{"id":898,"date":"2013-11-19T00:54:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T06:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funwithfirsties.com\/2013\/11\/snow-day-activities-holiday-hoopla\/"},"modified":"2013-11-19T00:54:00","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T06:54:00","slug":"snow-day-activities-holiday-hoopla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/2013\/11\/19\/snow-day-activities-holiday-hoopla\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t Let the Pigeon…Snow Day Activities & Teacher Hack!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nIf you follow me on Instagram (@funwithfirsties<\/a>)\u00a0you may have seen this picture yesterday:<\/div>\n
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\nYes…That is what happened over the course of ONE day. Needless to say, today was a “snow day” since busses were cancelled…I had 5 little firsties show up today. Lucky for them because we had loads of fun!\u00a0<\/div>\n
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\nNow normally, being an\u00a0incredibly\u00a0anal<\/strike>\u00a0obsessive\u00a0compulsive<\/strike>\u00a0control freak<\/strike>\u00a0slightly organized individual, I am hesitant to whip out paint and other “messy” art supplies in a room full of 21 squirrely 5 and 6-year-olds, and yet with only 5 little humans in my classroom today I was having dreams of twinkling glitterized craft possibilities…then this quickly popped into my head:<\/div>\n
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\nSoooooooo we stuck to paint.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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\nIf you have never tried this art activity yourself, you’ve probably seen it before. It’s one of my favs because there are so many possibilities and the finished products look so professional!!<\/div>\n
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\nAll you do is tape off whatever design you want on a piece of art paper using painters tape (I used masking tape because I didn’t have painters tape at the time…the only difference is that painters tape is much easier to peel off later on)<\/i>. You can tape off random lines like I did here, or you can make a specific picture, or even spell your name! Then, all you do is “fill in the blanks” by painting all of the empty spaces:<\/div>\n
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\nWait for the paint to dry and then gently peel off the tape to reveal your masterpiece!<\/div>\n
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\nLOVE\u00a0<\/b>them!!!<\/div>\n
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\nNext, we read a bunch of my\u00a0beloved pigeon books<\/a>:<\/div>\n
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\n(click\u00a0HERE<\/a>\u00a0if you’re interested in knowing what those Sight Word Sentences are all about!)<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nThen we made our own pigeon storybooks! I originally posted the details about this activity\u00a0HERE<\/a>.<\/div>\n
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\nIt was cute to read their storybooks. I had “Don’t Let the Pigeon Eat a Cupcake,” “Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Four Wheeler,” and other cute creations.<\/div>\n
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\nLast but not least, for all of my Instagram buddies who helped me out with my\u00a0anchor chart debacle<\/a>\u00a0(yes, it WAS a debacle!)<\/i>, I finally constructed a solution!!!<\/div>\n
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\nYou can read about the original issue by clicking the pic below:<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nWith full intensions of dressing in black and busting into the school at midnight with hooks and a power drill, one of my brilliant coworkers suggested I try\u00a0Command hooks<\/a>. DUH!!!! Those things are seriously a teacher’s best friend.<\/div>\n
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\nSo off to Walmart I went and constructed this:<\/div>\n
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\nIt’s not exactly attractive but it works and I like it!<\/div>\n
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\nI stuck two Command hooks on the metal frame of my bulletin board and hung a $3.00 rod between the two:<\/div>\n
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\nThen I put my charts on binder rings and slid them on the rod.<\/div>\n
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\nProblem. Freaking. SOLVED.\u00a0Woohoo!!!\u00a0<\/b><\/div>\n
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\nWith the new addition of all this snow, it’s official that I’m feeling some serious holiday spirit; Our Christmas tree is up, and the house is decorated from top to bottom, inside and out!<\/div>\n
\nSo it’s perfect timing that I launched my first holiday unit on TpT!\u00a0<\/div>\n
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\n*UPDATED 2016: There are two covers above as the product has since been updated*<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n
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\nI seriously cannot WAIT to bust out these activities with my firsties.\u00a0<\/div>\n
\nThey’re all *completely* editable; meaning, if you’re in pre-K or even Grade 2 you can customize this pack by adding ANY words you’d like. Check it out:<\/div>\n
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\n(If you’re interested,\u00a0hop on over to TpT<\/a>\u00a0to check it out!)<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nNow I’m off to pray that tomorrow is a snow day, too \ud83d\ude09<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you follow me on Instagram (@funwithfirsties)\u00a0you may have seen this picture yesterday: Yes…That is what happened over the course of ONE day. Needless to say, today was a “snow day” since busses were cancelled…I had 5 little firsties show up today. Lucky for them because we had loads of fun!\u00a0 Now normally, being an\u00a0incredibly\u00a0anal\u00a0obsessive\u00a0compulsive\u00a0control […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,23,24],"tags":[42,52,53,26,92,81,28,119,120],"class_list":["post-898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fun","category-holidays-seasonal","category-literacy","tag-anchor-chart","tag-art","tag-christmas","tag-literacy-centres","tag-mo-willems","tag-organization","tag-sight-words","tag-snow-day","tag-winter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898","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=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}