We started off the holiday season by studying about reindeer. We learned many interesting facts about real reindeer. On the first page of our book, we cut apart and put back together the sentence, "Reindeer are mammals." Mammal was a new word for us, so we had to research and find out what the word meant.
On the second page of our book, the students chose their favorite fact about a reindeer and wrote it, being very careful to sound out each word. On the last page, we used different shapes to draw reindeer.
Together we labeled the parts of a reindeer.
The students were then given their own paper where they could label the reindeer.
To make a reindeer, we traced our foot for the face and traced out hands to make the antlers. We glued these pieces onto a stuffed paper bag and added accordion legs. These are the cutest reindeer!
After the students created this cute paper bag reindeer, they wrote a fiction story about their special magic reindeer.
On the first day of the month, we made a classic Kindergarten holiday tradition - a red and green paper chain. Twenty-four links are on our chain so we can count down the days until Santa arrives. The students were very excited and proud of their long, pattern, count down chains. They all worked very hard to complete all the links.
