Merry Christmas from the Elliott Family!

Oh, Christmas Tree, Oh, Christmas Tree

I love Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree! It was my favorite as a kid and I still love reading it every year. It got me thinking about Christmas trees. Here are some resources for learning more with trees this season.



Read the book and have students do a little geometry at the same time. Take a piece of paper and make sure it is a square. Have students fold the square into a triangle. Cut along the fold. Now you have 2 triangles. As you read the story have the students fold their triangle in half and cut. They continue the process the whole book for each of the key events. Then when they finish they will have their own tree. They can record the events or decorate! A BIG THANKS to the lovely teachers in Indiana and Ohio who shared this idea with me. I came right home and gave it a try. It worked!

Real Trees 4 Kids: Learn all about the life cycle of growing trees! They even have lesson plans and reproducibles for each grade level.

Applesauce Cinnamon Ornaments: Making these ornaments have been part of my classroom experience for years. Not only do the kids love them, your classroom smells heavenly!

ABC YA Make a Christmas Tree

Trim the Tree

Jan Brett Christmas Tree

Class Christmas Tree Past... Don't forget the Paper Chains !

Smart Board Tips! Step By Step Guides

Merry Christmas everyone! What an absolute joy to meet so many of you during the last few months as I have been here, there, and everywhere! I am sharing my new step by step guide for making choice boards on your smart board and how to customize your backgrounds/themes. I hope you find the guides helpful. The actual presentation I refer to was posted earlier in December on 2 different posts, so please visit there also to see what we are chatting about with Choice Boards. Please download the directions for each guide by clicking on the big upside down arrow and use them to create fabulous lessons for your students. Best wishes!

Creating a Choice Board


Activities Used in my Choice Boards found in the Gallery


Customizing your background or theme

Louisiana Fun!

Mmm Good Game!

I came across this new game based on Campbell soup's Alphabet soup. It is an anagram/crossword puzzle game. I can also see beginning readers using it to roll the dice and spell words. Amazon.com has the game and the game creator TDC also offers it. Mmmmm Good Learning!

Get the Game on Amazon for less than $20.

Take Your Instruction to the Next Level with Smart Board

To Download the Smart Board presentation, click on the image below.

Super Digital Writing Tools

Draw A Stickman

Shidonni

Professor Garfield

Read Write Think

Comic Creator

ABC YA Word Clouds

ABC YA Letter Writer

Popplet

FlipSnack

Class Tools

Graphic Organizers

Voki

Little Bird Tales

Story Jumper

Smories

How to Submit Videos to Smories

Kid Blog

Mixbook

Tik a Tok

Animoto

Smilebox Teacher Toolbox

Smilebox

Word Hippo

Boom Writer

Read Write Think

Blogger

Glogster

Yodio

Q R Code Scavenger Hunt

 

Click on the arrow to download the Story Board template!

Journal Writing Resources

Have fun with these journal pages in your classroom! Just click on the upside down arrow to download.

Games that Teach Resources

Enjoy these Game resources. Just click on the arrow to download.

CREDIT to littlegiraffes.com! What a great idea!

Dice Activities
Roll a Turkey
Roll a Gingerbread Man
Roll a Snowman

Roll a Christmas Tree

MO Power Up Day Two

Picture Books... YES!

I LOVE Books! I still get so excited when I find a new book to share with my family or students. Here are some I am just pumped about right now!

I love my white shoes! See video below.

A new twist on an old favorite.

Love this one! (The humor is not only throughout the book, but that final page, but be aware they do use the term associated with a donkey. Just giving you the heads up. ) 

Did the HAPPY DANCE when I saw this was out in picture book.

Since I now love all things NYC, this is perfect.

Pete the Cat Activities

iPad Apps Update

Here's a list of some of my favorite iPad apps right now. Thanks MO Power Up folks for the fun today!

QR Reader
MeeGenius
I Spy Spooky Mansion
Play Sight Words
Whiteboard
Highlights Hidden Pix
Smilebox
LifeCards
I Live Math... Sports
I Live Math... Africa
Rocket Math
Magnetic ABC
iWrite Words
ABC Cursive
Book Creator**
Flipboard
Brain Pop**
Nasa Viz
Stack the States**
Animoto
7 Words
Shake a Phrase
Toontastic
iBrainstorm
Comic Life
PhotoStory
TinkerBox
Popplet
Slice It
iCard Sort
Tally Pad

*** Just found this one on the ipadcurriculum.com blog: FLAT STANLEY!
Now you can track Flat Stanley no matter where you are. Flat Stanley app

Missouri Power Up Conference

Welcome to Missouri's Power Up Conference! I hope you will visit my blog often and use it as a resource for now and later. Also, feel free to leave comments on the blog. I will publish them as quickly as I can. Great to have you join us this week!

Georgia K Morning Message Presentation

morningmeetingauthorstream

More PowerPoint presentations from Lori Elliott

Indiana K Day One

Here is the Smart Board Next Level File. You will need to download it to view it! Have fun!



Click HERE for the Phonics/Phonemic Awareness Session Resources

Comprehension & Fluency

More PowerPoint presentations from Lori Elliott

Indiana K Day 2