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!
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In patterning our life after the Savior's we should seek for opportunities to serve those around us. In Mosiah 2:17 it states, "...when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God." As Relief Society sisters, we have tremendous opportunity to watch out for those around us that need that loving hand of help. When we feel impressed to help someone we need to listen to those promptings and act upon them. We can provide service to others individually or we can do this as a family. Teaching our children the importance of unselfishness, love, and sacrifice. One thing that we did with our kids a few months back was thirty days of service. Each day we did an act of service for thirty days. It was fun to see them serve others and discuss the happy feelings we each individually felt from doing so. Here are some ideas:
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The Giver Novel Study Package contains a complete 115 page novel study on The Giver by Lois Lowry. Everything you need to teach a complete The Giver unit is included. Detailed Giver questions, answer keys, Giver activities, vocabulary words, character analysis, and engaging Giver final projects are all included in this Giver literature guide. A variety of graphic organizers and Giver worksheets are also included. All activities are classroom tested and include creative handouts, information sheets, detailed instructions, foldables, templates, and rubrics! Very little teacher prep is needed – simply print and teach! ✅150+ PAGES OF RESOURCES!!! ✅Be sure to check out the preview for detailed information and images of some of the great activities included in this resource! This creative and engaging package includes the following: ⭐Reader’s Notebook Setup Information: Several pages of information on the benefits of Reader’s Notebooks. Detailed information on how to set up a Reader’s Notebook for the unit is also included. However, you do not need to do this unit as a Reader’s Notebook. It can easily be done as a traditional Novel Study, Literature Circle, or Independent Novel Study – it is up to you! A fun cover page is also included. ⭐Main Character Graphic Organizers: Graphic Organizers for each of the main characters in the novel, to help review key features using text evidence. ⭐Comprehension Questions: Detailed comprehension questions for all chapters. A detailed answer key is also included! ⭐Reading Response Activities: A variety of creative reading response activities and graphic organizers are included - creative worksheets, pre-reading activities, character analysis, and graphic organizers. These pages have been specifically created to engage upper elementary and middle school students. These activities make gorgeous additions to Interactive Notebooks! Many of the included resources target key comprehension strategies like visualizing, making predictions, and connecting to text. ⭐Close Reading Resources: Several pages of my best selling close reading resources have been included in this package. This includes several pages describing the close reading process, a detailed text annotation guide, a page of information to aid partner discussion, and a page of tips and tricks to show students what to look out for when close reading. These resources can be used at any time throughout the novel, to aid in deep thinking and comprehension. ⭐Vocabulary Words: A full set of vocabulary words, separated into chapter groups, are included. An answer key is provided. ⭐Vocabulary Worksheets: A variety of different vocabulary graphic organizer activities to use along with the included vocabulary words are included. ⭐Vocabulary Fill in the Blank Practice Pages: Several different fill in the blank practice pages for vocabulary practice are included. Answer keys are included. ⭐Vocabulary Foldable Activities: Fun foldable activities to go along with all of the vocabulary words are included. These make great interactive notebook additions! ⭐Vocabulary Mazes: Three fun vocabulary maze activities are included, with answer keys, to help students practice the vocabulary words. ⭐Journal Starters: A full page of journal writing prompts to get students thinking about the novel. ⭐Pre-Reading Activities: Several different pre-reading activities are included. This includes activities for making predictions and thinking about the concept of "utopia". ⭐The Giver Community Pamphlet Project: Full instructions for students to create a pamphlet advertising the community Jonas lives in. A great way for students to reflect on the novel’s setting! ⭐Create Your Own City Project: Detailed instructions for students to create cities of their own! 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So, did you survive Halloween? I personally really enjoyed the fact that it was on a Friday this year. 🙂 Now that Halloween is over, I’ve started thinking ahead to Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the holidays in general. It’s always such an exciting time of year for the kiddos! Unfortunately, I think it’s all too easy for kids to become too focused on the “gifts” part of the holidays. The media and advertising play a big role in this. BUT I do think we, as teachers and parents, can definitely do something about it! I think it’s important to teach kids about all the ways that people can give to one another. Giving doesn’t have to involve gifts – giving can include helping people in intangible ways, using kind words with others, etc. I recently finished a mini-unit that focuses on just that – teaching kids the many ways that people can give to each other. Read on for some ideas and books about teaching kids how to give, and for more details on the unit! The unit starts by having kids discuss their prior knowledge about giving (which likely includes giving gifts). You’ll make a class chart and/or give students a drawing/writing task to see what students believe about what it means to give (at the end of the unit you’ll give the same assignment to see how the kids have grown!). Then, you’ll use readalouds and writing activities to open kids’ eyes to all of the ways that people give to each other. You definitely won’t need all of these books for the unit, but here are some of the options that you can choose from: Books About Giving Tangible Items: The Mitten Tree (Candace Christiansen) My Most Favorite Thing (Nicola Moon) The Elves and the Shoemaker (Jim Lamarche) Books About Giving Help: Frog and Toad All Year – “The Surprise” (Arnold Lobel) The Berenstain Bears Lend a Helping Hand (Stan Berenstain) My Friend is Sad (An Elephant and Piggie Book) (Mo Willems) When You Are Happy (Eileen Spinelli) The Lion & the Mouse (Jerry Pinkney) A Sick Day for Amos McGee (Philip C. Stead) Books About Giving Kind Words: One (Kathryn Otoshi) Chrysanthemum (Kevin Henkes) Ish (Creatrilogy) (Peter Reynolds) Books About Helping the Community: Boxes for Katje (Candace Fleming) Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen (DyAnne Disalvo-Ryan) City Green (DyAnne Disalvo-Ryan) A Castle on Viola Street (DyAnne Disalvo-Ryan) In addition to the reading and writing activities, the kids will practice giving to their friends and families through a few different activities. They’ll make a “helping chain” with ideas about how they can help others: They’ll also make a coupon book for their families (with ways that they can help out around the house): After these and a few other activities, they will (with your guidance!) plan and implement a very simple community service project. By the end of the unit, the kids should have a more complex and complete understanding of what it means to give to others. The lessons are great for teaching around Thanksgiving, Christmas, winter holidays, Valentine’s Day – or any time at all! The unit also includes supplementary literacy materials like a poem, student reader, and reading passage. Click on the image below to find out more: Happy teaching!
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I hope everyone has gotten back into the routine of school. My kiddos are working hard each day to remember our expectations and daily routines, as well as learning lots of new skills. We started our phonics skills progression two weeks ago. We focused on short a the first week and then short a word families the next week. Each new vowel I am making an anchor poster to display in the room. The kiddos came up with all of the words and then I added the pictures. Anchor charts are such a great visual for our kiddos to remember all the skills they learn each year. Last week I let the firsties make their own anchor charts using our short a word families. They worked in groups to come up with words for their posters and then added pictures to match. They really enjoyed getting to learn these word families in a fun and interactive way! Our next chart focused on text-to-self connections. I borrowed some ideas from my Pinterest board of anchor charts and helped the firsties learn how to connect what they are reading to themselves. My class is doing Whole Brain Teaching this year, so we "Mirrored and echoed" that a text to self connection is when I connect a text to something I've done, something I've felt or something that's happened." My kiddos love earning the points from the Whole Brain system. I would encourage all teachers to look into this fun way of learning. Look out for another post centered on WBT. I changed up our "Me on the Map" unit activity this year, and with the help of some examples from Pinterest I created this one page flip chart activity! My kiddos loved getting to find their place on the map and draw them holding the world! We also learned about the community we live in and who all helps out. I passed out these cute photos of community helpers and let my firsties discuss what each person did to help our community. We then recorded our thoughts and added some more helpers that were not pictured! Check back soon for our short i anchor chart and tips for Whole Brain Teaching! ~Miss A
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