Star of the Week, Apex Fun Run, Alliterations, Story Problems, Cooking, Literacy Night

Star of the Week
This week our Star of the Week is a friend that we all love.  He is kind and willing to help others.  His favorite color is yellow and he is super excited about Christmas and Santa coming.

Apex Fun Run
This week the Apex team has been in our class talking about being "extreme leaders."  Each day we earn a new bracelet to remind of the lesson we learned.  Next Wednesday, we will do the fun run and earn our classroom some money to be used for new games and activities.  Please remember to log in to apexfunrun.com to register your shirt size.  The shirts are FREE!!!!!!

X is for X-treme Leaders!!

Alliterations
This week we have been learning about alliterations.  An alliteration is a sentence in which most of the words begin with the same sound.  They are also called "tongue twisters."  We created our own personal tongue twisters.  They are so fun and cute!!!

Story Problems
This week in Math, we have been learning how to use manipulatives to solve story problems.  We love to tell stories and solve them!!!

Literacy Night
On Tuesday evening, students and their families were able to come to the school and attend a special night of fun, games, food, and literacy.  Each grade level presented a "Christmas around the World."  We were able to learn how other countries celebrate winter holidays.  Santa even made an appearance!!!  What a fun night!!

Cooking 
This week, our cooking lesson was about Terrific Teeth.  We used apples as lips, pink icing for the gums, and marshmallows for the teeth, and a recipe to make a toothy smile.

Star of the week, Cooking Applesauce, comparing quantities, Christmas Around the World

Star of the Week
Our Star of the Week is a friend that likes the color pink and loves to eat cake.   She wants to be a brain doctor when she grows up!  Our brains will be  in great hands with a smart friend like her!

Cooking Applesauce
Our cooking lesson this week was using the letter Aa and apples to make applesauce.  It was sooooo yummy and our class smelled so good!!!

More than and Less than
In math this week, we have been learning to compare quantities using the words "more than" and "less than."  We have played games and determined how many more or less to make them equal.

Christmas Around the World
This week we have been studying how Christmas and winter holidays are celebrated around the world.

In Mexico, the poinsettia is a traditional Christmas flower.  The legend says that a girl's mother became ill and she had nothing to give but some some weeds she found by the church.  When she brought them into the church, they turned from green weeds into red, beautiful flowers.  

The tradition of the Christmas tree came from Germany where they decorate trees outside of the home.  

An African American tradition of Kwanzaa, celebrates the harvest and family values. 

In Israel, they celebrate Hanukkah.  It is a 9 day celebration.  

In the Netherlands, the children leave carrots and hay in their shoes for Sinterklaas' horse.  Sinterklaas then leaves them goodies in return.   We decided the needed to see if we left our shoe out, if Sinterklaas would come….HE DID!!!!!

  

Polar Express Day!

Polar Express Day! 

Polar Express Dsy was awesome!  We wore our pajamas all day, listened to the story, ate cookies and hot chocolate, visited with Santa, and had a ton of fun! 

Listening to the story---

Cookies, hot chocolate, and visiting with Santa...

Class pictures with Santa...

Santa's little surprise.... If you can hear the bell ring, then you still believe!