Welcome to December!

Greetings! Welcome to December! I just love this month. I know things are crazy with the holidays around the corner and that there is so much to do. But I just love seeing the excitement in the children's eyes as they wait for that magic of Christmas. It feels my heart with joy. Let the good times begin! 

We began our day with our extra Gym class. Thanks to Mr. Bishop for taking us to the Gym. There he taught them how to play kickball. 

We began our learning day with Religion. Today we wrapped up our study of Advent. We reviewed the meaning of the season (waiting for Jesus), the Advent wreath, and the season's color (purple). After that we began our chapter on Jesus calling people to be his followers. Today we learned that Jesus' close followers were called Apostles. 

We began Language Arts class by working in our literacy centers to build our fluency and comprehension skills. After that we started a new week of learning. We learned two new oral vocabulary words (immediately and schedule). Then we worked on making predictions as we read A Second is a Hiccup. Following that we learned how to blend and read long a words. This was our first day with long vowels and the students did quite well. They know that they need to look for the 'magic e' to help them decide whether the vowel says its name or not. We ended the morning by learning our 6 new sight words. 

This afternoon in Language Arts we read Nate the Snake is Late, a fantasy story about a snake. Then we talked about verbs; we know that they are the action words in a sentence. We ended our class by writing the first two steps in decorating a Christmas tree. 

In Math class today we began a new chapter. This chapter focuses on ordinal position. Today we identified the position of various objects and people. The students did quite well with this. 

Have a good night!