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This year my school was so lucky. Our school was selected to be the beneficiary of a large collection of school supplies and gifts. Angel Flight made arrangements for delivery and a visit from Santa. At Christmas, Santa Claus flies with Utah wing of Angel Flight West as part the organization’s annual charitable mission to bring gifts to children at Title I schools in Utah. The primary mission of Angel Flight West is providing transportation to patients who must travel long distances for medical care. We wait, in a freezing morning, until Santa finally arrived.  He joined the students in an assembly at the school and enjoyed a performance of several holiday songs. We have some photos here:   We can read it in the newspapers and watch it on the tv! http://www.ksl.com/?sid=27988748 http://fox13now.com/2013/12/10/angel-flight-brings-santa-school-supplies-to-utah-children/ http://www.thespectrum.com/article/20131210/NEWS01/312100017 htt...

We are on Thanksgiving!! already!! Time goes so fast... I did an easy activity with the children to decorate my wall. It consisted on writing something they were thankful for on a feather. I made a turkey and I stick all the feathers together. So easy and quick to do but beautiful to show. Here you have some pictures. On Monday my English partner and me enjoyed eating pumpkin pie on a cloth made by themselves and wearing pilgrim costumes. We wrote and draw about gratitude and appreciation in a Spanish mini book. I made the turkey myself but if you need the feathers you can find them here: http://www.actiludis.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/Pluma-Indio-01.pdf And if you want to have the mini book you can find it here: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spanish-My-Thankful-Book-393928 Hope you have a great Thanksgiving Day with your family and/or friends!

Maybe you think... Halloween? Now? And you are absolutely right but you can't imagine how busy and how things went these past weeks... I was doing some courses (I will talk about that sooner), my computer at home was broken and soooo slow... I hate when this happens and I think it is time to change it, it is too old and it doesn't run actually it doesn't walk or even crawl!! It was my birthday and also my son's and my daughter's!! Three in a row!! Schools has been crazy and work went out from my ears!! No too much time to spend sharing and writing in my blog... Although here I am now to post about some activities we did for Halloween. In my school children can't dress up so we just do some special activities. We did an Halloween sing Assembly and in my classroom we worked in different projects. You can see some of the crafts we did in these pictures: We also had math with Halloween activities, vocabulary, problem solving, math facts... And in the library we...

On November the 2nd the Mexicans celebrate a very special day called "The Day of the Dead". I am in a Dual Immersion School teaching Spanish and we have a lot of students from Mexico so I decided to do something special to teach different cultures around the world and how different or similar are with Halloween. El Dia de los Muertos (the Day of the Dead), a Mexican celebration, is a day to celebrate, remember and prepare special foods in honor of those who have departed. On this day in Mexico, the streets near the cemeteries are filled with decorations of papel picado , flowers, candy calaveras (skeletons and skulls), and parades. In order to celebrate, the families make altars and place ofrendas (offerings) of food such as pan de muertos baked in shapes of skulls and figures, candles, incense, yellow marigolds known as cempazuchitl (also spelled zempasuchil) and most importantly a photo of the departed soul is placed on the altar.  I have found a lot of activities i...

I have been working on seeds during all last month and I want to share some photos and activities we did during this unit. As you already know one of the activities we did is guessing... "which seed is it?" in order to know some characteristics of the seeds, how are they, where can we find them... There is a freebie with the activity in case you like it and here is one photo while the students were working on it.  We also worked on this booklet I made with the information I want them to know. When we talked or worked about something we went to the booklet to do an activity related with it. We read a nice story about seeds and how can be transformed in something big!! even for winning a prize! We did some crafts about dandelions and we learn about how seeds can travel. In Theatre Arts we were seeds and we grew up very high to become a plant... My students love to play a game with fly swatters and I use it with every goal I want them to learn. The game co...

In the Math Core for first graders we have to teach how to do doubles plus one or doubles minus one... but they must know doubles by heart to start learning the other goal!! So I have done some activities to study doubles from 1 to 10. I ask them everyday before going to the recess one of the facts. If they already know what I ask they can go to the playground but if they count with their fingers or they don't know the answer they go to the line again. It is funny for them and it is a good practice to learn these facts. I have uploaded one activity about doubles with pictures about Fall and Halloween. You can download them for free in my tpt page. Enjoy it!!

Math and Halloween are great topics to put together. Children love this day and they enjoy a lot doing any activity related with it. So, let's take advantage of it and let's work on Math having this topic as the main idea. I am working in reading and comprehending math problems. It is extremely important the students guess if they have to do an addition or a subtraction. It is important also they do this fact in the correct way and fast. I have prepared some pages that focus on this Math Activities. In the pack there are also flashcards so the children can trace, write, read and learn some vocabulary about Halloween. All the materials are in color and black and white so you can decide how are you going to work with them. I use them doing centers and the students can work on different tasks while I am with the students who are reading and doing the math problems because I want them to read and think what do they have to do. In this pages they are divided. One page is ...