Thank you to all of our families that were able to come to our Christmas Concert! The children were so excited to sing for you.
We have been very busy preparing for Christmas...making decorations...
...baking cookies...
...icing cookies...
...'sneaking' treats...
(Thank you so much to a special mom who came and helped
us bake and ice our cookies for the concert!)
...and of course...learning about the true meaning of Christmas.
"I wrote about Joseph, Jesus and Mary. I set the people
up in the stable." (He set up the toy stable.)
"I put Mary...that's Jesus' mom."
"This has Mary, Joseph, and then Jesus. Mary and Joseph
are the mom and dad and then the baby Jesus came."
"This is the stable."
Notice the 'Happy Tree' in the background, all decorated for Christmas.
"I made snowflakes...I put numbers in them all...see...1 and 1 is 2. 3 and 3 is 6. 5 and 5 is 10..."
"This is my reindeer story..."
The children have been making so many books. It is amazing to see the different
phases of writing. Some books have pictures only, others have squiggly lines filled with meaning
if you ask about the story, some have a letter to match the sounds of a specific word and others have full sentences. It is amazing to see the language come alive for the students as they learn more and more about print.
More book making...
One of the children heard some older students talking about compound words
and wanted to know what they were. We talked about it and they were so
excited to make compound words. We found a puzzle all about different compound words,
so they got to work and decided to make lists of all the compound words they knew.
Merry Christmas! Enjoy this time with your families. See you in the new year!
