***Please note, the word "Olympics" is trademarked. For this reason this product uses the words "summer games" instead. ****The Summer Games are almost here! Engage your students in this fully integrated unit to add to the excitement of Paris 2024! This unit includes all sorts of activities in a ...
With all of the excitement about the upcoming Olympics, it's time to celebrate this beloved events with some Olympics books for kids!
WInter Olympic learning activities and free printables.
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My kids are so excited for the Olympics this summer!I have such great memories of watching the Olympics with my family during the summer. It was so exciting to follow the young Olympians as they progress through the events. The opening and closing ceremony was always a family affair. We would always make fun snacks...
Check out these fun and engaging end of year classroom activities to close off the year in a way your students will always remember!
Painting pottery, building temples & acting out Greek myths are just some of the activities we worked on in our Ancient Greece and The Olympics Unit Study Week 3.
This year I wanted to ease into our school year. A Unit Study sounded like a fun way to get started. Last week we started our Ancient Greece and The Olympics Unit Study week 1.
I am a huge fan of the Paralympics – historically hosted a few short weeks about the Olympic games in the same host city, the Paralympics are the world’s greatest athletes with disabilities who come together to compete. For those of you who don’t know too much about the Paralympics, I’ll give you just a few facts: The Paralympic Games are primarily for athletes with physical disabilities (except deaf or hearing impaired athletes) including but not limited to vision impairments, dwarfism, disabilities that affect muscle power (spina bifida, paraplegia, etc.), amputation and more. Many people confuse the Paralympics and the Special Olympics – specifically for athletes with intellectual disabilities. As I said previously, the deaf actually have created their own Deaflympics for elite athletes. In 2012, the Paralympics invited athletes with intellectual disabilities to compete (which I wasn’t aware of), in a few select areas. You won’t likely see much coverage on television, but check out Team USA for updates and check YouTube for live streaming of events as well as recorded coverage. The booklist I created focuses on disabilities you would see during the Paralympic Games. I focused specifically on physical disabilities but could have also included intellectual disabilities as well. I also tried to include some sports books, but I wanted to have a wide-range including fantasy/science fiction, historical fiction, and a few biographies as well. Caveat: I’ve included what the book description/review says is each character’s disability, so they may not be all politically correct as some are historically based and there may be new ways to understand or describe each character’s situation. Enjoy! Emmanuel’s Dream: The True Story of Emmanuel Ofosu Yeboah by Laurie Ann Thompson (born with a deformed leg) Wilma Unlimited: How Wilma Rudolph Became the World’s Fastest Runner by Kathleen Krull (paralysis from polio) Ya Sama! Moments from My Life by Tatyana McFadden (spina bifida) Handbook for Dragon Slayers by Merrie Haskell (crippled foot) Jepp, Who Defied the Stars by Katherine Marsh (dwarfism) Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes by Jonathan Auxier (blindness and visual impairment) The Iron Trial by Holly Black & Cassandra Clare (limp) One-Handed Catch by MJ Auch (amputation) The War That Saved My Life by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley (clubfoot) Shot in the Dark by Janet M. Whyte (blindness and visual impairment) The Thing About Georgie by Lisa Graff (dwarfism) The Running Dream by Wendelin Van Draanen (amputation) Reaching for Sun by Tracie Vaughn Zimmer (cerebral palsy) A Time to Dance by Padma Venkatraman (amputation) Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper (cerebral palsy)
These winter olympics activities for kids and free printables will help you create a fun unit study on this historical event.
I have never been very athletic, but there is something about the Olympics that brings out the competitor in all of us. Even if we never competed in sports ourselves, we cheer on our favorite teams. You can’t help but admire the determination, training, and dedication that it took to get these athletes to the […]
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If you can't stay home to see the games, why not bring them right into your classroom?! Here are 15 Classroom Activities for the Winter Olympics!
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