Winter Things!

What a busy December!  I can't believe that Christmas is in a few days!  We are at school through today and trying to get some things done in between lots of sick kiddos and being wildly excited about Santa's arrival!  

We did our December Snazzy Snacks last week and they were adorable!  The recipe was for Rudie the Reindeer.  You use rice cakes, caramel sauce, and some fixins' to get these to turn out.

We also did this cute project from Christie over at First-Grade-Fever to go along with the book If you Take a Mouse to the Movies!  The kids love this story and have fun thinking about where they would take their mouse.

We also wrote about what we would do to help Santa if he got stuck in the chimney.  We read the book Santa's Stuck and talked about how we could help a stuck Santa.

I hope that everyone has a wonderful winter break and a happy holiday season!!

Thanksgiving Week!

Thanksgiving week is upon us!  I don't know what your school week looks like but we go through Wednesday at lunchtime!  Here are a few activities that we are doing to fill the shortened week!

Interactive Thanksgiving Books
The kids love taking these home right before Thanksgiving and sharing them with their families. They learn about the voyage on the Mayflower, chores of the pilgrim children, their housing and the first Thanksgiving feast!

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Contraction Practice

We start to really get into contractions about this time of the year.  The kids love that these 'PIES' actually help us learn our contractions.

Guided Reading

We are even reading about Thanksgiving this week with our Thanksgiving on Thursday book study!

 

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Snazzy Snacks

Last week we also did our November Snazzy Snack. We made Turkey Tracks!  It is so simple, they just spread cream cheese on a cracker and use chow mein noodles to make a 'turkey track' on the cracker!

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I hope everyone has a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving holiday!

Snazzy Snacks!

Last week we finally did our first round of Snazzy Snacks!  This is something that I have done for the past couple of years and the kids love it!  I first heard about it from Mrs. Bainbridge.  At Open House Night I have parents sign-up to bring in ingredients for our snacks throughout the year.  About a week or so ahead of time I send home a shopping list of ingredients with the parent(s) who signed up.

 

The first step in Snazzy Snacks is writing down the recipe.  I make a set of classroom cookbooks that the students write each recipe in.  Then at the end of the year they will get to take it home and can make any of our yummy snacks again at home.  I print the covers on colored cardstock and usually also laminate them for durability.

After everyone has written the recipe (a great handwriting exercise) we all get to make the recipe.

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