Five for Friday...Coming soon! Last week before Holiday break....AKA Wild Week!

 

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This was my first week back to school after 9 long weeks!

It went very well, mostly because of the wonderful people I work with.

 

 

 

 

My Schedule has changed a bit, I have a session with a couple of guys who are very difficult to get and keep engaged. There isn't a specific subject to address at the time I have them, I get to be creative.

 

Naturally with the holiday spirit surrounding us, there are lots of fun activities that fit right in.

 

 

 

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I found this activity last summer and tried it out with our summer class. It was a HUGE success! They loved it and couldn't get enough. It is called exploding treasure chests and the idea

is from

Fun a Day

 

Sooooooo

 

I decided to repeat this recipe calling it

Exploding Christmas Presents!

 

 

 

 

This recipe fills 2 ice trays.

Mix 1 cup of water, 3 cups of baking soda and sprinkle some Jello (for color..and it smells good). It will be thick.

 

 

Spoon some in each compartment in the ice tray, about half full, place a treasure in each ( I mostly use coins). Next spoon some more on top covering the treasure.

 

 

 

Then, sprinkle some glitter on top and place into the freezer.

 

 

 

Overnight is long enough.

 

Prepare vinegar by pouring some in squirt bottles.

 

 

 

Put a cube in a bowl and hand the students the vinegar.

The chemical reaction fizzes and treasures are revealed!

Your kids will love it!

 

Three

 

In math we are reviewing number families, counting by 10's and 5's.

 

 

Number families as presented by Connecting Math Concepts.

 

I apologize for not identifying the provider of these cards, I've been using them a couple of years and can't remember who I purchased them from!

 

FOUR

 

 

Countdown!

 

FIVE

 

 

 

This is a fun project I found on Pinterest.

The Clifford book, Christmas Wishes went well with it.

Students love to paint and sprinkle glitter!

It went fast also.

 

 

Stay calm, deep breaths,

and link up with Doodle Bugs Teaching!

 

Paula

 

 

 

 

 

Christmas trees...Art projects....and kittens!

I haven't been around here lately, but wanted to share a little Christmas with you!

This is a quick and clever idea that a first grade teacher did with her class! She gave them green strips of paper and had the students place them by size, they practiced  using their knowledge of words such as longest and shortest. Then they used white paint and glitter for the snow and snowflakes.

This is our Christmas tree, we got a good deal at Walmart on Black Friday for a white tree! My husband loves the Christmas express train. We have a variety of animals in our household including two big dogs. The red tub is hiding the normal giant bag of dogfood we keep in this area!

My daughter who has twin three year olds put her tree on the table.

The twins made a cute project at preschool. They took a picture, printed it out (large- 8 x 10), made hand prints with brown paint, laminated and cut everything out, and glued a red pom pom on the nose! SUPER CUTE!

In addition to closing up the quarter and preparing for Christmas, one of our cats had kittens! Although this was NOT planned by the humans in the household, kittens are always so sweet, we can't help but love them and cry when they are given away.

 

Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a hopeful New Year!

Paula