Five for Friday- 12/11

My favorite link up of the week with DoodleBugs Five For Friday

It is obvious that students are aware it is December!!!!

Christmas Cheer!

We made elves and wrote a math riddle for the hallway bulletin board.

This is by far my favorite ornament we make every year. I buy the kits on Oriental Trading. I like how unique they all turn out. 

Awesome Apps for Publishing Writing!

We've started using Morfo, MakeaStory, Sock Puppets and Telestory Apps to publish and share writing. Students are LOVING IT!

We read What if you had Animal Hair? and students wrote an opinion piece about what kind of animal hair they would like and why. 

Below are some examples of our first attempts with the Morfo app. 

Scholastic Book Order

My students are reading so well that I needed to purchase a few more books at higher levels for our leveled book library. My students are always excited when our scholastic book order comes in. 

Google Docs!

I created a gmail account for my class and I use that for students to save their typed writing in the google docs folder that is labeled with their name. It is working great so far!

Exercise Balls as Seats!

We've added some alternative seating to our classroom and of course the students are absolutely enjoying it. We have 6 at the moment and we rotate them daily. 

Thanks for listening to my randomness for the week!

December's Gingerbread House

I just realized I did not share my class door for December. My students absolutely adored the story of The Gingerbread Man. We of course also read the Gingerbread Baby and the Gingerbread Girl. They laughed and giggled throughout each story. I then decided to create our classroom door into a Gingerbread House.

Tomorrow we have a teacher work day and my para is going to work on making our classroom door into an igloo. So fun!

12 Days of Freebies!

Check my TPT page regularly for 12 Days of Freebies!
So far, I have 3 days posted.
Day 1 is a Writing Template HERE

Day 2 is Gift Tags HERE

Day 3 is some various graphic organizers HERE

Keep checking my TPT Store each day to grab all the 12 days of FREEBIES!
TPT Store Link- HERE

What Does Santa Say? CVC Version

My Students played this game today and absolutely loved it! It is a great way to review CVC words as a literacy center. What Does Santa Say? CVC Version Includes 160 CVC Words Feel free to play with these cards as you wish, but I have included directions for a Naughty/Nice Spinner Game. Place these cards in a stack face down on the table. Have students draw a card and read the card. After they read the card they spin the naught/nice spinner. If they land on nice they get to keep the CVC card they read. If they land on naught they have to put the card in the discard pile or on the bottom of the stack. Once all the cards have been played or when time is up students can count cards to see who has the most. I always emphasis that students say “Good game, let’s play again!” no matter who wins or has the most. Click HERE for link.