The first badge that my Pioneers have chosen to work on this year is the Outdoor Skills badge. Requirement 19 helps the girls learn axe / hatchet safety along with the parts of the tools. This pas…
This printable American Heritage Girls Bookmark is perfect for your AHG troop members. You get an editable version to customize the Troop number at the top and change the Bible Scripture at the bottom, or if you're in a rush then a ready-to-print version is also included. Each beautiful bookmark measures 2.5"x7.3" and you get 4 bookmarks per sheet of paper that is easy to print at home or any copy shop. ***Please note that this printable is for your troop's use only. ｡･ﾟﾟ･DIGITAL FILE･ﾟﾟ･｡☆｡･ﾟﾟ･DIGITAL FILE･ﾟﾟ･｡☆｡･ﾟﾟ･DIGITAL FILE･ﾟﾟ･｡ ☆ WHAT YOU GET☆ 1. An 8.5"x11" Editable PDF bookmark sheet 2. An 8.5"x11" Ready-to-Print bookmark sheet 3. Step-by-step Instructions for editing and printing your PDF files (or watch my video tutorials at https://rb.gy/jh2n9i) These are *DIGITAL* files, so no physical item will be mailed. ☆ HOW IT WORKS☆ 1. Purchase the listing and download your file to your Mac or PC computer. 2. Open the editable PDF from your computer in the latest version of Adobe Acrobat Reader (it's free). 3. Edit the highlighted fields yourself and save your text. (You can even change the font, text size, and text color!) 4. Print your file (detailed instructions are included with your order) and enjoy! Important Notes: • The files can only be edited using Adobe Reader on a computer. • You CAN change the font size and font color. • You CANNOT change text location or add extra lines of text. • You CANNOT edit the printable files on a mobile device or tablet, you must use a computer. • No font download is necessary. The fonts are embedded in the printable files. *** Note: this is a DIGITAL item, so no physical item will be mailed *** .................................................................................................... Love my Art? Sign up for my email newsletter to find out about special freebies, offers, and news about my digital art. No spam ever, I promise! Just follow this link to sign up: http://www.madiloveskiwi.com/signup .................................................................................................... © Madi Loves Kiwi. This artwork has been professionally designed by Madi Loves Kiwi and is for your personal use and enjoyment only. www.madiloveskiwi.com
Need some help with your American History lessons? Take a peek at my lesson plans and ideas. These are my Constitution Lesson Plans for 8th Grade American History. My first year teaching I was dying to see other teachers' plan books, but most of them were either blank or didn't seem suitable for our students ("high-risk" with poor reading skills). After teaching American history to 8th graders for a few years, I've developed this webpage in the hopes that it can help first year teachers get an
This free Lesson Plan for Kids Discover Constitution is loaded with activities and assessments for you to help teach kids all about the battle to write, ratify, and enforce the Constitution, during a pinnacle time in American History.
Teach your kids about the U.S. government with a lesson on the Constitution.
It’s not easy to change the law–ask any bill! Tim and Moby follow the process that turns a proposed law into actual law, and encounter the President’s friend, Veto!
As my children grow, I am facing the reality that our school time together is drawing to close. Each one of my children have always loved hands on learning and always wanted to continue that no matter their age. There is often a stigma that hands on learning can't happen during middle and high school years and often that is hard to do with the curriculum available today with most being designed with the elementary grades in mind. If your children love hands on learning and unit studies, then you will definitely want to check out today's review product. Homeschool Legacy has designed a variety of unit studies to aid families who have this same desire as our family. We had the opportunity to try the digital version of We the People: Getting to Know Your Constitution. We the People: Getting to Know Your Constitution is a Biblically centered curriculum designed as a once a week unit study for grades 4-12. There is no preparation that needs to be done ahead of time as you are provided with a supply list, daily schedule, and list of library books including the call numbers. This unit study will take you through 8 weeks of exploring documents and policies of our Founding Fathers and government. Topics covered include the Constitution, our Bill of Rights, the three branches of government, the voting process, the amendments, and our national symbols. Subjects tackled in this unit study: Bible including memorization History including timeline Current Events/Social Studies Geography Art including Art Appreciation Language Arts including research, writing, and vocabulary, independent reading, and read alouds Music Life Skills Drama Also included are many ideas for games including printable sheets to help you make them, documentary suggestions, YouTube links, field trip ideas including virtual field trip ideas with links, and recommended family movies. As you can see, this can totally be used as a comprehensive curriculum for history. You can also just use it as an addition to your current curriculum. I always love that flexibility in a homeschool curriculum! Another bonus - if your children are a part of Boy Scouts or American Heritage Girls, they will also be able to earn several of their badge requirements which are clearly marked for you during the lessons. How We Use This In Our Homeschool Each year, we try to focus on a history cycle so for us this year's focus was American History. For this school year, we have tried a new 4 days of regular school approach with 1 day off - Fridays. We call this day Fun Fridays and would save any projects or science experiments for Fridays. Well, that's pretty much how We the People: Getting to Know Your Constitution is set up too! So, we decided to incorporate this unit study on our Fun Fridays. I have had a difficult time coming up with activities to bring our studies together on Fridays so this unit study was the perfect cure for that. The suggested read alouds and literature were added to our daily activities as the schedule suggested. There was no work for me except making sure the necessary supplies and books were in place. All three of my children did this study together - grades 6th, 8th, and 11th and none of them complained about any age or grade inappropriateness but all of my children really enjoy hands on activities. I know some students do not but mine beg for more. There are so many fun activities included in this unit study and our family had a wonderful time of learning together! I really enjoyed having the digital version because it made it so simple for me to print out what I needed for our family. It also made it so simple just to click the links provided and be taken to the correct page immediately. I've included just a few of our favorites below. Visiting the library and bringing home lots of books for our weekly topic. All of the books were not necessary to bring home and often I substituted with a different book on the same topic. I loved the fact that call numbers were included because that made it extremely easy to substitute a book when necessary. Having different levels of books to read throughout the week helped us to look forward to Friday even more. Starting our time off in God's Word. Playing the Preamble Scramble Taking the naturalization test and seeing how we scored. Studying the voting process Hands on activities bring learning to life for our family and help the pages of a history book feel more real. I've found that often as my children have grown older, each child would be in a different room doing their own studies. While I certainly want them to gain some independence in their studies, I still find that learning together provides us with a great balance. We the People: Getting to Know Your Constitution is a great way to bring families back to learning together. There is even part of the curriculum that includes Dad called, Stump Your Dad Trivia, and the suggested field trip ideas can be saved for a time when Dad is off too. We are planning a summer field trip by train to Washington, D.C. and now we are even more excited to tour our Nation's Capitol. Since we are all learning together, it makes it so much easier to discuss topics together as well. Homeschool Legacy has many unit studies you can choose from including Weather On The Move, Horsing Around, Native America, and many more. You can find out more about these unit studies by visiting there website, Facebook, Pinterest, or Twitter. Click the banner below to find out what my fellow crew mates thought.
A fun Preamble Flag activity to learn the Preamble to the US Constitution by creating a flag. Perfect for all the patriotic holidays: Flag Da
ELEMENTARY SCHOOL VERSION see MIddle School version here... https://tabithaannthelostsock.blogspot.com/2019/09/op-art-american-flags.html Have you even watch a furling flag closely? did you see the straight stripes bend forward and back? Did you see the white stripes get dark and they decent? Watch here and pay close attention... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW6n6h2oDRA Jasper Johns Keith Haring THese artist show the flag as flat in their paintings. We want to use the flag as an optical illusion in our classroom. We want to give the illusion to the eye that are flag is furling. Image Credit to... https://www.ebaumsworld.com/pictures/optical-illusions/81078437/ Image Credit to... https://www.shutterstock.com/search/escher+illusion In order to create this illusion, we must use CONTOUR LINE (bend our lines) in the flag and use VALUE. Mrs. Garcia's 4th grade Mrs. Meleski's 4th grade Kenut, Abby & Kai ------ Mrs. Rylander's 4th grade Elloise & kayla Elijah, Adrian, Brittney, Sofia, Michael & Katie. (Rylander) ---------------- Mrs. Parker's 5th grade Devyn, Ashlynn, Greg, Victor, Leanne & Faith Mrs. Garcia's 4th grade class Working. (Kenut's picture at table from Meleski) Draw 4 vertical lines on paper that get closer together (but not touching) on paper. Draw curved lines in every other vertical column. Turn paper other way to make lines contouring in opposing direction. Make sure they match up with opposing lines, touching ends. Leave the corner open for stars. Dra a bent contour guideline to draw stars on the open space of flag. Mrs. Rylander's 4th grade Kayla shading... (Above) Elijah & Michael shading... ------ Color with the contour. Color softly with red crayon. Bend your coloring with the bend of the line. Add shadows by pressing harder close to the bertical lines with the red crayon. Use the blue crayon lightly along the white stripe's vertical line to show shadow. -alternative color using grey or black. Color behind stars hard with blue.
If your looking for ideas to make your meeting more fun while exploring what it means to be patriotic, you have come to the right place. Using some of these activities below to help girls find out what makes our communities special and what we do to celebrate all the people in them. Below are a few ideas to get you started. Celebrating Community Activity Booklet Before jumping into some ideas, do you want to skip all the planning? If so, use this Activity Booklet with activities that are hands on to keep the girls engaged while learning more about symbols in their community, learn new songs, how to fold a flag, there are crafts and a number of interactive worksheets and added games to reinforce the subject. You will also get a copy of the freebie ideas you see in this post as well.With step by step activities, you can’t ask for a easier way to run your meeting. Learn more and get yours today! Be sure to also checkout these other activities your girls will love: Fun With Experiments: Home Scientist Activities Get Creative: Inventor Activities Become An Artist: Painting Activities Other Fun Activities To Try Thank our Soldiers – Service Project Since we are celebrating our community what better way to show our American pride then to have girls make thank you cards for our active and/or retired soldiers. You can find a local organization that works with the Army to send the cards out to Soldiers. There are a lot of things you can do. Have your girls write a letter, have them color a picture. You can get patriotic stamps and have girls design a card. Here is a great set with 6 different stamps: Patriotic Stampers I found this great idea of using handprints off another persons blog: makeoverandmotherhood.com Patriotic Snack Ideas Why not continue the celebration all the way to snack time. Red white and blue – popcorn snack Red white and blue – Fruit Mixture (little healthier choice) Learn about State Symbols Did you know every state in the United States has different symbols. I bet you don’t know them all even as a adult. Use this resource as a starting point to teach your girls about the different state symbols. Make a banner and if possible walk in a parade Make a reusable banner to walk in parades with your girls. If you create the banner to have your troop number in middle big, then add velco pieces along outside. This will allow the girls to make custom things to add to banner for whatever holiday you happen to be walking in. Example girls could make American flags and red, white and blue decorations to velcro on for Memorial Day Parade. If its Christmas make ornaments or Christmas trees to velcro on. Flag Ceremonies Flag Ceremonies can be tricky depending on the type you will be performing. I found a great resource that breaks down every type of flag ceremony there is as well as some great variations to a ceremony. Check it out here If you don’t want to spend the time planning, our Activity Booklet has step-by-step instructions with activities that don’t require any planning other than gathering supplies and printing booklets. When do I fly a flag? The American Flag is an idolized symbol of the United States and should be properly displayed on all days when weather permits, especially on designated flag flying days. Never miss an important flag flying holiday by following the dates below: What do we do after your girls complete the activities? Well of course give them the badge to display proudly on their vest, they earned it! Additionally If you are like many leaders we want to award our girls when they complete something even beyond just the patch. One great way to show achievement is with a certificate. Don’t worry you don’t have to make them, I found a resource that has done all the work for you and all you have to do is print them and customize the certificates with each girl’s name, badge or award earned, date, and troop leader. Editable certificates perfect for awarding girls after earning a badge. More Resources For You Beyond This Site I get asked a lot what other resources are out there on the internet for Leaders. I have done some digging over the years and have used many of the resources myself. I compiled a list of some great companies that sell patches, programs and also other bloggers offering amazing resources that may fit your needs even better than my site did. Checkout what I found. Enjoy every minute being a leader and continue to inspire your girls! Purchase this wonderful illustrated book from Amazon.
The following is a list of do’s and don’ts associated with Old Glory, the U.S. Flag.
American Symbols is one of my FAVORITE units to teach. It must be yours too because over 12,000 teachers have purchased this unit from Teachers Pay Teachers ! It meets the Common Core Standards for Informational Reading with rigor and brings your classroom joy while reading! Updated with more crafts and symbols see below! My students LOVED this unit! I got 4 parent notes telling me how much they enjoyed hearing their child talk informatively and passionately about Social Studies. One parent said that their child doesn't talk much at the dinner table, and now he won't stop talking about school and symbols! I think it's because the unit is written to be kid friendly and engaging! Here are a few of the Statue of Liberty pages I wrote a week of fluency for the Statue of Liberty too. Each Symbol has a full writing unit Remember the update has even more art! 2 Interactive Little Books have been included for launching the unit and explaining what a "symbol" is. Oral Speaking "pledge page" with assessment rubric Tons of Activities like these: Math Graphing Bulletin Board You also get full color pages of all 5 symbols to make your bulletin board so cute. Also, you need a great way to show your graphing data. I included all the pages that kids need in order to understand that symbols are everywhere! Need grades for your grade book? Me too! I created several tests. Bonus American Symbols Mock Election Material The Reading Fluency passage comes in three levels. Low First Grade First/ Low Second Second Grade Anchor Charts and Registration to Vote Time to vote Anchor Chart, Secret Ballot, and Graphing to discover the winner Easy Graph (Tally Marks) "Harder" Graph ******* Update 1 ****** I am excited art added and has become available as BUNDLE! The one above has art as a bundle If you don't want / need the art, you can buy without it too. 62 Printables and 6 art projects! Pick and choose or do them all. This has open house written all over it! 2 student books 3 math and literacy activities 1 game 8 fluency & reading comprehension pages 5 writing units (From pre-write to publish) Syllables Activity Vocabulary Word Searches Clues Page (possible assessment if you choose) 2 patriotic student writing pages 1 oral speaking activity with parent note & grading rubric 3 assessments 6 art projects ***** Update 2 ***** So many of you asked for The Washington Monument to be added.
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This free Lesson Plan for Kids Discover Constitution is loaded with activities and assessments for you to help teach kids all about the battle to write, ratify, and enforce the Constitution, during a pinnacle time in American History.
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One of my favorite aspects of American Heritage Girls is that it encourages girls to build a personal relationship with Christ. Lily is currently working on her Bible Basics merit badge. I love h…
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Teach your kids about the U.S. government with a lesson on the Constitution.
