Libby used paint markers, rubber stamps, and writing paper to practice her sight words, short vowel words, and lowercase y. I read a Christmas book to her.

Libby was given the iPad and instructed to choose an animal for her project. Libby chose a deer. I worked with her to import the image into Procreate and she colored in different parts of the design.

Libby and I discussed much of the information that we have covered through the first half of our year.

We discussed: colors, numbers, verbs (brincar, bailar, comer, correr, nadar), key phrases (eat please, water please, bathroom please, my turn, we go).

At some point during our discussion, Libby heard that her much younger neighbor in the school was a little upset.

So, we went to ask her why she was upset. And, we invited her to come say hello to us if she felt lonely.

This was a great display of compassion and I am glad that Libby was so quick to go help a fellow schoolmate.

Libby and I listened to two Spanish songs. She said that she recognized one of them but not the other.

The word castanet occurs in one of the songs. She told me that she has played the castanets and we discussed that.

Talk about what we have learned about Hanukkah and read "The Ninth Night of Hanukkah". Make the menorah craft and have Libby show me the Shamash candle and recall what it does.

Review what we learned the day before about Hanukkah. Talk about some foods we have at our own Christmas celebrations. Talk about what a Latke is and with Teddy and Jason, eat them. Discuss why latkes are eaten at Hanukkah: they are fried in oil to symbolize the candle oil that lasted 8 days.

Libby completed her interactive calendar. She read and discussed her vocabulary words. She put together her daily sentence puzzle. She completed an owl activity labeling the owl's body parts.

Libby completed her interactive calendar. She made Latkes.

Playground workout and pad work- Run and don't get caught-

Stretch and strengthen-

Self Defense combination-

This morning, we used cards numbered 1 through 5 to play addition war and reinforce our recent addition lessons. We each flipped over two cards and placed them on an addition mat. The larger number was recognized and found on the number line with the second number counted on with jumps to find the total in all. The player with the larger sum won all of the cards.

Today's lesson focused on representing addition as adding to a number and the understanding that adding objects to an existing group is counting on to find the total. Libby counted groups of objects and used connecting cubes to model adding to the group, and then wrote an addition sentence to tell how many in all.