Gingerbread Day

Today made a picture of our gingerbread character with 2-D shapes.  We used brown paper and made triangles, rectangles, hexagons and squares and then we glued it on a bigger piece of coloured paper.  In the afternoon we made our gingerbread character on a gingerbread cookie. We made them with icing and candies.  When we were done Ms. Mahan took our picture with it and then we got to eat it.
We even wrote our own story for our gingerbread character and we drew a picture of what would happen at the end.

We read lots of Gingerbread books.  One book was about a gingerbread man that was lost in a school.  Another book was called the Gingerbread Pirate it was about a gingerbread boy who didn't know who Santa was or what Christmas was.    

We took some pictures of  2-D shapes with the iPads in the hallway.  We made made a special Christmas present for our moms and dad.
We are excited that tomorrow is the Polar Express party and we get to wear our PJ's and bring a teddy, blanket or pillow.

3D elves

We made elves made out of 3D objects today.  We were lucky because some parents came to help.  One of those moms was helping us by hot gluing pieces onto our elves.  We used tape and hot glue to connect him together.  We wrapped our elves and we added faces to the spheres
We went to twelve days of fitness.  One of the activities we did was two toe touches and three muscle poses.  We started planning our gingerbread story today.  We have been reading lots of Gingerbread stories this month. Tomorrow we are going to make our own gingerbread character and write a story about it.  If anyone would like to send a small bag of candies or icing for students to share they are welcome to.

Christmas in the Past

Today we went to the museum of the Highwood and we learned about what Christmas was like in the past.  We learned that they ate roast beef for their Christmas dinner because there was lots of cows.  We learned that they did not have cars so they used sleighs and horses to go places instead.  They brought evergreen trees into their house just like we do today.  They do this to remind them that the winter will one day end and spring will come.
We learned that they did not have fancy stockings like we do so they used to use the biggest sock they could find to hang up.  They might get homemade toys in their stockings.  They would ususally get fruit that came on the train in their stocking and it was very special.
She showed us some old toys that were in display cases.  The toys used to be homemade or they picked them from catalogs and it took along time for them to get here.
We talked about the Christmas Carol Jingle Bells and she told us that when it say "Bells on Bobtail"  that is because they cut the horses tail short and then put bells on them.  We sang Jingle Bells and rang little bells while we sang.
They had an exportation center and we got to play old fashion.  They had a store and some dress up clothes.  At the end she read us a book called a porcupine in a pine tree and we made a craft of a paper candy cane

Shape Snowflakes

Today e made a snowflake out of shapes and then we counted how many shapes had 3, 4 or 5 sides.  In Science we wrote about the senses we used to make our acrobat and then we got to play with them for a while.  We could balance everywhere even on our nose and feet! We watched a little bit of a video about Christmas in the past and we saw that they made their own Christmas tree with sticks.  They did not have very much money to buy stuff from expensive store.

Today we are taking home our bubble gum writing.  It takes up lots of room in our backpack so some of us had to pop the balloon. We did gym and in gym we played ornament tag and if you got tagged you had to sit down and sing a Christmas carol and you got free when someone sang the Christmas carol with you for 10 counts.

We looked at the calendar today and we know we have lots of exciting things happening next week and then we have no school for 2 weeks!

Christmas in the Past Toys and Ornaments

Today we made acrobats with toothpicks skewers, corks and play-doh.  They balanced on our finger just like magic. We also made an ornament with cloves and an orange slice.  We stuck the cloves in the orange to make a design.  We made these decorations and toys because in the past they used to make your decorations and gifts because they did not have as much money to spend buying them.

3D Shapes

We watched the Grade 3-5 practice for their Christmas concert this afternoon.  Their show is tonight and we watched them so they could have practice doing their show in front of an audience. There was lots of singing and lots of funny parts in the play. There was  a Santa and Mrs. Clause and elves in the play.  

We did read to self for 6 minutes today and  we know we need to keep reading over the Christams holidays so we can keep building our stamina. In math we made some 3-D shapes and then we picked our favourite one.  Ms. Mahan took our picture with that shape and we did some writing about it.

In morning meeting and we talked about our favourite Christmas Carol. Ms. Mahan told us we are going to go to the gym everyday next week and practice singing Christmas carols.

Christmas Concert

Today in morning meeting we shared how we "Sharpend the Saw" on the weekend.  Lots of us did Christmas stuff and one person even went on the polar express to see Santa.  We got new books in our book boxes and we made a sight word paper chain.  We started making an acrobat because this is a toy that someone might have got in the past.  We made it by writing our name and colouring a cork. We will finish it tomorrow.
We went to the church to practice our songs because our Christmas concert is tonight.  We stood on the risers and practiced in front of the whole school. The Christmas concert starts at 5:30 but we need to come to school around 5:15 and we need to stay for both concerts.
See you tonight!

Gingerbread Girl!

Today we practiced work on writing.  Work on writing is when we work on writing by ourselves and we stay in one spot and work quietly.  If we don't know a word we sound it out and underline.  We also read a book about the Gingerbread Girl.  She ran away from the old lady that made her by jumping right out of the oven.  We talked about how the book was like the "Gingerbread boy."
In the afternoon we worked in partners to trace our hands onto brown paper.  We cut them then we turned our hand tracings into antlers that we are going to wear for our Reindeer Rap at the Christmas concert.  We had an extra long recess because we had to go to music at a different time today.
We had an assembly about the 7 habits.  We got a piece of paper and with a partner from another grade we wrote what our school feels like, sounds like and makes us feel like.

2-D and 3-D shapes

Today we did some writing in our Social dictionary about the word Urban. We wrote a sentence about what you would find in an urban place and we added windows to our skyscrapers we made yesterday.
We had PE and we played a game called reindeer tag.  If you got tagged you had to gallop around the North Pole in the middle of the gym.  We also played the game again where we acted like different Christmas things like jingling like a bell.
We had rotation in Math.  The centers were Mathletics on the IPad, building a tower with 3-D shapes, sorting centers and trying to make 3-D and 2-D shapes with the playdoh.
We know that our book orders are due tomorrow!

Urban Communities

Today we practiced a lock down.   When the lock-down happened we hid and were very quiet.
We went to Library and picked new books.
We had gym and we played a game where we had to turn a person in to a snowman using hoops and a pylon.  We also did Christmas warm ups where we acted like a snowman melting and an angel flying.
In Social we added to our U page in our Social dictionary by writing the sentence about Urban and making Sky scrapers.  We also watched a video about urban communities.  We finished our rural window by adding our curtains.  They are hanging in the hallway now.
We practiced for our Christmas concert lots today and Ms Mahan gave us an important note at the end of the day.