Begin the unit by filling in a KWL chart. Ask the students what they Know about food and what they Wonder about food. At the conclusion, fill in the “What I Learned” section. Taste test and then graph students’ favorite milk flavor. You could also make strawberry-flavored milk so they would have three choices. …
Instant Downloads & A to Z’s Shop Pilgrims (Individual KinderReaders Title) Pilgrims Cut and Paste Art Pattern By Dianne Tansey Pilgrim Hat Cut and Paste Art Pattern By Dianne Tansey Poems Five Little Pilgrims Five little Pilgrims on Thanksgiving Day (hold up hand and count off fingers with the rhyme) The first one said, “I”ll have…
Christmas Teaching Theme There were so many ideas for Christmas I organized them into separate pages: Christmas Math and Literacy Activities & Printables Class books, printable books, patterning, Roll-A-Christmas Tree, and graphing ideas. Christmas Craft Activities, Art Projects and Snacks/Recipes Snowman Handprint Ornament, a collection of Christmas crafts, Gingerbread Houses. Christmas Party Games 11 party game ideas…
Class/Student Books Ten Little Indians: Make a book by cutting and gluing Indian figures to numbered pages. Animal Tracks Book: Use animal track symbols (or have students draw an animal track) and a picture of the animal to make a class book. Each illustrated page should read, “I see the _____ tracks.” Indian Symbol Book After reading…
Make Uncle Sam hats by gluing white stripes to red paper. Attach star border with tabs. Cut the center out of a Solo paper plate and tape the tabs to it. (I have not found a way to keep these on the kids’ heads easily). Use the same stripe and star pattern to make a…
Literacy Poems & Class Books A-B-CDE The Gingerbread Man is running from me. F-G-HIJ The Gingerbread Man is running away. K-L-MNO I said stop. He said NO! P-Q-RST Across the river’s where he wants to be. U-V-WXY I can’t catch him even if I try Z-Z-ZZZ The Gingerbread Man is running from me. Gingerbread Man…
Printable Mother’s Day Resources @ A to Z’s Downloads Shop *Includes 4 different reading levels, plus a wordless version* This book honors all that mothers do. Children are encouraged to draw comparisons between the animal mothers in the book to the way their own mothers care for them. Tulips Cut-and-Paste Art Pattern This cut-and-paste ladybug…
Instant Downloads @ A to Z’s Store Download Now, Print & Use! Using a magnifying glass, we examined seeds. Then seeds were spread on the ground and we walked through them to learn how seeds travel. Finally, we looked at our socks to see if any seeds had “hitchhiked”. We folded a paper…
Literature Actvities Jamie O’Rourke and the Big Potato Clever Tom and the Leprechaun by Linda Shute The Leprechaun’s Treasure by Joyce John [out of print] Make a Venn diagram comparing the book, Clever Tom and the Leprechaun, to The Leprechaun’s Treasure. Collaborative Book Activities What Do Leprechauns Wear? The students color a picture of a leprechaun….
[box]Don’t Miss: October Theme Activities & Teaching Ideas[/box] Decide on a schedule for center time–how long before the children rotate to the next center. When the centers are finished, gather all the children together for a Halloween sing-along. Some center choices are: PUMPKIN BOWLING: Use 2 “pie” pumpkins (the small ones – about 4-6″ across), break…
[box]Visit these pages for additional seasonal activities: Pumpkins | Bats | Spiders[/box] Literacy Halloween Erase-A-Rhyme Draw pictures on the chalkboard. Allow children to complete the rhyming word and then erase that picture part. These rhymes came from barb on Teachers.net. Jack-O-Lantern Erase-A-Rhyme If you want a big surprise, then you must erase his (eyes). If he has a light that glows,…
Literature The Very Busy Spider by Eric Carle Miss Spider’s Tea Party The Little Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly Be Nice to Spiders by Margaret Graham The Itsy Bitsy Spider by Iza Trapani Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White Anansi the Spider: A Tale from the Ashanti by Gerald McDermott Spider, Spider by Kate…
[box] More Thanksgiving/Turkey Ideas: Songs and Poems • Class Books and Literacy Activities • Art/Crafts • Math, Science, and Social Studies • Bulletin Boards, Recipes, and Classroom Feast Ideas [/box] Bulletin Boards Ears Lookin’ at You Kid! Give each child an outline of a piece of corn on the cob and have them dip their fingers in different autumn colors to put their fingerprints all over…
[box] More Thanksgiving/Turkey Ideas: Songs and Poems • Class Books and Literacy Activities • Art/Crafts • Math, Science, and Social Studies • Bulletin Boards, Recipes, and Classroom Feast Ideas [/box] Math Roll a Turkey Game Students need a blank sheet of paper. They work in small groups and take turns rolling a die to make a complete turkey, including a body, a head, a face…
[box] More Thanksgiving/Turkey Ideas: Songs and Poems • Class Books and Literacy Activities • Art/Crafts • Math, Science, and Social Studies • Bulletin Boards, Recipes, and Classroom Feast Ideas [/box] Art/Craft Activities Handprint Turkeys Paint child’s palm and thumb brown and each finger a different color. When dry, paint the tip of the index finger red and put on thumbprint for the turkey’s waddle. Use orange…