Happy Monday! We survived giving the Tripod Survey and having our 2 hour planning period. I saw my staches for the afternoon! I even finished my first TOP SECRET project for Creative Teaching Press. All will be revealed on November 18th!
In October, you might remember (what, you don’t remember that far back?!) that I made some “Wicked Word Jars” and they were a huge hit with my kiddos. So I decided to re-make them for Thanksgiving.
You will need:
Empty jars-I got mine at Wal-Mart for $1.97 each
Popcorn-I got the giant bags at Kroger
Word cards-paint chips-free from Lowe’s (free-borrowing NOT stealing!)
Recording sheets (Free from me!)
I used a Sharpie to write Thanksgiving words on the paint chips. I cut them apart so the words on the paint chips were cut off.
I filled the jars with 1 bag of popcorn per bag!
I then placed the words into the popcorn. I buried them and tried to seperate them as much as possible.
Next, screw the lid on tightly!
The center is ready to go! I differentiate the center by using two recording sheets. One sheet is for writing words and the other is for coloring words.
I put this into our centers today…instant success!! It can be a bit noisy..but that’s half the fun!
Click the picture to download the recording sheets!
And now the winner of the Draw Write Now boxed set is….
LAUREN KUHN!!!! Congratulations Lauren! I’ll be emailing you tonight!
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6 comments
I found these same jars at the Dollar Tree! I bought them to replace my snowman jars that I used for my daily estimation jars that I will be starting up again soon. I decided that the snowmen were a little distracting, but they were the only clear plastic jars I could find at the time.
Katrina
Lesson Plans and Lollipops
So cute! I'm going to try this with popcorn next week. My kiddos will love it! You also inspired me to create something food related to add to my Fall Math product!
Heather
TeachItToday!
Clarification: My food related activity will be original work, not a copy of yours. I don't want you to worry! 🙂
Heather
I am THANKFUL for you Greg. You {Plymouth} ROCK as a teacher. I think you are sweet as PIE. How about those thanksgiving words!!!
Love your Thanksgiving word jars. I put it on my to do list for this 3 day weekend! Thanks for always sharing such great ideas and the recording sheet!
~Laura
Thank for this FANTASTIC idea! I have bought my jars and printed your INCREDIBLE recording sheets (saving me a lot of time). Now to take a trip to Lowe's to “borrow” some Thanksgiving-y colored paint chips! As always, YOU ROCK!!!!