Sunday: It was a yucky Sunday day and the kids wanted something fun to do. I had recently found a blog post where someone made a Christmas play mat from an old shower curtain. (sorry can't find the link) But then I found this cute Christmas printable play mat from Mr. Printables that the kids could color and use for their cars and such. It is a hefty file to print out, 21 pages but I used the fast draft setting on my printer.
I taped it together and we spent a couple of hours coloring the mat. It is super cute and it can be used for a Christmas play mat. J is asking me to make houses to complete the village.
Monday: Our theme for the day was Santa.
J practiced reindeer counting by 5's with this free printable that I found at Kindergarten Faith.
J worked on grouping tens and tallies with the free printable I found at Teaching Fabulous Firsties.
J practiced her syllables with a cute Christmas printable that I found at Primary Reading Party.
J has been asking about writing a letter to Santa. This is the first year she has asked this, so I found a free fill-in letter that we worked on from A Modern Teacher.
Tuesday: it was candy cane day.
J worked some candy cane math problems with cane counters. This would have been a great hands on experience if we had real candy canes but they aren't available here. So we used the candy cane clipart as counters. I found this printable from Lil Country Kindergarten.
We worked with our sight words and made candy cane words. I had her read a line of sight words then create one of the words she read using the candy cane letter pieces. I found this printable from Karen Langdon's TPT shop.
Our art project was fingerprint candy cane ornaments for the tree but J did not want to get her hands dirty. So she just painted the candy canes.
Wednesday: was reindeer day.
J and I worked on a easy reader named Who Do You See? by 3 Dinosaurs. It is based on Brown Bear by Eric Carle. It has all of the names of the reindeer including Rudolph.
J then made a reindeer paper garland. On each of the reindeer, she wrote their names using the easy reader as a guide.
Sorry for the washed out picture, but these turned out cute. This idea was found at Easy Child Crafts.
Our last reindeer craft was a reindeer cone with fuzzy antlers. We stuck these on our tree. The idea came from Education.
The rest of the week was spent trying to fight off whatever germs were in our bodies - yuck! We had a terrible time of it and we are still trying to recoup.
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