The Christmas Humbugs~

The story request for today was The Christmas Humbugs which we read every year
but is always a favorite~

Go HERE or HERE or HERE to see the years past.
Our poetry activity today was The 'Wh' Poem so after reading our book
we wrote this cute poem about Humbugs~

This year I wanted to do something different and while in Walmart saw big pompoms
and decided we would make Humbugs with them~

I had some big old fashioned clothespins to glue everything on to.
First we chose a big pompom and glued it first along with eyes and a red ribbon hanger~

 Next we strung bells of the ends of a pipe cleaner and hot glued it to pin as well.
We used big sequins for the wings~

 For the stockings we twisted red and white pipe cleaners and wound them around the legs~

 Everyone wanted their humbug at the top of the tree so they would surely spy~

Christmas Spirit from everyone.
(Well, Most of the time)

The Christmas Story~

The Christmas Story is a new book we bought this year after listening to THIS podcast
and it will be one of our favorites always.
The illustrations are gorgeous.
Our poem to write was the Cinquain.
I have been amazed Evie has done all her own copying for poetry~

 Everyone was SO proud of their poem with the little stable we added to the bottom~

 More pages for our Poetry Books~

The weather is SO gorgeous in the 70s we went out for the rest of the day
and gathered our supplies to make pinecone bird feeders~

 Some seriously messy work~

 We hung them in our tree right outside our kitchen windows in hopes of bird watching~

 When it was lunch how could we go in???
Memommy had given us happy meal gift cards so we ran to McDonald's and came back for a picnic~

Then played the day away~

Making the best of December days in the 70s!!!
NO complaining here!!!

The Christmas Wish~ (And Poem Writing)

Today as I rummaged through my Christmas box looking for an activity to do,
I found a Christmas Poetry book Amelia made when she was in fifth grade.
I showed it to the kids~

and we decided we would make one too~

 We printed our own poetry page and began writing our Acrostic Poem on the board~

 We all thought of words that began with letters in the word Christmas to make our poems~

Tomorrow it will be Haiku!!!

THEN we read The Christmas Wish and the kids loved it because the illustrations were photos~

As I read EK and SJ were my hot glue helpers in making reindeer necklaces for everyone.

The photos reminded us of Jan Brett's books so we listened to this story while we worked~

Another fun day counting down to Christmas.

11 days to go!!!

Thank you to Amelia for a great poetry writing activity!!!!