Well, I am not going to lose my voice or my patience this time of year and this “elf-tastic” freebie will help. I did something VERY similar at Halloween and the kids went nuts for it.
This is the Eye Like What I See {Elf Edition}
If you are rude (talking while I am talking) or off task you have to go up and mark under Sad Santa. Or if you are delight, it’s a Santa Celebration mark! Notice the intro to place value…. Place value is coming!!!! I included both Naughty/Nice and Santa Celebration/Sad Santa so that you had options. 
Entire table groups that behave get the “Eyes”. This means they line up first, get papers first, and get dismissed first. If you end your day with the eyes you get a shout out note to take home. 
In other news Santa is helping us learn about contractions! My students are killing it!
Santa has been very busy…… I am loving how my room looks! I know a pretty classroom does not always equal rigorous teaching in all cases. But in my room it does and I love being surrounded the examples of their rigorous learning. I actually teach off of my bulletin boards half of the time. Why not? We have done daily contraction practice using our write on wipe off anchor chart.
These sweet little Candy Canes are getting me great results in my effort to help my students capitalize their proper nouns. Kids had a super fun brainstorming sheet and went to town.
Just a reminder to plan lots of Random Acts of Kindness for 12/14/13. The town of Sandy Hook is asking us to join with them in healing through kindness.
My family has been RACKing it up all month using cards from this freebie. We have been doing 1 RACK (Random Acts of Christmas Kindness) a day, but you could do several in honor of the Sandy Hook children and families.
I am a tease……… what can I say?
