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Walkin’ in a Winter Wonderland in So Cal

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Happy New Year! To kick start 2015, the fabulous Kristen from Easy Teaching Tools is hosting a Blog Hop with some of the amazing Southern California bloggers that we have all come to know, admire and love.  There are 2 awesome giveaways and a ton of freebies along the way… details at the end of this post!

This Winter break has FLOWN by.

Let me share some of the fun things that my family does during the winter…
One of the traditions we have over the Christmas break is to go out to look at Christmas lights.  There is a neighborhood close to us that has an AMAZING set up. Last year, we drove through the neighborhood on a lovely Wednesday evening- tucked into our car, listening to Christmas music and sipping on some hot chocolate. This year we decided to walk the neighborhood with a group of friends on a Saturday night. 
 I should have turned the car around once we saw police officers ushering and monitoring traffic.  Going on the weekend= BIG MISTAKE! We were there for probably 15 minutes before throwing in the towel!
Our newest Christmas traditions was going the Preschool Christmas pageant.  My daughter, Penelope goes to preschool 2 1/2 days a week, and this year she was an angel for the pageant.  
I thought I would be that mom sobbing in the front row, but instead I was the mom sweating and pacing in the back of the chapel trying to keep our 18 month old, Eli quiet and entertained. This boy is on the move 24/7… keeps me in shape I suppose.

One of my favorite things to do over any school break is get together with some of my other mommy friends and have play dates.  One of my favorite friends, Michelle from Two Belles & a Beau, is a Kindergarten teacher and she always hosts the most amazing holiday play dates! It’s a fun time to pretend to be a stay at home mom and spend good time with friends and our littles.

Every year we go to Fashion Island and take a picture in front of their gorgeous tree! They also have an amazing tree lighting ceremony but we missed it this year.  This is a great place to shop with the littles because of the fun coy pond and the wide outdoor space for the kids to run around with dad while mom gets to fall in love with EVERYTHING inside Anthropologie #swoon! Seriously, I want everything in that store… It is like somebody went inside my head and created home, kitchen, clothing, kid toys and accessories JUST.FOR. ME.
Look at all of that SUNSHINE!

This last picture is one of my favorite family traditions. We open up or Christmas PJ’s on Christmas Eve so we are ready for Christmas Day.  This year we went the coordinated route!

As part of our Blogger Hop, we are all sharing a FREEBIE as well as our SoCal Winter stories.

Be sure to grab my Freebie here…Any other upper grade teachers out there working on Algebraic Patterns?  Having students recognize, state and repeat patterns is so mathematically important- it sets them up for fractions, division, multiplication and problem solving. Why not have them practice it in a cute and fun way!?!

 This is a page from my newest set… 

Snowflake Patterns & Functions {4.OA.5}

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Hop on over to the fabulous Kindergarten Blogger Beth from A Kindergarten Life For Me next!



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