I'm still here

Hey my friends!!  I just wanted to let you guys know that I am still here...  things have been super crazy busy at school -  I am imagining all of you nodding your heads in agreement... :) and hubby has transitioned out of education and into the business world/medical field (YEAH!!) so there is a lot of change going on in the Nichols' house these days!  Change can be a good thing and I keep repeating that to myself when I begin to get frustrated!! We met at our school and got married the next year and have been there ever since...TOGETHER...so I really don't know what it's like not to teach with him, but this opportunity is something that we believe is a gift from God so we are stepping out...well he is stepping out and taking this risk hoping it will be beneficial for our family....holding breathe...Sadly blogging is the last thing I think about when I finally sit down for the evening.  We have been doing so much great stuff that I want to share too!!  I will try and do better in the coming weeks...just stick with me... I'll be back soooooooon!!!

Count by 10's Freebie!!

Here is an activity that we will be using this week to get ready for that big big day we celebrate every January!  The 100th Day!!  I hope you can use it too!

Click the picture above to get your own copy.

Time flies...

Has it really been over 2 weeks since I have posted anything????  Holy smokes!!!  Where has the time gone???  Well, I can tell you... getting ready for Christmas, Christmas, cleaning up after Christmas, school craziness starting again... shall I go on??? LOL Well, I just wanted to jump on and say "Hey" and that I am still alive but trying to keep my head above water has proven to be a bit harder this year... that is a whole blog post of it's own!!!  I miss all of you and will be back to regular posts very soon!!! :)

25 Days of Christmas

Merry Christmas to all of my blogging buddies and fellow teachers!!  Here is a game for you to use in your small groups when you get back in January.  My babies will be Dibeled on Nonsense Word Fluency in January and I have not really done much practice with it, so I thought this would be perfect! Hurry... before you MELT!!!

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Gifts for Parents

If you are in need of a cute gift for your kids to give to their parents this may be perfect. I have been doing this cute snowman ornament for several years and my parents love it and it is fairly easy!! Just stuff a clear ornament with cotton, add the face, scarf and puff balls and there you go!! We use craft glue for the felt pieces and hot glue the puff balls ahead of time so they are ready!! :) we usually do this with 2 students at a time during small group time. Let me know if you have any questions. :)

Busy busy busy!! The Gingerbread Man Fun continues!!

Is there really one more week left before we are out for our much needed vacation!! Wow!! That is almost hard to believe!! We have spent the last 2 weeks on The Gingerbread Man and we had such a great time!!! We have written about the Gingerbread man, graphed info about how we took our first bite of him and did a science experiment about him!! Phew! And that's just the stuff I can remember!! LOL
Here are a few pictures of the fun! Most of these ideas came from Deanna Jumps Gingerbread Math and Literacy Pack.



Poor guy!! :)









Awwww....



Science Fair Project!! Now this was fun! It was in one of Deanna's science packs!!









I hope you all have a great week!! I have been do busy I haven't even had a chance to make anything new!! I will post some freebies soon!!! :)

Gingerbread Fun - Thanks Julie Lee :)

We have had a lot of fun with our gingerbread books and activities this week. During small groups we did some rhyming fun and Word Family Sorting thanks to Julie Lee!! :)



Instead of putting the word on the gingerbread - I made it a little more rigorous for my children and found pictures - this way they actually had to sound out and write the word on their own. This actually will continue into next week when they go back and read their words and find the matching gingerbread man and color to match. :)


We also did the Gumdrop Lane activity and we used the number word spinner. I added to this activity also by putting up a color code so they had to go back and color the numbers they wrote a certain color and then count how many of each color they had. :)












I love that these activities are easily adaptable to the needs of my children!! Thanks Julie!! :)