My husband came home outraged about Tilikum, SeaWorld's killer orca whale. The film "Blackfish" explores Tilikum who has killed several people including trainer Dawn Brancheau. There's a lot of sad history that went before. SeaWorld has denied responsibility for the death despite a series of fails, violations and broken promises. Now Tilikum's fate hangs in the balance and all because of corporate greed. PETA is calling for SeaWorld boycotts. They've launched "Free Tilly" to get the orca back in the ocean and out of captivity. Use the film and associated lesson plans to encourage student activism in sea mammal protection.
free printable lesson plans on alphabet to zoology and everything in between
A-Z healthy school lunches recipes, monthly planner of alphabet foods
In 31 years, I've taught every age and subject, including homeschool, preschool, Montessori, special needs and adult ed. I make lesson plans hands on and fun. Food is a great teaching medium. Here are A-Z healthy lunches and snacks.
A
--apples and almond butter
--ants on a log (celery spread with cream cheese and raisins)
B
--banana animal boat: Peel banana. Cut a slit; add animal crackers.
--bunny bites (baby carrots, broccoli)
--berry blue blaster (blueberry or blackberry yogurt)
C
--cheese and crackers
--C3 crudités (celery, cauliflower, carrots with cream cheese)
--Cheery cherry cat cookies (frosted cookies with maraschino cherry eyes and nose)
D
--dill pickles
--dolphin crackers
--dog chow (square and round breakfast cereals--Life, Cheerios, Kix)
--duck duck goose (marshmallow Peeps, animal crackers)
E
--elephant eggs (deviled eggs)
--Cadbury Eggs
To read the rest of the alphabet snacks and recipes, visit my Teachers Pay Teachers site.
Autumn Leaf Crafts, Printables Fall Lessons
Michigan's leaves are getting a slow start turning colors this fall. I shudder to think what that bodes, winter-wise. Living on (darn near in) Lake Michigan, we have lake effect snow, marine conditions to contend with. But what better way to enjoy a fall day than with an impromptu party in the leaves. Here's a day of crafts, activities, games, printables and snacks to enjoy! Preschoolers and little ones will love it! Parents will love that its cheap and easy.
Autumn
in Michigan means apples. Apples are a common theme for preschool and elementary school
students. Teachers and homeschoolers, are you teaching a fall apple unit?
Here's a sweet treat for you: 166 pages of free printable apple themed worksheets and lesson plans.
Northville
Cider Mill in Northville, Michigan offers a free printable apple-themed activities booklet, There are printable
coloring pages, worksheets, puzzles, games, word searches and crossword puzzles on apples.
There are apple-themed cross-curricular science experiments, social studies
connections, economics lessons, Michigan history activities, apple math
problems and more.
Each
lesson has a printable student copy and teacher answer key. Use this book for
all ages from preschool to grade 8. It can easily be used with special
education students, too.
Now
scoot over to A to Z Teacher Stuff for more links to dozens of free printable apple
lesson plans, crafts, mini booklets,
games and worksheets. Most are geared to ages pre-K to grades 4.
Kinderplans
has cute free printable apple
themed reading and phonics lessons for preschool and kindergarten. There are other printables
based on apples, too. Print apple math lessons on counting, addition and
subtraction. Print reading activities and games for emergent and reluctant
readers. Special education will love the bright, cheery apple activities geared
no-fail fun.
Free printable animal masks for Halloween, animal coloring pages, crafts for Feast of St. Francis
October is a special month in the Catholic liturgical calendar. It's the month of Our Lady. Oct. 4 is the Feast of St. Francis of Assisi (patron saint of animals). October 31 is the eve of All Saints Day, November 1. Here are printable coloring pages of saints to gear up for All Saints. There are printable Bible character activities for Christian-themed Halloween costumes. And I've included printable animal crafts and masks for the Feast of St. Francis. These would be good for Catholic or Christian school, especially preschool units.
Trick-or-treat
is all about dressing up in Halloween costumes, right? So how about free
printable Halloween masks for kids to color, cut and paste? Perfect for
preschool, special education and school Halloween parties. For families who
don't do Halloween, I included links for generic masks so kids can still enjoy
craft fun. Masks are grouped by theme.
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Various: Colorbook Masks free printable Halloween masks in dozens of themes and styles. There are
tribal masks from Africa, Bali, Native American, Aztec, Mayan, Inuit, Asian and
more. Print animal, Mardi Gras, Harlequin, Tiki, calavera (skull) masks for Day
of the Dead. To find the masks, you have to create a free account and log in.
Click each mask image to get to different mask design pages.
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Disney: Check Disney Family for free printable Disney Halloween masks. Print 3D masks of Winnie the Pooh, Ironman,
Disney princesses, Hulk, Captain America, Frankenweenie and more.
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Famous people: Forbes publishes free printable masks of trending famous people, politicians and
world leaders.
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Scary: Check Ravensblight for free printable monster masks. The Hannibal Lector iron jaw mask is downright
horrifying.
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Samhain and fantasy: Phee Mcfaddel has free printable fairy
masks plus other
Wiccan-inspired designs. Some are rather eerie and some quite pretty and
floral.
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Monsters, ghouls and zombies: Paper Marcos Front has free printable creepy
monster masks and 3D paper toys.
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Doctor Who: Visit BBC for free printable Doctor Who villains masks. Dress as Ood, a Silurian, one of the
Doppelganger twins, a Peg doll, a Weeping Angel or (creepiest of all) a monster
baby cherub.
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Day of the Dead: How about free printable
calavera masks? Happy Thoughts will
email you free 3D skull mask printables if you submit your email. Here's
another printable skull mask
pattern from
Instructables.
Many
of the masks print in black and white so children can color them. Making
homemade Halloween costume crafts means you keep antsy kids occupied
productively as they await trick-or-treat.
Use Miss Fishers Murder Mysteries to Teach History, Free Printables
I became hopeless addicted to Phryne Fisher, the saucy, sensitive, savvy Jazz Age Aussie lady detective of Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. She's part tart, part humanitarian, part intelligentsia, all tough cookie. She's a motherly vamp, if that makes sense. And can she hold her Mother-of-Pearl revolver...and gin! Tres elegante! And this show would make superb lesson plans for history. Anticipating Miss Fishers Murder Mysteries Season 2
Free archaeology activities, earth science printables
I was going to major in archaeology and minor in anthropology in college. Then my over-cautious self said (in best yente voice) "Bones, schmones. Pick something mahketable. You can't eat history." (That last part could have been my pragmatic Dutch grannie head voice). So I picked teaching. Ahahahaa, marketable. Such irony.
Till I can find a dig that accepts volunteers and is close enough to be doable, I have to get my archaeology fix elsewhere. Here are free printable lesson plans on cave-related subjects of fossils, bats, archaeology, paleontology, habitats, geology, spelunking and earth science.
Till I can find a dig that accepts volunteers and is close enough to be doable, I have to get my archaeology fix elsewhere. Here are free printable lesson plans on cave-related subjects of fossils, bats, archaeology, paleontology, habitats, geology, spelunking and earth science.
The
National Parks Service has free printable lessons on the U.S. national park at
Carlsbad Cavernsin New Mexico. There's
curriculum for elementary school in the free printable booklet
About Bats, Caves and Deserts. For middle school students, the NPS Carlsbad Caverns website features
free printable archaeology lessons on Caves, Canyons, Cactus and Critters. High
school students explore geology, spelunking, Global Positioning Systems and
orienteering in the Chihuahuan Desert Lab school. Materials are designed to be
used with interpretive visits but some may be used as stand-alone lessons in
class. Check out the cool activities on fossils, bats, paleontology and other
cave phenomena.
Also
from the NPS, are free printable materials on Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. There are free coloring
pages, word games, puzzles and lesson plans in the Junior Ranger section. Kids
will love the printable Trog Tour booklet (trog is short for super cool fossils
called troglodytes) The Making Connections series from Mammoth Cave National
Park features books for grades K-3, 4-5 and 6-8. There are 83 pages of free printable
paleontology lesson plans for teachers and homeschool parents. And be sure
not to let young archaeology students miss the free printable Fossil
Identification Guide with
coloring pages of fossils to label.
Free Printable Disney Crafts for Book Party
Yes, I know, Disney isn't exactly haute education. Nor are movies the best material for lesson plans. But preschool children (big kids too) LOVE Disney. Since the 1960s Disney has been a rite of passage. So why not capitalize on that mojo? Host a Disney story party in your preschool or elementary classroom or homeschool. Springboard from reading and watching with these foods, games, crafts and free printables. Lots of potential for learning activities. T
Start by gathering a pile of toddler appropriate books from your Disney book collection. Or visit the library. Now's a great time to teach youngsters library protocol and maybe get him his own library card. Select a few companion Disney cartoons or films. Make a list of Disney book party or birthday party food ideas from with children. Make Disney book party or birthday party snacks together. Here are some suggestions. Serve animal crackers for any animal themed Disney books.
Start by gathering a pile of toddler appropriate books from your Disney book collection. Or visit the library. Now's a great time to teach youngsters library protocol and maybe get him his own library card. Select a few companion Disney cartoons or films. Make a list of Disney book party or birthday party food ideas from with children. Make Disney book party or birthday party snacks together. Here are some suggestions. Serve animal crackers for any animal themed Disney books.
The
Jungle Book--tropical fruits, coconut
The
Aristocats--Creme de la Creme ala Edgar (don't put sleeping potion in this
one--just use vanilla pudding)
Lady
and the Tramp--spaghetti
Disney
princesses--tea party, wedding cake (or just fancy cupcakes or Little Debbie
cakes)
The
Princess and the Frog--gumbo
Winnie
the Pooh--honey and peanut butter finger sandwiches
Toy
Story--pizza
Frozen--ice
cream sundaes.
Make crafts using free
printables. Visit Disney Family crafts and Disney books
printables for different activities from Disney books. Sing and dance to
songs from Disney books! Play games from Disney movies using the Disney
printables. Recycle Bin Crafts, Lesson Plans: Paper Houses, buildings with Printable Patterns
I'm a trained special education and Montessori teacher. I'm always looking for (or creating) hands-on lesson plans to boost higher-order thinking skills. I also like to save money and care for the earth. So my lessons feature recycled materials instead of bought ones. Today's recycle bin trash craft is paper houses. I got the idea from an article I read in which a child had made a paper house and displayed it in a tea shop. Lesson plans include free printable paper house models, miniatures and patterns. This would make a great lesson for design, CAD, art, history and science.
Collecting dollhouse miniatures and scale model trains are
passions shared by men and women, young and old alike. Designing scale model trains and dollhouses and
making dollhouse miniatures can be a form of art therapy. And like many
hobbies, dollhouse miniatures scale model trains and doll collecting can be
very expensive. If you enjoy doll collecting, dollhouses, and dollhouse
miniatures and you want to save money, here are links for free printable miniatures and doll house furnishings.
Each
link explains how to print the dollhouse miniatures for dollhouses. The doll
house furniture is typically printed on card stock, so that the furniture can
stand up. You will also need a sharp Exact-O knife to score and cut out the
dollhouse miniatures neatly. Jennifer's printables is a comprehensive website
with many free printable dollhouse miniatures and dollhouse furniture. There are free
printable household products, rugs, curtains, pictures, decorations and much
more. Print Mini also has gobs of free printable dollhouse miniatures and even cut and paste paper models of
dollhouses and scale model trains and scale model buildings,
About
Miniatures has free printable
dollhouses and scale model trains and scale model buildings for model train
collecting and doll collecting. Scroll around for links to free printable
dollhouse furniture in many styles and periods. Print chairs, settees, sofas,
love seats, shelves, cupboards, tables, what-nots, end tables, lamps and dozens
of other free printable furniture pieces. Paper toys has free printable scale model buildings for model trains and dollhouses.
Back to School Lesson Plans Fibonacci Number Patterns in Nature
Looking for back to school lesson plans that pop? How about a number pattern walk? Here are some materials to guide you. One of the most challenging aspects of teaching is demonstrating principles in action--not because concepts don't occur outside the printed page. The problem is that educators tend to be textbook-bound. "Growing Patterns," by Sarah C. Campbell, makes the concept of Fibonacci numbers visual, even hands-on for students. For adults, too. Campbell's book was featured on Fox's show "Touch , " in which a non-verbal, emotionally impaired boy, Jake, connects to his father using Fibonacci patterns.
One of the most challenging aspects of teaching is demonstrating principles in action--not because concepts don't occur outside the printed page. The problem is that educators tend to be textbook-bound. "Growing Patterns," by Sarah C. Campbell, makes the concept of Fibonacci numbers visual, even hands-on for students. For adults, too. Campbell's book was featured on Fox's show "Touch" in which a non-verbal, emotionally impaired boy, Jake, connects to his father using Fibonacci patterns.
Shows like "Touch" are important in helping non-handicapped people understand the world of handicapped people, from the inside out. But it goes far beyond this. Instead of a "normal" person helping an "impaired" person, we learn that everyone has gifts. They're just not be as readily visible. Each person can reach out if one understands the language he speaks. In "Touch," Jake who is deemed "disabled," uses the Fibonacci sequence to express his vision of the world. He communicates using the language of pattern and touch.
The Fibonacci sequence, in which the two preceding numbers are added together to form the next number, is 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21, and so on. The principle was named for the mathematician Leonardo of Pisa who first demonstrated the it. Fibonacci numbers occur in nature as a spiral pattern. Campbell's book shows the phenomenon in pine cones, pineapples, flowers, nautilus seashells, galaxies and other natural objects.
Fibonacci numbers are closely related to the algebraic "golden ratio" (referred to by the Greek letter phi or "golden number") and "golden string" described by Euclid and Pythagoras. These concepts are used in diverse applications from architecture to market analyses. Shown numerically, the concepts may be arcane and confusing. Observed in nature, they are easily grasped. As in Jake's enigmatic world, nature often makes the mysterious clear.
As a teacher, I'm always looking for object lessons that make abstract concepts approachable, especially in nature. I once designed a unit on how symmetry appears in orchids. Several children's authors base their books on hands-on applications. Tana Hoban's picture books show how patterns occur around us. Jerry Pallotta uses nature patterns to teach math. Campbell's book is another excellent resource.
As a special education teacher, I'm also looking for ways to help special needs kids connect with their world and express themselves. Fox "Touch" is an excellent vehicle to do that. Here are other free printable lesson plans using Fibonacci number patterns.
One of the most challenging aspects of teaching is demonstrating principles in action--not because concepts don't occur outside the printed page. The problem is that educators tend to be textbook-bound. "Growing Patterns," by Sarah C. Campbell, makes the concept of Fibonacci numbers visual, even hands-on for students. For adults, too. Campbell's book was featured on Fox's show "Touch" in which a non-verbal, emotionally impaired boy, Jake, connects to his father using Fibonacci patterns.
Shows like "Touch" are important in helping non-handicapped people understand the world of handicapped people, from the inside out. But it goes far beyond this. Instead of a "normal" person helping an "impaired" person, we learn that everyone has gifts. They're just not be as readily visible. Each person can reach out if one understands the language he speaks. In "Touch," Jake who is deemed "disabled," uses the Fibonacci sequence to express his vision of the world. He communicates using the language of pattern and touch.
The Fibonacci sequence, in which the two preceding numbers are added together to form the next number, is 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21, and so on. The principle was named for the mathematician Leonardo of Pisa who first demonstrated the it. Fibonacci numbers occur in nature as a spiral pattern. Campbell's book shows the phenomenon in pine cones, pineapples, flowers, nautilus seashells, galaxies and other natural objects.
Fibonacci numbers are closely related to the algebraic "golden ratio" (referred to by the Greek letter phi or "golden number") and "golden string" described by Euclid and Pythagoras. These concepts are used in diverse applications from architecture to market analyses. Shown numerically, the concepts may be arcane and confusing. Observed in nature, they are easily grasped. As in Jake's enigmatic world, nature often makes the mysterious clear.
As a teacher, I'm always looking for object lessons that make abstract concepts approachable, especially in nature. I once designed a unit on how symmetry appears in orchids. Several children's authors base their books on hands-on applications. Tana Hoban's picture books show how patterns occur around us. Jerry Pallotta uses nature patterns to teach math. Campbell's book is another excellent resource.
As a special education teacher, I'm also looking for ways to help special needs kids connect with their world and express themselves. Fox "Touch" is an excellent vehicle to do that. Here are other free printable lesson plans using Fibonacci number patterns.
Free Printable Summer Reading Activities, Book Crafts, Literature Games
March is National Reading Month, kicked off by "Read Across
America." Schools abound with reading opportunities. But what about those
long summer months? Here are summer reading
enrichmentactivities
to keep kids' noses in books year-round! Included are interactive reading
response activities, ELA (English language arts) lessons, book-based crafts and literature response lessons. Use these multi-sensory, cross-curricular
Montessori-based lessons for Readers Workshop, special education students,
reluctant readers and divergent learners too.
Entrepreneurial reading. Research, plan and organize summer
money-making or nonprofit fundraising ventures: yard sale, babysitting, lawn
and pet services, knitting and craft sales, housecleaning. Host a lemonade
stand. Lemonade Day shows how.
Book-based crafts. Scholastic has free printable book crafts, games and literature
response activities. Access Scholastic publishers' vast data base of children's
literature. Get games, crafts and printables from favorite kids' books.
DIY summer
reading camp. Have kids start their own summer
reading club. Education.com has free printable reading activities. Utilize materials and
your local library. Host book club activities in your backyard! Discuss
favorite books, make crafts, play games, act out stories and enjoy book-themed
snacks!
Book recipes. Make foods described in books. Look for companion
cookbooks to favorite books: American Girls, Little House on the Prairie,
Haunted America, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs have cookbooks with recipes
from the stories. Invent recipes based on books. We made Winnie-the-Pooh "haycorn"
(pecan) pie and honey cookies.
Readers theater or puppet show. Make book character puppets. Have
kids retell story. Or let them write their own stories using homemade puppets.
My kids wrote a puppet show using puppets from Mercer Mayer's "There's a
Nightmare in my Closet", Mike Mulligan's steam shovel (from Virginia Lee
Burton's book) and "Word Bird" (Jane Belk Moncure).
Reading response journal. Have kids track reading and complete
activities. Check my blog Free Lesson Plans 4U and Free Printable Lesson Plans and Kidz Literature for tips to make literature response journals and activity
suggestions. Here's a free printable reading calendar from PBS.
Rewards and incentives. Participate with Pizza Hut Book-It program. The first week of March
is the "Let's all Read" program, partnered with One
More Story. Kids read and get pizza, plus they donate to RIF by reading!
Double good! Incent reading with books. Join Scholastic--get free books for
ordering. Give as prizes for completed reading.
Free printable outline maps for Geography Lessons
Remember the cute little Disney song, "It's a Small World" where children dressed in traditional costumes of their country danced around? I'm trying to re-create that feeling of inter-connectedness using social networking. And you can with students, too. Kids spend a lot of time online, in social networks like Facebook. They blog and useTwitter, Instagram, Pinterest. All these avenues can be used to teach geography. When I connect with someone on any social network, I always check to see where they are from. I'm building a virtual friend map. Here's how students learn mapping and global skills online.
Here are free printable outline maps as well. Use these to practice for the eNational Geographic National Geography Bee is heating up! Kids from all over are
honing their geography skills to hopefully qualify. Teachers and homeschool
parents, here arefree printable world maps for social studies lesson plans and geography bee activities. Eduplace has over
sixty free printable outline maps for use in social studies class and
geography lessons. Have students make free printable world maps for social
studies homework and to study for tests.
There
are about ten different world maps for geography lessons. There are also
outline maps from each continent, country and region. Use free printable
outline maps for world and local geography. There is one page with free
printable historical maps to help students understand how areas were labeled at
different times in history. US History also offers free printable world history maps from famous times and places.
All
free printable world maps are outline maps, meaning that they're drawn as
outlines of the country, continent or region. Free printable outline maps are
labeled with cities and major landforms. You can print the maps with labels for
students to use for practice and memorization. There are also printable maps
without labels. Use these for practice, study guides, quizzes and tests. With
or without labels, outline maps are identical so that there is no confusion
between the two. Check the homepage for more free printable geography lessons, social studies activities and American history
worksheets.
Assign
students to trace and color code world maps for social studies. Coloring and
tracing maps are great geography lessons for visual learners and special needs
students. Tracing maps helps students conceptualize size, proportion relative
area and distance. Teachers can laminate outline maps after students have
colored and labeled them. Student can cut out different regions, states,
countries or continents and reassemble pieces like a puzzle. Teachers can also
laminate blank world maps for practice tools. Label the back with answers for
self checking geography lessons.
Free printable colonial America Crafts and early American history printables
I'm
a teacher, homeschool veteran and American history reenactor. I teach a 1700s-era dame school(here's a model one at Thursley in Surrey,
England) at our local history museum "Feast of the Strawberry Moon"
encampment. Here are free printable
hands-on early American history lessons and historical crafts and free printable colonial America lesson plans.
Teach
about school history. Explain that education wasn't compulsory in the U.S. colonies till 1852 and then
only in Massachusetts. Kids might be taught in "dame schools." Then
only basics. Women weren't deemed capable of teaching boys. They taught
handicrafts, reading, writing and ciphering. Higher education was taught by men
to families who could afford it. Here are free printable history lessons and historical
crafts from Kidipede
linked to the main page for the whole collection.
Reading
in Colonial America. In 1647, reading, writing and Bible was
mandated, under the Old Deluder Satan Act. The New England Primer was used
starting in 1760. MacGuffey Readers came out in 1836. But that was the
colonies. The Michigan territory was settled by Catholic French. Education came
from missionaries, like Quebecois Ursuline nuns under Marie del Incarnation.
Catholic or Protestant, instruction was religious and moral. Here are free printable selections from the New England Primer. Teach kids the famous alphabet poem beginning:
"In Adam's fall." Here are morecolonial early
American history lessons.
Colonial
America ladder school. Teachers grouped students by age and ability. In math,
the first row, the youngest, worked on counting. The next row, basic addition.
The next, subtraction and so on. Spelling, reading, and handwriting would be
taught this way, too. D emonstrate this with students. If students are
agemates, assign some to play older kids and some younger. Arrange seats or
benches in rows (ladders). Here are sample free printable early American history
lessons like those teachers would
have used.
Make
homemade books. Vellum was a costly paper-like material made from animal
membrane. This could be scraped down and reused. Few could afford it. But they
would have saved and reused everything. Teach kids colonial America frugality.
Make books from paper grocery bags (similar to parchment or butcher paper). Sew
pages by punching holes and weaving with pieces of twine, rope, yarn or leather
cording. Have students write the New England Prime Bible poem and illustrate.
Here are other free printable colonial early
American history lessons and historical crafts.
Hands-on
math games: Give children pebbles for counting. Kids transfer one pebble from
hand to hand as they count. Demonstrate simple operations: addition,
subtraction, multiplication and division. I've used beans, but tell kids these
were food stuffs and wouldn't have been wasted. Shells, feathers, sticks would
likely have been used.
Writing in early American
history. Make slate pencils. Children in early American history used slates and
a stylus made of rocks. Gather rocks. Scratch on pieces of rock tile. Ask local
rock or tile dealers for samples. See which kinds write best. Make quill and
ink. Cut the end off the feather at an angle. Heat in flame to make a nib. Ink
would have been too expensHands-On Homemade Reading Crafts, Book Activities, Literature Games
March
is National Reading Month, starting with the NEA's "Read Across
America." Looking for ideas to inspire a life-long love of books? Here are reading response activities,
interactive ELA (English language arts) lessons, book-based crafts and literature response
lessons. Book activities are hands-on, multi-sensory, cross-curricular
Montessori-style. Use for interactive Readers Workshop, special education
students, reluctant readers, divergent learners and summer reading enrichment.
Reading
response journal. Have kids create personalized reading logs, respond to
literature and complete book-based activities. Check my blog Free Lesson Plans 4U and Free Printable Lesson Plans for tips to make literature response journals
and activity suggestions. Here are free printable reading activities and calendar tracker from PBS.
Homemade
books. Cut book covers from cereal box. Cover with scrap wrapping paper or
wallpaper. Cover with magazine picture collage. Decoupage by painting pictures
with watered-down school glue, front and back. Cut lined paper pages (for text)
and blank paper (for illustrations). Or use scrap paper and draw in text lines.
Book-based
promotional materials. Have kids play marketer for their favorite book or
author. Make posters, book covers advertising literature. Create 3-D
sculptures, models or dioramas based on books. Make book-based merchandise:
toys, snacks, food, games. In homeschooling, my 6th grade son designed a
"Hobbit Holes" cereal box designed on his favorite J.R.R. Tolkien
novel.
Book
diorama. Create scenes from books using recycled products. Arrange scene in
shoe box. Use small dolls (Lego, Fisher-Price, Little Tikes, Polly Pockets) as
characters.
Story-reading
audio/video presentations. Make audio recordings of kids reading books. Covert
to mp3 files for iPod. Videotape students reading and story-telling. Upload
videos to Youtube.
Story-telling.
Students read aloud to younger students. Students act out children's books and
present to younger or special needs classes. In high school, our oldest
daughter acted out a Shel Silverstein's poem "Noise Day" for special
education kids. They loved when she skateboarded across the stage!
Book-music
connections. Create music playlists based on books. Select metaphorical songs.
Kids will love choosing modern songs to represent story themes. Our family saw
a production of "Macbeth." The play was set to Lady Gaga's "Bad
Romance," "The Decemberists "This is Why We Fight" and
"Ain't No Rest for the Wicked" by Cage the Elephant. It really
resonated with students and helped them understand and relate to Shakespeare.For
more reading response activities, visit my blog Kidz Literature.
Free Printable Super Why Coloring Pages, Reading Worksheets, Games
Super WHY! is an animated PBS preschool learning cartoon for kids ages 3-6. This interactive television show teaches children language arts, reading, writing, spelling, vocabulary and word skills. Use these free printable Super Why lesson plans, games, crafts, coloring pages and worksheets at home, in day care, at school or in summer enrichment. I've included companion activities.
* There are 44 pages of free printable Super Why games , coloring and crafts on the website. It's laid out similar to Webkinz, but doesn't cost anything to play. The activities page features videos and music. Kids learn best when they can see and do. I homeschooled my kids and they learned phonics using simple, repetitive songs set to motion and dance. Encourage preschoolers to memorize songs, sing along, dance and play with Super Why characters. Scroll throught for the Free Printable Super Why Coloring Pages, Reading Worksheets, Games and check out free printable Super Why coloring pages on Parents magazine.
* There are 44 pages of free printable Super Why games , coloring and crafts on the website. It's laid out similar to Webkinz, but doesn't cost anything to play. The activities page features videos and music. Kids learn best when they can see and do. I homeschooled my kids and they learned phonics using simple, repetitive songs set to motion and dance. Encourage preschoolers to memorize songs, sing along, dance and play with Super Why characters. Scroll throught for the Free Printable Super Why Coloring Pages, Reading Worksheets, Games and check out free printable Super Why coloring pages on Parents magazine.
Free Printable Super Why Coloring Pages, Reading Worksheets, Games
Super WHY! is an animated PBS preschool learning cartoon for kids ages 3-6. This interactive television show teaches children language arts, reading, writing, spelling, vocabulary and word skills. Use these free printable Super Why lesson plans, games, crafts, coloring pages and worksheets at home, in day care, at school or in summer enrichment. I've included companion activities.
* There are 44 pages of free printable Super Why games , coloring and crafts on the website. It's laid out similar to Webkinz, but doesn't cost anything to play. The activities page features videos and music. Kids learn best when they can see and do. I homeschooled my kids and they learned phonics using simple, repetitive songs set to motion and dance. Encourage preschoolers to memorize songs, sing along, dance and play with Super Why characters. Scroll throught for the Free Printable Super Why Coloring Pages, Reading Worksheets, Games and check out free printable Super Why coloring pages on Parents magazine.
* There are 44 pages of free printable Super Why games , coloring and crafts on the website. It's laid out similar to Webkinz, but doesn't cost anything to play. The activities page features videos and music. Kids learn best when they can see and do. I homeschooled my kids and they learned phonics using simple, repetitive songs set to motion and dance. Encourage preschoolers to memorize songs, sing along, dance and play with Super Why characters. Scroll throught for the Free Printable Super Why Coloring Pages, Reading Worksheets, Games and check out free printable Super Why coloring pages on Parents magazine.
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