This Week At School

This week at school was more of the same as the previous week...

LOTS of play/Christmas concert practices!

In one of the classrooms we also made some of these 3D paper origami snowflakes

Otherwise not much has been happening

BUT... just 2 more weeks (that's just 10 days!) until Christmas break up here!

Christmas Elf Writing Activity

This is for those classrooms that have an elf on the shelf.  It's a cute (and free) writing activity from Mel D-Seusstastic for you to download and use close to Christmas break (so students can write about one of their favourite hiding spots and what he/she did.

If you use the Elf on the Shelf in your classroom I would love to know more about it.  Leave a comment below telling me how you use it in your classroom!

Penguin Art

I saw these adorable penguins in a grade 2 class I was subbing in probably about a year ago. 

penguin art

I did a quick search and found some instructions for how to make these guys (or something similar) on Instructables.  I could see these being used if a class was studying about a place where penguins live and I feel like teachers often do entire units just on penguins... or they seem fairly easy to make that a kindergarten class learning about the letter "P" could probably manage making these with some assistance.  How would you use these in your classroom?

This Week At School

This week at school I...

Helped students practice for 2 different Christmas plays/concerts (it's that time of year again)!

I worked with a 5th year (which over here that is your final year) student teacher for a couple of days which meant I had a couple pretty easy days.

Because of those pretty easy days I managed to finish reading the book Refugee by Alan Gratz.

At one of the schools I was at this week their secretary was leaving to go on maternity leave so the teacher left me baby advice sheets for the students to fill out (and then to give to the secretary)

Baby advice sheet

Finally, happy December 1st!

I've talked before about advent calendars you can use in your classroom but every year I make one for my husband here is what I did for him last year (filled with Lindtt chocolates) and here is his advent calendar this year!

Christmas advent calendar

Looks like he's been good this year!