{"id":863,"date":"2013-12-20T23:03:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-21T05:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funwithfirsties.com\/2013\/12\/merry-christmas\/"},"modified":"2013-12-20T23:03:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-21T05:03:00","slug":"merry-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/2013\/12\/20\/merry-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nSchool is officially OUT for Christmas break!!!\u00a0<\/div>\n
\nHere’s a peek at some of the festivities from the last 2 weeks:<\/div>\n
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\nFor our parent gifts this year, I picked up dollar-a-glass wine glasses and a set of paint markers <\/a>from Walmart to personalize gifts for moms and dads:<\/div>\n
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\nTo go along with our glasses, we made these adorable little thumbprint ornaments cards:<\/div>\n
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\nAll of our literacy centres were of course holiday-themed. At Word Work 1 we played this editable sight word board game<\/a>:<\/div>\n
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\nAt Word Work 2 we played a simple sight word Memory<\/a> game:<\/div>\n
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\nAt Pocket Chart, the kids sorted sight words<\/a> by the number of letters:<\/div>\n
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\nWe are working on descriptive writing<\/a> right now, so I decided to do a fun descriptive guessing game with the kids. First we decorated a christmas tree template (which I found HERE<\/a> by googling)<\/i>\u00a0and then we described our trees using lots of “5W” details:<\/div>\n
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\nAfter that, I hung up all of the trees and read the descriptions out loud one by one. The kids got to guess which tree I was describing by matching the description to the correct tree. They were totally engaged. This was actually a great activity to help the kids understand how a great description can really help us to understand a writer’s vision:<\/div>\n
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\n(6 drawings weren’t hung up yet…if only I had just 14 kids in my class! hehe)<\/i><\/div>\n
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\n(Click the pic above to download your FREE copy of the writing paper and tree template!)<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nWe also did this adorable dot art craft:<\/div>\n
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\nTheir artwork turned out JOYfully \ud83d\ude09<\/div>\n
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\nOn the last day of school, we had a PJ and Polar Express-themed day. We obviously read this book:<\/div>\n
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\nAnd, after reading the book, we made our very own Polar Express trains with chalk:<\/div>\n
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\n(I wish I took more pictures because they all turned out SUPER cute!)<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nAt the end of the very end of this insanely chaotic month, we took a moment to watch the Polar Express and enjoy way too much popcorn and sweets. What a fun day!\u00a0<\/div>\n
\nAnd now for a much-needed 2 weeks of relaxation. Bring it on!!!<\/div>\n
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\nMerry Christmas, everyone!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

School is officially OUT for Christmas break!!!\u00a0 Here’s a peek at some of the festivities from the last 2 weeks: For our parent gifts this year, I picked up dollar-a-glass wine glasses and a set of paint markers from Walmart to personalize gifts for moms and dads: To go along with our glasses, we made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,23,24],"tags":[52,53,21,44,26,115,28,76],"class_list":["post-863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fun","category-holidays-seasonal","category-literacy","tag-art","tag-christmas","tag-craftivity","tag-descriptive-writing","tag-literacy-centres","tag-polar-express","tag-sight-words","tag-writing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863","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=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}