Theme: Holidays

We read and discuss the book's main theme of miracles while learning about different holiday traditions and making personal connections to the main theme. 

 Everyone writes a reading response about miracles using opinions and personal connections.

We read aloud and analyze two poems.  One is a classic Robert Frost poem.

White Fields

By James Stephens

In the wintertime we go

Walking in the fields of snow;

Where there is no grass at all;

Where the top of every wall,

Every fence and every tree,

Is as white as white can be.

Pointing out the way we came,

Every one of them the same.

All across the field there be

Prints in silver filigree;

And our mothers always know,

By the footprints in the snow,

Where it is the children go.

Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

By Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know.

His house is in the village though;

He will not see me stopping here

To watch his woods fill up with snow.

My little horse must think it queer

To stop without a farmhouse near

Between the woods and frozen lake

The darkest evening of the year.

He gives his harness bells a shake

To ask if there is some mistake.

The only other sound's the sweep

Of easy wind and downy flake.

The woods are lovely, dark and deep.

But I have promises to keep,

And miles to go before I sleep,

And miles to go before I sleep.


Everyone creates holiday-themed greeting cards!  The artwork and messages are carefully planned, revised and finalized.

Ms. Perlmutter goes to Banff, Alberta.  She stays at the Rimrock Hotel and learns to ski on the Rocky Mountains!

What's next? We'll share our experiences of the holidays through discussion and recount writing!