We began our Social Studies session with a fun physical group activity. Miss Dina led the children in a fun Hungry, Hungry Hippos game in which the children worked in teams to see who could collect the most balls from the center of the floor. One person rode on a wheeled body board and used a basket to pull a group of balls back in with the assistance of their teammates. Danny teamed up with Jackson, one of our middle school students. They had a great time and even won some of the rounds! They also played a challenging game in which they put a candy cane in their mouth and had to hold it there without their hands while Miss Dina hung additional candy canes on the hook. It got heavier and heavier! We then headed back to the room for Social Studies. First, we used a Harcourt Horizons textbook to read more about Earth. I simplified the text and we looked at landforms such as plains, deserts, mountains, and valleys. We also looked at bodies of water such as rivers, lakes, and oceans. Also in this text, we read a realistic fiction story about a young man who travels with his dog to see America. He marvels at seeing the farms of Iowa, the skies of Nebraska, the wind in Wyoming, the mountains in Colorado, the desert in Nevada, and the ocean in Oregon. Additionally, we completed page 20 in Danny's Geography workbook in which he had to discriminate between mountains and hills in different tasks. We reviewed Danny's calendar and then read a nonfiction informational book called, My First Book of Time by Claire Llewellyn. In this book, we discussed the calendar, seasons, the months of the year, the days of the week, and how people, plants, and animals change over time. We followed this up with a fun book entitled, Snowmen All Year by Caralyn Buehner. We made predictions throughout the story and also found the rhyming words on each page. We talked about how silly it would be to see a snowman watching the fireworks on July 4th or at the beach! We had fun looking for the hidden illustrations on each page. This also gave us a little more perspective on the seasons. Finally, we watched a digital reader about Hanukkah on Pebble Go as we have been discussing winter holidays. This reader reviewed the story of Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, and how the Jewish people celebrate with prayer, playing the dreidel, lighting the menorah, and sometimes exchanging gifts.