Santa Skip Counting and Santa Poem FREEBIE

Can you believe its less than 3 weeks until Christmas?  We are well into our Christmas theme and just finished one of our biggest projects yet:  The Holiday Cookbook.  They are sent off to the AEA for publishing and we are now awaiting a return so we can wrap them up as gifts for mom and dad.  This week we also did 2 other Christmas gift projects:  Reindeer Handprint Ornaments and a special Christmas Ornament telling their mom or dad why they are so special.

Santa Skip Counting:
Here is a Santa Skip Couning activity that is similar to the Pumpkin and Turkey Skip Counting activities we posted about earlier.  We added a skip counting by 25s to make this one a bit more challenging.  We'll soon be introducing the quarter and skip counting by 25s is very helpful when counting money.

You can find this activity HERE at our TPT store.

 

 

Santa Poem FREEBIE:

Here is a link to a Santa Pocket Chart Poem with a file folder retelling for you for FREE!  One of the ways we want to say Merry Christmas and thanks for being our followers.  You can download it HERE through Google.  Large version is for the pocket chart and the smaller version and the poem page are to make a file folder retelling of the poem.  (Glue the poem onto the front of the file folder, cut out and laminate the small pieces, and attach with velcro to have an independent work station where students retell or re-read the poem and self-check to see if they got it in the right order.)

 

Clip Art used to make the Santa poem is from DJ Inkers.

 

   

 

 

Weather Pocket Chart Poem Freebie

This week we started our mini-unit on Weather.  A great book to read aloud to younger children about weather is:  "What Will the Weather Be?" by Lynda DeWitt.  It has great illustrations to go along with the text.

One of the pocket chart poems we do for shared reading is one we call "Weather".  I can't even remember where we got this poem, but we digitized it and added clip art.  If you or anyone knows where this poem came from please leave a comment so we can give the author credit.  Here is the first two strips of the pocket chart poem:

The words of the poem go like this:

Weather is hot.
Weather is cold.
Weather is changing as the weeks unfold.
Skies are cloudy.
Skies are fair.
Skies are changing in the air.
It is raining.
It is snowing.
It is windy with breezes blowing.
Days are foggy.
Days are clear.
Weather is changing throughout the year.

If you would like this pocket chart poem, you can download it HERE from Google Docs.
Clip Art images by DJ Inkers: www.djinkers.com and other sources.