Happy New Year Parent Signature Labels

 

Need tests or other papers returned when kids have a low score?  Looking for a parent signature? .... I always ask my parents to sign and return papers with a low score after they have reviewed them with their child.  Stickers are an easy way to do this. Just peel and stick!  You can get these parent signature labels as a freebie by clicking HERE.  These should print perfectly on Avery 8162 labels.

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New Year's Morning Work Activity

Start saying "Happy New Year!" from the moment your students return from the Christmas break. My students will walk in to find this New Year's morning work packet on their desk.  It has easy to read directions, to they will know exactly what to do.  There is a different activity for each day of the week.  I use this same formatted morning work packet for most holidays, so my kids pretty much know the routine.  The packet includes:

Monday:  New Year related pictures and students will use each one in a sentence with correct capitalization and punctuation.

Tuesday:  finding words within the words Happy New Year and then also finding the value of New Years related words.

Wednesday: writing a short paragraph telling about their favorite Christmas gift. Students always LOVE sharing this. You can have them read this aloud later in the day.

Thursday: writing a paragraph about their New Year's resolution.

Friday: putting 20 New Year's related words into alphabetical order.

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New Year's ABC Order Activity

Looking for a literacy center activity revolving around alphabetical order....AKA.... ABC order? This is a New Year's themed activity suitable for a file folder.  Laminate and baggie up the pieces. Put everything neatly in the folder and staple the matching themed cover to the front. Students can work with a partner or individually to put the images in order. They will then write them on the skill sheet.  Great activity to have a group do while you are meeting with a guided reading group.  Click HERE to get all the details on this ABC order activity.

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FREE New Year's Bookmark

Get your kids excited about the New Year and reading with a colorful New Year's bookmark. Plus, it's a freebie! If you decide to snag the bookmark file, please do share it with a friend by clicking the facebook link below.



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Classroom Christmas Party

For starters I want to say, " YaH- Whooooo!"  .... I have 15 days off!

Okay, now for the sharing of the Christmas Party, which was actually a lot of fun.  My room mom planned games with the "Minute to Win It" theme.  There were centers set up around the room, and the kids traveled around and participated in the various activities. A few of the games were really cute, so I thought I would give you the short hand version of how to play.  You will have to excuse the quality of the photos.  My Black Berry is taking terrible pictures.

In this first activity, the kids used candy canes to try and stack 5 large nuts on top of each other.

Most would get 3-4 and then it would fall over. Oh, and you couldn't use your second hand.

Here the kids had to stack a tower of plastic ups without it falling over.  They then had to take it down. Taking it down was actually where a lot of the kids made it fall.

Next, the kids had to shake 5 boxes and then put them in order based on how many Christmas jingle bells were in each box.  There were boxes with 5,10,15,20 and 25.  Once they had them in the order they wanted, they removed the lid and read the number inside and saw the bells.

This was a ping pong game where the kids bounced a ping pong ball and tried to get it into the one of the Christmas themed cups.  The game started off with the snow man bucket in the middle but then it was removed to make it more challenging.  This one was a fun game to watch because balls were flying everywhere.

As you can see, we had a lot of fun in class today.  This was actually a nice way to finish a week that was filled with an hour of benchmark testing every day.

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