Easy Activities for Christmas in the Classroom {Ornaments and a Freebie}

Hello friends! We are at T -5 days until break!!  Here is a random look at our activities from last week:

We used our measurement skills to construct a Christmas tree.

 We used q-tips to paint the snow.

We've been working on our random acts of kindness using the free pack from A Year of Many Firsts:

Here's our wrapped present we get the cards out of each day.

We worked together to decorate a gingerbread man:

I was too cheap to buy the Elf on the Shelf. So here is Santa's helper, Penelope.

 Santa leaves us messages in my best cursive on the blank one.

We have made several ornaments in our "spare" time. This one was easy and free. I just used the die cut machine to cut Christmas trees. Then, students tore and balled up tissue paper and glued it down. Easy and much prettier than I thought they would be.

And here is a freebie to help with getting thank you notes back to your little ones when they give you a Christmas gift. I always feel awkward with this. Parents are usually at our Christmas party and I by no means expect presents from my little ones and make a big deal out of anything I get and let all of them help me open the gifts. But, it's just hard when parents are watching you. 

Gingerbread Decorating Fun ~ With Freebie!

Hello friends! While getting ready for Christmas, my teaching partner and I have decided to do gingerbread all the way until Christmas break. This is due in part to deck the halls that my school has started doing each year. Each year we work together to decorate our hallways based on a Christmas book. Our hallway theme this year is gingerbread men so basically all the finished products in the classroom will find its way to our hallway for deck the halls.

Here is what I have created for my math and literacy centers to go along with our theme:

 

 

 

 

Here are a few pictures of these set up in stations in my room. Most were put in baggies and baskets so they can be easily cleaned up.

The Gumdrop Number Sequencing is my freebie to you to use for sequencing numbers to 20. Enjoy!

 

 

A wonderful parent bought every student in my class a gingerbread man to decorate. Oh my word, we had so much fun with this!

 

 We decided that the one below was the most likely to run away.

 

This week each student is going to be given a cut out of a gingerbread man and students are going to decide which part {head, leg, arm} they are going to bite off first. They will cut that part off of their gingerbread man and then we are going to write about it and do a data collection and graphing activity. Afterwards we are going to eat a gingerbread cookie.

 

The first 2 followers to comment can choose one of my 4 new Christmas/Gingerbread packets. Just leave your email and tell me which one you want!