K-Holidays

This is a; collection of ideas on how we celebrate Holidays/Events at Chets Creek! __**October**__ //Fall Festival/Literacy Pumpkin Parade // tissue paper |candy corns |cookie decorating pumpkin glyphs Monster/ ghoul bags Monster necklace candy corn magnet spider paper plate treat bag spider headband Jack-o-lantern magnet ghost decorating Cupcakes popcorn hand
 * A blog describing the [|Literacy Pumpkin displays]and competition
 * A blog in pictures of the [|Literacy parade]
 * Center possibilities
 * A [|blog full of Halloween ideas]
 * [|Another blog of Halloween ideas]
 * [|Pinterest]

__**November**__ //Thanksgiving//
 * A blog describing some Thanksgiving projects: [|Times for Pilgrims and Hand Puppets]
 * A blog with a [|thankfulness voicethread]
 * Activities for //[|There was An Old Woman Who Swallowed a Pie]//
 * [|Cute book to make with your class]
 * [|Pinterest]

__**December**__ //Winter Holidays//
 * A blog about a giving project for [|our four-legged friends]
 * A blog about [|celebrating Hannakah]
 * A blog about the [|holiday auction]
 * [[file:Rudolf!.doc|Shared Reading: //Rudolf//]]
 * Show students this [|ABC Christmas Book]on the Elmo. Then invite students to make their own ABC Holiday Book. Before they start you can brainstorm words that might go with each letter. Then provide a template with two letters on each page and let them choose their own words and draw their own pictures.
 * Take a Christmas activity - making gingerbread houses - and [|use it to teach writing details][[image:http://blogs.scholastic.com/.a/6a00e54faaf86b88330120a761bb0d970b-320wi width="251" height="199" caption="IMG_0594" link="http://blogs.scholastic.com/.a/6a00e54faaf86b88330120a761bb0d970b-pi"]]

//Materials for Making the Gingerbread Houses// Amazing parents sent in decorating candy such as M&M's, candy corn, and marshmallows We collected and washed school lunch milk cartons (1 per child) Cut about 6 by 6 inch squares of cardboard for the base of the house (1 per child) White frosting, Graham crackers, Plastic knives

//Descriptive Writing Mini-lesson// Focus of mini-lesson: help students add more details to their writing just like they do with their pictures. I first asked my students to tell a partner what they are going to write about their gingerbread house. Many of the students shared a simple sentence about their house, such as, it was cool or that they liked their house. After sharing these ideas, I took out a very sadly decorated gingerbread house with just one lonely piece of candy on it. I proceeded to act as if it was a beautiful gingerbread house. The students argued back that it wasn't. When I gave them a surprised look asking what was wrong with my gingerbread house, they told me it wasn't finished. They said I needed to decorate it more. When I explained that it was decorated, they argued that there was only one piece of candy on it and that gingerbread houses are supposed to be full of lots of candy. The discussion continued and I explained how they are usually just writing one sentence without much detail (my gingerbread house) and that they need to be adding all the wonderful details just like they did for their gingerbread houses. After they understood this connection I had them tell a partner about their gingerbread houses again and then write about it. This time they all added a lot more details about their house such as describing the candy they used, the steps to make the house, and even who lives inside it! To help my students remember this valuable lesson after the holiday break, I took a picture of my sadly decorated gingerbread house and of a student's fully decorated house. We are going to post them in our room and re-look at this when needed to remind students to add more details to their writing.
 * [|Pinterest]

__**January**__ //Happy Birthday, Chets Creek! //

//Snow-Winter //
 * [|Back to school Snowman-style]
 * //The Mitten//: blog about a [|retelling] //and m// [|asks for retelling]
 * [|Pinterest]

//100th Day//
 * [|A video of people from 1 to 100]
 * [|Poem] to use on the 100th Day shared reading
 * Check out this wiki space for 100th day ideas
 * Joining the[| "I Can Count to 100"] club
 * 100 Bingo dabber dots to make a [|gumball machine]
 * Share the pen to write a class chart for shared reading: "The Best Things About the First 100 Days" or "We Wish We had 100..."
 * [|Pinterest]

__**February**__ //Valentine's Day//
 * CCE letter to send home to [[file:Make your own Valentine box.docx|make your own Valentine boxes]]
 * [|Valentine Day activities]and student writing
 * [|"ThingsI Love" activity]
 * Lip and moustache lollipops![[image:blogger-image--1916470302.jpg width="192" height="143"]][[image:blogger-image-278807688.jpg width="192" height="143"]]
 * [|Pinterest]

//President's Day//
 * Step-by-step directions to draw [|George Washington]

__**March**__ // St. Patrick's Day //
 * [[image:kindergartencce/lepmask.jpg width="100" height="98"]] [|Cute Mask and More]
 * Tying Skills Block to St. Patrick's Day - [|song for fluency and a Readers' Theatre]
 * Some Lucky Math Links: <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: 1.5;">[|Lucky Charms Graph]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">__**April**__ //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Spring/Easter //
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A blog about [|Easter centers] and celebrations including Easter Egg Hunts.
 * [|Easter craft links]
 * [|Kid-friendly tie-dyed Easter Eggs]
 * [|Dying Easter Eggs with Kool-aid]
 * [|Pinterest]

__**May**__
 * Poem //[[file:Before I was a Mom.doc|Before I was a Mom]]// to read to moms
 * [|blog]with directions for planting seeds in time for Mother's Day and a handprint poem
 * [|Mall-ards' 2010 Mother's Day Celebration]
 * [|cute Mother's Day gift][[image:PICT0069.JPG width="120" height="160"]]
 * [|Pinterest]

__**June**__