New Year's Traditions

    We're back at school and started 2012 by learning about New Year's traditions. We read Squirrel's New Year Resolution. We talked about what resolutions are: a promise you make to yourself for something you want to learn or do to make yourself better. Then we talked with our partners about some possible resolutions and then shared and created a bubble map. Then the students created these balloons with their resolutions. The most popular was help mom or dad every day.

    We also read The Night Before New Year's and discussed what we did on New Year's eve. We illustrated/wrote about a tradition we shared with our partner. Then we talked about the foods we eat on New Year's Day and why we eat those foods. We tasted black eyed peas and graphed if we like them or not. Then we analyzed our results.

New Year's Celebrations

We talked about New Year's traditions at the beginning of the week. We talked about what New Year's resolutions are and why people make them. We made a goal for the New Year and wrote them on balloons. Most students put they want to be better readers and writers!

Then on Tuesdays, we talked about traditional New Year's day foods. We tasted blacked eyed peas and then graphed if we liked them or not. The kids were so funny! They either were asking for more or could barely stand the smell of them.

January Work

Make a Smilebox photobook