Greetings!
Just twenty days until Christmas! I love Christmas stories and Christmas music. Last year at about this time I shared some of my favorite books. This year I have an idea for you. As you read your favorite book, do what you can to illustrate it either on a board or set up a diorama. I read a book titled “The Story of Holly and Ivy”. In that book, part of the story takes place in a toy shop and I decorate my display case to look just like that toy shop. I have done it every other year and now students in older grades come by and have fond memories of the story.
It may be that you have students read a Christmas book and for their book report could be to bring items or set up a diorama to illustrate that book. I like this because the teacher does not have to decorate so extensively, the students love to do it, and they also take it down and haul it away. I also like tying a display to a book or books.
What book or books do you read that might lend themselves to helping to decorate your classroom?
Have a great week.
Audrey
