Please remember that not everyone in your class may celebrate Christmas. As the one Jewish teacher in my school I often feel frustrated by the focus on Christmas-themed activities and worksheets this time of year. (And paying acknowledgment that Hannukah and Kwanza occur around the same time as Christmas does not mean that the teacher has been inclusive so now they can do all sorts of other Christmas activites.) Natasha
------------------------------ I don't know what grade you are talking about but one year with my Kindergartners I read aloud five different Christmas or winter-oriented books by Jan Brett and then we made a graph showing which was our favorite.... one person, one vote. It was a bar graph; each child got a square to add to the bar under a picture of the book they liked best. Have them paint (or draw) a picture of their family at Christmas and write about it. Renee "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. ------------------------------ Message: 8 Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 09:00:55 -0700 From: Beverlee Paul <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] (no subject) To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 and onto Renee's: a great time to experiment with borders and with illuminated letters. On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Renee <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Dec 2, 2009, at 7:43 PM, reading wrote: > > Does anyone have any good lessons/activities to use the week before winter >> break? We're finishing up a unit soon and it'd be nice to have something >> light and timely for the few days before break begins. >> > > I don't know what grade you are talking about but one year with my > Kindergartners I read aloud five different Christmas or winter-oriented > books by Jan Brett and then we made a graph showing which was our > favorite.... one person, one vote. It was a bar graph; each child got a > square to add to the bar under a picture of the book they liked best. > > Have them paint (or draw) a picture of their family at Christmas and write > about it. > > Renee > > "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." > ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > -- "There is nothing so unequal as equal treatment of unequals." Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes ------------------------------ Message: 9 Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 16:06:28 +0000 From: EDWARD JACKSON <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] (no subject) To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" The family of one my students decided to try an even grander structure at home and the boy was looking for inspiration online when he came across a website that listed the first direction as "Send all the kids to grandma's." Boy, we had a good laugh about that one. Lori Jackson M.Ed.Reading Specialist Broken Bow, NE EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me > Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 08:06:12 -0700 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MOSAIC] (no subject) > > And far sadder for the teachers than we really realize. > > On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 5:54 AM, EDWARD JACKSON <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> My class once made full sized gingerbread houses. Used the pattern from my >> old Joy of Cooking. We read lots of gingery books, calculated area and >> perimeter for the pattern pieces, looked for online tips, etc. Kids brought >> in nearly all of the ingredients and mixed and baked in groups. Talk about >> learning about the importance of precision in measurement (one group >> produced a dough that was way too soft--we saved it by glueing to >> cardboard). Parents were GREAT about donating candy--and there was another >> opportunity to discuss patterning. There was so much happy learning going >> on. Then came the big discussion--how does a group of 6 divide a single >> house? The kids decided to raffle them off. We put them in the school >> display case and they sold $140 worth of tickets in just two days. Okay, >> lots more math. After the holidays, they voted to use the money on a trip >> to go bowling and eat at Pizza Huts. Had grand notions of lots of trips, but >> reality sunk in through the planning when they ended up with about $15 >> leftover. Economics anyone? This was soooo much fun, one of those times >> that kids remember fondly and, yet, there was more math in that week than in >> more typical week. A fellow teacher said to me, "They sure are having fun, >> but I just can't afford to take time away from learning." These damned >> scripted programs are saying the same thing. Sad for the kids. >> >> >> Lori Jackson M.Ed.Reading Specialist >> Broken Bow, NE >> >> >> >> >> >> >> EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD >> Join me >> >>> Date: Wed, 2 Dec 2009 21:43:35 -0600 >>> From: [email protected] >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: [MOSAIC] (no subject) >>> >>> Does anyone have any good lessons/activities to use the week before >> winter >>> break? We're finishing up a unit soon and it'd be nice to have something >>> light and timely for the few days before break begins. >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Mosaic mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to >>> http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. >>> >>> Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mosaic mailing list >> [email protected] >> To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to >> http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. >> >> Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. >> >> > > > -- > "There is nothing so unequal as equal treatment of unequals." Chief > Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. End of Mosaic Digest, Vol 40, Issue 2 ************************************* _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
