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Do you use Kid President videos to teach community building, language arts, and writing? If not, you should! Kids love them! The opportunities for teaching figurative language, writing dialogue, theme and central message, quotes and using quotation marks, addressing speaking and listening standards, building community, and showing kindness are endless! I’ve put together this fun high engagement video companion to use with ANY Kid President video. It’s loaded with lessons, anchor charts, printables, crafts and 12 different activities to support visual literacy, language arts, writing, and speaking and listening standards. I’ve included detailed lesson plans with objectives, examples, and teacher’s notes for each lesson and activity. Kindness, empowerment, and inspiration are just a few of the themes in Kid President videos. Integrate these into your teaching and build community in your own classroom or school-wide with the included kindness activities. I’ve even added 3 different bulletin board and hallway displays complete with title lettering and décor elements. Use these activities throughout the year for a fun and meaningful way to practice as you teach these skills! They are ideal to add to your President's Day activities too! Included in this download: 7 Standards Based Lessons To Use With Any Kid President Video Responding to the Videos- 3 differentiated pages for student response in writing by answering questions about: -Theme -Purpose- To inform, entertain, or persuade -Central message -Identifying quotes -Applying the message to their own lives -Key words Identifying and Writing Quotes Students identify important or funny quotes after viewing any Kid President video, then practice the correct use of quotation marks by writing the quotes on red ties to add to a class chart. -With 2 lesson visuals to project or print- Project these on your whiteboard to model and have students practice. -Quoting Kid President task card game with 10 sentence cards and recording sheet. For literacy centers or small groups Let’s Quote Kid President! -Interactive class chart activity -All chart parts in color and blackline -Additional student practice page for using commas and quotation marks Figuring Out Figurative Language Students determine the meaning of words and phrases by distinguishing literal from nonliteral language. -Kid President’s Guide to Figuring Out Figurative Language brochure and practice printable Building Community With Kindness Build community in the classroom and school-wide by creating charts and displays with kind and encouraging notes to classmates, teachers, peers, and school staff. -5 types of kindness note templates -Chart parts and title lettering -Bulletin board or hallway display with large title lettering Give The World A Pep Talk! Writing Craft Students correctly write dialogue by writing a message to give the world a pep talk -Kid President craft templates -Writing templates -If I Was President No Craft Version of the writing templates for students to illustrate instead -Bulletin board display title lettering Inferring Character Traits -Class interactive anchor chart with all chart parts to make your own -Character Traits lesson plan with projectable or printable lesson visual -Kid President Character Traits student page Additional Printables & Activities -Be More Awesome- Kid quotes book marks in 2 styles -List of Kid President Quotes -Throw A Kid President Party! Ideas -Wear A Red Tie template -Corn Dog Friendship Writing Craft-Perfect for classmates, reading buddies, pen pals and school staff. 2 Bulletin Board Displays with Title Lettering -Let’s Quote Kid President -Give The World A Pep Talk Download the preview to see examples of these bulletin boards These lessons can be spread throughout the year to teach language arts, writing, kindness, and friendship. Create beautiful bulletin board displays by using the title lettering included, adding your class charts and displaying student work. You can find all of Kid President’s videos at KidPresident.com. Be sure to download the preview to see all that is included. This resource is loaded! Happy teaching and thanks so much for visiting my store! Linda Kamp You may also enjoy these book companions! Stellaluna Book and Character Study Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day You’re Finally Here! First Week of School Book Activities Tomie dePaola Author Study Catch Me If You Can! 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“This is my time.” That attitude will kill a speech every time. You’ve probably sat through some lousy speeches. Despite the speakers’ renown, you eventually tuned them out over their self-indulgent tangents and pointless details. You understood something these speakers apparently didn’t: This was your time. They were just guests. And your [...]

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Do you realize just how important communication is in your workplace? You obviously need to communicate well with your staff, but they also need to communicate well with one another. If your staff are failing to communicate, not only will their quality of work suffer, they will become unhappy at work.

This great brain teaser challenges your child to unscramble president names and a riddle. It's a fun Presidents Day worksheet featuring Mount Rushmore!

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This book is available as a FREEBIE on Teachers Pay Teachers. What is a "Teach With Me" post? This is a posting series that provides you the entire lesson. Simply open and teach. It’s kind of like a power point, but on blogger instead. So I guess we will call it a Blogger-Point. If you are able to log onto blogs at school, pull this blog post up and teach right off of it! Now if you cannot pull up a {blogspot} at school, remember I am a {dot} com as well. It’s a way to get around those pesky district site blockers. Lesson Prep: Run copies for the students: mini book test So are you ready? Let’s teach some brilliant students all about President’s Day. Why do we love Presidents’ Day? 6 words! George Washington Abraham Lincoln No school! George Washington was our first President and thefirst President we are going to talk about! On a post it, white board, or paper write what you think will happen What do you think his father said or did? * * * * let's Find OUT! The next president we are going to explore is Abraham Lincoln. He is our 16th president and one of the most beloved presidents of all time. Here are real pictures of their coins. Here are real pictures of their paper money. Here are some other fun facts about these two amazing presidents. They both have large monuments built in their honor. This is the Washington Monument This is the Lincoln Memorial They both appear on Mount Rushmore.Mount Rushmore is a huge mountain where faces of famous presidents have been carved into the sides. George Washington is the first face. Abraham Lincoln is the last face. It took 14 years to carve the faces of these presidents. 400 people worked on this project. It cost almost 1 million dollars to finish. $989,922 That’s a whole lot of quarters and pennies! Are you ready to sing a little song about President’s Day???? Click {here} to go to You Tube These are the men we remember on Presidents’ Day. When did this holiday begin? This is a picture of where our lawmakers come together to discuss and make decisions. They will take votes to make final decisions. We are going to take a vote on our favorite President.Sometimes a vote is called a poll. What can you remember? I like to do this “open book” on the same day we read the book for the first time. I teach my first graders how to go back into the text and find the answers. It’s a joyful experience and rigorous learning! But this test can also be given after reading the book multiple times. Click {here} to download the test from Google docs. These art projects are available {here} along with power passages and timelines for Abe, Lincoln, MLK, Appleseed, and other American Heroes. Happy President’s Day!

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A complete set of facts about each U.S. President from Washington to Biden, perfect for a bulletin board. Each president comes with an introduction sheet with Fast Facts: birth, death, spouse, children, years served, and political party. There are also at least three (many times more!) additional interesting facts about each president. There is also an interactive portion- students are given the opportunity to add to the board with their own fact about the president. My students really loved trying to find the most random facts! Related Products: American Revolution Lapbook The Kid Who Ran for President Novel Study Activities Historical Fiction Genre Reading & Writing Bundle Customer Tips: Click here to be the first to know about my new discounts, freebies and product launches! Voila! You will now receive email updates about this store. ☺ How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases: • Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need to login). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide Feedback button. Simply click it and you will be taken to a page where you can give a quick rating and leave a short comment for the product. Each time you give feedback, TPT gives you feedback credits that you use to lower the cost of your future purchases. I value your feedback greatly as it helps me determine which products are most valuable for your classroom so I can create more for you. ☺

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Here is another recycled door hung barn style in a kitchen to hide the pantry and wine cooler. I might use something in this condition in the basement, loft over the garage or the attic but it would have to look spiffier and cleaner for me to use it in such a nice kitchen. How about you? See my other posts on this on-going subject.

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