My last minute addition to our campus' holiday door decorating:   

Our school had a holiday door decorating contest during December. This was my contribution to the art room door. I created a giant gingerb...

Kindergarten practiced making wavy lines with permanent black markers. After making their lines, they added holiday lights with their thumbp...

First Grade needed some practice back in December on how to draw objects in front of others. So, they practiced by drawing overlapping candy...

To experiment with color mixing and tape resist, the fifth grade students created birch trees. They first added three strips of painters tap...

Fourth Grade students performed "Show Me The Snow" for their music program this year. To go along with this and some previous less...

We obviously went with a snowman theme in the younger grades during winter. For this lesson, I asked the third graders to take turns laying ...

Second Graders also created snowmen but they created them by cutting paper. They traced various sized bowls for the body and head. They cut ...

I asked First Graders what a snowman would look like if they tilted their head to the left or to the right to begin a discussion on perspect...

Kindergarten practiced fine motor skills by tracing circles of various sizes, cutting them out, and then arranging them however they chose ...

During December, since we had a short month, my students mostly worked on collaborative projects. These are some Christmas trees that they m...

From our characters to yours, Merry Christmas!

On our last day before the Christmas break, we had our class party. The students made Christmas trees out of ice cream cones, icing, candy, ...

In writing we researched and compared the role Santa Claus plays in The United States, Germany, France, and Mexico. As a whole group, we cha...

Friday we had our annual school-wide Polar Express Day. The day started out with a holiday sing-along in the cafeteria. We then went to the ...

I downloaded and printed these adorable holiday photo props that I found on Pinterest. I took individual pictures of each student for them ...

To quickly review addition and subtraction fact families, the students created Holly Wreaths. They counted how many leaves and how many berr...

The students wrote to explain what they would do if Santa got stuck in the chimney. A lot of the students said they would ask their parents ...

The students created elves out of holiday scrapbook paper. They then wrote to describe their elves. They also wrote one thing they would do ...