Christmas Partying!

We had the BEST day on the last day of school before the break!  I am still recovering from all of the fun, which is why I am just now posting! :)  We started off our morning with our class party, put together by our amazing room mom and mom volunteers!  Students got to make candy cane reindeer, santa handprint ornaments, and decorate bags to hold it all!  They also got to play some fun snowball and jingle bell games!  I was so impressed by how many parents showed up to help!

Next, we went caroling in the lunchroom with the rest of the school.  This is one of our most treasured, Woodruff traditions!  2nd Grade sang "Have a Holly Jolly Christmas" and the teachers did a special "12 Days of Christmas" performance.

After lunch students came in and we filled out some pretend passports for our Christmas Around the World activity.  This is another one of my favorite things we do during the year.  First, our class went and "visited" Mexico in Miss Wooten's room.  Then they "traveled" to Mrs. Olsen's room, in Finland.  After that they "jetted" to Miss King's room for a little African holiday fun!  Next they "zoomed" to Miss Pierce's room to learn all about England's holiday traditions!  Last, they "flew" back to my classroom to learn about Denmark and the fun Christmas traditions people participate in there.  They learned about the Nissa Man and got to try a traditional danish aebleskiver (like a pancake).  We had so much fun!

I hope everyone had an amazing Christmas!  Thanks to all of you who sent me gifts!  I felt so loved and special!