Tuesday, December 20, 2022

 Hi parents,

We had another good day today. The students seemed a bit more at peace with the fact that we were stuck in the classroom all day.

In the morning, we did addition, subtraction, and multiplication colour-by-numbers. We also worked on yesterday's writing task and spelling practice.

We watched the next chunk of The Muppet Christmas Carol, and learned more about Scrooge's childhood. We talked about how a good storyteller (like Charles Dickens, for example) can establish a character as "bad", or "unlikeable", and then change your impression of them. At this point, now we're all rooting for Scrooge to see the error in his ways.

We learned about Hanukkah through a book on Epic, and did some Christmas themed art.

In the afternoon we had a great round of Daily LA, read Trapped in Transylvania, and worked on Christmas Cards.

Spontaneous Christmas carolling has been happening during the work period. It is truly a magical time in Room 4.

We only have two days left of school! Tomorrow is "Grinch Day", and Thursday, is a Pajama Day. However, this is also a great time of year to do cubby clean-ups, so it may be helpful to send a bag or two with your child tomorrow as they will likely be taking home a lot of work and other miscellaneous cubby items.

Have a nice night!

Zac