December Details

December is a time to celebrate! All week, the Second Graders have been journeying around the world, learning about how different countries celebrate Christmas. In writing, we worked on the structure of a really good paragraph. We used opening sentences, detail sentences, and a closing sentence. This past week, everyone was excited to see the first snowfall of the season! To celebrate, we went outside to play!

With our Fourth Grade Buddies, we listened to the story called The Legend of the Poinsettia and made our own beautiful poinsettias to decorate the classroom.

I was excited to put all of my Christmas and holiday books out in our classroom library this week!
In math, we did a fun lesson on geometry. The students received squares which they cut diagonally into triangles. Using four triangles, the students had to make as many shapes as they could with their table groups. After creating many shapes, I grouped the shapes together. The students figured out that I grouped them by the number of sides and angles. We talked about the different polygon names: triangle, quadrangle, pentagon, and hexagon.

Our new read aloud is The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks. We are having so much fun reading this story about two brothers, neat Norman and messy Michael, and their pet plants, Fluffy, and Stanley. One day, we visualized what was happening in the story and drew pictures.

"Fluffy"

The Third Graders began learning about immigration and Ellis Island. We are reading Hope in My Heart: Sophia's Immigration Diary.

Like Sophia's diary, the Third Graders wrote their own imaginary journals about their journey to America.

Danielle, our previous Star of the Week, asked her survey question. We made a pie chart to show the results!

Olivia was our Virtual Field Trip Planner. She took us on a trip to the North Pole! How exciting!!