The short three days before Christmas break was a full week of Christmas celebrations! While it was a fun week, I still wanted to implement some learning activities. So, for math we went to the gym and with both the second and third grade students, we played Math Madness. As seen before on my blog, Math Madness is somewhat of a relay game where teams of students take turns running to a laminated playing board to solve a problem as quickly as they can so that their team can finish all of the math problems first. We played this with a mixture of second and third graders solving addition problems on each team first and it seemed to work quite well!
The next time we played it, I placed all of the third graders on one team and separated the second graders into two teams. The second graders were solving addition problems again, but the third graders would be solving multiplication problems this time, which made it a little tougher on them!
These Math Madness games allowed math to be implemented when it may have been tricky to capture the attention of students with paper and pencil math problems during this chaotic week. Something else that we did during this week of Christmas was invite my dad, Uncle Bob, to our school to teach a Bible lesson to kindergarten through fourth grade students. We met in the church and Uncle Bob taught us the story of Josiah and how he learned how to worship the one true God from his grandfather Manasseh. After hearing the story, students had the opportunity to play a game to test how well they were listening to the story. Students loved this Uncle Bob time!
On Tuesday, we all went on the bowling field trip. It was exciting to watch the students demonstrate their bowling skills that they have developed over the past few weeks with Mrs. Duclos in gym. Students loved having this time to just have fun with each other and cheer each other on.
The last day of school before Christmas break is always a lot of fun. On this half day, each student had the opportunity to go to classrooms around the school and build different crafts in each classroom. Students loved going through the school and discovering which crafts they could take part in. We ended this day with a math treasure hunt for their Christmas presents and a little Christmas Family Feud as a class. It was a great end to our time together before Christmas break!
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