Final Week Before Winter Break

        December has been a busy month in 1P!  Thanks to lots of help from our classroom experts - Julia & Isaac, we have been learning about Hannukah.  We have read several stories, talked about traditions and played the Dreidel game.

        We have also been reading several different versions of The Gingerbread Man and comparing them.  We have been talking about the different elements of the stories and comparing the different characters and endings.  We are very excited to build our gingerbread houses on Wednesday!  Hope to see you there - Wednesday 12/20/17 from 10-11am in 1P!!

         This week, we will be talking about Christmas.  We will read stories and talk about traditions for Christmas!  We will also sing Christmas songs.  

Big News!!  Mrs. P has announced a Read-In for Friday, December 22!!  We are allowed to wear pajamas (but must be dressed warm enough for outdoor recess!!).  We can bring a small blanket, small pillow, small stuffed animal and a few books from home.  These things must fit in our backpack or our winter clothes bag.  We must be able to carry them ourselves.  We will be playing math games in the morning and having our Read- In in the afternoon!!

     This afternoon we had a special activity time with Mrs. Comer.  It was an introduction to Coding, to go along with the national movement - the "Hour of Code" to teach more about Computer Science and Coding.  The students had a mini-lesson with Mrs. Comer and then had to work in small groups.  They had to create a sequence of steps to program the robotic mouse to move across a track they created to get to the cheese.  Check out the pictures and videos below to see what a great job the children did!  Fun and challenging at the same time.  The students will also be coding via some of our iPad games.