Elf Antics

Our class has been invaded by an elf.  We named him Elfie.  He has been pretty naughty.  He made a nice and naughty list and all of the students were on the nice list and I was on the naughty list. Lately he's been in a war with the Grinch.  Look what happened today....

That's the Grinch under the basket

This week in reading we have been talking about animals and why people love them.  We have read several poems about animals and discussed how the authors expressed their feelings about the animals in their poetry.  

In math, we are learning different strategies to help with subtracting.  Like addition, we will learn many different strategies that we would like the students to know and eventually they will be able to choose the strategy they like the best and use that one when subtracting.

An elf also visited Mrs. Taylor's class and is traveling around the world and reporting back to the class about different Christmas traditions from different countries.  This week the elf traveled to Germany and told the students about the tannebaum.  The students created one of their own.

Have a great weekend.  I hear we may be getting snow.