It's Reindeer Day! 

Check out all these fun activities you can do with your students!

 On the last day of school before Christmas break, we have our annual Reindeer Day celebration! Out in our first grade neighborhood, we have set up Reindeer stations that our students can roam through at their own pace. We have games, activities, crafts, food and music! Here are some different types of stations that we've had. And, of course, we couldn't do this without the help of our amazing parents! We send out a sign up genius so they can sign up to help out so all we have to do is just walk around and monitor! 

                                          Reindeer Antlers 

                                                            Reindeer Pancakes

 

  Face Painting 

                                          

                          Reindeer Magnets or Ornaments

Pop cycle sticks, magnets, green ribbon, student pictures, red pom-poms, glue, chip trays, and googly eyes. 

                                       Reindeer Ornaments

                                             

Pin the Nose on the Reindeer 

                                           Jingle Bell Toss

                                     

                                    Reindeer Ring Toss 

                                     Jingle Bell Necklaces

Jingle bells, red/green/white pony beads, chip trays, and necklace string.

If you want your students to enjoy some reindeer books...here are some suggestions! 

Here are some writing craftivities that you could have your students do:  

                                 Olive the Other Reindeer

If you're interested in my Olive the Other Reindeer resource, click here. 

                        Reindeer Research and Reindeer Diary 

If you're interested in my Reindeer Research resource, click here

If you have a student that doesn't celebrate Christmas, you can have them write a Reindeer Diary instead of an Elf Diary. 

I hope you have a wonderful and Merry Christmas!  Remember to enjoy your students this week! 

Love, Kara 

We're Wrapped Up in Christmas... and Math too!  

These past few weeks, we did a LOT of fun activities for Christmas! I can't wait to share them with you! 
We read a lot of great stories, we learned about Christmas traditions around the world, we decorated Gingerbread Houses, we had Reindeer games, crafts and dancing! And the best part, we got to enjoy Christmas together as a class! 

One of my favorite activities we did for math was called: Merry Christmas Bow Math. I gave each pair of students a bag of Christmas bows, a divided chip tray and their math templates. 

They had to sort the bows, count them, graph them and estimate how many bows were inside the bag. After graphing the bows, they had to answer some questions and problem solve about their bows. Last, they worked with each other to write Christmas bow story problems for addition and subtraction. Here are some of the pics from our activity: 

The students had four templates they had to complete.
Estimating how many bows were in their bag:

Graphing their bows with different colors: 

Problem Solving with their bows: 

Writing Story Problems using addition and subtraction:

I also created a Christmas Bow Math Roll and Add and Roll and Subtract using dice: 

We had so much fun using Christmas Bows for math! This was an excellent filler to do the last few days before Christmas break. If you are interested in checking out my math packet, click below!
Have a Merry Christmas! :)
Love,
Kara 

Merry Christmas Bow Math: Counting, Sorting, Graphing and Problem Solving