One of my favorite holiday books to read with my class.

Estimation jar. Each day I have small objects in a jar and the
kids have to estimate how man. I write their guesses on my
jar. The checkmarks mean someone guessed this number already
so instead of writing the number twice I checkmark it. I circle the
lowest guess and the highest guess. You can tell
we are new at estimating, the guesses are all over the place.

After estimating, the helper puts the objects on my
100's board to help with one to one correspondence
and number recognition.

Practicing writing numbers on the reindeer tummies.

Sewing stockings. Even the boys LOVE this.