Ms. Hudson's Firsties: December Photo Fun wrapped up in one big post!

Hi everyone! Merry Christmas (or day after)! I hope everyone is enjoying their time with family and friends, and I hope Santa was good to you! I'm sure all of the Firsties received many wonderful gifts from Santa- their hearts were definitely all ready for Jesus! I am sure I will get to hear all about their Christmas adventures when we return to school after the new year! In the meantime, I just wanted to share some photos from those extremely busy last few weeks of school... enjoy!

We hope you enjoyed the beautiful "snow globes" that the Firsties worked hard making for you! There is a hole punch at the top so you can hang it somewhere special!

Here we have some students working hard on their "Math Mints"


Each "Math Mint" shows a fact family- fact families are sets of addition and subtraction problems that use the same three numbers.


Fact families help our Firsties memorize their addition and subtraction facts!


Here's a close up of one... This fact family uses the numbers 6,4, and 10

And if you didn't hear, we had a special visitor one day...

The 8th Graders brought Santa with them while they sang carols for us! This is one of our favorite St. Jude School traditions = )

Before all of the Christmas ~~chaos~~ fun, we celebrated 12-12-12...


Our Hundreds Helper even helped us skip count by 12's on the fabulous interactive whiteboard!

Speaking of interactive whiteboard, here are some of our Firsties working on a Phonics workbook page projected on the board...


Finally, here are some students working on their financial skills... we will be working on counting with coins for a few more weeks, so practice counting at home!

Future CPA's and Wall Street financiers...

Firsties learned that when we count a group of coins, we always S-O-C! (Sort (into like groups), Order (from greatest to least), then Count!)

Well, I hope you enjoyed this glimpse into our First Grade classroom! Please enjoy the rest of our wonderful Christmas Break- I know I will enjoy sleeping in, spending time with family and friends, and camping during the New Year's! Speaking of New Year's, everyone has their own special traditions to do on New Year's Eve, and I thought I'd share with you my family's tradition. According to the Japanese (if you didn't know, my mother is a quarter Japanese- born and raised there!), you must eat noodles -the longer, the better- on New Year's Eve. This represents a "long" and healthy life in the new year! So, grab some ramen, spaghetti, or whatever pasta you can, and enjoy some noodles on New Year's Eve! Happy New Year everyone!