Classroom Activities

Giving is the best gift of all at Holly Glen this holiday season. Holly Glen’s student council, staff, and students collected non-perishable and canned food items for the community closet at the Pfeiffer Center during the month of December. We collected over 800 canned goods and non-perishables that helped families in Williamstown. The students enjoyed participating in our scooter races based on their donations. Student Council Advisors, Mr. Joe Czbas and Mrs. Donna Gallagher and our 4th grade club members would like to thank our Holly Glen family for their continued support.

Welcome to the Room 3 Elf Academy!  Mrs. Boettcher's students transformed into elves during the Elf Unit.  They learned about elf jobs and character traits, played "Who Wants To Be An Elf”, mailed Elf Applications to the North Pole, and were given their very own elf names.  Santa even visited the classroom, decorated it, and left a very special letter!

The second graders in Mrs. Wristbridge’s class celebrated the holidays in a Seussical way!  On December 14th, the students were asked to wear green and were excited when they came in to find out it was Grinch Day! First the students worked on identifying what antonyms are and played a matching game to find their antonym partner. Next they listened to the story as it was read aloud and stopped throughout to highlight antonym pairs using the Ladibug document camera. They also discovered that the characters of the Grinch and Cindy Loo Who were antonyms! After they listened to the story, they listened to the Grinch song and read the lyrics. After a quick mini-lesson on metaphors and similes the students worked to find examples in the lyrics. They loved how terrible the writer described the Grinch through metaphors. Their final task was to describe the change in the Grinch and they used similes to describe the improved Grinch. To finish out their day they watched parts of the movie and compared it to the story.  They had a great day learning through a classic story, but the best part was the connections they made finding the real meaning of season!

What would a class campout be without spooky stories?  The students in Mrs. McCoy’s 4th grade class at Holly Glen wrote spectacular spooky stories and shared them during their campout.  The students wore pajamas, huddled around a makeshift “camp fire” on their sleeping bags and listened to each other’s tales of mystery!  A spooky time was had by all!

Mrs. Voci's first grade class got together with Mrs. Foti's fourth grade class for some reading fun!  Each fourth grade student was paired with a first grader and read them a story about friendship.  Together they drew a picture showing how to be a good friend to each other.  The two classes had so much fun and can't wait to get together again!