Entries from December 2008

Thursday, December 25th, 2008

Merry Christmas!

WOW! I cannot believe that Christmas day is here! I hope you all have a wonderful holiday and I look forward to seeing you all in the New Year. You can always send in comments and let me know what you are doing for your break. I miss you all!
Mrs. Smits

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Grace’s Personal Narrative

I did not forget Grace! Here she is sharing her wonderful story and pictures. Enjoy!

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Snow Day…

So sorry that I didn’t get a chance to see you all before our official break began. Can you believe all the snow we have now?
I hope you all have a wonderful, Blessed Holiday Season. I will see you on January 5! Keep checking the blog over break because I [...]

Thursday, December 18th, 2008

Holiday Traditions

We had some fantastic presentations this week from our fourth grade members. They shared some of things they do with family and friends during the Holidays. We learned a lot about each other and we even ate some treats. You have to see them in action. Many of the students used [...]

Monday, December 15th, 2008

Amazing Students

There are AMAZING students in room 12 at Holmes School. We have been doing some really fantastic writing. I have three brave girls who took their writing and were so brave to share their pictures and their writing on our blog. We will be sharing more writing from all the kids after [...]

Monday, December 15th, 2008

Rock Exploration!

We are studying rocks and minerals in science, so today we did just that… The kids took rocks and minerals and completed some tests with them. They were looking for hardness, if they were shiny, if they made a streak, and if there were attracted to a magnet. It was a great [...]

Friday, December 12th, 2008

Pasties for Everyone!

We are knee deep in our study of Michigan’s History and we have stopped on the time line to learn about the mining of iron ore up in the UP back in the 1800s. Our focus has been the little town of Fayette. We had a miner come visit and in our reading [...]

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

“Factor Flakes”

We have been exploring prime numbers, factors, products, multiplication, factors, etc… You get the idea… We decided to add some “math decoration” to our classrooms and created “Factor Flakes”. Each child had a product and they had to “break it down” to its prime numbers. From there, we made our factor flakes. [...]

Monday, December 8th, 2008

Writing, Writing, Writing…

We finished our first personal narratives that we took through the writing process and we are now sharing them with each other. We will post some as podcasts soon, so stay tuned. We just wanted to give you a look at us as writers in action! We have been doing some studying [...]

Saturday, December 6th, 2008

Snowy Saturday!

Hello everyone!
I hope this post finds you cozy and warm in your home sipping on hot chocolate… I just wanted to post the newest “Holmes Happenings” in case you did not get a chance to check it out.
December Holmes Happening
I have been out of the building for a couple of days. [...]