Ringing in the New Year with a Ring of Bloggy Giveaways!

Are you looking for new ideas to revitalize you and your students for your return to the classroom? Look no further- inspiration is straight ahead! The New Year has arrived and to celebrate its arrival we are celebrating with a HUGE giveaway from a Ring of Elementary blogs!

Twelve blogs have joined together for a MEGA New Year Giveaway! The winners of the giveaway will be able to choose any item (winter themed or not) from any of the Teacher Pay Teachers stores listed below. Nearly 100 items will be given away in this HUGE event!

Each blog will have 6 winners.

Each blog will select and post 6 winners for that blog.
Third Place: There will be THREE third prize winners that will be able to choose any (of the winner’s choice) ONE item total from any of the blogger’s Teacher Pay Teachers store listed below.

Second Place: There will be TWO second prize winners that will be able to choose any (of the winner's choice) TWO items (total) from any of the blogger's Teachers Pay Teachers stores below.

First Prize: ONE grand prize winner from EACH blog that will win any (of the winner's choice) ONE ITEM from EACH blogger's Teachers Pay Teachers stores listed below!

Here are the participating blogs/ stores:

Classroom Confections Teachers Pay Teachers Store

Down Under Teacher Teachers Pay Teachers Store

Primary Inspiration Teachers Pay Teachers Store

I Love 1st Grade Teachers Pay Teachers Store

A Teacher's Treasure Teachers Pay Teachers store

Herding Cats in Kindergarten Teachers Pay Teachers store

Third Grade Bookworm Teachers Pay Teachers store

A Special Kind of Class Teachers Pay Teachers store

Mandy's Tips for Teachers Teachers Pay Teachers store

HoJo's Teachers Pay Teachers store

Teacher Tam's Teachers Pay Teachers store

Tools for Teachers by Laurah J Teachers Pay Teachers store

How do you enter? There are several possible ways to enter:

1. Follow my blog and leave a comment and leave a comment on this blog post saying you follow (or note that you are already a follower).

      2. Follow my Teacher Pay Teachers store and leave a comment on this blog  post saying you follow.

3. Become a fan on my Facebook page and leave a comment on this blog post saying you follow.

4. Blog about this contest and leave a comment here with a link to your post.

5. Visit the other blogs and stores, and enter according to their instructions!

However, there are still MORE ways to enter! You can also follow the blogs and stores of ALL the blogs participating in the list above to increase your chances of winning! There are at least 24 chances to win even if you DON'T blog!!!!

Remember to comment that you follow their blog and TpT store on their blog!

All winners will be chosen on January 6^th, 2012 by 8:00pm Eastern time.

Good luck! Maybe YOU will be one of the big winners!

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A special THANK-YOU to Mandy over at Mandy's Tips for Teachers for putting this together! Great job, lady! =)

11 in '11 Linky Party

Miss Kindergarten and A Teeny Tiny Teacher are hosting an 11 in 11 party to finish off the year!

Here's my 11 in 11:

11. Favorite movie you watched:

I actually went to some movies this year! (Normally I have spent my time in the po-dunk - is that a word?! - part of South Dakota for much of the year, but this summer I lived in a bigger town so I actually got out some!) To name a favorite though...hmmm... Let's just say I'm happy that I went to the movie theatre more than once this year! That is my favorite as far as movies go!

10. Favorite TV series:

I am in LOVE with Grey's Anatomy. Yes, it's been around awhile, but I still love it! Not having cable (or even the basic free channels for that matter) makes it hard to stay up on the "newest" shows. I also enjoy Army Wives, Private Practice, and Bachelor Pad.

9. Favorite restaurant:

There is a new little joint in my current town that I am really enjoying! This great guy I just met took me there last week and I hope we go back real soon.

As far as bigger chains go, I cannot get enough Olive Garden! Have you ever had their chicken alfredo pizza? Seriously!! BEST EVER! Imagine Olive Garden breadsticks as a crust with their alfredo sauce on top, plus chicken. YUMMY!

8. Favorite new thing you tried:

 I don't know if this was my favorite, but I worked in a factory this summer. SOOOO not for me! But, with that being said, I like to try new things and I always figure there will be a point in my teaching career when having that experience will come in handy. (And - even if it doesn't - the extra $$ made over the summer months wasn't too bad!)

7. Favorite gift you got:

When I left my last school district they gave me a $30 gift certificate to use at Really Good Stuff. It wasn't anything big, but it meant a LOT to me that they cared enough to give me something as I left. Some days I still wonder why I ventured further into western South Dakota, but I don't regret my decision. I will always have dear memories and friends back there!

6. Favorite thing you pinned:

You want me to list one thing! SERIOUSLY!? Hmmm.... How about my favorite thing being that I started pinning. I love getting e-mails that someone pinned something I posted. It feels so good to know that I may have saved a teacher time or given a child some great educational experience due to a simple pin!

5. Favorite blog post:

My favorite blog post or one from someone else? Well, actually they would be one and the same! Sub Hub had a great post about using the book The Giving Tree in the classroom. I loved her idea so much that I HAD to do it and then blog about it as well. :)

4. Best accomplishment:

In February 2011 I was chosen as the only representative from the state of South Dakota to attend a Praxis Standard Setting Committe meeting in New Jersey to help develop the new cut-off scores for the new PLT Praxis exams. It was such an honor that the Department of Education chose me for something like that!

3. Favorite picture:

This one was taken in my classroom on St. Patrick's Day. That holiday may very well be turning into my favorite as a teacher. We set leprechaun "traps" and wrote letters to the leprechaun. He DESTROYED  our room, but it was sooooo much fun!

2. Favorite memory:

I have so many great memories from 2011... However, I think the best one is going to come later this week. My immediate family has not yet been together to celebrate Christmas. We are going to do that this Friday evening. Somehow, I am willing to bet that seeing my mom's reaction to his 2011 Christmas present is going to be the best memory of the entire year!! (I'll have to let you all know later what it is - she might venture over and read this post!)

1. Goal for 2012:

There are so many goals. I need to get into better shape, find a regular education classroom again (there's nothing wrong with my special ed position this year, but it's simply not where my heart truly is), and find balance between teaching, my part-time job, TeachersPayTeachers, my family, and this amazing new man who just came into my life. :)

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I hope you all enjoyed learning a little more about me both personally and professionally! Here's to the best you in the New Year!!

~HoJo~

How to Decorate a Christmas Tree Class Book

This was one of those WAY fun activities to do with the Kinders right before Christmas 2010! :)

We made a "How to Decorate a Christmas Tree" book to give to their parents as gifts. (Well, one of the many gifts they made!)

To do the "How to Decorate a Christmas Tree" book we brainstormed where the tree comes from, how it gets put up, what all goes on it, and things of that nature.

I then gave students this sheet and they wrote their own directions. Some got their tree out of the basement, others chopped it down, while others went to a store/tree lot and bought one. If the students didn't know what their family normally did, I told them to write about what they would like their family to do.

After the students wrote down their steps, I corrected their spelling and typed up their work.

 

 

When the students got their print-out they could decorate their tree to match their writing.

I then made enough copies of all the pages to make each child their own book. with everyone's finished/illustrated copy. In each particular child's own book, I also added their original page at the front so parents could see their child's drawing in color and the original work their child did. It gave some parents a reality check as to where their child was at in the writing process, while being a great keepsake for all. We simply tied ribbon around the "book" after using a 3-hold punch on each one.

Many parents commented how nice it was to have this book as a keepsake of their child's writing. It was also just plain CUTE to read how the kinders thought a tree went up!


Click here or on the picture below to get a FREE cover for your book!

Let me know if you have any questions about how to recreate this fun book in your classroom!

~HoJo~

The Giving Tree Activity - adapted from Sub Hub

I may have found my new favorite activity for upper elementary students close to Christmas!

While rummaging around on teacher blogs one day, I came across this great post from Sub Hub about using The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein as a learning activity.

So I basically followed Sub Hub's directions.

1. The students were asked to make their Christmas gift lists.
2. I read the story The Giving Tree aloud to the students using the classroom Elmo.
3. We held a class discussion about what happened in the story. (The tree gave and gave  and gave... The boy did not.)
4. The students were given the opportunity to change their Christmas gift lists.

What happened next absolutely amazed me! All but one of the students chose to flip their paper over and redo their Christmas list. Here were some of the "gifts" students wrote down the 2nd time: homes for the homeless, food for the hungry, toys for their siblings/friends, parents to quit fighting, family members to be happy, and others...

The one that absolutely melted my heart was the girl who wrote that all she wanted was for her grandma to get better. (Grandma has cancer and they do not yet know her long-term prognosis.) I had tears in my eyes as I read it!

And - did I mention the discussion - WOW! I knew this group of 5th graders was very responsible and mature, but I was so impressed with the discussion. It was one of those awesome moments as a teacher where I really felt I reached some students and taught them the true meaning of the Christmas holiday.

Thank you, Sub Hub! Your idea was fantastic!!

100th Day of School Ideas

Yes, Christmas is hardly over and I am already posting about the 100th day of school. But, if you are like me, your brain is already thinking ahead to the many different activities you can do on that fun day!

Here are some of the activities I have done in the past with my Kinders through 4th graders.

The students counted out 100 ice cubes and we made predictions as to when they would all melt.

I was actually surprised at how long it took for the ice to melt! Thankfully I was working late that night and found that it took nearly 12 hours for the ice to melt. In hindsight, I would have spread the ice out in a pan that wasn't nearly as deep!

Another activity my Kinders did was to play a rolling and counting dice game. They had to roll the die and then color that many squares. The first team to hit 100 won! (For the second round we played that the person on the team to color the 100th square won!) My Kinders LOVED this!

You can find a FREE copy of this activity here!

Another activity that the Kinders really enjoyed was to guess how long 100 seconds was. I had all of the students put their heads down. When they thought 100 seconds had gone by, they were supposed to QUIETLY put their head up. Obviously these little ones had no idea how long it was! After about 10 seconds roughly half of the class put their heads up... So then we talked about how long it really was and tried it again. I felt it just helped make them more aware of time...

 

One activity that I have done at EVERY grade level is to have them do 100 seconds worth of different exercises or 10 of each different exercise all the way to 100. For example - jumping jacks, sit ups, push ups, etc. The students always giggle the whole time, but it is a GREAT way to burn off some of that energy from a day that doesn't follow the normal routine.

The last activity for the day for my Kinders was to string a cereal necklace with 100 pieces of honeynut cheerios. (In hindsight I would have used fruit loops, as they are bigger - oh the things you learn your first year of teaching Kinders!) Either way, the students really enjoyed it!

Here is another activity I did with my 3rd/4th graders for the 100th day. They had to spend EXACTLY $100 on whatever items they brought to shop from. This item sells for only $1.00 in my TeachersPayTeachers store.

 

One of my favorite snacks I brought was stick preztels, oval crackers, and cheese. The 3rd/4th graders had a blast spelling out 100 using the pretzel sticks as 1's and the oval crackers as 0's. :)

 

One of my coworkers did a 100 minutes of reading activity with her upper elementary/middle schoolers. The students LOVED it!


I have always loved the writing/art activity where teachers have the students make a picture of what they would look like at 100 years old and then write about it. One of my former coworkers even went to far as to let her students dress up as though they are 100 years old on the 100th day of school. That is ALWAYS a HUGE hit!! :)


One more FREE resource. I have worked in some schools where student attendance can be a real issue. So in 2011 I created a basic little certificate for any students who had perfect attendance for all 100 days. We had an elementary assembly (only 100 students) and had our principal present them. You can get your FREE copy here!

I know there are other activities out there that I've done, so maybe there will be another 100th day post as that day draws nearer. But - in the meantime - check out my Pinterest board where I have a few 100th Day of School items posted. I plan to add to it regularly, so make sure to check it out!

Happy 100th Day!

~HoJo~

Kindergarten Reading and Writing Centers

No, I am not teaching Kindergarten this year, but I wanted to let you know how I ran my Kindergarten centers last year. Everyone runs theirs differently, but I always like reading what other people do. Sometimes I hear about something and it's like, "Whoa! Why hadn't I thought of that?!" So here is what I did, as well as links to as many of the resources as I could find...

First, I ran reading and writing centers separately. There were a bit intertwined, but each half hour had its own focus.

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During Reading Centers, the students were at one of three centers:

1. Technology
2. Reading
3. Poetry

The students spent two days a week at the Reading Center. This center was 2-part. The students were expected to keep busy with Reading to Self, Reading to Others, Word Work, letter sorts, reading my personal scrapbooks I brought in, several misc file folder games I found or created, and checking out the menus, brochures, and magazines I brought in. (Toward the end of the year I also included the students poetry books and writing journals - more about these below - in their book boxes.) While students were doing this work, I would call them back to read with me. (And I should mention that getting the students to work independently took time! I bet it wasn't until mid-October that I was able to fully devote my time to the students who were reading to me... But - I don't think I would ever run Reading Centers again without utilizing The Daily Five in some way, even if I did heavily modify it!)

I met with students individually. I found this was the best way to determine the child's true abilities. Sometimes during a group Guided Reading session I would have one student answer and 2-3 others nod in agreement. I could never tell who actually knew what I was talking about! Meeting individually prevented that! :)

My goal was to meet with each student at least two times per week. My lowest readers got 4-5 meetings each week. Some of my higher students got what I called "fly by" lessons. It's not something I am necessarily proud of, but there are only so many hours in a day!

To help keep my sanity, I had to create a sheet to keep track of what the students did with me and the book they read each time. You can find that sheet here for free! It's nothing fancy, but it is still serving me well this year in 5th grade! I can easily reference the sheet to see what I taught the last time and have a general idea of the student's strengths/weaknesses. It was also great to be able to pull these sheets out at parent/teacher conferences or at teacher assistance team meetings. (I kept these sheets and running record sheets in an individual folder for each child. These were stored right behind the table where I met with the students for easy access.)

During the technology center, the students spent roughly 15 minutes on a reading computer-based program called Lexia. During the other 15 minutes, they listened to a book on tape and responded to it by drawing or writing. Thankfully my Reading Specialist had a LOT of books on tape! I need to start buying Scholastic's books on CD each month that have been 4 for $20...

For the poetry center, I utilized Jill Eggleton's poems. (LOVE THEM! I have them for grades K, 1, and 2!) Each week we had a focus poem during morning meeting. During the poetry portion of writing centers, the students would illustrate their copy of a poem. I then compiled all of these poems into a book for the child to take home at the end of the year. Many parents expressed their gratitude for this! When they were done illustrating their poem, they would head back to the SMARTboard and work on poetry. I was fortunate enough to have a full-time aide who worked with the students. She would have them read poems with her and ask them questions like, "How many letters are in this word?", "Show me a word you know.", and others. If you are interested in the sheet I had up near the SMARTboard, you can buy it here for just $1.00.

Just a side bar about Reading Centers - I could NOT have lived without the book boxes! Thankfully there were enough plastic tubs in my room that every student had one, but I seriously would have even spray painted cereal boxes if I'd had to! Those book boxes were the best. They were used daily for not only centers, but also when we had an extra 10-15 minutes of time during the day. While we were building our "stamina" to read at the beginning of the year, the students maybe read 30 seconds. By the end of the year even my lowest readers (in a very low-income school no less!) could read for 10 minutes! I LOVED IT! :)

If my explanation of my reading centers is clear as mud, please leave a comment and I will try to clarify what you are curious about. :)

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On to writing centers...

During this time, I was expected to utilize the English curriculum used by our district. I did a mini lesson roughly three times each week. (It seemed like Reading Centers often ran long and cut into Writing Center time...) Some days the mini lesson was taken from the English curriculum, but other times I modeled writing on the easel. My writing focus came from Jill Eggleton as well. (I went to a conference she held and absolutely fell in LOVE with her ideas!) Her book Lighting the Literacy Fire is amazing! I had some AMAZING writers by the end of Kindergarten.

Here's another side-bar. (I'm pretty good at being random!) This is how much I LOVED my writing centers last year. I had some students who could not even write their own name coming into Kindergarten, much less recognize more than 5 letters. However, here is where my students were as of St. Patrick's Day when I snuck in this clever writing activity -

For St. Patrick's Day, I had the students set leprechaun traps and leave notes for the leprechaun. I was so impressed by their writing! (Those of you who teach the lower grades will hopefully appreciate the pictures above and realize how long it takes to get to that type of writing!) I'm sorry if the pictures are small and a little hard to read...

Back to writing centers... So, here is what the four-day writing centers were:

1. Lexia
2. Writing with the Teacher
3. Letter Sort
4. Sight Words

Each center was about 20 minutes after a 5-10 minute mini lesson. (Although ont he days when Reading Centers ran too long I would throw out the mini-lesson.)

The Lexia program was the same computer-based reading program used during Reading Centers. (This program was required by that school district for 45 minutes per week for all students who were reading below grade level!)

The letter sort was something I created based on my Reading Recovery training. You can find that 30-page product for sale here. The students would cut letters out and paste all of the same letter into circles. They started with a two letter sort, moved on to three, and finally four letters. The students really liked this activity!

We learned one new sight word each week. (Although by the end of the year we were focusing on two each week...) We used these books from Donna Whyte at The Smartize Zone to reinforce our sight word each week. (You will have to scroll down until you get to the popcorn word packets.) On our short weeks where we did not learn a new word, this center would consist of forming our words in playdough, writing words on whiteboards, or other activities such as these. Toward the end of the year I also bought some songs on TpT that taught our sight words. You can find those songs here! Students typically finished at the sight word center fairly early, so then they would get their typed writing from me and illustrate it to make their book.

Finally, one day the students would rotate to write with me. They would honestly cheer when they knew they were writing (which never ceased to amaze me!). During this time the students would draw their story out at the top of a sheet of typewriter paper. When they were done drawing they would label their work and write their story phonetically below.

I kept an "Idea Box" near the table for the students who were "stuck". All year long I only had two times were students refused to write. In my opinion, there were simply times where they just needed ideas. (This "box" help anything from animals with crazy hair, to class pictures of different activities, to hunting, fishing, farms, etc - anything I thought the students could relate to and write about!)

When a student finished writing, she would bring her paper to me and read it. I would then write the words below theirs. I kept track of all the words students knew by using this sheet. (FREE!) I also used the checklist provided in Jill Eggleton's book Lighting the Literacy Fire to guide my teaching. I was AMAZED at the progress the students made!

Sometimes students would write faster than others. On those days, I had students "Write the Room" - download the sheet here for FREE! Maybe this was busy work, but I always thought it was a step in the right direction. I'd ask the students to read the words they had written down and I would say that 90% of the time they could look back to where they had copied it from and tell me the word. Maybe they didn't "know" it, but that's a first step! :)

After writing centers, I would take the students' writing samples, type them on the computer toward the bottom of the page with their name and the date, and print them out. The next day the students would illustrate their stories after they finished their sight words center. We then kept these and bound them together at the end of the year for the students to take home.
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The students poetry books and writing journals were kept in their books boxes from roughly February on. (That way there was actually some stuff in there and many of them could read them independently by then!) This allowed the students to read their published work to peers and themselves!

My students were always so excited to read! I asked them to read any chance they got. It was so cute to watch them run up to the principal anytime she came into the room and beg her to listen to them read. (It also worked out very well for me because then she was listening to them and not me - hehe.)
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Here are some of the resources and/or ideas I used to run my Kinder centers.

The Daily Five
Jill Eggleton - Lighting the Literacy Fire
Reading Recovery
The Smartie Zone

I'm sure there were other sources where I received ideas, but this is all I can think of right now.
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Please leave a comment if you have any questions, or feel free to ask it on my Facebook wall!

~HoJo~

Christmas Presents!

After weeks of searching blogs online and trying to decide what to give the 5th graders for Christmas, I finally found something! I made each student a little s'more goodie bag.

Cheesy - yes! But the students loved them! :) I originally found this great idea over at Caffeinated Conclusions. All I had to do was adapt it to fit my needs. (Hers are WAYYYY cuter!)

In other news - I got some really great gifts from the kids this year! (I always tell the kiddos that the only gift I ask for is that they try their hardest and be the best student they can be!) But I walked out of the school with two gift certificates, two candles, numerous goodies, and a martini glass! Yep - a martini glass in school! lol

I was also excited because this district gave all new teachers to the district a little gift as well. I received a 20% off coupon for a local wine shop, a $5 gift certificate for a flower shop, and a free drink coupon for the local bar. Do you think they realize changing schools is hard and that I need a drink or two? ;)

My favorite gift of the year, however, actually went to the general education teacher I primarily work with. One of the students gave her edible lotion! Yes - I said edible lotion. We were both cracking up!

What did you receive from your students, district, or coworkers? I'd love to hear all about it in the comments below!

Merry Christmas to all!!
~HoJo~

Christmas Freebies Galore!

If you haven't already checked it out, there are 30 Christmas freebies all at one location! You can find it here. =)

Here is the free download compiled by Rachel Lynette. It has been downloaded off of TeachersPayTeachers over 26,000 times! Yes, you read that correctly!

And if that still isn't enough Christmas freebies - head over here to TeachersPayTeachers where I have sorted out all of the FREE Christmas activities. There are 335 results there! :)

Well, I hope you all have a WONDERFUL break! Maybe I will find more time for blogging during my two weeks off. (Oh wait, my part-time job isn't "off" at all...)

Happy Tuesday!
~HoJo~

Holiday FREEBIE from me!

If you haven't already checked it out, here's a little holidy freebie I put together for all of you. I am so excited to be starting this blog, creating my facebook page, and continuing to grow in my TpT store that I felt all of you who have been following me from the start deserve a little sumthin'. :)

Click on the picture to get your freebie!!

Enjoy!!
~HoJo~

Christmas FREEBIES!

Merry -almost- Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all!!

Thank you for all of the work you do in your schools every day! I know we are often underpaid and underappreciated, yet we continue to do what we love every day.

With that being said, please enjoy a little holiday freebie from me. It's a Christmas Around the World Reflective Journal. There are 21 countries included in the journal for your students to write down what they thought while learning about all of these countries and their customs.

I wish I would have thought of this a few years ago when we did this K-5 at my school! Oh well - at least now it'll be out there for people to utilize. :)

AND - Teacher 2 Teacher is having a link up where 30 different Teachers Pay Teachers sellers are posting one FREE holiday item for you! So - head on over and check it out! And if there aren't 30 free links up yet, check back often! How awesome is it to have 30 free holiday items in one place?!

ENJOY!
~HoJo~

Christmas Gift/Art Ideas!

As you followers are probably well aware, last year I taught Kindergarten. Well, here are a few of the art projects we did. It was a ton of fun! I hope they inspire you, and maybe you can incorporate them into your room this year.

These applesauce/cinnamon ornaments were a lot of fun! If you google it, you will find a ton of recipes. I can't tell you exactly which one we used, but I know it did not have glue in it. Also, I would recommend making these with bigger cookie cutters. They were cute, but very small.

**Oh - make sure to make these at least a week before you want to send them home. They take FOREVER to dry! (Or maybe we made them too thick!)

This is the glitter/glue ornaments we made. I put a star outline underneat some wax paper. The students then squeezed over the star using a thick amount of glue. Then I helped them sprinkle the glitter on. It was a TON of fun! You will need a fair amount of glue to do this product since they have to sit there until they're dry, but the end product is very cute!

I wish I had taken a picture of the finished product. And I've done more complex patterns in the past (Santa, etc.) but they never seem to turn out as well as the simple ones like stars. :)

This is an activity I have done nearly every year. The students decoupauge tissue paper onto candle holders. I've done it with Kinders, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and will be doing it with 5th grade here soon. :) This can get a little spendy. In the past I've spent about $1 on each candle holder. This year one of my team teachers found them for $0.50. We were thrilled! If you don't want to splurge for the decoupauge, google the amounts of water and glue to use to make a similar mixture. I've done it both ways with similar results. I normally buy cheap tealights or other candles for 10/$1.00 from a dollar store. And make sure you give yourselves two days for this project! The first one should cover 95% of the candleholder, but it never fails that the second day you can see 2-3 spots that need touched up!

Isn't this little guy cute!? My Kindergarten aide helped the students make these last year. We even let them make two so they could eat one and take one home to show off! :)

And, finally, here are the gingerbread houses I have done every year (until this year) while teaching. I was even brave and did it with my Kinders! (Ok, I  put the houses together and all they had to do was decorate, but it was still fun!) Some of my fourth graders even made two-level houses. It took some more time, but was very fun! Make sure to do this in two settings. During the first setting the students will just make the house. Then an hour or so later you can come back and decorate. All I have used for frosting is powdered sugar/milk/vanilla flavoring. The kids love it!!

If you have questions or want details on any of these projects, please feel free to comment below!

Merry -almost- Christmas!

~HoJo~