Thought I would share another activity I had with my Activity Days girls last week. We were on a mission, we went undercover and performed 7 days worth of SecRet SerViCe. Before we got started we talked a bit about service and the blessings that come when we help others. I found some manila envelopes at the dollar store and personalized them with their names on them. Inside I included a pen and these "forms" that they were to fill out during the activity. I also included a list of ideas for serving to help get them going. I was also lucky to find these fun "undercover" glasses to stick inside. Just to help them really get into the part...AND they would know if anyone sneaking up on them ;) (they really did kind of work!) The girls thought it was great. Honestly, I was pretty surprised with how excited they were to get going on their challenge. A lot of them told me they were going to go home and get started right away. Just goes to show that it doesn't take much (couple of bucks at the dollar store) to get kids excited about doing things for others. It turned out to be a fun, easy way to teach the important principal of SeRviNg oTheRS...

3 Activity Day Ideas #1 Easter Jelly Bean Poem Jars Easter Jelly Beans Green-is for the grass he made Yellow-the light of each new day Pink-His power to raise the dead Orange-for fish and 5000 fed Purple-He calmed the stormy sea Red-His blood in Gethsemane Black-He knows our every sin White-He can make us clean again Preparation: Easter Jellybean Poem Jar Labels Brachs jellybeans in the classic colors and classic flavor. Get babyfood jars, we used the peach puree for waffle topping and smoothies. (the sticky part can be removed by rubbing vegetable oil and leaving overnight, or else the label can be put over the sticky part) ribbon, you might want to tie a bow for each jar in advance so they just have to be glued on, depending on the age of your girls and how well they can tie bows. We glued ribbon around edge of the lid and glued a bow on top of it. Make some pom pom/cotton ball bunnies and ducks. Eastergrass, shredded green paper, or spanish moss (all available in dollar stores), you could glue this on in advance with a glue gun. Glue guns or Tacky glue Lesson: Talk about the service the Savior did for us by discussing the jelly bean poem. If there is time you could let a different girl explain what each color means to them. Help the girls recognize the spirit and understand that the things in the poem are things we know about Jesus. We can think about them during the Sacrament, they are things that help us love him more, and they are part of our testimony of the Savior. To make Jars: 1) Make pom pom animals (can do this as a gathering activity as the girls arrive if you wish) 2) fill the jars with jelly beans 2) tape the poem over the sticky part on the jar where the baby food label used to be. 3) hot glue a pom pom animal on the lid. If you have the girls make their own pom pom animals, you'll need several glue guns to avoid a bottleneck on the craft. Tacky glue also works very well for pom pom animals and isn't hot! The girls can make more than one animal and choose their favorite for the jar. resources for this activity: paper and ribbon mini treat jars (scroll down to four days before halloween) spraypaint and ribbon lidded jars the girls could make these cute jar toppers with scrapbook paper, I wonder what colors would look best with classic jellybean colors... #2 Missionary Letters Draw pictures of the first vision to send to the missionaries in your ward. (They could write letters or thoughts too, but for our mostly eight year old girls I thought the pictures were more meaningful for the girls to make and the missionaries to receive.) #3 Service Bingo I made some service clip-art and bingo cards. All of the service activities pictured are things 8 and 9 year olds can do. There are 35 items, so when they got bingo we talked about the items they had on their board. They learned about the many ways they can serve others in daily life. (Right click on thumbnails to save them to your computer for printing, or left click to open photo stream and then right click for higher resolution. Also, I have sent files to people who request it in the comments, I don't publish their e-mail addresses.)

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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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{Download FREEBIE pack here.} Economics is my absolute FAVORITE social studies unit to teach. There are so many hands-on activities to do with students and they are so eager to earn and spend money! One of my favorite activities is to end with our "Madden's Marketplace." This is a chance for students to put into action all of the things they have learned about being producers and consumers. To begin with, I send home a letter asking students to create paper goods. Why paper? It's something all of my students have at home (or I can easily give them). I want my marketplace to be fair for all students. I'm sure I could let them have the freedom to create any product, using any materials and I would get some amazing masterpieces. I would also get some elaborate (and expensive) items. That's not what I want. I encourage parents to spend NO money on this and for it to be STUDENT CREATED. I really want them to take the initiative. Here are some samples of paper products my students created to sell this year - everything from rockets to bookmarks to lanterns to hats. I incorporate the making of goods into my students' homework schedule, encouraging them to create two products per night. Before the due date, we work on creating "shops" in class. We create our "shop" by gluing two file folders together. The picture below is using legal-sized file folders, but that just happens to be what we had available. Shop Parts: Signs: Initially, we create the signs for our shops, color the awnings to make them eye-catching. Open/Closed: Next, we create open/closed signs that sit atop our shop so we can easily flip the sign to show the status of our shops. Slogan: We then come up with a catchy slogan. We talk about slogan's we know from commercials. Why did those stick in our heads? We learn to use a play on words, alliteration, onomatopoeia, etc. to make our slogans catchy so consumers will remember them. Product Description: Students each write a product description detailing WHAT their product is and HOW it works or can be used. We talk about the importance of letting consumers know exactly what they are getting. Commercial Script: Finally, students write commercials to "sell" their products to their classmates. We use hooks to get their attention, repetitions of our catchy slogans, and persuasion. Other Components: We also glue on the Consumer Comments, Price, and Interest Inventories, but we leave all of those blank initially. On the day of the marketplace, students set up their shops and lay their products out on display. Then, they have a chance to walk around the classroom and "window shop." They are encouraged to take a good look at all of their options, reading the product descriptions and examining the merchandise. After students have had a good look at all of their choices, I give them stickers (I would recommend 3-4). They walk around and place their stickers on the "Interest Inventory" of the products that interest them the most. The results of the interest inventory are used by the shop owners to determine if they have a high demand or low demand for their products. Knowing the demand helps them determine a price for their product. High demand = higher price. Low demand = lower price. The only rule is that all prices have to be in whole dollars. Once prices are set, then students are ready to go shopping! There are many different ways to let students shop. Some years, if I've done economy-based management system, my students will use "money" they've earned to shop. This year, I just gave them all $12 to shop with. I'm always torn about letting my students split into groups to run their shops (half shop while half work) - it always seems that students don't get to shop at all of the stores in that scenario. To solve that problem, I let all of my students shop at the same time. To do this students create "tokens" to leave at their shop. They create the same number as products they have to sell. For example, if Katie has 10 kites to sell, she creates and leaves 10 tokens with her name or shop name on them. Once each shop has tokens, students are ready to shop. Since there are no workers at the shops to collect money, I give my students "consumer spending logs" with pictures of dollars on them. Since I gave my students 12 dollars to spend, their consumer spending logs had 12 one dollar pictures. As students go around to the shops, they color in the dollars they've spent and pick up tokens (NOT products) that they will trade in for their purchases once the shops close. Once all of the tokens are gone, that shop is "closed." Once a student has colored in all of the dollars on his/her spending log, they are done shopping. It really works out quite well. Once students have traded all of their tokens in for their goods, they are given paper for providing feedback to the shops. They slip these into the "consumer comments" pockets on the storefronts. They love reading the feedback from their customers! <3 After wrapping up our shops, students are often left with some extra products. Instead of having them take their own products back home, I let them put another economics concept into practice - BARTERING! They have a blast working out "fair swaps" for their products and really working to get the other things they may have wanted but didn't have the money to purchase...and of course, they do all of this while proudly wearing some of their favorite purchases. :) All in all, it is a fun day of learning. Students take their roles as both producers and consumers seriously and come away with a real sense of accomplishment! If you would like to download this packet of FREE resources to hold your own Economics shop, you can do so HERE. Enjoy!

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It's hard to believe there are only 20 days of school left. But if you visited my classroom you would know right away because my little cuties ARE GOING CRAZY! And they are driving their teacher CRAZY too! I loved Reagan Tunstall's post yesterday. Read it HERE. AMEN to all she said about how crazy it is getting. I had one of my little firsties put glue all over another person's chair today. What's with that? Nothing like that has ever happen in my room before. I just keep telling myself- only 20 days, only 20 days. Seriously, I love my kiddos but I forget how CRAZY they get at the end! Anyhow, we've been working on Wants and Needs and I have a little freebie to share. It's a little class sort of some of the things we want or need. I dug around to find pictures and ended up use several graphic artists so here is credit where credit is due- Scrappin Doodles, KPM Doodles, 3 AM Teacher, and Kevin and Amanda Fonts. Their links are on my side bar. Just click on the picture below to grab a PDF copy. Click HERE to download the file. I hope someone can use it! I also downloaded a new packet to my shops. You can check it out too. It's a few of the activities we've been doing with Fact Families. Click on the word for a link to my shops. TpT or Teacher Notebook Thanks for stopping by. I hope you found something you can use in your classroom! Have a great Wednesday.

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