In my classroom we have an elf on the shelf whom my students named Jingle. I am using this as a writing activity for their December journals. They love coming in each morning and finding Jingle and deciding what it was that he was doing to get where he is.
Here is the journal page we use each day for our journaling time.
This is where Jingle was the day I read the book and we decided on Jingles name.
This is where he was day 2, he was trying to get candy out of the treasure jar!
Day 3 my students were very excited because Jingle was wearing Mr. Potato Head's glasses!
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Day 4 Jingle decided to write the boys and girls a message on the white board. He even added said Jingle, we are working on this in our class.
Day 5 he was hanging with our mitten glyphs.
Day 6 he was holding our sight words to add to the word wall that week!
Day 7 he tried to spell our sight words for the week but misspelled look by leaving off the other o. The kids caught his mistake and I was very excited! Also he stayed here day 8 because one of our friends touched him. So day 8 we wrote about why he didn't move and what we needed to do.
Day 9 he was reading a book from our author of the month Jan Brett!
We have 5 more days before Christmas break so hopefully I will have time to add where else Jingle ends up!!
Here is the last of Jingle in our classroom! See below for what he was up to!
Day 10 Jingle had knocked over the basket of glue on the shelf while he was trying to climb up there to sit. Later that morning Jingle had been knocked down to the ground twice so he wanted to sit on the shelf behind my desk so he was safe from some of the Kindergarteners who where not paying close attention to what they were doing that day. Also day 11 he was still behind my desk...I had forgotten to move him so when the students noticed he didn't move I told them since he had fallen two times the day before he felt safest back there for that day.
Day 12 Jingle was sitting on the document camera cart with his ornament he made. We had made ornaments for our parents Christmas presents the day before using our handprint and white paint so Jingle wanted one also. He left it for us when he went away also.
On Jingles last day with us he decided to use our sight words and leave us a note we could read. We were having our Christmas party this day and Jingle used sticky notes to write us a message. While he was leaving us the message he had a couple sticky notes stuck to him and he was stuck under the clear contact paper he used to keep the message up!
Overall Jingle was a huge success in our classroom! They loved him and loved writing about what Jingle was doing while they were gone for the evening! Hope you have enjoyed our journey with Jingle the Elf!
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