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I have some fun anchor charts or posters for the classrooms K-5th. All of them are FREE! Posters draw students in to keep them engaged. They are also great for reminders on the skill you are using. If you click on the picture it will take you to the blog posts that explains all about it. You'll be able to download the freebie from there. Take One, share one, or take them all, they're free! Need more? Try this Pinterest Board full of Posters and Anchor Charts for the Classroom. Need more Posters or Anchor Charts? Try these Paid Products by Teacher's Take-Out: Here are some more posters I love for the classroom: Inspirational Quotes for Students Classroom Posters for Kindergarten Math Posters for Elementary World Maps Kindness Posters Thanks for stopping by! See you soon,

Oh, how I love these! There are still many more that are being finished, but I couldn't help myself from posting what is already done. I...

In the past two weeks we have turned WW up a notch. My kiddos have been doing well with labeling and I wanted to go further to enhance th...

This fun, affordable craft project makes a great Halloween decoration project.

There's a little corner in my room that is frequently visited by fidgets, tattle-talers, and more. How do you deal with these issues? Keep reading!

Mindfulness art activities for kids to independently create and use to calm down and relax. Kids will have fun creating their own mindful...

Make a rainbow paper craft that changes colors as the paper is tipped back and forth in sunlight! Create gorgeous rainbow patterns and designs while teaching children the basics of thin film interference. Add this rainbow paper experiment to your list of simple experiments for kids and creative art and STEAM projects!

If you're looking for preschool worksheets, then you're definitely going to want to take a look around. On this page, you'll find tons of no-prep printable activities covering lots of preschool skills. There are math

We love 3D paper art at our house and this 3D paper lizard is a fun and artsy craft for kids. The easy lizard template is included and with some brightly colored card stock paper, you’ll have an adorable paper reptile that can be used as a fun gift tag. If you like working with…

Got a kid who loves rocks? Encourage your little geologist to learn about the 3 major rock types with this worksheet.

This week our family & I are heading to Iceland for vacation. My husband & I have been before & love it there. We are excited to take our daughter to see the geysers & walk the ice tunnel, but our main reason for going is to try our luck at seeing the Northern Lights. […]

I have shared my love of Vista Print with some of my colleagues and they have become just as addicted as me. We are a bad influence on each ...

I've been a special education teacher for 6 years now. Actually, we're all special education teachers, as my first principal liked to say (and she was right). The thing I always struggled with the most

M C Escher was born in The Netherlands and died in 1972. He was a famous graphic artist and created numerous symmetrical designs, among other art forms. After viewing many of his designs, we decide…

BENJI AND THE GIANT KITE Book Review and a Paper Kite Craft. This story about a boy and his kite inspired a Paper Kite Craft.

These shape activities that involve movement for younger children are great for fine and gross motor development as well as shape indentification.

Children can explore the world with easy, hands on Geology activities including with an erupting volcano, land form diorama, or Earth Layers Model!

As an art teacher, I'm forever looking at amazing art work and think: "How can I turn it into an art activity?" I was aware that the Year 5/6 students this term were embarking on a unit entitled 'Engage with Asia', so during the holidays I started searching for ideas and saw this idea on someone's blog, I can't remember who. This was such an easy activity and we completed it in 90 minutes. First I prepared the moon cut outs, which were laminated. Next the students chose and explored rubbing soft pastels to achieve their desired background. Then I squeezed black food dye (ideally I should've used black ink but I didn't have any) on each students' work. They then began to blow through a straw. Thus creating realistic trees. They painted the blossoms, mixing red and white paint. The results were amazing!

Try growing borax crystals on pipe cleaners. This is a simple science experiment to do with kids and creates such beautiful results! You can make any shape.

I am out of the classroom on Monday and Tuesday this week for our school's Site Planning Retreat. We will be reviewing the Mission Stateme...

K-6 Elementary art blog, crafts and DIY

Kids love to be complimented—especially by their moms. Check out these 99 compliments for kids and share a few with your children every day.

Check out Erica1667's artwork on Artsonia, the largest student art museum on the web. Don't forget to join the fan club and leave a comment on the website.

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!

This is not my idea, but I know a good one when I see it, and I had to tuck this away to do this summer with the kids. Some kids at one of our schools did something similar for a science project, and then my friend Michelle, over at Scribbit, detailed the project when she did it with her children up in Alaska. That being said, so that I take no credit whatsoever, this is a really, really cool thing to do with your kids, young and old. Even my sixteen year old daughter was completely engaged for the hours we spent. First, here's what you need for each one: 3 clear 2-liter (empty) soda bottles clear packing tape aquarium gravel water dechlorinator rubber band 4" piece of netting (I used cut up pantyhose) soil fish, snails, or other aquatic life elodea, (which is banned in CA), duck weed (which the store didn't have), anachris, or other aquatic plants crickets, pill bugs, earthworms a few dead leaves and small sticks You can use the link to Scribbit for perfectly detailed directions, but first you get your soda bottles, 3 for each ecosystem, and you begin cutting them up. The bottom one (basement, AKA pond life) gets the top cut off of it. The middle one (AKA coupler) gets both bottom AND top cut off. The top level (AKA earth level) gets bottom cut off, but saved to reattach at the end. Once you have your pieces, you take your basement/pond life level and add an inch or so of gravel. Fill it almost to the top with water and add a few drops of dechlorinator. Then add special friends, like the plants, guppies, and snails. You can use different fish, but guppies are the sturdiest. These snails that the nice fish store man chose for us stay fairly small, and they're beautiful. Each ecosystem got 2 snails, 2 branches of anachris (plant), which they could break into smaller pieces, and 3 or 4 guppies so that hopefully 2 will live. The guppies and snails were happy almost immediately, exploring their new home. Well, except for one of Aiden's that just floated to the bottom. And then swam like a madfish to the top only to float to the bottom again. Aiden named him "Wheeeeeee!" We're not sure how long Wheeeee! will be around for. For the top/earth level, we put the layer of pantyhose over the open mouth of the bottle, secured it with a rubberband and then turned it upside down. Next, we added a layer of gravel, and then some super-soil from our garden. Into this level we planted some grass seed, but rye/alfalfa/mustard would work well too. I just couldn't find my sprouting seeds. Then we added our friends, one cricket (with a small chunk of potato for him to nibble), 3 pill bugs, and an earthworm each. Then a few dead leaves and small sticks went on top. Just for fun, I gave each child a garden tag to use for a nameplate. The bottom of that soda bottle (which is now the top) was taped back on, with the edges tucked just inside the rest of the bottle so water doesn't run out. Then that top level is set inside the coupler level and taped. Both of those two top levels are now set inside the pond life basement level and secured with tape. Now it should be airtight and self-contained, as a proper ecosystem should be. Can you see the little fishies swimming around? Now just set them in front of a sunny window so that photosynthesis can happen, setting in motion the cycle of life. The water will evaporate to the top to rain down on the soil, helping the grass to grow and the dead leaves to decompose, which feed the insects. There will be plenty of oxygen from the plants, and the algae that will grow will feed the fish and snails. Can't wait to watch it all happen! Oh, and by the way, all of the supplies for 3 ecosystems, including the soda bottles came to under $17. Nice.

This week I made a big purchase. There has been something on my homeschool "wishlist" for quite some time. I've spent the last year rationalizing away the cost. Quietly planning all the different projects that

So I was FINALLY uploading some photos from my school camera in preparation for the end of the year and I came across some that I had every intention of sharing with the blogging world back in August. And since, I have noticed that some of you have begun thinking about next year already (I still have 5 more days), I thought I would share them now so you may find an idea to use at the beginning of the next school year. Every year, I start the year with making and publishing a large amount of class books. Here are some of the books that I created with this group (it changes a little from year to year): 1. The first book goes with the story The Day The Monster Came To School. This story is not a book, it is just a story that someone gave me years ago and I have used it ever since. I have seen some really cute reproducibles on other blogs that teachers have created using the same story, so I know it is circulating out there. After I read the story, I have the children color what they think the monster looked like and then they tell me a rule that will help the monster stay at school. I write what they say at the bottom. Sorry, I couldn't get it to turn. 2. The next book is The Birthday Book. I have a little poem (see second photo) that starts the book. We discuss the months of the year and what can make each month special, which leads us into their birthday month. I have them color their birthday cake and then we graph our birthday months. After that, I take the cakes and make it into a book (see third photo). We refer to this at the beginning of each month to see what class birthday's we need to mark on the calendar. 3. This book is usually created on their first day of school. I have little reproducible apples that have a picture of a little boy or girl on them. I have them color their gender apple and then we graph how many boys and girls are in our class. After a few days, that graph turns into this book with a picture of the graph at the back. 4. Everyone loves Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and there are so many activities that I do with this book I may need to save that for another post. This book is usually created during our second week of school when we are doing lots of name activities and we start our study of all the letters of the alphabet (Smart Start-for those of you that use Macmillan Reading Series). We first glue our Chicka Tree together on the paper and then they add stickers for the letters in their name. 5. This book is created because it goes along with our adopted Macmillan Treasures reading series. We have a big book titled "Hands Can" that discusses all kinds of things are hands do. Then I chart different things that the student's know our hands can do. I paint their hands and then we put it into a book with what they said on the chart. 6. We create this book after reading A My Name is Alice. The students draw a picture of themselves and complete the writing prompt on the page. If they do not know how to write their name yet, I write it for them. So that is just a few of the books that we make during the first few weeks of school. I hope you got a some ideas for creating class books next year. I do this every year and they become the most read books in our classroom library. I would love to hear about some books that you create with your kiddos during the school year. Please share. Happy Blogging! Ann

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Five Senses unit with activities, student booklets, craftivities featuring Mr. Potato Head, worksheets, & posters for Kindergarten & First Grade

The number of germs that get shared on a daily basis within your classroom is scary! These visual ways to show how germs are spread are fantastic for primary school students.

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You will be astonished by all the ways you can re-use those little, plastic k-cups!

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Download FREE Rubric Package I was looking for a fun activity to use, to focus on the importance of setting details. My students had a BLAST creating these dioramas, to represent setting elements. Creating shoebox dioramas are a fun and meaningful way for students to respond to reading or to use for project-based learning activities! Check out these details! They also needed to write short, descriptive PLOT cards to go with their presentation. I have updated my rubric (April, 2019) and included PLOT Planning sheets. The Rubric can also be rated using either a 100 Point Scale OR Proficiency Scales! Click on the Rubric to download for FREE! Subscribe and enjoy more great freebies. 👍 Free Download!