Christmas

<p>I&#8217;ve got a few new products up in my store. I&#8217;ve been working hard on products about Inquiry Based Learning. I have just released one about Christmas Around the World. I will post in more detail about this over the holidays, but for now, my class and I are right in the middle of this &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/inquiry-based-learning/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Inquiry Based Learning: PBL for Chris

<p>So we&#8217;ve been really focusing on Christmas in my classroom this year. We spent a number of days putting together these dough ornaments. My teaching colleague found this idea on Pinterest and we modified it a bit. We made the dough and rolled it out. The kids cut out the circle shapes using a glass &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/peek-at-last-week_13/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Christmas in the classroom thi

<p>So this past week we&#8217;ve been working hard on Christmas ideas. This first one uses the templates from the package below from Little Red&#8217;s Schoolhouse. I modified the template and added the thick black lines. Then I used one of the free blank writing papers from Whimsy Workshop. We also made these &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/peek-at-last-week-2/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Some cute Christmas ac

<p>Aren&#8217;t they cute?????? Yeah, I now that I&#8217;m a few days late with this one. But this is how my students wrapped their presents to their parents this year. I know these have been all over pinterest in the last year. But I made my own template. and it&#8217;s free!!!! CLICK HERE to get your &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/paper-bag-reindeer/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Paper Bag Reindeer FREE</span></a></p>

<p>We hope you all had a fabulous holiday no matter what you celebrate this time of year!</p>

<p>&nbsp;Here&#8217;s a super cute, and easy to prep activity for the last week of school this December. &nbsp; My Grade two &nbsp;class were able to do the coloring, cutting and gluing activities very easily, and I twisted the arms and legs for them. &nbsp;It would be an easier activity with older students.&nbsp; And just look &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/super-cute-and-super-quick-santas/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about

<p>This is what I tried with my class today. It&#8217;s super easy and terribly cute. You can find these free printables over at Krokotak.com It&#8217;s an adorable site. &nbsp;I highly recommend you take a lot around It&#8217;s in Hungarian, I believe, but you can translate the site to English. &nbsp; Just click on the British &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/cute-christmas-freebie/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Cute Chris

<p>I don&#8217;t usually post only about new products, but I&#8217;ve been so busy lately with new ideas buzzing around in my head. Here&#8217;s my latest. It&#8217;s a multi-leveled shape booklet which is so easy to prep and super motivating for the kids. They really love shaped booklets. This one comes in a Christmas Tree shape. &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/christmas-shape-booklet-fun-and-new/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-tex

<p>I&#8217;ve redone an oldie but a goodie. And now it&#8217;s waaaaayyyy cuter! check it out HERE Here&#8217;s more details about what you get. It&#8217;s perfect for children from K to 2. There&#8217;s three different levels which suits differentiated learning perfectly. </p>

<p>Well if you&#8217;re like me, today is your last teaching day of 2012. I thought I&#8217;d post up some art from the hallways of my school. I found these amazing, patterned Santas in front of the Grade 6 classroom, and knew I needed to share them.&nbsp; Enjoy! &nbsp; &nbsp;</p>

<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Here&#8217;s a super easy and really effective Christmas wreath. You will need green construction paper&nbsp;in a variety of green colours. You can die cut them in leaf shapes like I did, but if you don&#8217;t have access to a die cutter, you can use leaf tracers, or punches, whatever you have around. Sometimes &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/quick-and-easy-wreath/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Quick and

<p> I&#8217;m super excited to share this new creation of mine with you. It&#8217;s my approach to differentiated learning. This is a letter to Santa activity which is good for children of many levels of development from K to 2. I&#8217;ve broken it up into 3 levels. The beginning level is good for Kindergarten, Level 2 &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/post-card-from-santa-freebie/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Post Card

<p>&nbsp; Well December is almost here.&nbsp; It&#8217;s time to start the Christmas Art. I don&#8217;t ususally teach anything religious for Christmas, but these angels are really easy and effective. &nbsp; Where I work, there are a number of christians, but there are also a lot of children whose families practice other religions.&nbsp; I feel, that &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/christmas-angels/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">