December 22nd: Christmas Service and Party

First things first: Sharing the Good News

Of Jesus' birth in Chapel

Read to Start

Singing

Caesar and his guards

Angels

Mary(s) and Joseph(s)

The Magi with King Herod

Everyone at the Manger

Photo Time (Can you tell we are getting tired?)  :-)

Later it was time for our Classroom Christmas Party

Playing a guessing game while waiting for the pizza to arrive

Yum! It's a hit!

Decorating the goody bags for Friends of Kids With Cancer

Not sure what this one is called, but it was hilarious to watch!

Adding with Marshmallows

 

Filling the goody bags!

The giant dice game was a hit!

Thank you all!

Merry Christmas!

'Twas the Week Before Christmas...

We have had a very busy week, but I hope everyone looks back on it with fond memories, as I will.

This week we wrapped our gifts,

practiced printing J's and j's,

practiced beginning sounds,

and hunted for Christmas words around the room.

This week we also added reading to a partner!

On Monday and Thursday, we practiced in the church with the Eighth Graders.

Third week of December - the PEACE week of Advent!

On Monday Mrs. Haun came and read a fun Christmas story to us!

Center activities throughout the week

Decorating the tree 

Labeling a Nativity 

We got to try 'Partner Reading'

 

'Listen to Reading' on the iPads allows us to follow along with the words.

 

Practicing spatial awareness skills with a puzzle.

TEAMWORK!

Preparing artwork for our Christmas Service on Friday

Christmas Memory Match

Shhh... this one is a surprise!

On Thursday afternoon, the Eighth Grade Spanish students 

took us to experience Los Posadas. 

Mrs. Martin explains to us what we will be doing. (We are carrying our lanterns.)

At each door, when Maria and Jose asked for a place 

to stay, we got to help the Innkeepers answer in Spanish!

Finally, we got a 'Si'!

We played a game - little kids won!

Ethan broke the imaginary piniata...

and everyone got a treat!

Then our eighth grade friends sang us a some Spanish Christmas songs!