Elves...Elves..Everywhere Elves!!

As I am sure you have heard....we have had an elf visitor to our classroom.  Our class named him "Dr. Jingle Bells."  He arrived and wrote a note on our board say hello to everyone.  The students "Elfed Themselves" and made elf bodies with their heads on them.  They completed an elf glyph, so it was colored in based on questions that the students answered. We all got a kick out of what the students looked as elves.  During the night, the elf decided he wanted to be hung up like the rest of the class and taped himself to the shade with the elf pictures.

The students also completed elf applications.  Maybe Santa will hire one or two of them...

This week in Math, we practiced and practiced adding.  The students were taught two different ways to add: The partial sums way and the traditional way. I think that most students were most comfortable with the traditional algorithm (as most of you are.)  They performed very well on the Unit 4 test which will be coming home next week. 

We finished up another unit in reading and started taking a Unit test.  This unit was all about animals.  Our next unit will be focusing on the Earth. This should be interesting for our students because they love science.

Next week, we will be learning all about Christmas traditions in other countries.  We will be doing fun crafts for each country as well. 

Have a great weekend!!