Hour 12: 11am – 12pm
When I arrived today, no one was in the room. All the students were in lunch. Having a good time, I’m assuming. I was alone for about twenty minutes. When they came back from lunch, they were so excited and surprised to see me. While they used the restroom, “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” was playing in the background. They payed attention to the video when they weren’t in the bathroom. When the video had ended, they get ready for Christmas Bingo! They get a blank bingo card and one with all of the spaces filled in. They have to cut out and glue on their pieces to make their own custom bingo board. I called out different questions such as:
- “What do you wear to keep your hands warm when it’s cold?” (Answer: Mittens)
- “What do we hang up by the fireplace fro Santa to fill?” (Answer: Stocking)
- “What do we use to decorate our Christmas Trees?” (Answer: Ornaments)
If they get a bingo, they win a raffle ticket or two based on the type of bingo we were doing. If they won a regular bingo, they got one raffle ticket. If they got the four corners, they got two raffle tickets. If they got an X, they won three raffle tickets. It was very intense.
The raffle tickets are put into some different types of buckets on one side of the room. There is a row of books for them to choose from. If they would like that book, they drop the raffle ticket into the bucket of choice. They will be drawing the raffle tickets on the last day before break. They have six choices of books.
- How Not to Start Third Grade By Cathy Hapka and Ellen Titlebaum
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Adapted by Rick Bunsen
- Junie B. Jones: Turkeys We Have Loved and Eaten (and Other Thankful Stuff) By Barbara Park
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Getaway By Jeff Kinney
- Flat Stanley: Stanley’s Christmas Adventure By Jeff Brown
- Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Secret Crush Catastrophe By Rachel Renee Russell
- Pete the Cat: Snow Daze By James Dean