HELLO Christmas break…well, almost! Today was our last day with the students and it was just a half day! Of course, teachers worked a full day and tomorrow is a teacher work day. Then, I am off until January 7!! I am so ready for daily naps! When is your last day?
We wrapped up our first 86 days together with one of my favorite things in Kindergarten: sight words! I know, I am a total teaching nerd, but I love sight words! I love all the ways we learn sight words (games, shaving cream, music, art and the Post It Note words on the ceiling!), I love when my kids get excited when they see the words in books and in their world. And I love how these words help my monsters become better readers! Sight words and the kindergarten smorgasboard are a match made in heaven! Does it make me weird to be obsessed with sight words?! So what better way to end our learning time together than with a Christmas themed sight word art project?! You know I love a good craftivity/art project! Here is how I do it:
After assessing my students knowledge of sight words I made a quick tally of how many students knew each word. This was a very rough estimate and I added a few extra just to be sure I had enough. I then made the correct number of copies of each sheet.
I went through my list and put a small red dot on each word that the student knew. Everyone gets different words because we all know different words. I do have a discussion with the class that we all learn differently and we are all doing our own learning so we have different materials!
I distribute the words to the students and they color them. Once they color their words (the words with the red dots) the monsters cut out the lights. I make sure they understand to cut out the lights and not the boxes! After they cut them out, they get 2 inch black strips of paper and glue their words on to make a string of lights!
This is a busy time and we’re all rushing to finish up assessments and all of that great stuff, this is a great activity that s fun and really keeps the kids engaged. My monsters loved this (I definitely can see snowflakes…hearts…shamrocks and more!) and they’re still engaged in learning and meeting those common core standards!
