Friday, January 18, 2019
We learned about the Wise Men who brought gifts to young Jesus!
We rode our camels to the town of Bethlehem, singing all the way, and brought our gifts to Jesus!
We brought Him gifts, such as: "my love", "a cheeseburger", "hugs", "my toys", "a bunny", "hugs and kisses", "my love"...
During center time, some of us designed "a star" in honor of the Bethlehem Star!
HAPPY EPIPHANY, JESUS!
Friday, January 4, 2019
Gingerbread Week we heard LOTS of stories of "The Gingerbread Man!"
We formed Gingerbread words with wikki stix at Daily Five centers...
played with "Gingerbread" in our Sensory table...
helped roll out Gingerbread dough, cut out cookies, baked and ate them...
and made Gingerbread Nativities! (The REAL Reason for the Season!) See Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus inside?!
Then we designed Gingerbread glyphs. We showed whether we were girls or boys... our number of buttons showed whether we liked the taste of Gingerbread or not...our nose color showed whether we liked the story ending where the Gingerbread Man got eaten, and our bow showed our favorite color!
Here is our glyph. Do YOU like Gingerbread?!!! Merry Christmas!
Thursday, January 3, 2019
Our class brought bear friends to school to help us learn about HIBERNATION!
We learned fun facts about them and sang some songs.
We watched real bears hibernating online,
and journaled about what we learned!
We did an experiment where we used shortening to see if "fat" helps keep bodies/hands warm!
Crisco shortening and gloves helped keep our hands warm! So we learned extra layers of "fat" keep bears warm!!!
Our bears listened to stories with us...
showed us how to "hibernate"...
read with us at Daily Five...
played Splash Math on ipads with us...
spelled Christmas words at Word Work with us...
listened at Show 'n Share...
listened to our Parent Reader...
and even learned some computer skills! Here our Tech Buddies (6th Grade) are mentoring them, too!!!
After computer lab, it was time to say goodbye!
We did the bear crawl to our den...
gave farewell hugs...
(We LOVE Bears!)
and sealed them up for the Winter!
Thank you, God, for allowing Bears and other animals to hibernate when food is scarce and the weather is harsh! We look forward to greeting them in January!!!