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Candy Cane Pattern Starters

I like using seasonal and fun things like candy canes to teach about things that I want Sean Patrick to learn or to practice.

Sean Patrick is familiar with patterns and he likes to finger-paint a lot, but he still needs a lot of practice so we are still working with AB patterns.

So, we are going to finish these patterns by taking turns.

For the first candy cane I will paint one color and he will paint the next.

Then, we will switch for the second candy cane. He will paint with the color I used the first time, and then I will paint with the other color.

Finally, I am going to ask him if he wants to make up another pattern on a blank template.

Here is a short video of us painting our second template – it is spur of the moment iPhone videoing so you get to see the real-life clip of our flighty pattern painting moment.

Click HERE to get the templates. They are included in my membership (which is just $5 a year) OR you can purchase them for just $1 in my Teachers Pay Teachers Store.

December 9, 2013 by Jessica | 0 comments

I do not have time to post pictures of my little ones doing these crafts at the rate I am making these printables for the “24 Days of Christmas Printables!” (You can like the album on our Facebook page to get notifications when I add new ones each day). I am enjoying filling our playroom with options.

This gingerbread man template is great for choosing to use it however you feel up to it maybe after reading a Gingerbread Man book you check out from the library or after making a gingerbread house in time for Christmas.

Each day the kids get excited about the templates because I give them options like:

Do you want to decorate the gingerbread man with glue and sprinkles?

Do you want to color him or paint him?

Can you trace the gingerbread man with markers?

Can we give him sticker buttons and yarn hair?

These templates just make it easy to use however you feel up to it.

Click HERE to get the templates. They are included in my membership (which is just $5 a year) OR you can purchase them for just $1 in my Teachers Pay Teachers Store.

December 8, 2013 by Jessica | 0 comments

Christmas Memory Game {Freebie}

When I sit down at night to plan for the next day, I think about what would be a great activity for Sean Patrick. Last night as I was brainstorming, I realized that we haven’t played memory in a while.

But, I also wanted to make a memory game that the incentive for winning was not just pride.

So, each time a player makes a match they collect a snow card.

The player with the most snow gets to “shovel” the cards and set up the next game.

If you have any other ideas for winners of board games please share them in a comment!

For this memory game, nine matches can be made. There are numbers and words on the cards to reinforce number recognition and reading skills too!

(To make setting up the game easier draw a game-board with 18 rectangles for the kids to play the cards face down on).

The other extra page is a blank template if you want to extend this game by having the students cut up magazines to make their own matching game.

I will add pictures or a video of Sean Patrick and I playing this later but for now…

Here is your Game Printable! Click here!

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I recommend printing this game onto card stock so that you can’t see through.

December 4, 2013 by Jessica | 0 comments

Wants Vs. Needs Activity – An Absolute NEED Around The Holidays

“I want,” “I want,” “I want.”

Does anyone else spend a lot of their days teaching their kids to start sentences with “May I please have?”

This holiday season I want to be proactive and talk about the difference between a “want” and a “need.” I want Sean Patrick to begin to learn that needs come first and then anything else (that we might like) is a gift that is not a guarantee. Hmmm… we use I want a lot too come to think of it.

So, Today we talked about money. How daddy goes to work to earn money and we can save the money, use the money for things we need, share the money, and then spend the money on things that we decide on (together as a family).

I showed Sean Patrick the first page of the printable and we talked about it (using simplified language).

Next, we talked about the next page of the printable.

Then, we used magazines to cut out pictures of things that we need every day and glued them on the side of the third page of the printable under the jar that says “need.”

Finally, we cut out pictures of things that we want but we will talk about and think about for a couple days before we put it on our list to Santa.

Here is what our finished product looked like:

If you want this printable by itself I sell this printable in my TeachersPayTeachers Store HERE.

But, if you want to pay an EASY $5 TOTAL and get all of my printables and resources then click HERE.

December 3, 2013 by Jessica | 0 comments

Christmas Tree Printables

My kids had a blast choosing which template Christmas Tree they wanted to paint this morning. They chose the colors they wanted to paint with and they carefully tried to fill in the circles using their q-tips.

These templates are perfect for q-tip painting, dot-painting, fingerpainting, or glueing and decorating.

We talked about what a real Christmas tree looks like (the colors, shapes, accessories, etc.) and we talked about the size of the tree using non-standard measurement (two hands tall, one forearm tall, 4 toy eggs tall, etc.).

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December 2, 2013 by Jessica | 0 comments

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