We read Tacky's Christmas. I LOVE Tacky!!! We'll be doing a penguin unit in January when we come back to school, and the kids will get to really delve into all the Tacky books. We all will fall in love with him! After retelling the story with a Tree Map story map, we created our very own Tacky Trees. They were hilarious!
We also read The Grinch Who Stole Christmas and created our own little grinches. They turned out supercute! We talked about the true meaning of the holidays, and I was glad to see that we realized it's not all about presents! :)
Polar Express Day was a huge hit, as always. We read the story together and talked about how some people love stories so much that they make movies out of them. I know this is hard for the kiddos to realize sometimes, so I gave them lots of examples. We were amazed! :) To make connections to the movie and book, we created our own mixed media paintings using watercolors and scrapbook papers. I love the way they turned out!
I hope everyone has a wonderful winter break. I'll see you all back in January! :)
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