Holidays Around the World!

Happy Holidays! In December we enjoyed fun events, including Holidays Around the World and Holiday Pajama Day! During Holidays Around the World, we traveled to different countries, which were set up in kindergarten classrooms. We traveled to Mexico, Germany, and Sweden! During reading, we have been using the questioning strategy to strengthen our comprehension. During Writers Workshop, we wrote about small moments by using our five senses to recreate an experience. In math we practiced adding and ordinal numbers.

Adding with blocks

A student modeling her small moment during the Writers Workshop mini-lesson

We recreated a small moment in our minds and wrote our "magic message"

Following the pointer with our eyes as we read

Using magnets to create meaningful sentences during word study

Creating rhymes!

Using words from our magic messages to create meaningful sentences during word study

Group two during word study is matching and writing sight words

Group 3 during word study is reading sentences and circling the sight word

Writing a story in the Writing Center

Watching The Polar Express and eating treats on Pajama Day

Learning about Santa Lucia Day in Sweden during Holidays Around the World

We read about Toot and Puddle and they taught us the best gifts are ones we make with love!

We learned all about Santa Lucia Day!

In math we learned about ordinal numbers and created reindeers during a guided math center.

Rudolph is 1st, Dasher is 2nd!