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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Holiday Homework Pass

I decided to try and come up with something my kids would love for Christmas and would not break my piggy bank. The solution.... a holiday homework pass. They can't get that gift from anyone else, right! I made it generic without my name, so other teachers can benefit from using it. I will hang it from a little chocolate Santa lollipop. 

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Steps in a Process Writing Activity

This week's writing topic was steps in a process.  There are so many fun things you can do with this.  What did I decide to do?  Yep.... How to Decorate a Cupcake.  My kiddos were so excited when I pulled out the icing!  YUM!  Anything that involves food is a sure way to get them engaged.  I baked mini cupcakes the night before, and then each student got icing and candy to put on top.  While decorating the cupcake, they had to use their writer's notebook to jot down everything they were doing.  When they were finished, they got to use what I call 'pretty paper' to write their final copy.  Guess what!!  Here is the FREE "How to Decorate a Cupcake" themed writing paper if you would like to do it with your kids.

If you would like to do an extension of this writing activity, I have one to purchase in my Teachers Pay Teachers store. The topic of this one is How to Make Christmas Cocoa. This comes with everything you need for a Christmas Writing Center on the topic of  steps in a process.  Click HERE to check out all the details.

 

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