Holiday Happenings!!!

Whew!!!!  December has crept up on us and we are all in a holiday rush!!!!  We are traveling around the world in Social Studies to see how the holidays are celebrated in various countries.  We just left Israel where the Jewish people celebrate Hanukkah and have landed in Germany, just in time for St. Nick's Day!!!

Making the frames for our Hanukkah candles

Our candles are welcoming visitors to Grove!!!

 Our next bulletin board in progress....

 We have made How to charts for various topics in small groups.  Today, this one

came in handy!!!!

   It is hard work making lists and using punctuation at the same time!!!

 These holiday sticky notes are perfect for vocabulary words we want to spell!!!

Today, we read the Jan Brett story, Gingerbread Baby. 

 Matti, the main character,

catches the baby that gets away with a special gingerbread house.  So, we decided to design some of our own!!!

You can see the shoes on their nametags.  They are there waiting for Germany's St. Nicholas to come tonight and fill them with treats!!!  Switches  are placed in naughty children's shoes instead of coal!!!   (I don't think we'll see any of those, though!!)

And while we don't have an Elf on the Shelf, apparently

one has been watching us because today we received 

a special treat with a letter saying we've been good!!

We were asked to "Elf" another class with treats in return,

so Miss Hale's class is getting stickers and candy cane drops...ssshhhh!!!