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Hibernation, Christmas card making, art, and The Nutcracker

This week has been busy with our concert practices, performances, art, and busy learning.
Thank you for coming to our performances! The students were amazing performers and the cutest sugar plums!

In science this week were are learning about hibernation. Ask me what hibernation means, and some animals that do this. We are learning that some animals hibernate and sleep all through the winter, while other animals can still be active when they sleep in the winter. We drew pictures of some animals that do this, and then added "snow" to our pictures to show how animals sleep in dens, caves, or underground.










In art we have been making snowflakes, Christmas cards for our buddies, a surprise art project with stamps, paint, and stencils. Tomorrow we will be making some guided drawings with our buddies!








The Elf in our classroom (Snowflake) has been giving us Kindness challenges all week to help spread kindness and cheer. Ask me what some of Snowflake's challenges were!

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