3-6th grades
This is a fascinating book about the life of one of the first men to photograph snowflakes. It received the Caldecott Medal in 1999. The pictures are wonderful. We paired it with "Snow Crystals", which is the photography book that has William Bentley's work in it. It's fun to look at these old photos of thousands of snowflakes. After reading the book we had paper and scissors out for those students who wanted to cut out a snowflake, which we now have hanging from our ceiling in the media center.
Title: "The Twelve Days of Christmas" By Hillary Knight
1-6th grades (We were just going to do this with the younger grades but decided to include the older grades as well)
This is just the traditional poem/song of the Twelve days of Christmas. While we read the book to the classes we had twelve students standing up in front with a sign that read "A Partridge in a pear tree", "two turtle doves, "three french hens, etc. While we read the book each of the students with the signs on had to do an action that went along with their sign. Partridge in a pear tree had to stand with their arms in a circle above their heads and had to say "Cheep" in a high voice when we read their part. After we read the book we had the whole class stand and sing the last verse with everyone doing all of the actions together. This was a blast, the students loved it.
***We loved the idea of Halloween jokes that one of the other schools did. We don't have any wall space in out media center so we typed up Christmas jokes and taped 3-4 of them on each of our tables.
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