By Rachel Lynette
So, first off, I have to say that I stole borrowed this idea about resolutions with adjectives from author Martha Beck*. She says that when you’re making goals or resolutions to focus not on the nouns and verbs (I will lose 25 pounds) but rather on the adjectives that describe how you would feel if you achieved the goal (healthy, strong, attractive). She suggests brainstorming
Here is a great project to do with little kids this holiday season. Each recipe makes a single gingerbread man, so this is great if you don’t want to make a bunch. The steps are easy to follow for little people with some adult assistance. If you do this with a group, then give the kids margarine tubs or cereal bowls to mix in and
Winter Break Scavenger Hunt How many letters are in your full name? Who has the longest name in your family? Find something that is eight inches long. What exactly is Wassail? Find something that is red and white. Find something that is used to fix something. What is the first ingredient in eggnog? Find something with numbers on it. On what date does Hanukkah start next
Keep those brains thinking right up until winter break. Here are some fun Christmas analogies to try with your students. Here are some fun Christmas analogies to try with your students. You can get these Christmas analogies (with answer key) in a free worksheet here. Frosty : snowman : : Rudolph : _______________ ribbon : present : : ornament : ________________ snow : white : :
Why not add a little math into the Christmas holiday? We all know the 12 Days of Christmas song! And the song leaves me with LOTS of questions! I don’t know why anyone would want all those birds, but those birds need to eat! How many birds do you have? And if each of those birds eat 3 worms a day, how many worms do
Every holiday season, I pick out two or three family board games. The clear favorite this year is Tsuro. I would have never found Tsuro on my own. While beautiful, it is not flashy and doesn’t scream out how great it is. I would not have even noticed it on the shelf. I only bought it because the guy at the game store said it was a good
Want to add a little holiday magic to your journal writing program? Try this free journal prompt choice grid. At the start of the week, students choose three of the nine prompts. Since they must choose three in a row, they will have to make some choices, weighing one prompt against another. You can get the whole set of Holiday Tic-Tac-Toe Journal Prompts here. Or you
There are many, many great ways for students to respond to literature. Students especially enjoy creative book reports. These will work for almost any book and are especially good when students are reading independent book selections. A quick web search will reveal that there are many ideas out there for creative book reports, but they are not all good ideas. Here are, in my opinion,
