My hubby and I took another semi impromptu trip to Lake Superior to show Flat Stanley (a school project for our granddaughter in Indianapolis, your kiddo will do one next year as well! )around Duluth and Finland and nearly to the Canadian border! We backpacked 6 miles on the Superior Hiking trail, we took a site seeing tour through Duluth including Canal Park and the lift bridge and Bentleyville, we visited several iconic state parks including Gooseberry and Split Rock, we looked for moose in the Superior National Forest north of Finland, and finally picked for agates and sea glass in Burlington Bay near Two Harbors. Whew, I wonder if Flat Stanley was as wiped out as me!
We're wintergreen coat twins!
The e quivalent of 69 flights of stairs were hiked!
The Christmas Card Shop is up and running with lots of Happy Holiday creations and glitter! Always the glitter!
The handprint station is waiting for 40 kiddos to go though... we had a kindergarten switch-a-roo day on Monday. Mrs. Pilger's kids came to me for a handprint poem, my kiddos went to Mrs.Pilger to work on a Christmas card for you. What a fun day!
Here's a SANTA poem we've been working on!
This is another fun game reviewing some of the green reading level words...
Let's label a Santa...
Every year my hubby buys these for my k kids... what a sweetie! They are for our hot cocoa bar on Thursday!
Monday's new morning challenges included:
Middle sound Christmas themed...
Counting on Christmas trees...
ABC-abc Santa match...
Oh, the handprints are so precious!
This lovely lady created a super structure...
And these 2 have been cooking up a blizzard!
Wow! Team work is alive and well in our classroom as a dozen kindergarteners problem solved ways to get a very long paper chain to me from across the room without ripping or tearing it. Lots of laughter and smiles! And success!
Tuesday's centers included:
Pattern block Christmas shapes...
Searching for Santa and teen numbers..
Christmas scavenger hunt...
Christmas card words..
And playdo challenge... create a Christmas tree!
On Wednesday we created our own version of SANTA was his name-o!
We also learned a new dice game to review star words!
Shhhh! The Kids made these for you!
This amazing student brought applesauce for our Aa snack!
We had an early celebration of this guys birthday!
Everyone had a chance to participate in the song *S*A*N*T*A , What fun!
Oh, this looks like fun! 5 senses Christmastime!
Here's a lovely chart we added ideas to about it 5 senses.
Gets the pages of our book...
This lovely lady is now 6!
Thank you for all the wonderful gifts!
I am truly fortunate!
Thank you also to the 5 folks who helped with our Christmas party! We could not have had so much fun without you!
We played 3 different Christmas games at my station...
We had a delicious hot cocoa bar!
(thank you for all the donations!)
scroll down for more pics of this station...
We had a cookie decorating station...
Our 4th station was Christmas pattern blocks....
and finally we had CHRISTMAS bingo!
Whew! I got the last drops of the cocoa...MMMMM!
CHEERS!
Thank you, Ashley, for taking and sending the following photos...
Good reads...
Hope your break is a nice balance of adventures and quiet time! Enjoy your little ones, they are only small for such a short time!
See you in 2019!
And now for the week of January 2-4:
Language Arts: continue short a word families, adjectives
Star words: come and me
Math: teens
Science: animals have body parts
Theme: Snow and Winter
Big News: late start Wednesday, Jan. 9 10:00
