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!

 

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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!

 

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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

 

 

 

 

 

Whew!!!! We Made it to Vacation!

I had my doubts...I really did! But the last day of school finally arrived and the kids loved saying "See you next year!" as they boarded the buses, and I loved getting extra hugs. It was a good day.

Here are some things we did the last 2 weeks.

Promethean board high frequency word game. Very motivating! Students take turns choose a word, reading it and moving it to the stocking. Sometimes there is a surprise under the word, like a present or a reindeer. they placed the surprise under the Christmas tree. They loved it!

I found these great Christmas tree Bingo pages in my Christmas box. They are from funfrugalmommy.blogspot.com. I'm pretty sure I got them last year and I haven't been able to locate the blog, it keeps taking me to fun frugal homeschool, perhaps they changed their name? Anyway, I like to give credit where it is due! The circles have a sight word on them. I would say a word, they find it and dot it with the paint. Again, so simple, but fun! We had 3 different pages. 

Here's an old favorite, they line up the strips starting at the bottom, then they glue, glitter and dot! 

I must show off my first BIG FAT CHECK! I finally tried using EBATES while ordering Christmas gifts and got some money back! and there will be more! 

That's it for now, I'll try to check in later this week before Christmas, but just in case...

Merry Christmas

I hope it is relaxing and enjoyable for all of you.

Paula

Holiday Baking!

I know it's a little late, but there wasn't time to have a baking fest BEFORE Christmas! We had so much fun I decided to share some of our day. We had two simple goals:
1. The recipe needed to be kid friendly.
2. One of the items had to be fudge!

I found the Candy Cane Blossoms recipe on Pinterest. It looked easy with lots of helping opportunities for three year olds! Here's how it went....

It is good to have a helper to unwrap the kisses!

The fudge was mostly driven by adults, stirring a hot pan constantly isn't really kid safe! My fudge recipe is the marshmallow cream one! It's delectable and always turns out yummy.

I am NOT ready to return to school, no, no, no! This is my last holiday hurrah, the Christmas tree and decorations will soon be packed away.

Paula