Decking The Halls - Literally

We began getting in the Christmas spirit by decorating the LSMS Gingerbread House.  Each student decorated peppermints and peppermint sticks. 

 We took all of our materials and colorful cut-out circles to the house and began decorating.  It turned out so cute!

Later, each student received 3 post-it notes.  The students were asked to draw what comes to mind when they think of Christmas.  These post-its were used to form a large Christmas tree that we placed on our bulletin board in the hallway.

They also each received a coffee filter.  The students colored the coffee filters with washable markers and then sprayed them with water causing the colors to spread.  They folded their coffee filters into eights and then cut along the edges to create beautiful snowflakes.  To break things up in the hallway they also made white paper snowflakes.  Our hallway looks so festive!

The last thing we did was use snow globes to illustrate our favorite scenes from our favorite books.  I think each snow globe represents a different book.  They wrote about their scene at the bottom of the globe.  You should stop by and read some of them if you have a chance.

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM MRS. UPTON'S CLASS!