Mrs. West's Class: How we spent our Christmas....Themed Days :)

In order to make learning a little more fun during this holiday season...since keeping the children focused is VERY HARD to do at this time of the year, we have themed days. I love being able to teach the kids with these fun activities that enhance their learning while at the same time... make it SUPER FUN!!!! :) Enjoy taking a look at what we did this week! Monday- Snowman Day, Tuesday-Reindeer Day, Wednesday- Gingerbread Day, Thursday- Grinch Day, Friday- Polar Express Day/ Christmas Party!

Snowman (building a snowman with marshmallows, hershey kiss, little chocolate chips, icing, and pretzel sticks) YUMMY :)

Mmmm

Zachary is putting on his finishing touches.

Finished product...so cute :)

Is it good, Joe?

Emma is enjoying her snowman.

Looking yummy, Lee :)

A class full of reindeer! After learning many different facts about reindeer, the kids wrote two facts (one on each antler) and made a hat!!!

You KNOW we have to have a silly picture :)

We also made reindeer food. We put them into these cute "reindeer" heads (made from toilet paper rolls) to take home so we could put them out on Christmas Eve for Santa's reindeer!

Elijah taking a bit of his gingerbread man.

We graphed what part of the gingerbread man everyone bit off first....I believe the "head" won!

Group 5 graphing their gingerbread bites.

Karlye is estimating/measuring a large gingerbread man with tiny gingerbread men (nonstandard units). Fun stuff! :)

Cute Grinch heads! Each child made their own grinch head and wrote about when they feel "grinchy."

Hallway display of their finished "grinches"

2nd board display

Hank & Karlye played a grinch rolling dice game...they would roll the dice and whatever "number partners" they landed on, they would put that set of addends under the total it went with...person who got three columns filled first, wins! ;)