Today was a very busy day in our class. We started our day with Phys. Ed. After Phys. Ed. we completed our morning work and had our morning meeting. During morning meeting we practiced our song, Do You Know the Holidays?. We will be singing the song for the whole school during an assembly on December 23rd. We are really excited! After first recess Mrs. Peckmann met with the Magazines and Internet reading groups. Both groups are working on retelling a story with important details and making connections to what we read. During shared reading we took a close look at the winter holiday, Hanukkah. We learned that the candles of a menorah are placed in the menorah from right to left each night of Hanukkah and are lit using the shamash from left to right. We learned about the significance of the eight candles and we created personal menorahs describing how we shine our light at home, at school and at play. In math today we worked on comparing 2-digit and 3-digit numbers. At the end of the day we read a nonfiction book by Gail Gibbons, Weather Words. We used the book to discuss important weather vocabulary. We recorded the vocabulary words for an activity tomorrow. Mrs. Peckmann also showed us some rain guages and an anemometer. (Ask me what an anemometer measures!) We also discussed the types of people who might rely on accurate readings from weather instruments like thermometers, anemometers, weather vanes, rain guages and barometers for the daily lives. Our homework tonight is Jumpstart 2. Tomorrow is Day 4 in our schedule. Our special will be Music.