{"id":748,"date":"2014-12-06T23:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-07T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funwithfirsties.com\/2014\/12\/santa-clocks-a-letter-to-st-nick-my-favourite-christmas-stories\/"},"modified":"2014-12-06T23:05:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-07T05:05:00","slug":"santa-clocks-a-letter-to-st-nick-my-favourite-christmas-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/06\/santa-clocks-a-letter-to-st-nick-my-favourite-christmas-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Clocks, a Letter to St. Nick, & My Favourite Christmas Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nHappy December! Can you believe it?! I barely remember November even happening it seemed to fly by so quickly. But I’m definitely not complaining because this is my favourite time of year! We certainly wasted no time getting into the holiday spirit with fun activities this week…and to celebrate, I have some festive freebies to share with you…<\/div>\n
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\nFirst up, Santa Clocks<\/a>!\u00a0<\/div>\n
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\nWe are beginning to wrap up our Telling Time<\/a> unit in math and my firsties can now tell time to the hour and half hour. To introduce a little holiday cheer to our unit, we used my FREE template to create these adorable Santa Clocks (get it? Santa Clocks instead of Santa Claus? HA!)<\/i>.<\/div>\n
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\nI always love how unique their craftivities turn out. Each one is so different.<\/i>\u00a0<\/div>\n
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\nThe freebie below includes 3 different clock face options to help suit the needs of your students.\u00a0<\/div>\n
\nClick the pic to download your copy!<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nOur literacy centre work this week featured activities from my editable Holiday Hoopla<\/a> sight word pack. At our writing centre, the kiddies got to write a letter to Santa (which I will actually mail to Santa and we will receive our response in the near future…I can’t wait!!)<\/i>. Again, this freebie includes 3 options to allow for super simple differentiation for your kiddies:<\/div>\n
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\nClick HERE<\/a> or the pic to download!<\/div>\n
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\nLast but not least, if you follow me on Instagram<\/a> you already know that I planned to share some of my favourite children’s Christmas books with you all! So without further adieu, here’s what tops my list every holiday season:<\/div>\n
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\nGod Gave Us Christmas<\/a><\/div>\n
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\nThe Polar Express<\/a><\/div>\n
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\nSanta Mouse, Where Are You?<\/a>\u00a0<\/div>\n
\n(I can no longer find the above pictured “All Aboard Books” version online, but I’m assuming the one linked is the same story)<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nHow the Grinch Stole Christmas!<\/a><\/div>\n
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\nThe Little Crooked Christmas Tree<\/a><\/div>\n
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\nA Christmas Wish for Corduroy<\/a><\/div>\n
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\nRudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer<\/a>\u00a0<\/div>\n
\n(I loved this version growing up but just about any version of this classic is great!)<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nPippin the Christmas Pig<\/a><\/div>\n
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\nHoward B. Wigglebottom and the Power of Giving: A Christmas Story<\/a><\/div>\n
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\nThe Night Before Christmas<\/a><\/div>\n
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\nMerry Christmas, Mom and Dad<\/a><\/div>\n

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\n…And I don’t often share personal pictures on here but I just can’t resist sharing our first glimpse of our little peanut with you!\u00a0<\/div>\n
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\nUltrasounds are just way too cool…plus I can boastfully say that there is quite the cutie cooking in my tummy \ud83d\ude09 Happy First Weekend of December!<\/div>\n

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Happy December! Can you believe it?! I barely remember November even happening it seemed to fly by so quickly. But I’m definitely not complaining because this is my favourite time of year! We certainly wasted no time getting into the holiday spirit with fun activities this week…and to celebrate, I have some festive freebies to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,23,24],"tags":[124,53,21,31,70,134,76],"class_list":["post-748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-freebies","category-holidays-seasonal","category-literacy","tag-childrens-books","tag-christmas","tag-craftivity","tag-freebie","tag-letter-writing","tag-telling-time","tag-writing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}