Category: Christmas

  • Polar Express Day

    Polar Express Day

    Doesn’t celebrating holidays in your classroom make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside?!? Yes, me too! Every year I celebrate Polar Express the day before we leave for the holidays. This is a special time in my classroom and I wanted to share with you my classroom flip and all the fun activities! Read…

  • Magic Reindeer Food

    Magic Reindeer Food

    Who said you couldn’t have fun in December and hit standards?!? A tradition I have in December is making reindeer food. We spend a week learning about reindeer/caribous. So why not bring a little magic into learning?!?  The night before I prep all items into a shipping box and place it in the freezer. Our…

  • Grinch Day

    Grinch Day

    December is one of my FAVORITE months! –  Our Elf makes his debut –  Having the room decorated for the holidays –  Pajama day for Polar Express –  AND Grinch Day!  Every morning the excitement my students exhibited when entering the classroom looking for our elf was exhilarating. You can see pictured above the elf was…

  • DIY Christmas Chimney

    DIY Christmas Chimney

    Every year, I (our Elf) will give presents to my students for Christmas. Two years ago, I decided to make a chimney for the stockings. I had leftover cardboard from a failed Pinterest idea on making a Gingerbread house! HAHA     I cut construction paper (orange, red, and brown) into rectangles and glued them down on the…