The Legend of the Poinsettia play

Merry Christmas to all!  Below you will find a video of first grade students performing their adaptation of the book, The Legend of the Poinsettia By Tomie dePaola.  I hope that you are all having a wonderful holiday break:)

Holiday Book Club

Photo slideshow generated with Smilebox  The Third Grade Book Club met to share several favorite holiday books and several books that would be "fun" reads while we are off for the Christmas Break.  We all enjoyed looking at some traditional and not so traditional holiday tales!  Here are several websites that have interesting facts about this special time of year: http://www.msichicago.org/scrapbook/scrapbook_exhibits/catw2004/holiday_traditions.html http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/holidays/ http://www.the-north-pole.com/around/index.htm Also, here is a site with some Christmas math games - http://coolcatteacher.visibli.com/share/aX6dmf