Grab a FREE set of Black History Trading Cards and discuss with your first graders about 20 important black Americans who changed our nation!
Enhance your classroom environment this February with fun and educational door decorations that celebrate Black History Month! Get inspired by these creative classroom door ideas.
Trumpet craft and jazz music lesson for preschoolers, kindergarten, or elementary kids, focusing on Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. Great for Black History Month!
Enhance your classroom environment this February with fun and educational classroom door ideas that celebrate Black History Month!
Click and print free printable coloring pages featuring African American heroes that all Americans should celebrate!
Free printable Black History Month 5 coloring pages. We have selected the best Black History Month 5 coloring pages that you can download on PC, mobile, or tab and print for free!
Five gorgeous Black History Month crafts that celebrate diversity. Easy-to-make crafts the whole family can do.
Fun and easy Black History Month Crafts and Activities for kids of all ages! Creative ways to celebrate the contributions of black people.
During the month of February and beyond, there are so many significant contributions that have been made by African Americans that we can share with our students! To kick off the celebration of Black History Month, I am sharing a Black Inventors freebie. Click the link below to read a short post on Garrett Morgan, download your freebie, and get an activity idea! Enjoy : )
This project guides student through an engaging research project in which they select a famous African American to study. This project allows students to practice informational/research writing while also thinking about character traits. This is a great project to use during February for Black H...
Celebrate Black History Month slides backgrounds. Professional design template that combines colorful text and dark backgrounds.
Our American culture is rich with African American leaders, trailblazers, and heroes. Celebrate their achievements by learning more about the many brilliant black historic figures that helped shape our great country. We have some awesome coloring pages… The great and humbling Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) who bravely led the solemn march toward civil […]
Are you looking for an activity for Black History Month that goes beyond reading passages on an influential Black American? Check out these themed square quilts! Students take what they know about any African-American and plug in their research into the boxes of this graphic organizer meant to look like a quilt. When finished, put them together as a class to create a cute bulletin board or display! File Type PDF & Digital Google Slides
My 4th and 5th grade students created a freedom quilt square for their class quilts last year during Black History Month. We started out the project by reading The Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Fr…
Inside you'll find an easy Gee’s Bend Quilt art lesson for how to make a paper quilt project with your kids. Grab it for your classroom now (it’s free!)
Here's a peek into our February Activities and Units! Be sure to look through for freebies! My kids LOVE learning about Ruby Bridges, because she was their age when her story unfolded. Here are a few videos. First is a read-aloud of The Story of Ruby Bridges. Next is an interview with Ruby Bridges as an adult. The quality is a little poor, but the questions and responses are great. Here are some activities we do while learning about Ruby Bridges! First we read about Ruby Bridges with this non-fiction teacher read-aloud and an emergent reader for the kids. After learning about Ruby, we complete these activities! You can find all of these activities and more by clicking this picture! If you didn't cover MLK in January, you can learn about him in February. Here are some of the activities we enjoy! These activities can be found by clicking the image below. Grab these freebies for Goundhog Day! This one has 3 cute literacy activities that work for whole group or small group! Click the image below to grab them! This one from Eberhart's Explorers has lots of great activities that I like to use whole group! Click the image below to grab them! I give glowsticks for Valentine's Day because, #1... the kids LOVE them, #2... They are CHEAP at the Dollar Tree, and #3... It's a nice change from candy and I have had allergies in the past. Grab these cute little tags from The Teacher Wife by Clicking Here! We make these sweet and simple Valentine's bags from Mrs. Ricca's Kindergarten For parent gifts, we make adorable torn paper mosaics like this. SO easy! Just grab some different colors of paper and set your kiddos loose! They will tear off small pieces and glue them into the heart. Perfect for fine motor and independent... win-win! Grab one of the templates to make your own by clicking HERE!! And of course I love any excuse to use candy conversation hearts around valentine's day! These pattern mats from my friend Michelle are perfect for an independent station! Click the picture to download and leave her some feedback on TPT as she is just beginning her store! :) Valentine week is important to me for another HUGE reason! If you've been following my story for long, then you know my daughter is kinda sorta a major miracle baby! She was born with a condition called HLHS, which is essentially half a heart. She has since had 3 open heart surgeries, 3 cardiac arrests, 10 long months in the ICU, two runs on complete life support through ECMO, and a heart transplant. She is now 18 months old and doing well, all things considered. The week of February 7 - February 14 is CHD Awareness week! CHD stands for Congenital Heart Defect and 1 in 100 babies is born with some form of CHD. Learn more here! Here is my miracle baby when she was very sick and pictures a picture since she has recovered from her heart transplant! I made this fun Valentine's Day freebie in honor of my daughter and it includes a page to spread CHD awareness! Grab it up and tell someone you know about CHD! Get this freebie by clicking below! This will be a fun experiment for students to see the effects of a cavity. Grabbed this idea from Fun Fabulous First. Just poke a hole in the apple to signify a cavity and give it some time to start decomposing. Re-assess the apple at the end of the week and discuss what happened over time with the cavity. I whipped up a quick little sheet for students to use to record their observations. Grab it below! Love this idea from The Moffatt Girls! Great hands on practice at flossing! We learn about what helps teeth stay healthy and what causes harm, then complete this sort and the kids search through magazines and grocery ads to cut/paste onto their own templates. We read several dental health books, and then the kids get their own mini reader! We learn this poem then create the writing craftivity. It's perfect for a hallway display! The tooth fairy sends out an ad looking for assistants and the kids apply for the job, then complete a math task that she leaves! They search the room for teeth pics numbered 1-50 and put them in order on ten frames! Ending Digraph Sort CVC Write and Wipe. For added fun, throw some dollar tree toothbrushes in to erase the dry erase marker writing from the teeth! Use marshmallows or white dry beans for a subtraction manipulative! Kids race to fill their mouth with marshmallow teeth in this comparing numbers game! They each draw a number, compare the values, and the person with the higher value gets to put one of their teeth on the mouth template! Then they get to eat their marshmallows at the end. SO FUN! You can grab all these activities by clicking the picture below! That wraps things up for our February. We also spend a couple of days for Presidents Day. So much to do in February... tough to fit it all in! Hope you all have a great month!
Celebrate Black Joy and art with this Black History Month preschool activity about Black American painter Alma Thomas.
Need Black History Month Resources For The Classroom? How much do you know about Black history? Why is Black history important to learn? What are Black History Month activities for February and beyond? Whether you need meaningful Black History Month activities for high school students or, Black history month lessons elementary ages, or Black history for 5 year olds in preschool or kindergarten, we’ve got you covered for studying Black history with these inspiring student lesson plans and Black history ideas.
Meaningful and educational Black History Month activity for teachers and students. Featuring 40 Influential and inspiring African-Americans.
Inside you'll find an easy step-by-step tutorial for how to draw Lois Mailou Jones Mask Art. Stop by and download yours for free.
Use this Frederick Douglas craft to celebrate Black History Month in February or American History. The product includes two template options:Option 1 - print directly on colored paper.Option 2 - print on white paper, cut out patterns and trace them on colored paper. The product includes: a list of supplies directions patterns photos of the final project step by step pictures PLEASE NOTE - Files are NOT editable.- Please be aware that this listing is for a digital download.- No physical product will be shipped.- There will be no refunds given once the sale goes through. TERMS OF USEYou are welcome to use this printable for personal or classroom use. No commercial use or reselling of the digital files or any finished product is allowed.
Meaningful and educational Black History Month activity for teachers and students. Featuring 40 Influential and inspiring African-Americans.
Mini Activity Bundle for Black History Month. Grab this Black History Month mini bundle for your Montessori shelf this February! This bundle includes a set of flashcards, handwriting worksheets, cutting strips for fine motor skills, and magnifying activity to practice using a magnifying glass. These four activities are the perfect introduction to prominent and famous people in Black History. PRINTABLES INCLUDED IN THIS BUNDLE ✅ Black History Month Cutting Strips✅ Black History Month Flash Cards✅ Black History Month Magni Match✅ Black History Month Tracing Names
These February speech therapy lesson plans include a free calendar download with articulation and language activities for Valentine's Day.
Five gorgeous Black History Month crafts that celebrate diversity. Easy-to-make crafts the whole family can do.
Trumpet craft and jazz music lesson for preschoolers, kindergarten, or elementary kids, focusing on Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald. Great for Black History Month!
Hello! JenBradshaw here from TeacherKARMA.com Grab these FREE Ruby Bridges Printables to add to your Black History Month resource file. Facts About Ruby Ruby Bridges Writing Best wishes! You Might Also Like:Postcards for Black HistoryInstagram Biography ReportsWrap Up Black History Month With A Hidden Figures Word SearchSojourner Truth Biography Report Kit FREEBIE
February Word Search: A Free Printable Puzzle to Warm Your Heart As February rolls around, we find ourselves in the midst of winter, and the...
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Artist: Alma Woodsey Thomas Abstract painter Alma Woodsey Thomas (1891-1978) devoted her life to the youth of Washington and other local communities, both as a teacher and as an organizer of cultural events. In 1924 she became the first graduate of Howard University's School of Fine Arts. She possessed a natural sense of genius for color and form and upon retiring from teaching middle school art at age 68 embarked on a successful career as a professional artist. Start with the video https://youtu.be/bsmBVMKbgUs "RESURRECTION" by Alma Thomas This painting was unveiled as part of the White House Collection in 2015, hanging in the dining room. Alma Thomas is the first African-American woman to have art in the White House Collection! Alma Thomas' early work was representational in manner, and then and upon classes at Howard and training under James V. Herring and Lois Mailou Jones her work became more abstract. Thomas would not be recognized as a professional artist until her retirement from teaching in 1960, when she enrolled in classes at American University. There she learned about the Color Field movement and theory from Joe Summerford and Jacob Kainen and became interested in the use of color and composition. Within twelve years after her first class at American she began creating Color Field paintings, inspired by the work of the New York School and Abstract Expressionism. She worked out of the kitchen in her house, creating works like Watusi (Hard Edge) (1963), a manipulation of the Matisse cutout The Snail, in which Thomas shifted shapes around and changed the colors that Matisse used, and named it after a Chubby Checker song. Her first retrospective exhibit was in 1966 at the Gallery of Art at Howard University, curated by art historian James A. Porter. For this exhibition she created Earth Paintings, a series of nature inspired abstract works, including Wind and Crepe Myrtle Concerto (1973) which art historian Sharon Patton considers "one of the most Minimalist Color-Field paintings ever produced by an African-American artist." These paintings have been compared to Byzantine mosaics and the pointillist paintings of Georges-Pierre Seurat. A friend of Delilah Pierce, Thomas and Pierce would drive into the countryside where Thomas would seek inspiration, pulling ideas from the effects of light and atmosphere on rural environments. Thomas was, in 1972, the first African-American woman to have a solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and within the same year an exhibition was also held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. (WikiArt) How to Paint Like Alma... https://youtu.be/7MUWLKUS4lc MATERIALS Multimedia paper Tempera paint - variety of colors Compass and Pencil Water,Variety of Brushes, Paint Trays DIRECTIONS Plan out a design. If the painting will be centered around a circle, use a compass to draw the circle first. The composition does not have to be centered around a circle or shape. Be creative with the plan! Paint the circle (or shape) solid with tempera paint.Paint dashed lines around the circle/shape until the paper is full. Be creative with color choices, size, and positioning. Use a variety of different brush sizes. EVALUATION Did the student plan a composition based on the style of Alma Thomas? Did the student use a variety of different line/dash sizes? Did the student plan and use a variety of different colors? Did the student fill the entire paper with dashed lines, completing the painting? Examples…
Wondering what is a lapbook? Lapbooks are magical! A Lapbook is a creative way for students to show what they have learned about a subject.
These Black History Month activities are PERFECT for ANY time of year! These are great for preschools, elementary, and at home!
Are you looking for some Black History Month activities? Check out this post that has 10 ideas to get you started in your classroom!
Fun and easy Black History Month Crafts and Activities for kids of all ages! Creative ways to celebrate the contributions of black people.
