I am SOOO excited to be here for day 6! (Also sorry it took so long to post--it's been one of those days AND 4th grade program night--aahhhh!)
I hope you have been enjoying entering to win the fab stuff everyone else has posted about. (Be sure to visit the previous days if you haven't yet!!)
Now, let's get to the GOOD stuff!
Because this is the 6th day of Christmas prizes, I am offering one lucky person the chance to win 6 items of your choice from my Teachers Notebook store! (By the way, I plan on adding some more new items in the next week, so you'll have lots to choose from.) :)
3 ways to enter:
1. Follow my blog and comment HERE stating that you do.
2. Follow my Teachers Notebook store and comment HERE stating that you do.
3. Comment HERE and tell me one of your favorite holiday activities to do with your students. (I need some ideas!)
Enter by midnight Day 12.
Good luck! :)
I am following your Teacher Notebook store and your blog!!! I can't wait to look through all of your great ideas!!! :)
ReplyDeleteAnd...a great idea for Christmas is to wrap up Christmas/Holiday/Winter books in wrapping paper. Each day you get to unwrap a present and read the story. It's incorporating reading and a surprise kids look forward too!
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Yearn to Learn Blog
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Yearn to Learn Blog
I do team holiday puzzles. Grab several 100 piece puzzles with holiday scenes and have students rotate to different ones to complete.
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I follow your blog! Great ideas!
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My favorite holiday activity is having our Christmas party and making crock pot hot chocolate! YUM!
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For the holidays, I have the children participate in holiday trivia as part of our countdown. I give out yummy sweetart candy canes when they answer their question...all get a turn. They LOVE it!!
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i love having families spend time together. in class we put together all the fixins for hot cocoa. i print out tags and recipe cards. the kids love bringing it home! i've also done cookies in a jar :O)
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I love using a holiday passport type with the kiddos. We learn about the different holidays in November and December. We spend several days learning about the holiday and then we capture the learning in our passport. :)
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My favorite Christmas activity is to have Polar Express day and do some fun activities from the book!
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I've been following your blog for a while - love it
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ReplyDeleteWe wake fun snowflakes and cover our room. I like that they can carry over to January :-)
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My favorite holiday things to do with my students are gingerbread activities. Everything from crafts, compare and contrast, graphing, measuring, etc.. I just love those little gingerbreads! :)
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ReplyDeleteFor Christmas, I like making snowflakes. And if you are feeling creative, the kiddos can write stuff on the snowflakes, like what they wish they could do over winter break :)
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I follow your blog and TN store! My favorite activity for the holidays: I buy a pack of cards from the dollar store and I cut them up jigsaw puzzle style, and the kids have a blast trying to piece them back together. I also write messages inside the cards, some sweet, some silly...they love it!
ReplyDeleteIf I were back in the classroom I would do small presents.
ReplyDeleteSub Hub had a cute idea today. You hang a paper chain to count down till Christmas. Your class breaks a link and reads what was written at the end of the day. For example play Santa Says, Freeze Tag, read a Christmas story, etc. Then you do it together. :)
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Fantastic 1st Grade
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Follow your blog! Can't wait to explore some more!
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My favorite craft to do with students is (a few things!!):
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My favorite Holiday thing is reading all the different books to my kids - Best Christmas Pagent Ever, Gingerbread Baby, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and Polar Express
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ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite holiday activities is to make the elf from Glyph Girls and then have the students write a journal from their elf's perspective. It is a hoot!
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We do a reenactment of Las Posadas.
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A favorite holiday activity of mine is to read a Gingerbread Man story and have students decorate their own Gingerbread Man any way they wish. As the story is told, Gingerbread cookies are eaten. The next day the students share their creations and hang them up onto our "Have A Sweet Holiday" board.
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One of my favorite things to do with my kiddos is Christmas around the World.
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Taming My Flock of Firsties
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I love making the cinnamon ornaments. The smell is amazing and the kids get to work with their hands.
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I love reading the Polar Express and sipping hot chocolate. Everyone gets a train ticket and silver bell too!!
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Now following your blog. Love!
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Following your TN shop, too.
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One of my favorite things to do with the class is to make ornaments out of recycable materials. Then we give the ornaments to the public library for their tree
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We do lots of activities with the Grinch. Love him!! We do the Glyph Girls Grinch glyph and they love it.
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I love the Polar Express, Cookies Hot Cocoa & now lots of fun stuff I have found in the blogging world.
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We have a Polar Express Day, and this year we are going all out!!! We will be playing games, making crafts (Pinterest!!), and reading/watching Polar Express.
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ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas activities is measuring and weighing presents and trying to guess what's in them.
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my favorite Christmas activity is an art project. You get a white, silver or blue bulb. paint the kids fingers and just the top palm of their hand. press the fingers/hand onto the bulb and it looks like snowmen. you can add glitter to the bottom part where the snowmen are 'standing'. when they are dry, have the kids draw a carrot nose, scarf and eyes. they turn out super cute.
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I follow your blog! One of my favorite activities to do around the holiday with my kiddos is our countdown santa. We make a little santa with a hat and beard. I start it when we have 2 weeks left of school before Christmas break. The beard has the number of days we have left (this year I started at 13 instead of 14 because 13 fell on a Monday). We hang them on the chalk ledge in the front of the room for display. Each morning we put a cotton ball on Santa's beard to help us count down until school is out for break. I am hoping to get my templates up soon to share with everyone if I can figure it out! I am still a new blogger and am trying to get it all together!
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I watch polar express and we wear pajamas and drink hot chocolate every year. We do some graphing and writing activities too.
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I follow your blog.... You give me great ideas!!
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My fav Christmas is our class party bc we decorate sugar cookies while watching the Polar Express and sipping hot chocolate!!! :)
I have an "Ornament Day" each year. Today was that day. The afternoon after lunch is spent rotating through 4/5 stations with the help of some great parent volunteers. Each station makes an ornament. I keep 2 ornaments per student at school for our tree and the kids take two home. Very neat and kids love that they get to make ornaments in 3rd grade. It only takes about an hour.....I can spare that!
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Crayons and Curls
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We made applesauce cinnamon (and glue) gingerbread man ornaments today! So much fun and they smell sooo good! (and they look so pretty on the tree) You can google for the recipe or you can email me! :)
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Crayons and Curls
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Flamingo Fabulous in Second Grade
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I've been searching Pinterest for winter ideas since I am all out of creativity for the season... I plan to do the paper plate snowman scene that has been floating around.
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I follow your blog and TN Shop! My favorite thing to do around Christmas is Gingerbread Men/Girls, etc. We have always made the applesauce and cinnamon gingerbread people and lots of other fun activities. We do glyphs, rewrite the story using a different character such as "Run, run as fast as you can, you can't catch me I'm the Gingerbread ______". Kids then finish the story following the regular storyline but using their characters. They turn out so cute! My favorite last year was a Gingerbread Cowgirl!!
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I love to have the kids make gingerbread houses. They love it and always look cute too!
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ReplyDeleteI have been loving the Elf on the Shelf this year with the kiddos, we even have one kid that has made up a song and sang to Jingle :D. One fun activity though is to make our own snowglobes using a plastic cup. They are too cute!
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My favorite holiday activity with my students is when we make Christmas ornaments at our Halloween party! They always have so much fun and the ornaments are sooo cute!
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite holiday activities is lining up all the chairs (like a train) and having the students "board the polar express" where they watch the movie.
ReplyDeleteI also give the kids free reading/writing time while we listen to music and drink hot chocolate.
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I love to have the kids create their won gingerbread man. He gets disguised however they like! Too cute! We do a paper craft first and then to finish off the unit we decorate a cookie!
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My favorite [only] holiday craft I do is a puzzle piece Christmas tree ornament. I'll be blogging about it this weekend. I actually did this craft in third grade, so I show mine to my kids before we do it. They LOVE finding out I was in third grade once. THE SHOCK!
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One of my favorite holiday activities is our Gingerbread hunt! I put clues/rhymes throughout the school building and the kids have to figure out each clue to bring them to the next location....in the end they find a nice surprise!(gingerbread house/cookies, etc) The kids love it!
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I watch Polar Express and we wear pajamas and drink hot chocolate every year.
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ReplyDeleteOnce of my favorite holiday activites is the math ornament. My students pick a math vocabulary word and make an ornament that represents that word. I know it really isn't Christmasie (I'm sure I didn't spell that right) but I have only taught math up until this year.
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