Who doesn't love tic-tac-toe? Especially with penguins and snowmen? C'mon you know you're gonna make yourself a set. ๐ The kidlets can make these without too much fuss. It is helpful to have envelopes or baggies for the little pieces, though. Get the files here. Happy 3-in-a-rowing!
Today's gift is the world's tiniest coloring book! At least that's what I tell my class. They love showing off these when they're done. This is another craft where you have to do some step-by-step instructions. The kiddos need scissors and a copy of this page. The idea is to
Read about the 12 Days of Christmas booklet here. Today we have a little 7-page story that the kids can help illustrate. We can call it shared reading for the day, right? It's two days before Christmas and Santa has lost his hat! There's no time to get a new
Read about the 12 Days of Christmas booklet here. Halfway already! Christmas really is creeping up. One of my kids today said "Only 20 more days." My heart started racing. So much to do!!! Anyway, today's fun-ness are some word searches for your little ones. You can get the file
Read about the 12 Days of Christmas booklet here. …My teacher gave to me a 5-pointed star that's bendy." Gah! Who writes this stuff?? Seriously, though, I've tweaked this for years and that's the best I came up with. Probably the reason I didn't choose "poet" as a career option.
Read about the 12 Days of Christmas booklet here. Teacher thinks she's a comedian! Today we're making a riddle-filled flap book. For this activity, each student needs a copy of the main page. Students should cut around the outside dotted line. That will leave them with a large rectangle. Fold
Read about the 12 Days of Christmas booklet here. We have 3 round circles. Well, that doesn't sound too exciting. Unless, of course, you get to use the circles to make your very own SNOWMAN BOOKMARK! It certainly doesn't get more exciting than that. Students can cut out and arrange
Read about the 12 Days of Christmas booklet here. Today we have 2 mazes. Fun for everyone! You can download them here. This year, in an attempt to save paper, we reduced these to 1/2 sheets. It worked okay the the square maze, but I'm afraid it made the tree
Read about the 12 Days of Christmas booklet here. I think this googledocs thing is working. Let me know if it's really not. Here's what my kiddos get on the 1st Day of Christmas (12 school days before vacation). It's a doorknob hanger to color and cut out. Sometimes they
My first blog post from my new computer!ย The old laptop C-R-A-S-H-E-D so I had to get this new guy.ย Merry Christmas to me!ย You forget how much you rely on technology until it leaves you stranded.ย I’m just glad my files weren’t lost.ย Phew! Can you believe Christmas is
After last week's INSANITY (Halloween, torrential rain = inside recess, power outage, field trip) it was a relief to get back to normal today. It gave us the first real chance to try out the November writing prompts. I gathered a bunch of journal ideas from the internet and wrote
We didn't get a chance to share any new Halloween posts with you this year. We've both just been crazy busy with other projects (busy bags, anyone??) But we do have some fun ideas you may have missed so I've rounded up the ideas + freebies for you all in
