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!

Busy Bees Giveaway!

We are having a Christmas Giveaway!  It's starting on Friday, December 2nd and will end Tuesday, December 7th at midnight.  Yes, I'm LATE!  We will announce our grand winner on Thursday in a post on our blogs.  If you are the winner, you will win my Gingerbread Unit and Busy Bees Christmas Collection.  Please be sure to Buzz on over to Busy Bees Blog to enter.  Enter THERE so we don't get confused.  Don't forget to leave your email address on your comments so that we will be able to contact you if you are the winner of our Christmas Giveaway.  Good luck~

Here are 6 ways to enter the contest.  Leave a comment for EACH of the items that you do:

Let us know that you follow Julie Lee's blog and  Busy Bee's blog.
Let us know that you follow Julie Lee's TPT store and Busy Bee's TPT store.

Let us know that both Julie Lee's blog and Busy Bee's blog are on your blog roll. 

Here's what you'll get!

PLUS, I'm throwing in my NEW Christmas Unit that's not even listed in my TPT store yet!!  

You'll probably be the first one to get it unless I get a lot done today!!  :)

Gingerbread Week & Our Five Senses

This week we learned about our five senses and had tons of fun reading "the gingerbread stories"...and comparing them.  The Gingerbread Man is one of my faves!  I didn't snap a lot of pics this week, but here are a few of the fun things we did!  The My Five Senses sheet below, Peppermint Patterns, and Flippin' for Sounds games can be found in my new Gingerbread Fun unit on tpt.  The Tastes of our Tongue isn't in there, but I'll try to get it on as a freebie soon...it was a last minute thing.

Drew pictures our five senses and wrote them

Had a taste test...

 sweet

sour

 sour

 bitter

 For fun, each day we used our sense of smell to decide which scent we would burn in our classroom...

We moved our names on the Promethean board to the one we liked best...

Lemon never won...what's wrong with lemon?  I like lemon?

 We flipped Christmas cookies and listened for the beginning sound of the picture on the back

 Still practicing patterns...

 Our cute little Gingerbread Five Senses anchor chart

 One version of our gingerbread glyphs from Kim Jordano

 We made fraction cookies, labeled them, and of course...added glitter!

Our Five Senses gingerbread man...isn't he cute?

Gingerbread House Word Hunt

Catch the Gingerbread Man

Catch the Gingerbread Man is played the same way as Catch the Turkey from last week's post...

And, my  December Small Groups and Intervention pack is available at my tpt store now...check it out!

Cyber Monday Sale

Let's try this thing again!  I will have a sale on everything in my TPT Store all day MONDAY!  Everything will be 20% off plus tpt offers a 10% discount too!  Shop today!

  

Deanna and I just uploaded our Winter Math and Literacy Centers pack so check that out too!

I promised you a couple of gingerbread freebies too...I haven't forgotten.  My internet is messed up at home...Boo!  I'll do it soon!  

As always, thanks for visiting my blog!  

Sale Problem?

Sorry friends!!  Not sure what is going on with my sale...on my end everything shows up on sale, but when I click my store it doesn't....trying to get it fixed and will throw another day in...I'll post when it's on!  :)  

Black Friday Sale!

I HEART Black Friday!  I look forward to this day all year long!  So, I'm throwing a sale at my tpt store today to join in on all the FUN!  Shop now for 20% off all of my items...plus tpt is offering a 10% discount as well!  Shop Now!  
Here's my Store!

Gingerbread Unit

My Gingerbread Unit if finally up!  Check back for a couple of gingerbread freebies soon!  But for now, ROLL TIDE ROLL!  Here's the link if you want to check it out:

Gingerbread Fun!

Thanksgiving Fun and a FREEBIES!

Well, it was a short fast week for us!  We managed to throw in some fun centers!  These centers you can find in my Happy Thanksgiving Pack at my tpt store.  Keep reading for more ideas and a couple of FREEBIES!  

They loved this one!  I added colored dots to match the feathers to make it easier for my kids to build the words.

If you bought my unit, make sure you download the revised one...there's a "goof" on this one...do you see it?

I fixed it and revised it!

I always love how these turn out each year!  We've been talking about symmetry so we designed these cool shirts for our Native American friends.  

This center was a HIT!  They caught the turkey with a fishing pole and then bingo dotted the matching letter.

Teacher Tip:  Instead of paper clips which always get pulled off from the fishing pole, just simply staple the corner of the game piece and it works perfect!  Easy peasy, lemon squeezy!

This sheet is a FREEBIE for you at the end of this post.

I saw this fun idea on pinterest from kidscount1234.com

This is under my reading loft...the kids lay under it and "look at the stars" then they can write the words they read...it's fun because it dark under my loft so it creates a "nighttime like" feel!

 Here are a few more pages to our Thanksgiving fact book...

If you grab these freebies give me a little love...in comments please!  :)

Catch That Turkey

Starry Sight Word Hunt

My Gingerbread Unit is almost done!

A REALLY Long Post, but LOTS of Stuff!

It feels like it's been a while since I've actually made a real post...we have been super busy in our classroom!  I cannot believe I am teaching Thanksgiving...where did the first day of school go?  It seems like it was yesterday!  Here are just a few of the things from last week and this week that we have been doing.  

Here we are completing our Frankenstein name comparison activity that you can find in mine and Deanna's Autumn packet.

I hung these along with our Frankensteins by Deanna...I didn't do the glyph part, but thought it went perfect with this name activity.

We read The Three Bears' Halloween and practiced our sequencing skills using this big candy corn.

And, of course, we retold the story with real candy corn then ate it!

We also made a venn diagram to compare this story to the original Three Bears story.

 We read The Little Scarecrow Boy and made these cute little scarecrows.  Each student chose which face they would make to scare a crow and then drew it and wrote it on their paper.

Here a just a few of our centers that you can find in my upcoming Thanksgiving Unit...it isn't posted yet, but hopefully tomorrow!

We make a Thanksgiving Fact book that turns out sooooo stinkin' cute!  Here are the first 3 pages we've completed.  

 We are practicing learning our number words and we made this cute little guy...it may be hard to see, but we wrote each number word to fill in the song.

During whole group math we matched the pumpkins below so that each were symmetrical, then we completed this little recording sheet!

Here's a link to my last year's post about Thanksgiving

there are some fun ideas there too

Finally, check out these three blogs...I teach with all three of these gals and they are GREAT!

http://misschambleeskinderfriends.blogspot.com

http://kindergartenkhronicles.blogspot.com

http://mrsbeardensclass.blogspot.com

Thanks for stopping by friends!  I truly enjoy reading all of your sweet comments so keep them coming!

My Thanksgiving unit is almost ready so keep your eye out AND many of you have asked about my gingerbread and Christmas things...they are up next!