Week 18

Week of Dec 17-19:

Short week no classes, only book exchange...

18th Christmas Play
19th Parade and Sing-along

Week 17

Week of Dec 10-14th:

Week 16

Week of Dec 3-7:

Pre-K and Kinders:  The Bears' Christmas by Berenstains

• Book has plain cover, no pictures, no words
• What does Christmas mean to you? What do you think of when I say Christmas?
• What do these characters think makes Christmas so special?

1st and 2nd:  Christmas Cookies: Bite-Size Holiday Lessons by Amy Krouse Rosenthal 

• Made list on Smartboard of vocabulary words (Christmas and Character Ed related) Discussed as we read 
• Will make a bulletin board with these words as gifts under the tree

3rd: Still working on Expository Papers on Community

4th: Working on foldables and their version of the 12 Days of Christmas in NC

5th:  ???

Week 15

For Nov 26-30th:

4th: The Twelve Days of Christmas in North Carolina  by Julia Stead.

• Used powerpoint with visual of the original 12 days to get them started with song from You.tube
• Read first day and compared it to the original version
• Skipped to 12th day to cover all the objects she chose as gifts. Had students evaluate with thumbs-up or thumbs-down was this a good representation of NC. Do you like the "gifts" she chose?
• Challenged students to do a better job with their foldable book they made with Ms. Horrell. Passed out planning sheet for them to think about their objects and design a graphic for their book with caption.

3rd: Writing expository papers together.

K-2: Merry Christmas, BIG HUNGRY BEAR!  by Don and Audrey Wood
Get little book about the true meaning of giving (thinking of others).
"This book caught my attention because the title includes 'bear' but there is no bear on the cover. Can you help me find the bear in this story?"
What did the mouse learn? Did he change? Did he learn anything about giving/ receiving gifts?

Did not meet with pre-K or 5th grade due to workshop scheduled.

Week 14

I have gotten behind... Week 14 should have been plans to Nov. 12-16th.


*Started a Reading 50 K Challenge for Dec, will run through Thanksgiving Break and will pick up bookmarks on Monday. (Next time send an Alert Now to remind kids to get bookmarks signed and bring in.)