Are you ready for 2014??

Hi there, friends!!! It's Katie, from Little Warriors!!!

I hope you're all enjoying your Christmas break!!

I know that many times, Christmas break is a time for you to relax and spent time with your family and friends. School is put on the back burner for a couple of weeks. Time to unwind and relax....until you realize-uggggggh!!!! There are only a couple more days left of break and you left your plan book at school because you had planned to go in over break and do a little planning-haaaaa!!!!!

Don't panic!!! Last year at this time I was just finishing up my maternity leave and had 3 months to think about what I was going to do with my kiddos that first week in January :)

That's when I created this little New Years Math & Literacy Unit.

I'll share with you some photos that I took last year and never had a chance to post about! LOL!

My favorite part of this unit is the New Year's "Toast".

We talk about how toast has 2 different meanings and what a New Year's toast really is. Then, we brainstorm things that we can toast to.

Next, we make our cute little "New Year's Toast." 

This unit is packed with tons of FUN!! It's a great way for your kiddos to celebrate the NEW YEAR!!! Here are a few of the activities that are included:

There is a little letter to mail to your kiddos to get them excited about coming back and celebrating the new year. It also tells them to bring in a few items for their time capsules. They will be opening these next year to see how much they have changed over the past year :)

 New Years Bedtime graph:

Some fun snacks!

Pop a balloon to find a sight word. If you can read it, the kids get a point. Can't? Teacher gets a point :)

Click on the image below to go check this unit out!

You can grab this little Freebie from my blog by clicking on the picture below :)

Happy New Year!!!

Christmas Cookie Swap Last Minute Math Freebie

Happy Wednesday! It's Ms. A (Yolanda) here from Oceans of First Grade Fun! We are counting down the days until our holiday break in my classroom, but I'm still making sure that we get the most bang for our buck! My students have been hard at work during math stations this week and here's a freebie of one our station activities.

We have been working all year on adding ten to a number so this station went along well with my plans this week. I have found that keeping the week as close to normal as possible makes it go so much smoother! I shouldn't speak too fast....we still have two more days to go and tomorrow is Christmas party day!!! Yeah (in my most sarcastic voice).

Click the picture above for your free copy of this math station freebie! Have a wonderful rest of the week!

Christmas Activity and Crafts

Are you looking for last minute Christmas activities? This is the last week of school before our Winter break and students are getting very excited about this holiday season. Here are a few activities that you could incorporate into your stations this week.

Gingerbread Man
If you read them the story about The Gingerbread Man, you can use this activity. Students will read, solve and draw the secret words. Each secret word will reveal a character in the story.

Bead Snowflakes

How about making some snowflakes with beads? Your students can use their favorite colors, or you could ask them to create patterns on each stem.

Christmas Ornaments

There are many more ideas for making christmas ornaments with beads. Here are just a couple of them.

Paper Santa

This Santa is so cute and easy to make too.

Would you like to try some of these activities? Just click on each picture to take you there:)

Happy Holidays!

Show Us What You Bought! a linky

sweet graphics and fonts from Ashley Huhges, Cara Carroll, and Jen Jones

We thought it would be fun to share what goodies we found {just in case we missed something great!} so link up with us today until Friday!

Please grab the image at the top and put in your post too! Just right click and save!

If you want, include some pictures of the products and please share links. 

get prepped for CYBER Monday!

Thank you Amy for this adorable button!!

Tomorrow's the day! Hip Hip Hooray!
Unfortunately I won't be in my pj's, I'll be at work! But there will certainly be a spare moment to tackle my wishlist!
We will also have a fun little linky Monday evening to show what we bought!