Ornaments

Each year I enjoy making ornaments for my students.  I've found that it is best to make one type so that I don't have disappointed family members each year.  One year I made a very unique one for my son and decided I could make it for each of my students using their pictures from the first day of school.  It's not an ideal project to make in the winter since it requires a spray that should be used outside.

I can't seem to find a picture of it on the tree, however, here's the copy from my computer.  I printed out the pictures and cut them out to fit the size of a cd.  Then I glued them to each side of the cd.  The last step was to spray and seal them since I used an inkjet printer.   Then I punched a hole in the cd and tied a gold ribbon to it.

My plan was to make one each year for my son, but life gets busy.  I use a laser printer now so I could go back in time and make them.  I miss this sweet age and the days of Mickey Mouse.


For the last several  years, I've made this type of ornaments and I love it! They are easy to make.

We finally put our trip up and decorated, so here's the ornament.

Holiday Freebie

Here's a little holiday freebie! Students can practice addition and subtraction with regrouping with these fun little Santa.

Multiplication

My students enjoyed working on x4 this week with the multiplication sentence find.  It's part of a Picture Puzzle Pack.

You can find the pack here. Click on the picture to go to the product in my store.

 

This year I've needed to change up my stations because my students just work better when everyone is doing the same thing. There's less distraction. Still a lot of distraction. Just less. 

I'm hoping to pull these activities out next week. 

 We are starting place value this week and this is fun to use.  I have so many station activities that I want to use, but so little time! My class needs it in small doses! 

Wishlists

Thanksgiving break is winding down and I've been working on my wishlist for TPT.  You've heard about the sale, right?  My wishlist keeps growing!  I should be grading papers and working on lesson plans, but I've found some great materials while procrastinating!

I love looking for new ideas, so I decided to link up and share 2 popular wish listed items in my store an done item that is on my wishlist.  In addition to the CYBER sale, all items in my store will be an additional 20% off.  Be sure to use the TPTCYBER promo code at check out for a savings of 28%.

 The number 1 items that people have wish listed in my store is Pictographs.  This is a hands-on activity for building pictographs and it's a great way to reinforce those data skills!  It is part of this bundle.

The second most wish listed items is Graph It. It is another hands-on graphing activity that can be used as a station. It is part of this bundle.

The scavenger hunts that are included in the bundles are a huge hit with students. 

It's so hard to pick just one because I just added over 15 items to my list.  I'm excited about this items.  I used her Fall and Thanksgiving selections and my students really enjoyed them and my principal was impressed with the questions being used as well as the focus on vocabulary.

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Thanksgiving Singular and Plural Nouns

This year I've had to use my station activities a little differently, but this new way has required a bit more paper use because I've been giving students their own black and white copy sets.

Tonight I experimented with shrinking down the cards 50% after printing them so that the students would have a cut, sort and paste activity.  I will have them cut out the pieces and put them in a baggy just to mix them up since they are grouped singular/plural.

This is a great low prep activity!  You can click on the picture below.

Tomorrow I will also be using the Thanksgiving Pronoun activity as a whole group.  I've labeled chart paper with the pronouns and each student will receive a card.  They'll decide which column the card belongs under and glue it in the correct place.  The students will record their results as we work. 

This was another low prep way to use this activity! Click on the picture below.

Happy Thanksgiving!

More Measuring

My students needed some extra practice on measuring to the nearest 1/4 inch, so I created a little seasonal activity for them to work on tomorrow.  There are 15 lines to measure.  I also included some recording sheets for the nearest inch, 1/2 inch and centimeter.