The Christmas spirit is alive and well in first grade!  We spent our Social Studies time creating some new and exciting holiday decorations to adorn our classroom and hallway.   Above are our "Curly Santas".  The kids learned how to create the beard by cutting circles in a circular fashion (like a cinnamon roll).

We made Christmas angels to decorate our hallway!

We read several versions of the Gingerbread man story.  When we compared the stories, we noticed that an "old man and an old woman" baked the Gingerbread man in each book.  There were many animals in each of the stories, but in all of them, the sly fox tricked the Gingerbread man into trusting him, thus he was eaten.   We also read two very different versions of the familiar story.  One was called The Gingerbread Pirates  and the other was The Gingerbread Girl.  Be sure to ask your child about those!   We then did a writing activity about where we thought the Gingerbread man would run to if he did not end up in the tummy of the sly fox!  We decorated a cover, and they now hang on a bulletin board in our classroom!

We made three different ornaments for our classroom Christmas tree as well.  We made paper angels decorated in a Christmas theme, and a Santa ornament using a tracing of our hands, and a pattern block ornament that incorporated some math to create!   See our results and fine decorating below!

Our decorating is now complete, so next week we will get back to Science and start our new unit called Weather Watchers!   Have a great weekend everyone!