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A photo journal of our day reading and doing activities on The Worst Princess as part of The Summer Book Exchange project.
Free and cheap things to do in Temecula for kids plus coupons for fun activities in the Temecula and Murrieta area are here for you to enjoy!
It sounds gross, but armpit fudge is quite tasty. Making it is a fun activity for kids of all ages.
STEM activities are a lot of fun and educational, but the best kind of STEM activities are open-ended, allowing children to think for themselves. In this paper plate maze STEM challenge, kids are challenged to make a marble maze using household materials. They must follow all elements of a real design process, including brainstorming, blueprints,
Many occasions call for some entertainment – nothing fancy, just something to break the flow and get everyone revived and attentive. Skits work perfectly in this situation, as well as many others. A skit is very short play, usually performed in an informal setting. A skit requires very few props and little preparation. Skits are […]
St. Lucia Day is celebrated on December 13th around the world, but it is especially popular in Sweden. The holiday is the feast day of the Catholic St. Lucia, but it originated as a pagan holiday celebrating the winter solstice. Learn to...
Here's a party game that's guaranteed to bring along lots of laughs. Kids get creative as they act out improve scenes with some help from an audience.
"When you look at the inner workings of electrical things, you see wires. Until the current passes through them, there will be no light. Th...
Down by the Banks of the Hanky Panky, a funny little circle game or counting song (a Girl Scout Songbook song, too)
Fun activities for a Montessori human anatomy introduction with toddlers and preschoolers. This post is part of the 12 Months of Montessori series.
We read Keith Baker's simple, but fun Little Green, today. It's probably more suited to the toddler, than preschool crowd, but C enjoyed the short, collage illustrated story, of a little boy following the darting path of a hummingbird outside his window, and reproducing its path on paper, with bright, sweeping strokes of paint. C was inspired to reproduce the hummingbird's path on her Magna-Doodle. I was reminded of a pom-pom craft I'd seen at Ramblings of a Crazy Woman, that was a perfect go along. I let the younger children each pick a couple of 1 inch pom-poms, to glue together (smaller than the original craft called for, but we used up all our jumbo pom-poms for our nesting birds). And, I broke toothpicks in half... ...for them to color black... ...and glue, as a beak into the front of their birds' heads. Then, they glued on eyes... ...and cut mini-muffin cups in half, and half again, to make quarters, for the wings, then cutting one of the left over quarters in half again, to make an eighth for the tail. Don't you love crafts, that incorporate math? After our craft, we made a quick trip to the library, and picked up a few additional books: Noriko and Don Carroll's beautifully photographed First Flight, A Mother Hummingbird's Story... ...which we discovered has been made into a movie, we're now anxious to see. Click here, to view the trailer. We also picked up the Stokes Hummingbird Book, so we can learn how to attract hummingbirds to our own yard, once they start arriving in force, this summer. While we were at the library, I picked up a couple of holds, that had arrived in, as well: Birds In Their Homes by Addison Webb - an artfully illustrated (by Sabra Mallett Kimball), look at the nests, and nesting habits of fifty-four birds of the "city, country, and garden", making it a perfect follow-up book to our nest spotting drive, from last weekend. And, an audio version of Mark Obmascik's The Big Year, a Tale of Man, Nature, and Fowl Obsession, which I had hoped we could listen to as a family, but after previewing the first few chapters, realized there is a bit too much "adult" language, for the children's ears. But, I think the humorous account of the continent wide, year long, contest for serious birders, ought to prove interesting for the Man of the House, and I. For more book reviews, and recommendations for children, be sure to check out this week's "What My Child is Reading" link-up, over at Mouse Grows, Mouse Learns. It's great to be a homeschooler.
Yes, ANOTHER free printable this week. I know, if I could pinch you from here I would; free stuff is so dreamy! This is a quick matching manners worksheet I made tonight as a supplement to a Manner…
A blog to tell the story of our little girl Grace who has Rett Syndrome (r168x mutation)
Primary 5 Manual Lesson 35 The Nauvoo Temple is used for Sacred Ordinances You can download the Journal page here: Journal Page: Joseph Smith and the Nauvoo Temple coloring page cropped from the February 1993 Friend here: Temple Facts from August 2009 Friend here, I thought these were interesting and a great help to the lesson: The Temple is a happy place from the June 1993 Friend here: Temple Words word search from the August 2011 Friend here: Coloring page From July 2011 Friend here: Coloring page from August 2009 Friend here: Coloring page from July 2004 Friend here: Coloring page from the June 2008 Friend here: Dot to Dot from December 2002 Friend here: Another Dot to Dot from the January 2002 Friend here: I love this sheet with several different temples from January 1986 Friend here: I love to see the Temple song from January 1993 Friend here: From May 2011 Friend is this beautiful Temple activity here: Signs for Temple Preparation Maze from the October 2002 Friend here: Temple model from June 2008 Friend here: Journey to the Temple game at this link from the September 2005 Friend: Sorry, I'm not adding pictures at this time.
Improv games for teens can warm up their acting and collaboration skills. They can enhance creative thinking and be used as icebreaker tools in new teen groups.
Here are some ideas for some summer fun for kids. Have them do a summer or photo journal once school is out. There are also ideas for an I'm Bored Jar.
A team of architects who specialize in learning spaces want to let Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, and Jamie Oliver show you the future of classroom design.
Unearth unique and under-the-radar after-school programs in our curated list. Expand your child's horizons with these lesser-known after-school options.
Here's a simple, fun game to help your family stop grumbling and complaining. It really works!
This simple chromatography experiment demonstrates how and why leaves change colors in the fall.
Fireworks in a Jar is a wonderful elementary science experiment for kids.
These virtual tours of world-class museums are available to the public for free, and they're the perfect way to pass the time.
Whether you are also leading a tween/teen group who is looking to understand " Why is community service important?" - here are 15+ great service projects for tweens!
This post contains affiliate links. In our home, one evening a week is dedicated to spending time together as a family. We gather for song, prayer, a spiritual lesson, activity, and special treat. Our children look forward to this every week. Some weeks are more organized than others. Other weeks are extremely chaotic and sometimes […]
The author of a book that teaches pre-teen girls to use puberty blockers without their parents knowledge described her work as helping 'kids to learn to love themselves.'
Getting ready for an upcoming audition? We've got you covered! Here are our best audition songs for kids, broken down by style.
Here are some free or cheap children’s activities available this week to keep the kiddos busy. I thought posting these now will help you plan your week. These are all the things that are free to do this week with just a few that are very inexpensive. Pottery Barn Kids: Every Tuesday from 11AM-11:30AM, kids of...Read More »
i know. i know. i'm never here anymore. it makes me sad too. i feel extra irrelevant as a teacher on maternity leave. it is wonderful being at home though- the little lilly bug is nearly 4 months now. i can't even deal. anyway... i am so bummed that i'm not at school to teach this unit. it was so much fun last year. so much fun that i am going to share some snap shots of the babes doing it last year. i love teaching this unit because it's exciting and celebratory! i know black history can feel like "segregation, SLAVERY, BUS BOYCOTTS BLAHHH!!!" letsbehonest. it's a bit harsh. it's no wonder why primary teachers stop with mlk day! no, not this unit. this unit it fuuuuuun. this unit does this: a) celebrates famous artists...poets, musicians, and dancers- all with corresponding books and activities! {dancing with bill "bojangles" robinson} {marian anderson, opera singer: comparing and contrasting music!} b) celebrates famous inventors- did you know the inventor of the "super-soaker" was an african american? (me either!) this unit gives your kiddos a chance to be inventors! here is what you do... 1. explain what an "invention" is and how to make one. make a fancy teaching chart because y'know...that's what we "do". 2. pull out all that crap stuff in your cabinets that have been there for 10 years and put it out. watch how excited your kiddos get. it is really funny. 3. have them sketch out their invention. 4. after they sketch and build...they get to apply for a patent! these may be approved or denied. 5. if approved, then they are awarded with an "official" patent! this day is my favorite day in the unit! c) celebrates famous african american scientists! i love this day because you also get to pull out all of the cool science materials that your district spent thousands on but you never get to use. you read cool books and profiles on famous black scientists and you let them go-to-town. and d) on the last day you can create a mini-book that includes all of the awesome black americans that you've studied all week. you can even write a mini-biography on them if you're feelin' researchy. honestly, i know that in the busy schedules we all have -what with all the testing, report cards, and ongoing assessments, there just isn't time for a lot of "extras." if i'm really being honest, when i taught this unit it got about 30 minutes a day for a week. it was all about being set up and ready to go when the kiddos came in so they could spend time learning. i stuck the unit read alouds in shared reading and interactive read aloud time in order to maximize the time spent in this unit. it doesn't have to be lengthy to be awesome, in my opinion anyway. thanks for reading this lengthy post- hope it helps you this february! click the image below to purchase! oh. and one more thing. march is women's history month. i'm thinking of creating a similar unit only with you know...women. i'll give one free black history unit to the first three people who leave a comment (with an email address) telling me if you think you think you might be interested in a unit like that! xoxo
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Here’s a fun science experiment that will definitely get a “wow” from the kids. Combine baking soda and vinegar to make sodium acetate, or hot ice! It crystalizes instantly when you pour it, allowing you to create a tower of crystals. Since the process of crystallization is exothermic, the “ice” that forms will be hot […]
This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase through these links I receive a small amount of money at no additional cost to you. Last year I saw a great post from Heidi at Heidi Songs about using her sight word videos with white boards. It was a big hit with my kiddos last year and today I decided we were ready to try it with this group. They LOVED it! It's a super simple activity that gets them connecting with the videos in a whole new way. Total engagement......very little effort. Win-win! To keep them from writing/ erasing/ writing/ erasing.....you get the idea....I simply didn't give them an eraser and told them not to erase with their fingers. We wrote each word one time and we kept going until our boards were full. That gave us about 13-15 songs which was a full 20 minute activity. They were sad when it was done! I gave them a tissue when we were done to erase really quick (handing out erasers drives me crazy, a quick tissue for each pair makes for fast clean up). Here is a video example from last year. If you don't own the videos you can get them HERE. I also have the alphabet videos which we use at the beginning of the year. There are a ton of engaging videos to get you singing and moving in your classroom. We love the math videos too! We can't get enough of Heidi Songs in our classroom! How do you mix things up in your classroom? If you want to remember to check out Heidisongs save this post for later!
One of the biggest reasons why your students don't use their coping skills is because they don't recognize their anger until it is too late. This no prep anger management worksheet will give your students the tools they need to identify their anger in their bodies. The worksheet includes a boy and a girl version, and is great for anger management groups or individual lessons. This resource also Google Slides version, which has the following versions: African-American Girl, African-American Boy, Caucasian Girl, Caucasian Boy ASCA Mindsets and Behaviors: Mindset 1. Belief in development of whole self, including a healthy balance of mental, social/emotional and physical well-being. Behavior Self-Management Skills 7. Demonstrate effective coping skills when faced with a problem. This resource is part of an anger management bundle! **************************************************************************************************************************** What People Are Saying About This Resource: Hollie said "This was a good activity to gauge student self-awareness. Some students immediately knew how they felt when angry and others had to do more reflection. It was a good exercise." Hope said "Students love the visual on this one about where they experience Anger in their bodies. They now understand the signals and what to look out for." **************************************************************************************************************************** Please remember to leave feedback and feel free to check out some of my other resources you are sure to love: Picking Good Coping Skills Anger Management Games For more updates on my new products: Follow me on Teachers Pay Teachers! Follow me on Pinterest! Follow me on Facebook! Follow me on Instagram! To read the terms of use and copyright information for this resource, please click here.
Discover the most popular baby girl & boy names from the 1950s. It will surprise you which baby names are still popular & which have gone away since 1950.
August 9th is Book Lover's Day. It's a great time to enjoy reading a book and encouraging kids to read! Here's an awesome list of books to get you started.
A rising trend in senior living is pairing up residents with younger local students to be pen pals. Here's how to start a pen pal program at your community.
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If you've seen even a single episode of Gilmore Girls , you probably know that it involves lots of coffee, the best mother-daughter relationship in TV history, and Milo Ventimiglia being dreamy AF. But if you're a true fan of the show, you also know…
Are you ready for the action in your Halloween music class? Don’t “freak” out! I like to have a playlist of “spooky” music and activities ready so I can keep kids moving. I do! And I’ve got some wickedly delicious ideas brewing in my teaching stew this week. How about a Halloween Sing-and Move-A-Long? These Halloween […]
This Esther Bible lesson is for grades 1 & 2, but I have used it for K-5. For this lesson, I set up the room like the inside of a palace, ...
I wanted to take a break from doing the Primary 2012 stuff and I had gotten permission to use Allison Kimball's stuff so... I made a fun little file folder game for my son and decided to share!! PERSONAL USE ONLY!!!!! Print out each sheet for however many you'll be printing, then glue in the pages without the "names" to a file folder. Laminate or contact paper the folder and the matching cards. Cut out the matching cards around the stitching. And either place velcro or magnets on each card and on the file folder pictures. HAVE FUN!! Don't forget, I LOVE COMMENTS!! :) DOWNLOAD HERE Questions? Trouble downloading? Email me at [email protected]
