My Favorite Christmas Books

I love reading Christmas books to my students! I love anything Christmas actually! Here are a few of my favorite books to read to my students:

Link up and share your favorite Christmas books! :)

12 Days of Christmas Giveaway(s)

You need to hop on over to Oh' Boy 4th Grade- there are going to be 12 days of giveaways. Yes, TWELVE!

Christmas Time!!!! :)

This is my favorite time of year out of school and in school. Of course, I don't like how chatty the kids are this time of year- but love all the cute crafts. So far we made a snowman glyph:

I had to add all these pictures because I always find it so interesting how different they can make something-- and how cute they turn out!

We also made an Elf and I found this on a blog- sorry I am not even sure which one to give proper credit :/  If it is you, please let me know! They had to fill out an "Elf Application" and we read the book "How Santa Got His Job."

Here are the Elves and they are holding applications for a job to be an elf.

Here are some other crafts (pictures are from last year- before I was a blogger) we do in my classroom. The wreath below is their hand prints and I used hole punch circles for the berries. 

 The candy cane and Rudolph ornaments will be put in shoe boxes and they will wrap it and give it to their parents as a gift. They will have other crafts in there as well. The Rudolph is made out of Popsicle sticks.

Thanksgiving Crafts

It has been a while since I posted and I thought I should post what we have made for Thanksgiving. The first item is our Cornucopia.

Then I found this on someone else's blog (sorry I forget who!!) and I made my own patterns for the boat and sail and we created our Mayflower fact book. 

We also made turkeys with out feet and hand prints. I need to remember to take a picture of them tomorrow. 

Halloween Crafts

Every year I wait until the last minute to do Halloween crafts and then never have enough time to put them up for others to see. So I started earlier this year and here is what we have made so far- both of these I found out here in blog land. :)

This one goes with the story "Skeleton Hiccups." My kids really enjoyed this book and making the skeleton.

We also did this pumpkin glyph- there were no patterns used. 

I copied glyph chart from another blog. 

Halloween Read Aloud

I love when the holidays start rolling in- there are so many fun crafts and activities and books to read! Here are a few of my favorite Halloween Read Alouds:

Johnny Appleseed

So I know it has been a while, but I have been busy with school and wedding planning! I thought I would share what we made in regards to Johnny Appleseed. We made a puppet:

And we made this painting:

The kids loved painting since we don't get to do it often! They had a pattern for the trunk and the tree top and used finger prints for the apples. I printed clip are of Johnny Appleseed and they colored and glued it on!