Hello From Near and Far...

I feel like this title is perfect as I am on the airplane now to return to Ohio.  Just spent and amazing 4 days celebrating my Mother in Law's 90th birthday.  She looks great and is still independently living in Florida.  While there I was also able to visit with my parents so the trip was perfect.  Having been gone for Thanksgiving the week before and then missing the 2 Gingerbread days last week I feel...hmmm frazzled????!!!
Tomorrow I will begin with my class Winter Holiday Lights which focuses on Holidays celebrated around the world.  We cover one holiday each day.  A follower wrote and asked if I had anything to enrich this unit so it could be used to meet more Social Studies standards.  The results...Hello From Near and Far.  Each of the holidays covered also has a part in the Hello From Near and Far packet.  I'm thinking I will now truly be covering all I need to about children around the world while connecting to geography, families, languages, food, and so much more.
To check it out there is a freebie on Israel.

This is a sample from the packet on Australia.  

Here is one of the Anchor Charts but this information is also in mini booklet form.

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And the entire packet.

Holidays

Gingerbread fun!

Today was The Gingerbread Baby!  I just love this story and best of all are the creations we take time to complete.  We cut out gingerbread cookies and baked them.  Using milk cartons we hot glued graham crackers on. The best part of course is the decorating.  I then take pillow fluff and put around each house.  If you look down at the bottom you will see more creations on SMILEbox.  Tomorrow we read Gingerbread Friends.  Another neat activity will accompany that story.  Happy December all!

and next it will be...

The Night Before Christmas!
I so enjoyed the Night Before Thanksgiving that I decided to take a similar try with this long time favorite.
It is free for all of you!

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Also tomorrow is another big site sale.  Hope you will stop by and purchase some goodies to get you through December and January.

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This next week I am doing Gingerbread with my class!  Keep an eye open for pictures and stories.

Who doesn't love a good sale?

Snow Day Activities to keep your class engaged during the winter months.

Here are three packets to keep your kiddos engaged during the long winter months.

This first one is a favorite of mine as it includes all my "flakey friend" stories.  Six stories that include word work, writing, and comprehension.  

I created these to review and provide practice for many of the math concepts we have covered to this point.  Many are dice games that I plan to use during the long winter months of indoor recess.

And I love beginning each day while lunch count is taken, notes are collected, and all buses arrive with these review activities titled "snowy day WARM UPS"!

So much fun and so valuable.

Finally a little freebie for you!!

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Have a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends.

See you when we return.

Yep!! DECEMBER:)

Brrrrrr...It's cold here!

So that means lots of indoor recess!
I am sharing today a winter themed activity and some "blustery" crafts.
The making word templates are FREE and I think perfect as a learning tool and vocabulary enhancer.
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These are just some adorable winter crafts with a "snowy" theme!!

These little guys and gals can stay up all winter long!! 

Who would have thought we'd be thinking about snow in November???!!!

I will get patterns out soon for you to use but those of you who are crafty can probably just figure it out yourselves.  Bundle Up!  It's cold out there.

Happy Thanksgiving Freebie!

I hope you will each enjoy this little freebie I created.  It is a favorite story of mine and I am anxious to use these activities with the kiddos in my class. There is no craft with this but I bet we all have enough turkey patterns.  There is word work, writing, and story recall included as well as vocabulary for posting.

Click here to download.