Every year, my favorite Christmas ornaments to make with my students are made from two simple ingredients: cinnamon and applesauce. That’s it. It’s pretty incredible how they set up, actually! Each year, we fill the rooms and halls with the warm, spicy aroma of cinnamon. As we were making the ornaments this year, some of my former students walked by…
Every year, I love making Christmas ornaments with my students. First, we decorate our classroom tree, and then they take their ornaments home and decorate their family’s tree. One of the ornaments we made this year were salt dough ornaments. I do not do this activity every year with my students, as it depends on the amount of time we…
Every year, I do many activities with my first grade students based upon The Gingerbread Man story. We read many different gingerbread man books, write about decorating a construction paper gingerbread man, and even perform a gingerbread man readers’ theater for the kindergarten class! But never have I actually made gingerbread cookies with my students (or ever, really)! I thought…
It’s December! I hung up the Christmas lights in my classroom last Tuesday, but I made my class wait until today to turn them on! Since I love Christmas lights, I think it actually may have been more difficult for me to wait than for my students! I am excited to start thinking about Christmas. I love picking out our…