We Are Thankful Writing Prompt and Craftivity FREEBIE

I am not one of those lucky ducks who gets all of next week off - we have school on Monday and Tuesday.  So... I was trying to come up with a few fun learning activities, and I came up with this We are Thankful writing prompt and craftivity.

I have posted the template and graphic organizers as a freebie on my TPT store for anyone who is in the same boat as me :)  I will post final pics from the kiddos when they are complete, but for now hopeful my sample gives you a rough idea of what it will look like.

We Are Thankful Writing Prompt and Craftivity

Birthday Celebrations in the Classroom

We have been celebrating birthdays like crazy in our classroom and it is only the third week of school!  We have been blessed with a ton of September birthdays (I have a very young class) - we have had four birthdays already and we have two more this month!  I only have 21 students, so it is amazing how many were September babies!

On each child's birthday I force ask them to wear this crazy birthday hat that I had picked up on one of our family vacations at Disneyland.  We then take their picture and sing to them.  I also give them a Smencil attached to a birthday balloon template that I got here from What the Teacher Wants.

My 7th graders loved the tradition, and my 3rd graders are loving it too!

What do you do to celebrate birthdays in your classroom?