Santa's Stuck

     We are gearing up for Christmas this week!  The students love to hear Christmas stories, especially the fictional stories.  One such story is Santa's Stuck.  In the story, Santa enjoys all the snacks that are left for him at the children's houses.  Snacks, such as cookies, cake, fruitcake, pies, and the list goes on and on.  After enjoying too many snacks, Santa's suit becomes a little too snug, and his buttons start popping off of his suit!  Finally, Santa's indulgence gets him stuck in a chimney.  The reindeer look on helplessly from on top of the roof, while the family's dog, cat and mouse push Santa from below.  Finally, after several attempts of the reindeer pulling and the other animals pushing, Santa is freed from the chimney and goes about his usual business to deliver presents for all the girls and boys.
     In this post, I've shared some wonderful first grade ideas that can be done after reading Santa's Stuck.  I give credit to Nancy Vandenberge for these ideas.  Her first grade blog is amazing!  I get so many wonderful ideas from her blog.  She has plenty of pictures of the ideas that she's sharing, and she is so kind to include all of the templates by putting them in PDF so that they're easy to download and ready to  use.  I've put the ideas for Santa's Stuck in my  Dropbox for others to use.  The URL for Nancy's blogspot is http://firstgradewow.blogspot.com/.