I suppose grade level would be important to know :) I'm teaching 7th grade... I love Jan Brett's books but don't know how well that would go over.
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Renee <phoenix...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > On Dec 2, 2009, at 7:43 PM, reading wrote: > > Does anyone have any good lessons/activities to use the week before winter >> break? We're finishing up a unit soon and it'd be nice to have something >> light and timely for the few days before break begins. >> > > I don't know what grade you are talking about but one year with my > Kindergartners I read aloud five different Christmas or winter-oriented > books by Jan Brett and then we made a graph showing which was our > favorite.... one person, one vote. It was a bar graph; each child got a > square to add to the bar under a picture of the book they liked best. > > Have them paint (or draw) a picture of their family at Christmas and write > about it. > > Renee > > "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." > ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
