This week's theme is Knights and Dragons, with a To Go Kits for a Fire Breathing Dragon (more suited for younger children) and a Pom Pom Catapult (more suited for older children). The Fire Breathing Dragon craft was an idea from the CSLP Manual, with a link to One Little Project's original craft (which I borrowed the picture from for the instructions). Included in the kit was everything needed to make the dragons, except for scissors and glue/tape.I cut green construction paper in halves for the
Science Activity Packs are back at my library this year! For the full list of the activity packs we're offering, click here! Catapults Source: One of my librarians did a catapults program over spring break! In this pack, we included: 6 craft sticks 2 rubber bands 1 plastic spoon 1 pompom (any color or size) 1 instruction sheet The instruction sheet includes the directions for building a catapult and the following extension suggestions: Construct your catapult (instructions are on the back!) and then try this: · Find something to aim at (not a person or pet!) and see how close you can get. · Did you miss? Try again and adjust your aim or the amount of force you are using. · Try shooting something else in your catapult. Does it go farther? Try something heavier. Try something lighter. What happens?
These fun, engaging, NO PREP word work activities help students practice their words effectively and are the perfect option for your 1st or 2nd grade class!
Discover how to create a sensory self-soothing kit filled with items that cater to your sensory needs that help you to sensory regulate. Find inspiration, ideas for sensory tools, and step-by-step guidance to build a personalized sensory soothing toolkit for stress relief and to manage moments of se
As summer approaches, I always find myself thinking about specific students and wondering how they will do at home all summer long. One simple activity I like to do with them before the end of the year is build a coping toolbox that they can use at home during the summer.
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The Calm Kids Activity Book is a low-prep personal Calm Corner Kit with over 100 interventions and exercises that promote self-awareness, mindfulness, emotion regulation, and social emotional learning, while helping you with classroom management. For SEL distance learning, share the no-prep Digital Calm Kids Activity Book on Google Slides™ with your students to use at home. For face-to-face, in-school learning, the printable coping tools kit is so easy to prepare that you can make individual copies for each student to keep at their desk...so you don't have to worry about sanitizing between each use. With so many interventions and exercises, it's also the perfect kit for school counselors to use with individual students and small groups. Families, it's also a fun "boredom buster" for kids, too! WHAT'S INCLUDED Digital The NO-PREP Calm Kids Digital Activity Book on Google Slides™ contains over 160 interactive pages. Includes narrated videos with music, digital timer, fill in the blank, and drag and drop activities. Printable 3 different sizes of the Calm Kids Activity Book. The 8.5" x 11" option is designed to fit inside of a 3 ring binder. The medium and mini sizes are designed to fit inside of plastic pencil boxes Just add colored pencils, a timer, stress ball or other calming tools and you have an instant personal Calm Box on the go. Comes in both color and black and white printable options. Binder spine label and tabs to organize the 8.5" x 11" Calm Kids Activity Book Cover and reference guide labels designed to fit on plastic pencil boxes to create Calm Box Kits. And the Activities Are (Grouped by Coping Tool)..... DRAW OR COLOR: Draw or color how I feel, Draw what I wish for and hope will happen, Draw something that makes me smile or laugh, Just doodle or scribble, Draw what happened, Color a coloring page EXERCISE, STRETCH or DO YOGA: Run, do jumping jacks, or do squats, Ask if I can go on a short walk, Do cross crawls, Do yoga, Play sports or another fun moving game Stretch DO A BREATHING EXERCISE: Use a Breathing Board, Bubble Breath, Hot Cocoa, Roller Coaster, Hummingbird Breathing, Elevator Breathing FOCUS ON THE GOOD: List what I am grateful for, Send a Heart Wish, Remind myself of my strengths, Look for the bright side of things, Focus on what I have control over, Make a plan to reach my goals CONNECT WITH NATURE: Take a mindful walk outdoors, Go on a nature treasure hunt, Watch the clouds, Imagine and/or draw a peaceful place in nature, Ocean Wave Breathing, Play outside TALK ABOUT IT: Use I-Statements to talk about my feelings, Say what I need, Secret Hand Signal, Talk to someone that I trust, Talk it out to resolve a conflict, Fill out a form to request a time to talk JOURNAL OR WRITE A LETTER, Write about my thoughts & feelings, Write about my hopes, goals and wishes, Brainstorm solutions for a problem I am having, Write a letter to thank someone, Write an apology letter, Write a letter to someone I love and/or miss DO SOMETHING KIND AND HELPFUL: Do something kind, Volunteer to do a chore, Make a plan to help others, Do something to take care of the earth, Give out a kindness coupon, Compliment someone USE POSITIVE SELF-TALK: Use a positive affirmation, Hand Over Heart, Use a coping statement, Make a strength bracelet, Turn a negative thought into a helpful thought, Practice my power pose TAKE A BREAK: Use a break card and/or timer, Get a drink of water, Just stop, breathe, then choose what to do, Take a mini-movement break, Imagine a peaceful place Count to 10 READ OR LOOK AT HAPPY PICTURES: Read something interesting, Look at peaceful photos, Read about fun facts, Learn some new jokes, Look at cute animal pictures, Make a calming collage TIGHTEN THEN RELAX MY MUSCLES: Chair or wall push-ups, The Boat, Rocks and Socks, Palm Presses, Arm and Shoulder Massage, Hug it out USE A FIDGET: Use a helpful calming tool, Piano Fingers, Doodle, Use headphones, Finger Pulls, Flexible seating BUILD SOMETHING OR SOLVE A PUZZLE: Build or invent something, Picture puzzle, Spot the difference puzzle,Jigsaw puzzle Word puzzle, Mazes DO A MINDFULNESS EXERCISE: Notice how my body feels, Listen to my emotions, 5-4-3-2-1 Grounding, Find a rainbow, Focus on just one thing, Energy sphere
Download this sample genogram template for free. This can be instantly downloaded and fully customizable in MS Word. It can help you make your own personalized genogram chart for recording a family tree.
Kids will have fun learning about worms with this FREE Worm Observation Book. Plus other fun I is for Inchworm letter of the week activities for young kids.
A free covid-19 time capsule kids activity. A free download to capture family memories. A great way to keep kids busy and record their experiences.
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Try these 10 activities to improve your students' speaking and listening - essential skills for the development of communication, speech and language.
Conjunction junction what’s your function? I cannot get that school house rock song out of my head after arranging this activity for my second grader! Ahhhhh! Somebody help! Oh well. The focus with…
Want to help your kids learn about gratitude? Play the gratitude game with them. It's a fun game that the whole family will enjoy!
Do you believe in the Bermuda Triangle? Compare witness accounts of these weird waters and draw your own conclusions in this reading worksheet.
This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Sphero. The opinions and text are all mine. Coding. Robots. STEM. As parents and teachers, we know that we need to incorporate technology and computer science into our kids’ education, but it can be a little overwhelming, especially for those of us who grew […]
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This hands-on family activity gives your child practice creating compound sentences, while teaching him skills that will help him become a better writer!
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What can you create for this Build a Boat STEM Challenge? All you can use is tape and popsicle sticks to make it float and hold a weight.
As a part of my anger management classroom guidance lesson in 4th grade, I use these "Cool Down Ice Cubes" to discuss ways to cool-off our anger before an explosion happens! This lesson and these ice cubes are a HUGE hit with the students! In a post from June 2011 titled "Hot, Hot Anger!" I describe a kindergarten classroom guidance lesson for anger management and reference a book by the fantastic author Diane Senn. Our district uses her Coping with Conflict book as a resource for our conflict resolution unit in 4th grade. In this particular 4th grade lesson on anger management, I: Teach students that anger is a normal feeling that we ALL have. But, we need to be careful about how we REACT to feeling angry. Review the 3 Anger Rules (You may not hurt yourself. You may not hurt others. You may not hurt property.). I say review here because I've begun to teach these anger rules in other grade levels. They are to the point, easy to learn and easy to remember! Teach about Anger Fouls (using my handy dandy whistle and making a referee's arm motions for a foul in basketball - the kids get the biggest kick out of this). We discuss verbal fouls and physical fouls. When a foul is committed, one or more of the anger rules will be broken. We discuss which rules are broken for various examples of fouls. Discuss the effects of anger on our body -- hot, red, sweaty, on fire, shaky, tight, headache, heart pounding, clenched jaw or fists, etc. Teach the students that there are a number of ways to safely "Cool-Off" our anger so that we don't commit a verbal or physical foul and so that we avoid breaking any of the anger rules. I then bring out the container of "Cool Down Ice Cubes" which I had hidden in my little container on wheels during the rest of the lesson. This container of ice cubes was in the freezer until just before the lesson began - hence, the ice cubes are still frozen and cold! I explain to the students that written on many of the ice cubes is a way to cool down when angry. I explain that some ice cubes don't have anything written on them. Then I lay out what we will do next and the rules of the game. Each student gets an ice cube to hold and in a few minutes, each student will read what his/her ice cube says. If a student gets an ice cube without words on it, he/she is think of a cool down strategy to share with the class. When they get their ice cubes, they are to carefully examine (I demonstrate) their ice cube for written words that give a strategy for cooling down. If their ice cube has words on it, they are not to touch the words (although written with a Sharpie marker - because the ice cubes sweat, the words will wear off (if touched) after a few classes). I tell them that ice cubes are not to be thrown, traded, squished, tossed into the air, put in mouths or noses, etc. You may be laughing, but you would not believe what can happen with these frozen cubes! I have taken ice cubes away from students for these actions. After every student has a cube (and students who have blank ones have had a few moments to think of an unique strategy), I go around the group and have them read the strategy aloud. For some of the strategies we will act them out so they know just how to use them. Cool Down Ice Cubes How to make the Cool Down Ice Cubes... Purchase reusable plastic ice cubes at places like the Dollar Store, Target, Christmas Tree Shop, Bed Bath and Beyond, Amazon.com, etc. The ice cubes pictured above were purchased years ago and are made with thicker plastic. These are the kind I would highly recommend. Now is the time to look for them in summer clearance sections! The ice cubes pictured below were purchased for $1 at The Christmas Tree Shop and are made with much thinner plastic that is easier to squish. I would not recommend these. Using a fine Sharpie permanent black marker, write a safe Cool Down strategy on each ice cube. You will have to trace over each one every summer to get ready for the next year's lesson. Here are a few examples - the strategies are endless! I always enjoy hearing the student ideas! Put the ice cubes in a container and place in a school freezer a few days prior to your first lesson. After each lesson, place back into the freezer until your anger unit is finished. Have fun Cooling-Off!!
Art museum activities encourage children to explore art and express their own creativity. Try our art museum activities with your kids!
20% Discount March 3-4th! Images of the Works of Mercy and how they can be carried out in everyday life. This set includes both the Corporal AND Spiritual Works. Great during Lenten activities. Corporal (concern material needs of others): 1. Feed the hungry 2. Give drink to the thirsty 3. Clothe the naked 4. Shelter the homeless 5. Visit the sick 6. Visit the imprisoned 7. Bury the dead Spiritual (concern spiritual needs of others): 1. Admonish the sinner 2. Instruct the ignorant 3. Counsel the doubtful 4. Comfort the sorrowful 5. Bear wrongs patiently 6. Forgive others willingly 7. Pray for the living and the dead Includes 28 clip art images: .png format, 300 dpi. - 14 color - 14 black and white - 3 preview images (.jpg) As seen in my Works of Mercy coloring pages here: Works of Mercy Coloring Pages Thanks for looking, and enjoy! Please remember to leave feedback! For personal or commercial use, but please use the following to credit my work: Christine O'Brien, 2018 http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Christine-Obrien
“Tan I have a tup?”, “I want some tandy?”, “Tome here.” Sound familiar??? This is called “velar fronting”. These errors occur when a child substitut…
Some fun ideas for developmental activities with blocks for toddlers and preschoolers.
This handout makes a great addition to your digital Social Work Tool Box (also known as the Social Work Tool Kit). Along with this hand-out, a non-scholarly narrative follows to explain this important model 🙂 El Ciclo De Cambio Downloadables Social Work Tech Tools (this was moved to my Tools page because I’m updating these…
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All educators, at one time or another, are likely to work with kids and young adults who struggle with anxiety. Sometimes we know about those challenges, and other times, we don't. As a special educator, I have spent countless hours helping students work through their worries about homework, family
Free printable mindfulness activities on the worksheets that will help you build and stick to a daily mindfulness habit.
After seeing a Calm Down Kit on pinterest, I decided to make my own, inspired from "The Autism Adventures of Room 83." This blog c...
