Christmas in 5A

5 A Christmas Activities

In 5A we are doing a variety of Christmas activities and art projects.  Our Art project is based off of this picture:

Ours are not as tall and since there was no description of how these were created I had to improvise.  We are almost done and they are looking good, so far!

When it came time to pick a take home gift for Christmas, I allowed the students to vote and they chose between two different crafts.  One is very simple and easy to create but the other has proven a problem and we might have to revise... any suggestions?

Anita shared a Google Presentations file with me which has the students creating a "What Christmas Means to Me" presentation.  The students have enjoyed sharing information about their Christmases and I look forward to getting more  authentic writing out of them.

Next week I found a Christmas Online Scavenger hunt that the students will complete during some of those periods of chaos around the concert schedule.  This has them look for facts about Christmas and works on their Internet search skills.

Race to Save Christmas

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0ByN_OLXLIuI2bWdubW9EYUpzOWs&usp=sharing

In grade one, we have been working on a Christmas game, where the kids solve riddles and math clues to try and save the North Pole from some bad elves that have invaded! The link above is to the folder with all the resources if you wanted to check it out. When they solve a clue, we tweet "santa" (I made an account @mr_clausHOHO), and Santa Tweets us back our next clue the following day. We track our progress on a map of the north pole. We have a digital and a paper copy. 

Here is an example of our Tweets from Santa

This project was just a fun way to spend December, while still working on math problems. The Twitter aspect made the kids really buy in!