Character Feelings - Legend of the Poinsettia

Christmas Tree Yummo!

We made these yummy Christmas trees at our party and they turned out pretty and delicious! We used large sugar cookies on the bottom covered with white icing as the tree skirt. A sugar cone covered with green icing makes the tree. We made lights using Skittles and Christmas packages using unwrapped Starbursts. The kids did all of the work and had a great time. I highly recommend!

Santa's Newest Reindeer

First off...so sorry for the delay in posting to my Blog. Time has been scarce the past couple of months. Got this idea from a link at Bishop's Blackboard to The First Grade Teaching blog. Took pictures of the kids and had them paint their noses red. Each students filled out the reindeer application according to a rubric of what Santa would be "looking for" in his applicants. We then looked at the applications according the rubric and chose Santa's newest 8 reindeer (pictured above.) It was a lot of fun and these 8 kids were so excited that their hard word in writing paid off.

Make the Grinch Smile...

My teammate, Hayley of Bishop's Blackboard, shared this cute activity to use with The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. I believe she got the idea from a different blog as well so please check out her blog for the original poster. Thank you to all for sharing. The kids really enjoyed this activity.

Christmas Stocking Fun

The students decorated Christmas stockings at home and then wrote descriptive paragraphs about them at school. A traditional lesson the kids always enjoy!

For a little added fun to practice skip counting, we read Hands Down by Michael Dahl and labeled the reindeer antlers in a skip counting by 5's pattern, 0 - 95. I always begin with zero to give the kids a frame of reference for the beginning of every skip counting pattern.