Thanksgiving's over.  I'm stuffed.

So that means it's socially acceptable to be thinking about all things Christmas, right?!!

A few weeks ago in my Five for Friday post I shared how much my kiddos love QR codes.  I mean, they are MAGIC really.

Christmas excitement plus my QR code craze led me to a Christmas QR version of Read the Room!  I can't wait for my firsties to get their hands on these babies!  There are pictures included to help young readers with the words.  There is also a recording sheet to write down what they've read.

Christmas QR Code - Read the Room

You can find my Christmas QR Code - Read the Room in my TPT Store.  

Rumor has it there is a BIG Teachers Pay Teachers sale coming up (wink, wink).

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Colleen

It's Thanksgiving break, WAHOO!!!

Officially, Thanksgiving break began at 11:15am yesterday, but I didn't quite get around to blogging.  Maybe it was because I was getting my classroom prepped for December (eek!), or more likely because I was enjoying a nice glass of celebration, haha.

We had a super short two-day week and both were half-days for parent/teacher conferences.  So needless to say, this "week" flew by!

I just had to share these adorable hats that my kiddos made!  They were so excited about them and I swear you could have heard a pin drop while they were tracing and cutting.  The focus was unbelievable.

The ironic part was that this was the THIRD turkey craft I had prepared for the class.  I kept re-planning because I would find yet another cutie-pie craft and changing my mind about which turkey to do in class!  So on Sunday when I read the TPT newsletter and saw this hat freebie, I couldn't resist!  I mean, really, who doesn't like a hat?!

Click {HERE} to snag this FREEBIE!

Materials prepped and ready!

Trace, Cut, Repeat!

This is what the sound of silence looks like.  This is otherwise known as teacher gold!!!

I didn't have large brown construction paper, so I used a sentence strip instead and had the kids just color it brown.  Problem solved!

Adorable!!!

Now it's time to relax and enjoy a very long holiday weekend!  Well, I guess the relaxing part will begin right after I make these five pies for Thanksgiving dinner.  Yes, FIVE pies.  You would think I was a bakery!  Where is that glass of celebration again?!

Gobble, Gobble!  Happy Thanksgiving Everybody!

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Colleen

PERSON:  teacher
PLACE:  couch
THING:  laptop

This week we are working on common nouns… so tonight I whipped up a quick sorting center for my firsties!  There are four categories for sorting:  person, place, thing, not a noun.  There is also a recording sheet included.

Want it?!  It will be a FLASH Freebie on TPT for the next hour!  

As always, feedback is much appreciated.

Fallin' for Nouns

Fallin' for Nouns

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Colleen