Gingerbread and Freebies!

Good morning! Oklahoma has been hit by some winter weather and I enjoyed a Snow Day on Friday! That is our second one of the year already! Something tells me that we may be having Saturday School come May. We have extra time built into our schedule, but in the last few years we haven't even had 1 Snow Day let alone 2 before Christmas! I'm blaming it all on our classroom tree which I decorated with snowflakes since the chances of actually getting snow are usually so slim:

The kids loved it when they came in and saw it. It's the little things that make a classroom fun, isn't it?

This week we have been doing all things Gingerbread:

We have a new whole group classroom management system - just for fun to help us control ourselves at carpet. I'm sure you know how excited they get at this time of year! So we have a Gingerbread Friend and every time we are doing well - sitting in our spots, paying attention, we get to add a sticker piece. If we can get him completely finished before Christmas Break we will get to have a party! Next to him is Alpine, our new visitor. We have a stuffed animal visit us monthly and write letters to us. The kids love getting letters and its a great way to get them writing in reply!

On our math wall are my Gingerbread Ten Frame cards. I frequently swap some of them so the kids are always looking at them to see if they can catch me. Its great for building automaticity!

On Thursday when the weather started getting bad we had kids being picked up early - by the end of the day I only had 6 out of 27! I keep fun things like this Color By Sum Gingerbread sheet on hand so that when things come up we can do something academic without getting ahead of everyone else.  Its a freebie in my store here.

I used my Snow Day to finish up my Gingerbread Math pack which has so many fun activities and print and go sheets:

I also created a freebie based on the feedback of my Facebook fans:

 

Click here to grab it from my TPT store!

Today we will be decorating the house for Christmas and I have to share the cutest thing that I found at Dollar General of all places:

Nutcrackers of my husband and me! How sweet is that?

And, because this post doesn't have enough pictures yet, take a look at my fridge:

My daughter decided that it was too cold outside to make a snowman, so she made one in the kitchen!

Now, before you leave, here's a hint - you'll want to check out my Facebook page at 2pm Est for a surprise!

Sale and a FREEBIE!

There are just a couple of hours to go on the Cyber Monday (ad Tuesday!) Sale over at TPT! Don't miss out on 20% off my entire store PLUS an extra 10% off when you enter the code CYBER at checkout!

Here's a few of my best sellers for the season:

Gingerbread Skills Pack

Gingerbread Fact Family Pack

Gingerbread Sight Word Game

 

Gingerbread Cowboy Roll & Cover Games

 

Christmas Ten Frames Pack

Winter Ten Frames Pack

Snow Much Measuring Fun Pack

And, here's a new Gingerbread Friends graphing freebie!

I want to thank each of my followers for supporting me! It makes me so happy to share my creations with you. Your support means the world to me and my family! Without selling items on TPT I could not buy so much for my classroom nor afford to indulge my clipart obsession!

Deck the Halls with TPT!

I'm linking up with Christina over at Bainbridge, Books and Bunting for a Cyber Monday Sale Linky party! I love this idea of a "playlist" of Christmas product tunes!

 My entire store is on sale, but here are some of my favorites:

"I Saw Mommy with Science and Social Studies Resources": My Life Cycle units are packed to the gills with fun learning opportunities! Each comes with an observation journal, calendar, labeling sheets, KWL sheets, emergent reader, Life Cycle Sequencing cards and sheets,  Roll & Graph and Roll & Cover and Color by Sum activities! I have packs for Butterfly Life Cycle, Plant Life Cycle, Chicken Life Cycle, Frog Life Cycle and Praying Mantis Life Cycle - and yes, I raise each of those in the classroom each year!

"Walking in a Math Wonderland": My Ten Frame packs have added so much to my classroom! I always have a ten frame set on my math wall and frequently mix them up so my kiddos are always on the look out to see if they match up correctly. This gives them lots of practice with recognizing the quantities! We also use the smaller cards in the packs as math center activities - either matching them up and putting them in numerical order in a pocket chart or playing Memory with them. Sometimes I even pass them out and have the kids line up in numerical order when we are going somewhere - they have to do it without talking :) I have 2 packs for the Winter season - one is specifically Christmas oriented with Santa, Christmas trees and Gingerbread while the other has Penguins, Snowmen and children bundled up for winter! Check them out here:

"I've Been Dreaming of a Holiday Product": My Gingerbread Skills Pack! Nothing says holidays to me like Gingerbread! This pack has  5 Language Arts activities covering ending sounds, vowel sounds, syllable counting, and word families as well as an original Gingerbread story written by me! It also has 5 Math activities covering data analysis, time to the hour and half hour, basic addition with pictures, number sense (with ten frame support), and place value.

I hope you have fun shopping for these Holiday Hits! Be sure to check out the linky for more "songs" to add to your playlist! Remember to enter the code "CYBER" for your extra 10% off!