Learn a changing matter experiment you can easily do at school that is perfect for 2nd grade. This properties of matter ice cream in a bag science experiment is a delicious demonstration of temperature changes matter that students can eat at the end!
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This simple 4th of July game illustrates for students that freedom is precious and can easily be toppled without faith, care, and appreciation.
{Politics can be a touchy subject no matter where you go, but it's especially important to be careful what you say - and how you say it! - in a school setting. Sidestepping potentially 'hot' issues such as your personal political party affiliation and candidate selections, election season truly does offer a fabulous opportunity for discussing important concepts like patriotism, citizenship, as well as one of the many things that makes America great, the freedom to make our own choice!} Photo Source: melissa-wade.blogspot.com To kick off your Election Unit, we found these awesome notebooking/anchor chart ideas over at Second Grade With Mrs. Wade that explore all kinds of different topics! Our favorites... We Love The USA! Election season is a great time to remember all of the things that make America great; we vote to elect the leader of our country, we enjoy freedoms that many other countries do not, we can feel confident and secure knowing that we have a military that will defend and protect us, etc. We love the idea of starting your unit with a notebooking exercise that will have your students brainstorming all of the reasons that they love the USA! What Does It Mean To Be A Good Citizen? In the same vein, the freedoms and rights that we enjoy also come with responsibility - the responsibility of contributing in a positive way and practicing good citizenship. Not only does a good citizen demonstrate many important attributes and values important in our communities - responsibility, courage, acceptance, honesty, etc. - but a good citizen also follows the laws of the country and recognizes the importance of political awareness. Melissa's citizenship notebooking page and anchor chart are a perfect way to introduce and discuss how to be a good citizen - in general and as it relates to the coming election {exercising our right to vote!}. For these fabulous activities and lots of other great government themed notebooking/anchor chart ideas, be sure to visit Second Grade With Mrs. Wade!
Manitoba Healthy Lifestyle Practices--Grade 2 ActivitiesLooking for Grade 1 Activities? < Click here! How to Use This Resource Manitoba Curriculum Framework of Outcomes for Active Healthy Lifestyles-Healthy Lifestyle Practices This resource does not...
What to look for in a homeschool science curriculum, and why Berean Builders Elementary Science in History is a great fit for our elementary homeschool science program.
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I just love this class!!!! They get overall concept so well then express their artistic side with freedom -nothing holds them back. They are excited about everything!
While the norm here on little illuminations is posting about our adventures in Pre-K, I have recently started teaching Sunday School. W...
Here are 50 4th of July Crafts for Kids. These are easy to make and fun. Add one or more of these patriotic crafts to your independence day to-do list.
Help children and students learn about Black History Month with these DIY freedom quilts. Tell students about how the quilts helped slaves escape slavery.
Your students have been in school all year long and learned so much! Help them reflect on how they have grown this past year with this cute and fun Spring Craftivity. It makes a perfect bulletin board!
Thought I'd share our beginning of the year bulletin board with you all! It is titled: "Presenting the superkids..." There were two parts to creating this board. First, my wonderful paraprofessional put together a "super themed" street scene and created blue and red capes out of butched paper. She then took a photo of each student laying across the city scene as if they were flying through the air. The kids got to select which color cape they wanted! Here are a few examples: Then we completed the "super themed" writing piece to go along with our photos. We had a discussion about what makes us super and/or what are some super things we do or actions that we can take that superheroes do as well. Here are some examples of our work: "I am super because I do my best work." "I am super because I am responsible". (This may have been a day where we really hit home our PBIS expectations ;)) Here is the template if you'd like as well in English/Spanish.- Just click on it! (I tried to add the accent with a line to "súper in the Spanish" version, but I could not figure out how to create a line small enough. So I just "sharpied" it. Yes I just created a new verb.)
Have fun with math with our Halloween tangrams math activity. A fun way to pair a favorite kids holiday with a great, hands-on math lesson.
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{Politics can be a touchy subject no matter where you go, but it's especially important to be careful what you say - and how you say it! - in a school setting. Sidestepping potentially 'hot' issues such as your personal political party affiliation and candidate selections, election season truly does offer a fabulous opportunity for discussing important concepts like patriotism, citizenship, as well as one of the many things that makes America great, the freedom to make our own choice!} Photo Source: crayonbits.blogspot.com Marna over at Crayon Bits shared this awesome tree map that she used to introduce the different public offices and levels of our government to her firsties. As she puts it, "getting the...kiddos to begin to formulate an understanding of public officials and who leads what can be challenging to say the least!" We think she did a great job organizing the information. The display is informative yet simple - using pictures and labels to show each office/official at the national, state, and local levels - and we think the visual representation of each level/office will help students make better sense of the new information! Be sure to visit Crayon Bits for the full lesson/activity!
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Happy new week guys! Do you know that there is only 16 days left until Christmas? Today I’m continuing the mini series with another round up of 100 Holiday inspired ideas, featuring white and bright theme. Are you dreaming of a white Christmas? Looking at the weather this year, I’m not sure we will see […]
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Easy Elementary School Party Games for kids. 20 fun indoor party games for classrooms on Halloween, Christmas, End of Year, Valentine's Day
The end of the school year is always so bittersweet. While I always loved anticipating the freedom summer would bring, I was always really sad to say goodbye to the kids who spent the year growing and maturing right before my eyes. As I’ve said before, I always loved spending the last few weeks of …
Beautiful composition Daniella(3rd grade). I particularly like your happy Swomee-Swans! I love your take on the Lorax with the added chopped down Truffula tree Harrison(4th grade)! Alexis, 8 Savannah, 9 Lacey, 6 Kindergarten and 1st Grade Loraxes in Progress In honor of Dr. Seuss' Birthday on March 2nd, all my students are working on a piece inspired by his beloved book, The Lorax. Written in 1971, the book almost parallels the plight of the Amazon Rainforest. The Lorax is a small creature who details the story of the greedy Once-ler who has chopped down all of the Truffula Trees to create a useless item known as a Thneed. As a consequence, many of the creatures that depended on the Truffula tree for survival have been driven out. One could swap the Amazon's Kapok Tree for the Truffula, Toucans for the Swomee- Swans, and The Sloth for Bar-ba-loots. The children followed a direct line drawing lesson to create their Lorax as he sits on his tree trunk perch. I love his quote, "I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues." They could then decide to create his surrounding environment with tree stumps, beautiful Truffulas, Swomee-Swans, Humming-Fish ect.. They used a combination of marker, tempera and watercolor. (I discovered that The Lorax will be an animated motion picture in March 2012)
Although HEALTH and CAREER EDUCATION are no longer taught simultaneously in the NEW BC Curriculum, this resource offers an easy and worry free way to deliver the 2 subjects.Updates using the new food guide are included.This resource covers some areas of the New Health Education as well as the New Ca...
