This week kick started a lot of fun learning in our classroom!
First, our elf on the shelf, whom the kids named Snowflake magically appeared in our classroom on December 1.
We read the story, voted on her name and made an elf of our own.
In math this week we have been practicing counting by 5 and 10 to 100. Snowflake appeared in our classroom and our 100s chart was all mixed up! She needed some help learning to count. The students were keen to help Snowflake and rebuild our 100s chart!
We also began our Christmas Around the World unit. We are looking at countries around the world, finding them on a map and learning about their culture and traditions. The students are making many good connections and sharing stories about what they know about these places.
Before flying to a new country we pretend to board the airplane with our passports and boarding passes!
This week we talked about our traditions in Canada, along with Mexico and France. Each day we visit a new country the children are writing, looking at maps and colouring a page in their scrapbook.
We had a couple of fun activities and surprises lined up. In Mexico children often get to do a piñata around the holidays. In France, instead of hanging stockings by the fireplace they put their shoes by the fire. We pretended it was Christmas Eve in France and put our shoes by our classroom fireplace. The children were surprised with holiday erasers in their shoes and pencils from the piñata.
Students have been enjoying reading this big book.
The students also learned how to draw a reindeer. Students did a directed drawing, outlined their work and used a technique called a crayon resist to add snowflakes to their picture. They then got to paint!
It was a busy week full of lots of learning and fun!