Ring In The New Year With Writing!
Are you looking for a few New Year’s activities to do with your students when they come back from break?
A Venn diagram is a terrific way to have students compare and contrast.
They are a great precursor for writing prompts to help students organize their thoughts too.
Click on the link to view/download the New Year’s Venn diagram.
Graphic organizers are also a huge asset in helping students get down to the business of writing.
Children enjoy the easy task of jotting down ideas in the various boxes.
What a fun way to jump-start a New Year’s writing prompt.
Click on the link to view/download the New Year’s Graphic Organizer.
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"If we succeed in giving the love of learning, the learning itself is sure to follow." -Sir John Lubbock
Just wanted to take a moment today, to wish all of my visitor friends a very Merry Christmas from my hearth and home to yours!
I hope you are surrounded by everyone and everything you love the most, and that you feel very healthy, happy and blessed!
Our Savior, Light Of The World "Rejoicing, we tell the Nativity story. When the Light of the World came in brilliance and glory. But still we remember there is more to be told—His great sacrifice that was yet to unfold. For His mission as Savior could not be complete Until heavy nails pierced His hands and His feet. So may we recall both the gift of His birth, And the gift of salvation He gave to all on earth." -Lisa O. Engelhardt
Subtracting With Santa
Are you looking for a stocking or Santa-themed activity that involves math skills? 5 Little Stockings, may be just what you're searching for.
Children will enjoy improving their cutting skills by "...hanging their stocking on the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas soon will be there!"
This creative booklet is an opportunity to combine math skills with an artistic flair. The fireplace "craftivity" that they create involves the different math shapes for a quick and easy review.
Children trace and write the numbers as they solve the simple equations and help Santa fill the stockings.
You can also review ordinal numbers as well. This is a terrific listening and following direction activity, or makes a nice whole-group or independent math center.
When everyone is done, read the booklet as a whole group and review concepts of print.
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Do you have a December math center you could share with us? I'd enjoy hearing from you: diane@teachwithme.com or post a comment here.
"Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself." -Chinese Proverb
Shapely Snow Angels
Do you remember flopping down in the snow and flapping your arms so that you could make a snow angel?
My Y5's enjoyed doing that at recess and couldn't wait to report their "artwork" to me.
If you're in the process of reviewing shapes, and need a winter theme, you're sure to enjoy the "shapely" angels that I just created.
This 27- page packet will help you with Common Core State Standards: L.K2a, L.K2b, RF.K3a, RF.K3d, RF.K3c, 1.G.2, K.G.2
Students enjoy reviewing the various 2-D shapes as they appear on the snow angels.
They read and fix the simple sentences by adding capitalization and punctuation, then trace and write the shape word.
I've also included the hexagon, pentagon, and octagon shapes, as many visitors have requested their inclusion in new shape things that I design, as quite a few districts have added some, or all of those shapes to their standards.
The packet includes:
- Easy reader booklet
- Snow Angel Craftivity (Students cut and glue the various shapes to make a shapely snow angel.)
- Label the Snow Angel worksheet
- Traceable shape word cards + a cover so students can make an Itty Bitty booklet.
- Matching picture cards so you can play Memory Match and I Have; Who Has? games.
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"Education is hanging around until you've caught on." -Robert Frost
A Day Of Teacher-Blogger Silence
It is difficult to put into words the utter shock, disbelief and sadness of how I feel about what took place yesterday in Newtown, Connecticut.
As a mother, grandmother and fellow elementary teacher, I share your pain; my heart aches for everyone.
My thoughts, prayers and sincere sympathy goes out to all of the broken hearts reeling from this senseless act of violence, that has touched hearts around the world, and left everyone wondering how such unspeakable evil could befall the sweet and innocent lives of children, and the people who dedicate their lives to teaching and caring for them.
To honor and respect the families and community involved in this tragedy, I will be joining many other teacher-bloggers in a day of blog silence, Sunday, December 16th.
"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief... and unspeakable love." --Irving
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