Despite their unusually complicated name, the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Coming were all about simplicity. The group's leader, Mother A
Cheap Office or Room Divider: I've recently moved my small company into real office space. With the economy where it is that itself is scary enough without having to buy furniture. So for furnishing I shopped at the local used furniture store and was able to score two work desks…
Every art teacher has a different approach to their art show. Some do it alone. But if you want help, do you know how to get it?
I don't know a teacher who doesn't have at least one student who gets super distracted by things around the classroom. Room dividers are a...
Multiply and Divide by Powers of Ten can be a challenging math concept for your students to grasp. Use these tips to instill and conceptual understanding.
Want to see how to Solve the Room: Dividing Decimals will bring excitement back into your math lessons and free you from the frustration of disengaged students, so you never have to endure another dull math class again.All without spending countless hours on preparation.Using this engaging activity,...
Woodworking is an ancient art that has been practiced by humans for thousands of years. It involves creating beautiful and functional objects out of wood using a variety of techniques and tools…
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At our school, we have two art shows a year: one in the fall, and a large one in the spring. Hanging hundreds of pieces of art can be a huge challenge so I want to share with you how we hang our work. Our large DIY displays are simple to make. Here is what you will need: CHEAP black fabric (our panels have sheer stretchy fabric that is opaque) How much you need depends on the size of insulation board you get but you will probably need around 7 or 8 yards per double panel. Gaff or Duct tape (Gaff works better but is more expensive. Our maintenance department has given us Gaff tape- so ask yours!) Foam insulation boards (about 1 to 2 inches thick) You will need two insulation sheets per panel. These run around $10 dollars a sheet. Cover one side of each foam board with fabric and secure the fabric on the back side with Gaff tape. When you have two covered, place them side by side, fabric facing down, and tape their seam together. Stand them up like an open book and you have your display panel. Its easy, cheap, and quick! Here is what our art show looked like:
This Division Escape Room activity is one of my favorite division projects. It reviews skills and concepts in a fun and exciting way.
Friends Stick Together (The Story of Ruth and Naomi) Bible Verse: The Book of Ruth Scripture References: Proverbs 17:17 Printable Bible Verse Cards: Print onto card stock, write the Bible verse on the cards, and make copies. KJV Card Pattern NIV Card Pattern The children can also make file…
Using 8” by 10” photographs, each student traced a simplified contour drawing of their face. They transferred the drawings onto colored paper and “fractured” them by dividing the picture into smal…
Christianity is about living in relationship with God. Can any relationship be strong if there is not good communication? Prayer is an integral part of being a Christian. Some children naturally share their hearts with God. For others, prayer is not instinctive so we need to be intentional about teaching prayer as a way of life. In our family, we've used a variety of materials to teach prayer. Teaching Your Child How to Pray is a wonderfully thorough resource. It contains practical ideas for helping your child develop a habit of prayer as well as enriching your own prayer life. There are some really beautiful analogies here that helped me explain the purpose of prayer to my son. Probably the most unique aspect of this book is the developmental stages of prayer based on the lives of Samuel and Jesus. Explanations for each of these 6 stages includes scriptural context, examples of what is involved in each stage, approximate ages, suggestions for teaching and for transitioning to the next stage, cautions, and key Bible verses. Faith Begins @ Home Prayer is one of the companion books for Faith @ Home. This slim book is a very quick read. Despite its small size, it is a treasure trove of creative (and fun!) approaches to incorporating prayer into family life. Below are some of our favorites, but there are twenty four kid-friendly, innovative prayer ideas presented in the book. circle prayer (holding hands and praying around the circle, squeezing the next person's hand to signal when you are finished) popcorn prayer (complete-the-sentence prayers with an exciting twist) prayer calendar (assigning specific topics that need regular prayer to a particular date each month) prayer maps (support for missions and peoples in need) characteristics of God ( completing the phrase "God is . . . " and turning it into praise) prayer walks (praying about things or people you see as you walk along). Lord, Teach Me to Pray for Kids (Discover 4 Yourself® Inductive Bible Studies for Kids) is a fun educational tool that uses inductive study to learn what the Bible says about prayer. The book has a fun military theme to captivate the attention of children. My son really enjoyed the puzzles. The activities throughout the book weren't just busywork. They were carefully designed to increase understanding. Because the book contains eight chapters of the Bible in their entirety as an appendix, there is no need to have a separate Bible to use it. This made it a convenient portable activity book. The target age for this book is 8-12 years old. We introduced it at a younger age, but the vocabulary presented a bit of a challenge. (The lessons rely heavily on words such as allegiance, submission, petition, and intercession.) It can be challenging to find Bible study books that are especially interesting to boys. This one definitely fits the bill! This prayer poster is another resource we have used in our family. It took me a grand total of 5 minutes to create it. I just taped 5 envelopes to a piece of posterboard. The top envelope can hold a pen and some index cards. On the other four envelopes, I wrote the words: "Praise," "Thanks," "Sorry," and "Please help." The poster was hung in a high traffic area of the house where we see it often. If a prayer idea occurs to us, we can write it on an index card and slip it in the appropriate envelope. This really helps us remember what we want to pray about. I recently printed, laminated, and attached magnets to the free prayer printables at When You Rise. (Fantastic blog, by the way!) I love the idea of praying scripture over my children and am looking forward to giving this a try. Other prayer ideas I love: Prayer Pail by Lu Bird Baby. Children's Prayer Books by Our Family for His Glory. I love hearing new ideas! How do you teach your children to pray? Photo: Microsoft Images
An elementary art teacher blog with art projects and lessons, DIY projects and outfit photos as well as clothing I have made myself.
Learn how to frame a wall and how to build a wall in an existing home that is already constructed!
I have been wanting to do a Text Feature Surgery for a few years but wasn’t completely sure my younger students would get much out of it or that it wouldn’t turn into complete chaos. I …
Broken mirrors? No, Cubist art! We divided our paper with 5-6 lines to create a spilt background. By looking at a still life projected onto the screen, we were able to create a series of objects that "shift" when they overlap a line. Crayon and pastels add explosive color. Well done 8th graders!
From the book The Artist Within, by Whitney Ferre'...me :)
During every kindergarten class today we heard repeated choruses of "Ooooo" and "Ahhhh" as students dropped primary colored liquid watercolors on wet board and watched it move together creating new colors. We started the lesson with a quick talk about primary colors and a really short video ( a minute and a half) from Sesame Street on Primary Colors. My inspiration for this lesson was a first grade project I saw on Pinterest here that focused on Mondrian. I changed the focus but went for a similar grid pattern. They were using a board that was divided into 6 areas with masking tape. Each section was a little mini-painting. (Next week we peel off the tape to reveal the white lines of the board.) Kids also had the option of sprinkling salt on their wet paint -- that brought a whole new series of "Oh, Look!!" comments!! My plan for next week is for the kids to brush off the remaining salt crystals, peel off the tape and arrange the pieces so that the lines meet up and create a cooperative large work. I'll be sure to take pictures to post:) If I were doing this with older kids I would have them also outline the white lines with a fine black marker, like this: A large focus of this lesson was use of the brush: how to clean it between colors, how not to smash its hair, how to dry it using a sponge, etc. Even so, these are kindergarteners and that yellow paint didn't stay yellow at all the tables. SO, WORD OF WARNING: if you try this, be sure to have some extra little containers of yellow that you can use to replace the dirty ones!!!! This table did a great job of cleaning their brushes and keeping their yellow clean!! After cleaning up, the kids came to the rug for a reading of Mouse Paint to again reinforce mixing primary colors. What a fun day it was!!
The Hybrid One Spiral book is designed to have lots of room to write your standards and lesson plan descriptions. This planner provides you with a way to reteach, add new lessons and assignments all by working across the page. Simply date when you start and finish each activity. There are dividers for up to 10 subjects with pages to write important and pertinent information. There are contact pages in the back of the book for your student/parent information.
The Grade 1 Artists are hard at work in a Sharing the Planet Unit that explores the interdepence of humans and p...
Table top dividers to use when kids take a test--a cheap version of privacy boards and partitions
Multiplication made fun! Ideas, strategies, and anchor charts to help you teach multiplication!
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Book Three Spiral Book with standards is designed for the secondary and/or specialist teacher to write a lesson plan once and document up to six periods of classes where each class is on that plan. Simply date when you start/finish each period class. On the left side of the two page layout is a place for standards and your lesson plan description. On the left side of the two page layout is a a place to write the time of the period class, start/finish of each activity. In addition, there is space to write notes, meetings and assemblies, etc. that might occur within the time frame of that plan. There are dividers for up to 10 subjects with pages to write important and pertinent information. There are contact pages in the back of the book for your student/parent information.
Khan Academy & Disney have created a new (and free) animation curriculum set where kids can learn the equations behind Pixar movies.
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As teachers we are constantly REINVENTING THE WHEEL!! Although it can be time consuming, one thing I love about my job, is that I get the opportunity to learn, grow, create, and RECREATE year after year!! I have been using Reading Response Journals in my classroom for over 10 years, and each year I make…
Yes, I’ve learned my lesson and will not be putting my blocks, top, etc. on the floor anymore. I don’t need to have one of my girls cough up hair balls on my work. A few days ago, a hair ball was on the landing on the stairs going down to my studio. No, I don’t need to find surprises on my work. So, what to do? Walls in my design studio are almost non-existent except for one area where there are sliding doors and I have a piece of batting type of material clipped in front of the doors and that is used all the time. Problem though, it is not tall enough and you all know by now that I make mostly large queen size quilts. DH came to the rescue. He went out and purchased some rigid Styrofoam boards 24” wide x 86” high. My boards fold up like a screen (accordion style) to store out of the way when not needed. Tape the seams as shown. A piece of flannelette sheeting is pinned in place (with an exception). Because the boards are to be folded, pin the sheet in place until you reach the seam that was taped on the backside. Smooth the sheet as shown by following the arrows, pinning as you go. Now try closing like a screen to see if it works. If not, make adjustments until it does fold properly. Here is my Lover’s Knot on the board. Here it is all folded up. I use a LOT of pins for sticking my blocks in place and you will need pins if you plan to close it up with just single blocks on the board or if you move the design wall around from place to place. The added bonus to these boards is turning it around and placing another flannelette sheet on the backside and another design wall is ready to use. Two in one ….. now how is that for space saving? I hope that this helps anyone out there that has a problem with lack of design walls. BTW …. my girls love to play hide and seek behind my board. Have a great day!
Build fraction knowledge with your students or children by using Fraction of the Day. I have provided free Google slides to use to practice fraction of the day exercises and also a free blank printable. I walk you step-by-step through different fraction exercises you can have them do.
Details Quiet Divider with Sound Sponge Set of 2 Support Feet - Children's Factory AB8611 Support feet attach easily to quiet divider for stability. Feet are nylon coated black. AB8611 Features: Dimensions: 17 L x 17 W x 5.5 H Item Weight: Approximately 5 lbs. Shipping Shipping Method – Ground (smaller items) Standard shipping method is ground shipping with FedEx or UPS. Delivery signature is not required for ground shipments. The carrier will leave the package in the normal delivery place for your address. You may go to FedEx or UPS website to track your shipment. Occasionally, your package may not be delivered due to weather conditions or a concern for the package safety. This decision is made by the carrier. Very small items may ship USPS. If you are purchasing multiple items from different manufacturers, your order will ship from different warehouses and may ship on different dates. We will email you all the tracking associated with your shipment once the item ships from the warehouse. If your order contains multiple ground shipments, then they may ship with a Freight carrier based on the number of items and weight. Shipping Method – Freight Standard shipping method for large / heavy items is with a freight carrier. Delivery signature IS required for freight shipments and you will need to be present during your delivery time window. For residential deliveries, the freight carrier will contact you to schedule delivery date. You may go to the freight carrier’s website to track your shipment. If you are purchasing multiple items from different manufacturers, your order will ship from different warehouses and may ship on different days. We will email you all the tracking associated with your shipment. Freight shipments are curbside delivery. Upon delivery, if you notice any damage to the box/item you MUST note this on the delivery receipt. More Information More Information Manufacturer Part Number AB8611 Brand Childrens Factory
Special Education Revised Book 4/5 The Anders Lesson Organizers Revised Book 4/5 is a lesson plan book for the special education teacher who wants to include IEP information alongside the lesson plan descriptions. This two page-layout includes a place to write the IEP objectives or standards, lesson plan descriptions and a place to assign the students’ activities on the left side of the layout. The right side of the layout provides you with space to date when the assignments/activities start/finish. This includes a grade book for up to 14 students. This is designed for the special education teacher who teaches smaller groups and wants everything in one place. The book also includes a substitute cover page at the front of the book to alert the substitute of important information. There is a 2024-2025 Calendar included at the front of the book. The 10 subject dividers also includes a place for additional information about the students and important information for that subject. The back of the book includes pages for a substitute to write how the subjects went, concerns, etc. Lastly, there are contact pages with room for student and parent information.
