Inference Christmas Riddles

I can't wait to use this Inference Christmas Riddles craftivity!  My students write inference riddles and always love going around the room to see if their friends can guess what they want for Christmas!

First, my kiddos write creative inference riddles about their present.

Then, they draw a picture of the present they are hoping to get.

After that, they color a giant gift box and glue it over the top of their picture.  They glue just enough to make it flap up when they are ready to reveal what's underneath.

Finally, they have fun around the room reading their riddles to friends.  The students use their inferencing powers to figure out what is hiding under everyone's presents.

You can get this fun craftivity in my TpT store!  Click the picture below. :)

Stone Fox

This story just melts my heart!  I cry at the end every time! My students are loving this story.  We finished it today and had to discuss what it means to have a bittersweet ending.


Stone Fox is about a little boy named Willy.  His grandfather is sick.  It is up to Willy to save the farm and Grandfather!  Willy is a tough little boy that faces his problems head on.  He takes on harvesting the potatoes by himself with only the help of his best friend Searchlight (a ten year old husky). He will have you rooting for him throughout the story.  The ending is bittersweet, but I will let you read it for yourself!

  

I love this interactive journal from Lovin' Lit!  I used her journal to introduce each story element I wanted to teach in Stone Fox.  It was so explicit for my students.This is a plot mountain diagram from her journal.  I'm definitely using her informational interactive journal for our next unit as well! 

I followed her plot diagram with a plot mountain from my Stone Fox novel study.

This is a characterization chart from Lovin' Lit's interactive journal that I used for Stone Fox.

After learning about character traits and how to look for evidence in the text, the students recorded traits on their own about little Willy.

My students answered task cards from my novel study after we read and discussed each chapter.

Happy reading! :)

A Minion Reasons To Be Thankful!

This minion craft from The Not So Common Classroom are so cute!  My students loved them!  My team teacher and I cut everything out before our Thanksgiving celebration to make assembly easy peasy for the kiddos.  

I also purchased her Christmas Minions to make!