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.

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.