Royal Reader!

This week, we had a Royal Reader pay us a surprise visit! She read "Mrs. Twiggley's Tree". This was a book that most of the students had not heard of before, and they loved it! Thanks so much for joining us!

Dreidel game

Last week, Mr. Smith visited our class to read us a Hanukkah story and teach us the dreidel game! Most of the students wrote down the rules that Mr. Smith wrote on the board for us, but in case they didn't, I've posted the rules here. (Click on the image to enlarge) Enjoy!

Happy Hanukkah!

Today we began our Holiday Traditions unit, in which we will study Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Eid, and also discuss various family traditions. As this is the first day of Hanukkah, we started our unit with the book, "Our Eight Nights of Hanukkah", and the students illustrated a menorah on the Hanukkah page of our Holiday Traditions book. In this photo, one of our students enthusiastically models for the class how to draw a menorah! We will continue our study of Hanukkah tomorrow, so stay tuned!