Door Decorating Contest

We were hard at work yesterday making our "name trees" to decorate our classroom door. . .there's a school-wide contest going on and tomorrow we will put on the finishing touches!

New December Centres

School life has been busy. . . report cards and parent teacher conferences have come and gone and now Christmas is just around the corner! 

Flu season has hit us HARD, children have been home with fevers and such sad things, and even yours truly missed a school day as a result of sickness.

That being said, the excitement and anticipation of Christmas is quickly building.

We are working on our lines and songs for the upcoming Christmas chapel, we decorated our classroom Christmas tree, 

and we are deep into our Christmas math and literacy activities.

This week, we are working on a few new math centres. . .

Numbers 1-10 Write the Room

Christmas Roll & Cover Game #1-12

Christmas Pattern Block Mats

I created a new December write-the-room activity to review the last ten jolly phonics letters we are learning this fall,
(Ii, Pp, Nn, Cc, Kk, Ee, Hh, Rr, Mm, & Dd).

Find this December Writing activity {HERE} or {HERE}.

We are also busy with some of the math and literacy items from my Christmas Super Pack,

found at both my TPT Store and TNbk Shop for a mere $9! 

(steal of a deal!)

There you have it!  This month is going much too fast!

We only have 5 more days of JK till Christmas!!! 

Ahhhhh!!!

Teddy Bear Day

Today was teddy bear day!

Everyone brought in an animal friend to spend the day with us. 

(Most bears behaved themselves and kept out of trouble.) 

Our bear friends went just about everywhere with us and did just about everything with us, the exception being going outside for recess and washroom visits. 

Here's a sneak peak at some of today's happenings:

The bears helped us deliver mail to the office.

We compared and sorted our friends by fur colour, clothing, type of animal, and size.

Our animal friends helped us put the 

teddy bear express back in order.

We brought our friends to the gym to play some games.

(Slightly challenging with the BIG bear!)

We made teddy puzzles.

We enjoyed some delicious bear treats with our friends!

It was a BEARY good day!

Review Week

There are several "Review Weeks" planned throughout our school year, and this week just so happens to be one of them! 

We are reviewing all of the letters that we have covered so far this year: Ss, Aa, Tt, Ii, Pp, Nn, Cc and Kk.

We play a wide variety of games during the week, including such things as Letter hunts, Around the World, Where's the Bear, Letter/Picture Sorting and we also practice our Jolly Phonics songs and actions. 

Autumn Write-the-Room
(contains first 8 JP letters)
 can be found HERE or HERE. 

The Jolly Picture Sorting activity
 can be found at both
my TPT store or my TN shop.

We have three rotating math centres this week, and since yesterday was a school spirit dress up day, 

Curious George, Princess Rapunzel and Thing 3 were playing a Bear shape matching game:

Bat man, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella were working on a Brown Bear number activity:

And our Firefighter, Cinderella 2 and Batman 2 were playing a Roll and Cover game:

Everyone in the class dressed up.

Such school spirit!

Way to go!