WOOHOO! ^ Insert *Happy Dance* here ^ Here in Australia, we are only 5 days away from our 6 week Christmas vacation period! We are all getting just a little excited at my school :D
So we have had a little time to get into some fun stuff this week. Here are my Top 5 things for my week :)
Playing with Christmas Poetry
Last weekend I found the most adorable poem online called 'In Lollipop Land' by . It is just the cutest Christmas poem and I just had to use it in class this week. We played with the poem, read it over and over again. I used the poem for my Read to Learn program and it was so much fun. Every week we have a different focus text which I write out on card and we cut up. We play Swat it, make silly sentences, re-sequence the text and make a cloze. Like I said, heaps of fun.
Usually my classroom is a very hectic place to work. I do love my job, but sometimes I end the day thinking 'Why do I do this to myself?' You see, I have a tough class this year. Very physical boys who came to me with very little social skills. So this year have been spent trying to teach my kids appropriate classroom behaviour, as well as social interaction skills. Where am I going with this... Oh yeah - on Thursday this week, I had a beautiful day (absolutely nothing to do with some of my behavioural high-fliers being absent *wink, wink*). so I decided to make it extra fun. First, I pulled out a heap of our favourite math activities Kids loved it. I loved it. And there were no fights!
In the afternoon, we started our special 'Christmas Bingo.' This basically involved 9 activities that I placed on a set of shelves, and throughout the afternoon the kids decided which they would complete. As they finished each activity I signed them off. This was a great was to end our day, and the kids were so excited about it that when they walked in the room on Friday morning, the first question they asked was 'Can we do our bingo stuff?' So cute, and awesome to see them excited about school activities!
This was our favourite activity for the week. Last year I made this one as a write the room and the kids searched the room to find each card. This year I thought I would shake it up with something a little different. I pulled out my rainbow rice and made it a search and find activity - I had kids constantly coming over to me to find out when it would be their turn! Man were they excited about it!
Well I thought I would save the best til last...
2 weeks ago I found out what year level I have next year, Monday I went into planning for next year, and yesterday I went to check out my room. Although I cannot yet say what I will be teaching, I can tell you I am very excited about it, and I am also now looking for plenty of ideas and activities I can make over the Christmas holidays! Fun times over here.
If you are still looking for Christmas resources for your own classroom, I have placed all of my Christmas items on sale for a short time only. I have a rage of maths and literacy center activities, as well as a packet of literacy and maths practise activity sheets. Follow the link below to check them all out.
Happy Learning!
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