Upon further inspection, we realized that he had left not one but two letters for us. One was the daily letter from him, and the other was from Mrs. Claus!
Oh my goodness were we excited about our special project to help Santa! One student commented that, "we have to do this right away. If Santa finds out what happens he might put Mrs. Claus on the naughty list!" another responded, "yeah, and if that happens he might lose his jolly spirit and then he wouldn't want to have a Christmas at all".
As you can see, we took our project very seriously! We put aside our morning plans and set right to work on our new assignment. First we brainstormed some ideas as a class to get their creative juices flowing. They came up with SUCH original ideas. For example, one student suggested that Santa's new suit could have a robotic arm. That way he could maneuver his arm down the chimney to drop off the presents and save time by not having to go all the way down himself. Another student suggested that he have a magic camera belt. When he pushes the button on his belt a spy camera appears in the children's rooms and a big screen projects in the living room. This way Santa can see if the children are nestled all snug in their beds or not.
A fun thing about this project was it brought out a lot of connections to movies. Last week during indoor recess we watched Prep and Landing. A lot of students made connections to that and took some of the high tech ideas the elves had and incorporated them in their suits. Other students made connections to the movie The Santa Claus and incorporated some of those ideas into their work.
Since Mrs. Claus didn't need our finished products until next week, we took our time creating our design yesterday. Next week we are going to finish up our work by writing her a letter explaining the different parts of our suits and telling her why she should pick each one.
These designs seriously turned out FABULOUSLY! Here is just one of the awesome examples:
For those that don't read "first grader", this new suit for Santa has:
-j et packs on the back (to help him fly)
- a command shirt (so he can be in contact with the North Pole at all times)
- a hypnotizing wand (to put kids and animals under a spell to get them back to sleep if they wake up)
- a noise meter (sucks in all the noise Santa makes so even if he is loud, no one can hear a thing)
- a naughty and nice list phone (so he can easily see who is on which list and it won't take up space)
- cookie pants (the pants pocket works as a cookie dispenser in case he gets hungry).
LOVE it! So creative! I can't wait to see the writing the kids do with these next week. This is one of my favorite projects of the year.
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