Keep kids engaged with these fun December classroom activities! We LOVE DIY games, centers, and activities that are easy to prep, fun for the kids, and can be differentiated and adapted as needed. Most of the materials for these activities can be found at Wal-Mart, Dollar Tree and Amazon!
December Classroom Ideas: sight words
These December Classroom Activities make sight words fun and engaging. Just add your own sight words!
You’ll need mini light ornaments (Was-Mart Christmas section) and a Sharpie! (Don’t worry! The ornaments are shatterproof plastic!)
Simply use your Sharpie to write the words on the mini light ornaments. Then we place the ornaments in a Santa Bucket (Dollar Tree for $1) and a pair of tongs (Was-Mart kitchen section). The tongs add in fine motor skills! Students simply choose a sight word, decode the word, and write the word!
For this noisy sight words game, you’ll need bells (Was-Mart Christmas section) and your Sharpie!
Use your Sharpie to write the sight words on the bells. Place the bells in a Santa bucket. Add tongs for fine motor practice.
Students choose a bell, decode the word, and write the word.
We found these fun matching card games at Dollar Tree. I used a permanent marker to write the words on the cards to make a matching game. This can be a fun pocket chart center or a partner game!
December Classroom Activities: Phonics And Phonemic Awareness
You can also use the mini ornaments to practice letter recognition and sounds.
December Classroom Activities For Math
We bought these plastic shatterproof ornaments at the Dollar Tree. Use your Sharpie to write numbers to 20 on the ornaments. Place in a Santa bucket with tongs.
Students choose an ornament. They can use recording sheets to make the ten frame, color the number or color the ten frame. You can find fun Santa recording sheets (and math and literacy centers) in our Santa creation!
Who doesn’t love Target mini-erasers?! We love these for our ten-frame cards and for making ten frames! And we also love finding fun ice cube trays or silicone baking trays to make ten frames out of. We found these silicone baking trays on Amazon. Unfortunately, they don’t come in 10, so we have to cut them a bit to make 10 frames!
CLICK HERE FOR THE CHRISTMAS TRAYS.
CLICK HERE FOR THE GINGERBREAD TRAYS.
Students choose a number card. They place the erasers in the ten frames and then make the ten frames on the recording sheets.
You can find the number cards and recording sheets in our Santa and Gingerbread Superheroes creations!
To see how we made these, check out our Facebook LIVE video!
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