The holiday season is my absolute favorite time of year outside and inside of the classroom! My students and I always have so much fun celebrating the holidays.  Check out some of my favorite December activities: ELA Ideas Read The Gingerbread Man. I love this  version  retold by Mary Sandel from the Fountas and Pinnell intervention collection because it is predictable for making picture-supported sentences and easy enough for my emerging readers to read the text.  My favorite Christmas books are: Clifford’s Christmas by Norman Bridwell The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell by Lucille Colandro In addition to using picture-supported sentence boards, I also have an old lady doll that I have students take turns feeding throughout the story. I just print an extra copy of the sentence board at a larger scale, laminate and cut out the pieces, and then pass them out to each of the students as the story starts. It is a great interactive activity and really builds joint attenti......

I want to welcome all my new visitors from my friend Megan's blog at  Mrs. Wheeler's First Grade Tidbits ! I hope you like what you see and come visit me again soon! As a gift for all my new visitors and to my followers tonight I am going to post several more Practice at Home lists FREEBIES Practice at Home lists FREEBIES ! These lists are great for giving parents ideas for multisensory activities that they can do for extra homework practice, during remote learning, or to prevent the summer slide.  Lists include: Practicing Numbers at Home (Counting & Number Recognition) Practicing Letters at Home Practicing Writing at Home Practicing Spelling at Home Practicing Sight Word Reading at Home Practicing Money Skills at Home These lists are a great resource for parents wanting a creative way to work with their child at home. I hope your parents enjoy them as much as mine do!  Download my FREE Multisensory Activity Lists for Practicing Basic Math ......