big number first". After lunch and recess, Mrs. Myers came to school. We read a story called Rock Star Santa. It was about a very different Santa. We had to listen to the story without seeing the pictures and visualize how we saw the Rock Star Santa. It was hard, but we listened carefully to the words in the story to make a picture in our head. Then, we drew our picture and wrote words that were important from the story. Last, Mrs. Myers read the whole story to us and showed us the pictures. Our Santa's were close to Rock Star Santa. In writing workshop today, we learned about Christmas Around the World. First, we heard the story, Jingle Bells, about December celebrations in other countries. We talked about our own traditions we have in our homes, too. Last, we used the Smartboard to see celebrations in other countries and learned about Hanukkah and Kwanzaa. At the end of the day, we had phys. ed. We also got gingerbread homework to be due on January 6. We are going to have a great time decorating our projects at home. We also got an early Christmas gift from Mrs. Myers. Our coupon books are awesome. We are going to eat together tomorrow. We will have a special holiday party over lunch!!!

PS - Check out the pictures from our holiday projects. The boys and girls worked so hard on the Polar Express fantasy train ride stories, Christmas similes, possessive packages for 's, and Christmas sense stories.