New Year's Bucket Fillers

Cultivate classroom friendships with my New Year Bucket Filler notes!

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Top 3 Posts in 2011: Bucket Fillers, Veterans Day and Classmate Memory Trays

I've not yet blogged a whole year, but my Top 3 posts viewed so far are:

#1  Classmate Teambuilding Memory Trays (2,277 views)

#2  The Value of Bucket Filling  (2,002 views)

#3  Veterans Day (1,143 views)

One of my most recent posts is a personal favorite though because I learned some very touching things about my students. They wrote about Prized Possessions, and one of my students brought in a necklace from the program "Beads of Courage" for children dealing with cancer and serious illness. Can I say that was POWERFUL!  For me that is a TOP post even if it only has 200 views.

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Let it Snow

Let it snow with these fun snowflake generators!

Do you "snow" which one is your favorite? Leave a comment and share.

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Snow Globe Craft Project

If you missed my original post about my Snow Globe Project, take a look at some of these cute snow scenes.

It's Abe Lincoln in a Snow Globe!

The Big Apple in a Snow Globe

What I love BEST about this project is the variety of characters and stories created!

Year after year, I continue to be delighted with the creativity.

 This is a project you can do in January too!  Go grab it {HERE}.

Prized Possession Writing for Possessive Nouns

My class got practice with perfecting possessives today with a partner writing activity.

Each student brought in a prized possession to share.  I took a picture of each student and then they partnered up and wrote about another classmate's object. So fun and eye opening. One of my students brought in a very touching item, a Beads of Courage necklace for children dealing with cancer and serious illness. Can I say that was POWERFUL!

 

 

(This photo below is from my original product file. It has since been freshly updated with new fonts and layout. Check it out.)

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You might want to do this writing activity after the holidays with each students' favorite holiday gift.

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Acrostic Poem for the Holidays

My students are writing about their holiday happenings acrostic style this week.

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Have yourself a merry little holiday!

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The Bell Still Rings Polar Express Art

My class rang in the season with this jingling display.

Do you still believe?

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Enjoy!

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Bucket Fillers with Holiday Cheer

I'm spreading holiday cheer because..... 

My holiday bucket fillers are here!

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Snowflake Snowman Door Decoration - Winter Activities for the Classroom

After reading the story The Biggest Best Snowman I've had my classes create a snowflake snowman to decorate our classroom door. This was at a previous school which had a standard door. The school I'm at now has a bigger window right in the middle of our door which we cannot cover, so if I decide to do my snowflake snowman it will have to be on a doorless object. So, back to my snowman. This is a collaborative snowman, similar to little Nell getting help from her animal friends to make a snowman in the story read aloud.

Give your kiddos die cut circles and have them create a gobzillion snowflakes out of them. Then make 3 snowballs and decorate your snow guy!

This snowman multiplication and division fact family craft would also be fun for your winter classroom activities.

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Holiday Ornament Gift

My students did this beaded ornament project for a family gift.

We used Fast Grab Tacky glue to stick the beads to the ornament and let dry overnight.

If there were bare spots the next day, we did touch up gluing of beads.

Then we wrapped the gifts and added this sweet little note:

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Multiplication Card Games: Deck Out Your Holidays with a Deck of Cards

Give your students a holiday gift that keeps them learning!

I put my rhyming skills to practice with this little number:

"Your teacher is so smart

She wants you to do your part

For learning fame

Do a card game"

I typed up the rhyme and 4 card game directions.

I made 2 different versions: One set focuses on addition and subtraction and the other set includes addition, subtraction, and multiplication.

Attach a deck of cards to the game set and you have a gift for students to "Deck Out their Holidays"

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2 packs of cards at Dollar Tree makes your gift only 50 cents per student.

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