Mrs. Winn's & Ms. Geoghegan's Web Page

Winter 2006

Mrs. Winn & Mrs. Mundala's Classroom

Standards

Language Arts

Mathematics

Science

Social Studies

Photo Gallery

Looking For Dracula

Halloween Parent and Child Workshop

50's Day

Thanksgiving

Nursery Rhyme Olympics

Holiday Craft Workshop

Looking for The Gingerbread Man

Gingerbread House Party

Winter Program (1st Grade)

Polar Express

Teacher's Wish List

Email:

mrscwinn@yahoo.com

k imberlymundala@yahoo.com

Happy 2006! We can't believe half the school year has passed. Time has flown by - and look at all the learning we have accomplished! In the past few months, our students have been filling their heads with so much knowledge. In reading, we kicked off November by learning different nursery rhymes. Many parent volunteers came to celebrate our learning with a Nursery Rhyme Olympics. We carried water buckets just like Jack and Jill, we jumped over candlesticks like Jack Be Nimble, we knocked poor Humpty Dumpty off a wall, we dropped wool from Baa Baa Black Sheep, and we raced a mouse up the Hickory Dickory Dock Clock (just to name a few!). It was a memorable day. We also celebrated our 50th day of school with a "50's Day." We dressed up in the 50's style, played games using bubble gum, mini hot rod cars, and hoola hoops. We also had a sock hop and danced to music from the 50's. We ended our day with a 50's treat - a root beer float. We ended November with our traditional Thanksgiving feast complete with a thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings and pilgrim and Native American dinner guests. Yum Yum! December was filled with wintery treats. We compared different variations of the Gingerbread Man stories from different lands and cultures. We ended our month with a tree trimming party, a gingerbread house making party and a trip on the Polar Express. 2006 started with a bang as we created portraits using a glyph: stripes on the shirt if you stayed up until midnight, spots on the shirt if you fell asleep before midnight, etc. We also remembered a hero - Dr. Martin Luther King - and learned about the changes he made so that we could live in a world that was fair and equal. We recently visited the Los Angeles Zoo. The students discussed many scientific facts that they noticed, such as the number of legs, body covering, movement. students will be doing further research on these animals in March. We are currently comparing different versions of our favorite fairy tales. We read and compared Cinderella stories from penguin tales and Hawaiian beaches to Halloween flights. We also read, compared and performed a readers' theater for Goldilocks and the Three Bears. There was even a story about a bear who intruded on a family named The Blairs. What a switch! Our last fairy tales are The Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood, and Princess and the Pea. There is a Cajun version of Red Riding Hood from the Bayou and a Hawaiian version of the Three Little Pigs that make a house of lava rocks. The students really have to think about what parts of the story are the same and what parts are different. It has been a great first half of the year! We can't wait to see how much excitement and learning that is yet to come! Happy New Year!