Planning for December and Beyond...Cyber Monday Sale

Teachers Pay Teachers is having another wonderful sale for Cyber Monday!  My store will be 20% off and when you 10% discount that makes it 28% off your purchases.  What a great deal!!!

These are some of the Holiday and Winter items I have planned for December and the beginning of the new year. 

For Candy Cane Day, we will be wearing red and white stripes.  I created a few items for activities for the day.

One of my fellow teachers is using my set of books. They are going to start Stanley's Christmas Adventure on Monday.  Maybe they will  have several Flat Stanley's traveling around the United States for the holidays.  I just love these books!!!

  

I am also excited about the writing activities I have planned for the students before Christmas.  I can't wait to see how their writing has improved over the last few weeks/months. 

  

Let it SNOW!!!  We will be having some snow filled activities too!  We may wait and begin these after the holidays.

Yummy Hot Chocolate will be treat after our break too.  Something to enjoy during assessments.

One of my favorites, New Year's Resolutions! This is awesome a great thing to do with the class.  It always surprises me to find and what some of their hopes and dreams are! 

I hope you have a great time shopping and planning!

Merry Christmas!

Recap of the Week

Wow what a week!  It was full of mClass and Dibels!  Don't you just LOVE assessments?  I mean wouldn't you rather assess students than teach students???!!!???  I know it is important to monitor progress, but really sometimes it seems we progress monitor and assess more than we teach. 

On Wednesday after I finished with assessments, I was rewarded by my efforts by having an observation.  It was all good, but what a way to celebrate.  We were reviewing facts we had learned about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  The kids refreshed my memory and told the AP about the wonderful activity we did the day before about diversity.

 

As the students explained, "It doesn't matter what the outside looks like, we are all the same on the inside!"  We cracked open a brown egg and white egg.  The kids talked about this the rest of the week.  :)  Then, we watched a quick MLK video on Brainpop Jr.

 

 



We continued with another wonderful discussion and finished up with Martin's Big Smile from Teacher's Clubhouse. 

 

 

 

During Language Arts time, we had a little yummy FUN with Hot Chocolate.  Since I was trying to multitask and complete assessments and still carry on, I decide to use my Yummy Hot Chocolate Literacy Unit.

 



 



 

We even enjoyed making some Hot Chocolate on Thursday!  I used a crock pot to heat the water.  It worked out perfectly!  Yummy!!!!

 

 

During math, we enjoyed using Hope King's It's Snowing Graphs unit. 

 

 

 

All in all it was a wonderfully FUN week in Second Grade! 

 



The Magical Product Swap!

 

 

I am so excited to be participating in the Magical Product Swap. (Don't you love the cute button by The 3am Teacher.)  When I received an email from Jessica about the product swap I was so eager to meet Tara Ward . . . they all fall down.  What a cute blog she has!  As I stalked her tpt store for a few days to figure out what item I would like (I found so many!), I finally decided on the Hot Cocoa Contractions.

 

 

 

 

 

My kiddos loved this!  Tara did a great job creating this!  We used it with some other Yummy! Hot Chocolate Literacy Activities I created.  We even enjoyed some of our own cocoa!  The students loved working on the Hot Cocoa Contractions during centers throughout the week.  This was a perfect review and reinforcement for the class. 

Make sure you check out Tara's adorable blog...and they all fall down...  It is so cute!  I just love name.  Yep...the tune is stuck in your head too!  :) 

Now I think I might just have to go to Starbucks or Dunkin to get some Hot Cocoa. 

Thanks Jessica for hosting such a YUMMY and Magical Product Swap! 

And thanks to the 3AM Teacher for graphics.

 

30 Degrees Outside and Have You Heard???

This morning it was 30 degrees outside!  It was COLD!  I want Fall to stick around and Winter to stay away for a bit longer.  After the early service at church, my daughter and I stopped at DD for some hot chocolate.  It was YUMMY!  Later in the day, it inspired me to make this quick literacy unit for my class.  It is just a few fun items that you can use in centers, writing, and it is FUN!

Oh one last thing, have you heard the news?  Of course you have, I am sure your cart is full for the fabulous TpT Cyber Monday and Tuesday Sale.  Everything in my store will be 20% off.  Plus the 10% off if you use code CMT12.  That is 28% off!  I can't wait to make all my purchases!
Happy Shopping!!!

Thanks to the 3am Teacher for the link up!