Tales from Tuesday!

Joshua read Tom Was Brave and did a wonderful job. While reading this book to me earlier in the month, Joshua made Text to Self connections about helping his grandfather, just like the Tom in the book.



We had a VERY special visitor today, Klara's mother! She shared with us about life in Greece. We learned a LOT!!!! We saw pictures of the Parthenon and the Acropolis. She left us a book we can look at as well...although I admit, I brought it home to share tonight with my daughter!!! So interesting!!! Thank you for doing this and enriching our lives!!!!






We read a Cinderella story from Mexico, Adelita, by Tomie dePaulo. We took a close look at the characters and used the text to support our thinking.

We received holiday cards from Virginia and Florida. Tomorrow we will have a SKYPE conversation with the school in Virginia. We also watched a power point on holiday traditions in Liberia, Africa and one on Japan. We even made an origami Christmas Tree.

And...we went to our vision and hearing screening.

The rest of the day was spent practicing our readers theater and working on some secret holiday projects.

Tomorrow we will "travel" to the other 1st and 2nd grade classroom and focus on holiday traditions in Australia, Mexico, Africa, the Philippines, Denmark, and India.

2nd grade Math MAP has been rescheduled for Thursday afternoon.

Have a GREAT night, stay warm, and don't forget to READ....READ.....READ!!!!!