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Easy Parent Christmas Gift and Classroom Traditions

December 9 By Linda Kamp Leave a Comment

Here's a festive and easy parent Christmas gift using inexpensive dollar store finds. We made these super simple parent gifts with candles from Dollar Tree and used Mod Podge to glue on tissue paper squares. Watered down school glue works great … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Christmas, Holidays, Parent & Volunteer Gifts Tagged With: class book, dollar store finds, gingerbread activities, parent gift

The Gingerbread Man Loose in Our School! Class Book & Gingerbread Exchange

December 7 By Linda Kamp 7 Comments

  The look of a graphic novel and the rhythmic patterns of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas (Both of which I adore!) make The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School  by Laura Murray my very favorite version of all gingerbread man stories.  Even though we have less … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Christmas, Classroom Celebrations & Traditions, Holidays Tagged With: class book, gingerbread activities, gingerbread man exchange

100th Day Writing & A Freebie

February 9 By Linda Kamp 23 Comments

100th Day writing ideas for 2nd and 3rd grade-Students write personal narratives about when they are 100 years old then create these adorable self portraits!

Last week marked our 100th day of school. Where does the year go? I thought I'd share some fun ideas for 100th day writing that include vocabulary building and writing personal narratives. Making "centenarian" self-portraits is always a fun project and a great starting point to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Classroom Celebrations & Traditions, Freebies, Popular Posts, Writing Tagged With: 100th day, 100th day writing, class book, freebies

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