Grinches and Elfs and Celebrations {PLUS FREEBIES}... OH MY!

The last couple of days have been extremely CRAZY creative ones in the classroom. It has been such a fun experience getting to loop from kindergarten to first grade with my fun and hilarious class, but that's another story...

This week we did a couple of very hands-on activities that the kids really sunk their teeth into and their scissors... it looked like Edward Scissorhands had been in our classroom!  The first activity we conquered was a "Winter Celebrations" Book.  {I will give a BONUS ITEM to the first person that comments with the error on one of these page examples...}  See pics below:


  The next project was a Grinchy affair!  I AM ABSOLUTELY IN LOVE WITH THIS PROJECT!!!!  THEY TURNED OUT SO CUTE! Ok, I'm done screaming... We created The Grinch from construction paper {no they didn't have a template, but I do give them visuals for each step, which I can share with blogland if there is enough interest} and played {what I called} "The Grinchy Grinch Game" 

Students counted the teeth by different values/points: For example, how many total points if each tooth was valued at 1, 2, 5 or 10 points.  They thought it was too cool to beat The Grinch and I thought it was cool that they thought it was cool, so there was a lot of coolness going on!

  

 
I LOVE how they are all so unique, individualized AND self-differentiated.

LAST, but not least.  We read, "The Littlest Elf" by Brandi Dougherty

The kiddos were then inspired to write their own elfkin tale and create an elf unique to them ... name and all.

  NOW FOR THE FREEBIES!  Enjoy... maybe not until next year.
Click on the one that you would like to "grab!"
Winter Celebrations     The Grinchy Grinch Game      Elf Writing

THANKS for stopping by and visiting.  Tell me how you enjoy your freebies {and remember, the first one to find an error on the winter celebrations book and comment about it will get a BONUS item}! :)