Santa's Village

These are pictures from our hallway!! Jr. Kindergarten did the Reindeer Stable, Kindergarten did the Gingerbread Houses and First Grade made Santa's Workshop! One of our Jr. kindergarten teachers even decorated our office door with naughty (coal) and nice (presents)!! It is AMAZING!!! For part of our workshop, we had the kids fill out elf applications (which we found from Pinterest!) and took their pictures as elves! So cute!
Tuesday we are having a special day where all six classes will rotate between all of us and we, the teachers, will be doing an activity with each group!! Some activities planned include making reindeer food(measurement), gingerbread man sight words, a Santa writing activity and several more!! This is the second year we have done this and it is so much fun working with the other kids, not just the ones in my class!! Plus the kids get a break from me, too!! I know the kids will have a blast, and that's what it's all about!!























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Santa's workshop

Our Jr. Kindergarten, Kindergarten, and First Grade teachers are transforming our hallway into Santa's village!! This is a few pictures of my part. I will post more pictures later when everything is completed!! In case you are wondering, I am not allowed to put anything on my door, because according to the Fire Marshall, it might catch on fire. So I just went around the door!!





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The Polar Express

This is my MOST FAVORITE thing we have ever done!  The Polar Express is one of my favorie books, and we made it come alive!  As you can see, we started with the engine at one end of the hall.  Our principal was the conductor!  The kids loved that!  Then we made three cars, one for junior kindergarten, one for kindergarten, and one for first grade!  We added every child's picture to look like they were riding on the train!  You should have seen their faces when they saw the train for the first time...PRICELESS!!   Under each child's picture is a bell with student writing on it.  We also had a Polar Express Day!  The students wore their pajamas.  In the morning, we rotated between our six classes and each teacher had a different activity planned revolving around The Polar Express.  We focused on math skills, social studies, reading, etc.  One activity was, of course, reading the book.  After lunch, we watched the movie!  It was a fantastic day!  I wish I had a picture of one of the cars without kids in front of it, but I don't, sorry.

Christmas Decorations

You have probably seen this door on Pinterest!  My co-worker and I both had it on our doors and then we made the barn connect both of our doors.  We turned the childrn into reindeer with their handprints.  The writing on the bulletin board is an application to be one of Santa's reindeer!  They had to write why they thought they would make a good reindeer... really cute!  We also had a Reindeer Day!  We wore antlers and did reindeer activities all day!  It was a lot of fun!

Log Cabin

We made a log cabin with a gian cardboard box, and toilet paper rolls.  I put it up in November for the Pilgrims.  In December, we decorated it to look like a gingerbread house.  Unfortunately, I am not allowed to put it up anymore due to fire codes.