More Christmas Fun!

For any of you out there that have school next week...Bless. Your. Heart!  Oh my goodnes...I LOVE my kiddos, but I think we all need a break!  I can't wait to spend some quality time with my family.  Here is some of the fun we had this week learning and playing.  

This was so much fun!  They loved it...it's in Deanna's and my Winter Pack 

We are just starting to practice recording tally marks in centers and they did pretty good with it!

It's also in the winter pack in Deanna's store...

Up on the Housetop...this is always a fun and different twist on counting/adding more and they loved it!

It's in my Christmas Unit: Deck the Halls

Practicing Fractions...

I found these cute little Santa buckets at Dollar Tree last year.  This game can be found in my Christmas Unit...

I got this fun game from Mrs. Estes last year...I had these cool sticker pages with just the right things needed to shop for Santa's suit...it worked perfectly.  (This is not in the unit b/c it wasn't mine...)

This is how I "store" my reindeer chow...it's a large grocery bag folded down...inside is, goldfish, marshmallows, pretzel sticks, honeycomb cereal b/c I forgot to get Chex, and M&M's.

This Reindeer Chow activity can be found in my Christmas Unit: Deck the Halls

My Snowman Unit is *almost* finished!!  Coming up will be January Intervention and Small Groups, Mittens & Penguins

Keep Checking!

Merry CHRISTmas everyone!

Christmas Fun

Whew!  What a busy, week!  I can only imagine next week, but hey... Santa's almost here...what should we expect?!  We did a lot of fun things this week...a lot of assessing...and more next week too!  Let's skip assessment and get right to the FUN stuff!  

Both of these games are in the Winter Games for Math and Literacy from Deanna Jump and myself...

Manipulating letters to build sight words...

Now that we are segmenting sounds in words, syllables was a little confusing...so we are practicing

These 3 plus 18 other math and literacy centers are included in my new Deck the Halls Christmas unit...

I've had the reindeer fact book from Mailbox in my folder for years and finally got around to making it the way I wanted to and actually doing it...turned out so cute!  I used the same words as that one, just changed the cover a bit...

If you like it, grab the freebie below!  :)  

Look at my goodies...reindeer buckets came from Target dollar section...they may have them this year; Santa bag in the middle came from Target dollar section this year...I have objects from the Lakeshore sound tubs in it for a game; Santa buckets...Dollar Tree last year...they may have them again, not sure.  

These are in our station next week so check back for pictures.

I love games that incorporate fine motor practice...we so need it!  :)  PLUS, it's fun!

These symmetrical ornaments make our classroom look adorable!  Since school is our home away from home, it has to look "a lot like Christmas" there too!  

I saw this on a website a few years ago...littlegiraffes.com

I give all the strips to my little friends and they must put them in order from shortest to tallest before gluing them on their paper.  I check each one first.  Such great math skill practice but in a fun way!  Last, we add snow with white paint and a q-tip.

Our TLC Santa's make our door look darling!

Our class Christmas tree...love all the "kid ornaments"...

we played a rhyming rudolph color word game...LOTS of times because they kept begging to...

Enjoy your freebie below...if you snatch it up, let me know what you think.

Reindeer Fact Book Pics

Freebies, Gingerbread Update, AND my New Christmas Unit

Hi friends!
Don't forget to enter the Busy Bees giveaway...the winner gets Busy Bees Christmas Collection, my gingerbread unit, PLUS, my brand new Christmas Unit that I just finished tonight!  :)  Leave comments on the Busy Bees blog please.


Upon request, I added the entire alphabet sequence to my gingerbread unit...so if you purchased it, head on over to download the revised version if you want it.  That's the only change.  If you'd like to check it out it's HERE.


My December Intervention and Small Group Pack is also new.


Finally, I posted my new Christmas Unit if you'd like to check it out!




Here's the other gingerbread freebie I promised... Hope it works this time.  :)

Gingerbread House Word Hunt

Plus, another freebie...

December Sight Word Stamp

Thanks as always for visiting my blog!  I truly appreciate it!  Comments make me happy!

More Christmas Fun!

This week was our last week before the holidays, so we had to get in the rest of our Christmas activities before break.  This was a fun week.  Check out some of the games we played!  I'll post pics of our Storytelling Festival soon!  Check back.

Our adorable TLC Santa's.  Teacher friends, if you've never heard of TLC, it's a MUST for K teachers!  

Couldn't teach without it!  (or wouldn't want to)

This was probably the most fun game we played this week.  They had to build the chimney's by rolling the die.  I loved how they had to figure out when to stop one chimney and begin building the other ones.

They had to roll each turn, and couldn't put any back in the box once they counted out their cubes.  They had to figure out how many more they needed on each chimney and then what to do with what was left over.  SO MUCH FUN, plus a great learning game!

She has finished the one lying down.

complete!

Rectangle trees, but first we had to put them in order from shortest to tallest.  After, we added dots of snow with q-tips.  I forgot to take a picture of the finished product, but they are coming home with your kiddos.

Our first snow day of the school year!

Of course, we had to taste the snow!

We are looking for what's inside the stocking, then finding the letter on our paper to match

the beginning sound.

He found a rat.

Here, we are pulling out an object and finding the letter in the word "Christmas"that matches

the object's beginning sound.  

Here, they had to read the word, and match it to the bottom part of the stocking.
We also have a number word matching to sets stocking game.

They had to count the ornaments on each tree and record the number on a matching color tree.

Here, they measured the presents with blocks.