Freebies, Freebies, and More Freebies!

Christmas is the season of giving.  I love to share my teaching ideas, and that's my plan for the next few weeks:  sharing what I have with my wonderful readers!

If you come on over to Elementary Matters, you can download "Drawing Holiday Conclusions".  There are 20 holiday riddles for the children to use their knowledge and draw conclusions from the clues given.  I think they'll have some fun reading these cards for each other!

Don't forget to come back for more freebies!

My Favorite Holiday Activity

Click image to download Nutcracker freebie.

Ever have one of those activities that's a win-win?  It's something that works so well, you keep bringing it back year after year.

That's how I feel about this one, Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker.  I've done this activity with second graders for about 15 years now.

Every year, the children have loved this activity, and it practices some valuable skills:  visualizing, summarizing, and sequencing.  Plus, it gives them some exposure to classic holiday literature and classical music!

Come on over to Elementary Matters to enjoy this freebie!  It's one of my favorites!

Time Flies By....and some Seussish Snacks

HI all! My kids are working on following directions as a reading skill. I decided to incorporate it into writing as well. Last week, we worked on how to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich as our first writing. Then on Friday, we wrote how to make green eggs and ham. Then we made them!

I found some really cute Seuss snacks on the web, so this week we are making those! Come over to see the free writing response I created. Hopefully, someone else will be able to use them!

200 Follower Giveaway + Freebie!

I made it!  200+ followers in my first month of blogging!!!  In honor of this *honor* I'm hosting a giveaway... you could win a $25 gift card to the store of your choice:

{Teachers Pay Teachers or Target}

Head on over to my blog for FIVE different ways to enter!  Yup, five different ways to enter to win $25 :)

And why not grab a freebie while you're there?

{President's Day Word Search}

Similes and Christmas

As I was reading The Night Before Christmas, I remembered there are some great examples of similes in there.

Hop on over to Elementary Matters to find out more about Christmas Similies!
Sally

The Wild Christmas Reindeer

I love Christmas time but I have struggled to come up with new exciting units to celebrate the holidays. Since the Common Core for second grade includes learning about different animals, my team decided reindeer would be a great animal to learn about during December. Head on over to my blog to print your own copy.

Christmas freebies for you

Sorry for the lack of posting lately. This time of year is so busy and my class is extra demanding. I've been finding tons of great ideas on blogs and Pinterest to do with my class. Since we go until the 22nd (again, I find this crazy, just to let you know),  I guess I have plenty of time.
Here's a cute ornament I found on Pinterest that we finished this week. We hung them on our school's Christmas tree in the lobby.

I have some freebies for you from my Christmas Activity unit. I hope you can use them in your classroom.

Head over to my blog to download the freebies.

You can find the whole unit by clicking on the image below.