Monday, December 5th

Our devotion today was about how God created all things.  We brainstormed things he created.  Then we talked about when he created these things God said it was good.  But then sin entered the world.  We talked about how even in the beginning God had a plan to save us by sending his son.  We went around and did prayer requests.  Then each child drew a cross on another students hand.

In math we worked more with inches.  The children had to measure different objects.  When they were done, the children went around the room and measured different real life objects.  We also had a subtraction sheet.  After break we will be doing subtraction, so I want to get their brains ready for that!

Kenadie brought in a snack that she made for the class over the weekend!  We had chocolate covered pretzels with sprinkles!  Thanks for sharing with us!

The children started their transitional writing piece.  They had to use First, Then, Next, Finally.  They had to write how to train a reindeer.  We brainstormed skills each reindeer would need.  The children had to pick 4 skills and how they were going to train them to do each skill.  The writing is very cute! We have some great writers this year!

In phonics the children learned how to add suffixes to phonetic skills 1 and 2.  For phonetic skill 1 you double the ending consonant then add the suffix.  For phonetic skill 2, you just add the suffix.    

In Social Studies, we talked about american heritage.  We talked about different kinds of symbols of our country such as the Bald Eagle, Liberty Bell and Statue of Liberty. 

We traveled to Germany today for Christmas Around the World.  We made gingerbread boys and girls.  We also placed our gym shoes on our desk. The children of Germany have a tradition where 'der Nikolaus' comes in the night between the 5th and the 6th and puts the goodies into the shoes of the children, who usually place them by their doors on the previous evening. Lets see if we get goodies tomorrow!