Happy New Year! It’s 2024 and I’m looking forward to welcoming the Super Kids back to the classroom in just a few days. I hope that everyone has had a wonderful winter break full of laughter and family. I just realized that I haven’t added a blog post from our classroom in a while. I guess time just got away from me. 🙂 I’m adding a few highlights from November and December below to get all caught up.
December Highlights
We hope that our families enjoyed their special gift from us for the holiday season! It contained many of our art projects and a special snow globe with a their child inside!
Gingerbread theme – After reading many versions of the classic “The Gingerbread Man”. The class created their own gingerbread village with the help of our grade 3/4 buddies. The class was also challenged to create a boat to help the gingerbread man get away from the fox in a STEM challenge using recyclable materials.
STEM Challenges- We had an afternoon of challenges that included creating a jingle bell maze made out of lego. The kids started out making their own and quickly wanted to put their mazes together to create a giant one! The second challenge was to make a parachute for Santa, just in case he needed it on his long sleigh ride. Taking their time and realizing that the string had to be the same length took some time, but the kids were so excited when they tested their projects.
PJ day had the kids reading with flashlights, comparing their stuffed animal sizes, and reading bedtime stories.
December had us working on holiday themed art projects and games. We learned about Hanukkah and learned a fun dreidel game too. Our winter concert was early in the month and the kids loved sharing their music learning from their music class with Mrs. Styles with their families. Being in the school at night was so interesting, They weren’t sure what to do. 🙂 One student started to put out our binders and I had to remind them that we already had school that day.
The class started to learn about coding with the help of the program Kodable.
November Highlights
Diwali is a celebrating that some students in our classroom celebrate. We learned about this celebration with the help of one of our classmates families.
Our school had a Remembrance Day assembly where we honored the brave men and women who have defended our country in the past and do so in the present. We learned about the poppy and what it represents. The following commercial helps the class understand and began our discussion. The class created a wreath for the assembly and made their own poppy art after learning about the artist Georgia O’Keeffe. She was a famous artist best known for her close up flower paintings, A few of her painting are of poppies and the kids created their own out of pastel that are inspired by her artwork.
Georgia O’Keeffe artwork
Reading practice and exposure to a variety of literacy activities
End of October – Halloween activities and pumpkin centers with our buddies
I’m all caught up! New Year’s resolution… to stay more up to date with our blog. I’ll see everyone in 2 days.