Christmas School Activities

 We have actually fallen behind in school because of so many extra activities going on but we have squeezed in some fun school lessons!

 We took the girls to Pump it Up just so I could get some lesson planning done. ha!

 She ordered the candy bags into the correct order and then added the correct amount of candy to each bag. The blank bag I tried to "trick" her by calling out a number and she had to fill it with that amount. But she was too smart...I couldn't trick her. ;o)

 We love those little dollar spot erasers! We use them for so many math activities. Here Marin is making an ABB pattern.

 She did some addition problems using mini Christmas lights I found at a yard sale last summer!

 Marin is a beginner reader. We are working on sight words and blending/segmenting CVC words. She's not a fan of blending to read the words but she loves breaking them apart and segmenting the sounds in each words. Marin is a math/science girl so taking the sounds apart is much more fun for her during reading lessons.

 Here she picked a card. Read the picture. Then broke the sounds down and put them in the box to spell each word.

 I love her sweet handwriting.

We read Christmas books and did a few activities with some of them....

They played a tree/ornament game where they had to look for letters or sight words that I called out. it was a good review game. This is actually a freebie in my teacher store.  

 This center was to help practice middle sounds. Marin picked a card. Read the picture in Santa's belly. Listened for the middle sound and wrote it in the correct box.

Another math game to practice early addition....

 We started some language lessons and the first lesson was on nouns. So I made this little stocking noun sort to give them a visual for each type of noun.

This was a cute little game where Hollis looked at the letter ornaments on the tree, Once she found one, she wrote it on her recording sheet. Hollis loves to write!

We did Count the Room as a center pocket game this month. She counted the pictures and then recorded their amount the sheet.

We use Saxon Math Kindergarten as our math curriculum. I really love it. It is very relaxed and hands on. But the number line below is a part of that curriculum. Hollis is working on recognizing and putting the numbers 1-10 in order.

 Another Saxon activity was to graph the eye color in our family....

Jolly challenged the girls to send their friends Christmas cards this year. Marin worked so hard coloring and addressing her envelopes to her friends!

 Hot chocoloate marshmellow number order!  Marin really likes math so I try to supplement activities with our Saxon curriculum.

And there you have it...a few of our holiday school activities!