Goodbye January! Where Did You Go?

I can hardly believe we are already at the end of January. It seems it was New Year's Eve just a few days ago. So many things have happened this month, I will need to write more than one post just to share it all.

I want to start with our New Year's celebration. Here are some pictures of our first days back.

The kids were very excited to see blowers and hats and other festive materials when they arrived back after the Christmas break. We took time to share what we had done during our winter break, and then we did some group photo booth pictures.

Instead of writing out resolutions and goals, we focused more on what we did during out winter break. We also did do some New Year's journals and writing, but we mostly focused on various different winter themes.

Here is a cute writing activity from A Series of 3rd Grade Events that we did to focus on winter. My class loved coming up with crazy things for the snowflake to do. If you would like a copy, click on the picture.

With all the snow and ice storms happening back east, we decided to pretend that our city froze. The kids wrote poems about all the things that froze and what they did. It was a lot of fun. I used one of my templates from my Frozen pack. 

I finally got a chance to try out Susanna's art project. She has a tutorial on her blog at Whimsy Workshop. I was very pleased with the results and my kids loved doing it.

We finished our solar system unit and we had a big celebration to share the projects we created to show what we had learned. We did so many things during this unit, that I need to write a separate post to tell you all about it.

Lots of other things happened this month as well, but I will leave you with these things for now. I hope that your January was fabulous as well.