Hanukkah Game Board Freebie

Hanukkah begins December 8th at sundown! Looking for a little something to help your kids celebrate Hanukkah?  This game can be used in many ways in the classroom!  Brain research tells us that frequent repetition helps bring information from the short term memory to the long term memory.  (Rather than "Practice Makes Perfect", I prefer "Practice Makes Permanent"!)   

I use board games like this to practice sight words, math facts, sentence fluency, or any skill that needs practicing!  The children just roll one die, but before they can move their place marker that many spaces, they have to perform a task.  I sometimes have a selection of cards the children can choose from, and sometimes I have a specific skill for them to practice.  

Come on over to Elementary Matters to download your Hanukkah Board Game Freebie!

Hot Chocolate Craft + Freebie

Usually by Thursday afternoon, my class and I have finished our week's work and are in need of something fun and crafty.  I whipped up a little hot chocolate project, and I want to share it with you!  Here was my example:

And here's a picture of the students' hot chocolate projects:

We also completed some fun worksheets:

If you want to make your own mug of hot chocolate, and learn how to get one of these worksheets for free, hop on over to my blog!!

Winter Weigh In

Each January, we always came back to start our measurement unit.
Fly on over to The Teachers' Cauldron to see how I incorporate measurement and matter!

                                     

Snowball Olympics

We may be living in Florida where we don't really get winter...or fall for the matter! lol. But we still like to partake in some winter activities! 

Fly on over to The Teachers' Cauldron to see how we do our Snowball Olympics!

Gang up on Winter Freebies!

BRRRR it is getting COLD outside!  We have been thinking about all the incredible resources out on the web right now for the holidays and thought you all might appreciate a packet of resources for after winter break.  Thinking about planning for January is just not on the top of our lists but if we had a packet of great ideas ready to go we would be in good shape!

So before you shut you classroom doors and head home to spend time with your family~ pull out one or two of your tried and true WINTER favorite activites!  The Teamies are compiling a Free Winter Packet! 

If you are interested in adding your item to the packet please email your activity and the following information to meanmygang@gmail.com and add Winter Favorite to the subject line.
Please include the following: Your First and Last Name & Your Blog URL.

Each entry will be credited with your name and blog information.  

(This is a great opportunity for ALL you new bloggers to get your name out there:)

We welcome ALL grade levels and ALL subjects.  The packet will be organized into categories once all of the entries have been submitted. 

We will be taking entries until December 28th. 

We hope to have the FREE packet up the first week in January!

For All of your hard work we will also be putting every person's name that submits an activity into a drawing for a $15 Target Gift Card!  

YIPPEE!  After Christmas SHOPPING!