The children reviewed their geometry skills by folding triangle faced hexahedrons. We used these to decorate a holiday tree. It was a "geome-tree"! The students also learned how to fold a hexagon out of thin tracing paper and then fold it and cut it to make a paper snowflake.
Our Lego City was finished this week and almost covered the whole carpet! The children made and named roads for the city and placed their Lego structure buildings on the "map". They finished their stories and these are now a part of a new class book in our classroom library.
The children reviewed the 100 word wall (spelling) words that they have learned so far this year. By playing the "I'm thinking of a word wall word..." game, solving and making word search puzzles, the children reviewed the words that they famously now know for the rest of their lives....
One of the traditions in my family is to make choclate fudge for a holiday treat. The students worked together to make the fudge on Wednesday so it could harden in the fridge and be ready for our class party on Friday afternoon.
As a twist on our unit on structures, the students created strong and stable holiday cookie houses using graham crackers, royal icing and decorated them with candies.
The students were treated to a wonderful performance of a variety of French plays put on by the junior division core French classes.
The class studied some holiday songs to learn more about the tradition of "carols" or Christmas/Winter Holiday songs. The children made little books containg the lyrics and they helped to create a table of contents for each book. We read the lyrics and and learned some new vocabulary words. Then the students wrote down the year the song was written and we calculated how long ago the songs were written. Did you know that "Walking in a Winter Wonderland" and "Jingle Bells" are not Christmas songs? "Jingle Bells" was actually written for American Thanksgiving (in late November). The oldest song we learned about was "The 12 Days of Christmas" which was written in 1780 (235 years ago).
The class watched a couple of traditional DVD's this week. "Frosty the Snowman" and "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas" were two shows that I remember watching on TV when I was a young child.
The class also learned how to play the strategy game called "dots". In this game, players draw straight lines to create and claim squares. The person who makes the most squares, wins.
On Friday, the students joined the other primary division students in the gym to sing holiday songs. We were very lucky to be asked to lead the singalong for "The 12 Days of Christmas", since we studied the song in class and we knew the actions to the song. The children did a great job!
Finally, we had a little holiday celebration on Friday afternoon. We popped popcorn and ate the delicious chocolate fudge that we made on Wednesday. Then the students watched some episodes of "The Pink Panther" before leaving Room 204 for the last school day of 2015.
Books read aloud this week:
12 Days of Christmas by Jan Brett
365 Penguins by Jean-Luc Fromental and Joelle Jolivet
How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Suess
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