Today was a special day because we "went around the world"! We imagined that we were on the polar express as we traveled from one first grade classroom to the next learning about different countries and their special winter celebrations.
The first country we went to was England and we learned the following things:
Santa Claus' real name is Father Christmas. (Murphy)
One of their traditions is to send Christmas cards to each other. (Caroline)
They decorate like we do with Christmas trees and ornaments. (Jane)
They wear masks for Christmas plays. (Xander)
They celebrate Christmas kind of like us. (Anne)
We went to Mrs. Boozer's class to learn about England. (Caroline)
When we traveled to Israel we learned about Hanukkah:
We played dreidel. (Daniel)
They had to worship all Gods. (Paisley)
When we played the game you had to spin the dreidel and if you got shin that meant to share. (Wodajo)
We played the game with real pennies and we got to keep a penny. (Adam and Genesis)
We learned what all the symbols meant when you spin the dreidel. (Anne)
Hey means half of the pot. (Zach)
Gimmel means you get the whole pot. (Jordan)
If you get nun that means you don't get any. (Paisley)
When we traveled to Sweden we learned:
The people who went to church had to hide in church because all the people who didn't go to church did not like them. (George)
The oldest girl in the family has to wear all white and a red sash. (Caroline and Adam)
The girl also had to wear a wreath on her head with seven candles. (Izzy)
The girl serves food to everyone in the house. (Zach)
The sweeden people did not like Christians. (David)
She had to wear candles so she could see where she was going at night when she was going to the tunnels. (Kearia)
We went to Mrs. Raye's room to learn about Sweden. (Anne)
They have a special celebration that many people in America celebrate. (Xander)
We made hats with seven candles. (Zach)
Other highlights from the day:
George gave Izzy two more quarters for her collection and now she only needs Nevada!
Today we had book buddies.
Our special today was library.
At library we watched a little movie about being honest.
For book buddies the entire class went to Mrs. Hester's room.
We reviewed how to write a friendly letter.
When we did our morning work we talked about "to", "two", and "too".
Question for parents:
Zach wants to know; If you had a million dollars how would you spend it?
If I had a million dollars, I would pay off the mortgage on our house and I would probably buy two new cars.
ReplyDeleteI would give some money to our church and some to the Ruth School in Bucharest, Romania.
I would save and invest a lot of it to pay for college for Xander and his sister.
If there was any left after all that, I would like to travel. There a so many places I would like to go--Egypt, Manchu Pichu, and Angkor Wat, just to name a few.
They say that you need a million dollars to retire. The best thing to do would be to put it in savings or investment so we wouldnt have to worry. However, I dont thing I could resist paying off bills and buying some new shoes and buying Paisley some toys!
ReplyDeletewell if I was blessed with my money, I would share the blessings with all my family and friends... and get out of DEBT... of course buy Zach lots of pokemon cards..
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