All our Razzle Dazzle Reading at home is not only making us stronger readers, but also won us the opportunity choose the "Razzle Dazzle Lunch of the month" for December. After great discussion and some votes, we selected french bread pizza, grapes, fresh veggies, and ice cream with a cookie on top. Yum!!

December brought many busy days filled with holiday fun. Some of our highlights were making cookies, watching the book buddies' holiday play, molding and painting Kwanzaa beads, making book to book connections between gingerbread stories, and caroling around the school.

You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch! Green shirts, green ice cream, making the Grinch grin with our sharing, green grinchy stations...Friday was grinchfully great.

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These monsters were just too great not to share! After reading monster stories, we graphed our favorite story by placing our own monster next to the book cover. Which one did you choose?

Fruit Feast, Fruit Feast
Yum, yum, yum!
Which fruit is your favorite one?

As we learned about schema (the "backpack" if knowledge we have on a topic) we studied bats. With each book, website, article, or video examined, we found our schema grew. Ask your child to show you with their hands how their schema about bats grew! We created posters to share our thinking and read them on the video below.

On Scarecrow Day we were decked out in our felt vests, patches, face paint, hats, and scarves.  We celebrated fall with scarecrow stations and made a scarecrow snack. Cooperation was used to make a class scarecrow that was taller than all of us! We measured the scarecrow with different materials in our classroom like blocks, books, kids, dominoes, and links.