Santa, Elves, and the Three Bears

Last week was full of excitement as we get nearer to Christmas!  It is so much fun to see the sparkle in the eyes of each boy and girl as they contemplate a visit from Santa, or just anticipate the special time with their families.  We would like to share some of the activities that took place in our classroom.
We began by reading "The Littlest Elf"  and did some vocabulary, matching, labeling, and scrambled sentence activities.

Of course, we have written letters to Santa!

To continue our work with word choice, we listened to "The Wild Christmas Reindeer"
                                           
and then completed a "job application" for the position of taking care of Santa's reindeer.  We used this to write an opinion/persuasive style narrative of why we would make a good elf to take care of Santa's reindeer.

Keeping with the theme of Santa's reindeer we read the book "Olive, the Other Reindeer" 

                                                  

and  followed up with a story retelling organizer completing the headings of "Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Finally."

We also learned about past, present, and future verbs using a fun activity thanks to Shawna Devoe:

        

We also practiced alphabetizing Santa's reindeer's names while creating this cute reindeer:

To continue our work with verbs we wrote about what we would do if Santa was stuck in our chimney after reading the story, "Santa's Stuck"   and created a funny "chimney" topper to go with it thanks to Cheryl at Primary Graffiti:

We also compared similarities and differences in the following two stories:"Goldilocks and the Three Bears" by James Marshall and "Santa and the Three Bears" by Domonic Catalano.

               

In math we practiced building yummy "plane" shapes with pretzels and marshmallows! We discussed the number of sides and corners while also learning the correct names of the shapes.

One week until we are on break!