Elf Activities

Today I read an old version of The Elves and the Shoemaker.

Then, we made cute little elves from Life in First Grade.The patterns for this craft are a free download on Ms. Leslie Ann's blog.

Below is a close-up of one.  Notice that the maker of this one put the shoes on the "right" way.  Above you can see that a couple have their shoes on funny!  : )

As you can see, this was an involved craft.  I had all of the tracing and cutting done ahead of time (with the help of my wonderful classroom aide).  I also had some of the pieces put together ahead of time (I put the ears and hair on the heads. I also put the balls on the shoes and the hat ahead of time also.  AND I glued the googly eyes beforehand as well).  I was so glad I could do this craft with my class.  I'm so lucky right now to have the time on my hands to prepare involved crafts like this one.  Next semester, I will be taking 3 grad classes to get my Reading Specialist certification, so, needless to say, I won't have quite as much time!

Here was our elf morning work:

Students had to color by letter.  (e = green, l = red, and f = yellow).  This free activity can be found HERE.

Below are center activities we did today:

We completed this graphing activity from Fran Kramer at Kindergarten Crayons.  Although we did our gingerbread week last week, I couldn't help but roll this one in.  We did a graphing activity last week, and because graphing is still a pretty new skill for my preschoolers, I was happy to give them more practice with it.

We also filled the sleigh with rhyming words.  This worksheet came from the Dec./Jan. 2011-2012 Mailbox Teacher's Helper for Kindergarten.

I'll be repeating these activities with my 3s tomorrow.  4s did them today.  I'll be back later this week with more holiday fun!