December+News

= Check out the news in Room 102. We learn many new things each day. Our daily news reporters will tell the story of what we are learning. =

= = = = = = = Reporter Juliana and Reporter Brianna = = = = Tuesday, December 1st = =Welcome back and happy holidays! Today we decorated our Christmas tree in school. We made the Christmas flower, the poinsettia, to put on our tree. We are studying Mexico in Social Studies, and that is where the poinsettia comes from. There is a good story about the legend of the poinsettia that we read before we made our flowers. Look for our poinsettias on our tree in our pictures we are going to send to you in the mail.= = = =Thursday, December 3rd:= =Dear China Buddies,= =We did a science project about gas, liquids and solids. We mixed a solid and liquid to create a gas. It was interesting and fun! What are you learning about in science?= =Reporter Juliana and Reporter Brianna=

=Thursday, December 10th:= =We celebrated Aeriel's 8th birthday today at school with a cake! WOW! It was yummy! In writing we working on Santa letters. We are writing to him to ask him for one special gift and trying to convince him that we should have this special gift. It is challenging! We mailed our letters to you. We hope you get them before Christmas vacation! Talk to you soon,Reporter Juliana and Reporter Brianna=

=Tuesday, December 15th:= =Hi...this is Juliana and Brianna. We are learning about our world in Social Studies. We watched a video clip about our own country, the USA. We learned that patriotism means showing others that we are proud of our country. We pledge to the flag every day and we sing our country's song, The Star Spangled Banner. We show patriotism every day when we are at school.= = =