In reading we worked on putting animal names into alphabetical order. In math we played a game called "I have...Who has?" for practicing number recognition. It's hard to explain, but each student was given a card with two numbers. It would read "I have 12. Who has 23?" Then the person with the 23 would read their card, and so on. One of our vocabulary words today was "companion" and since the students love to write about their friends, I asked them to substitute the word companion for the word friend. The highlight of the day was when our 4th/5th grade buddies came to read Winter themed books. Each of the older students had selected a book to read to their little buddies. Then they asked their little buddy to draw a picture of their favorite part of the story.