1-2-3 Build A Log Cabin With Me!
Are you looking for something quick and easy for President’s Day on Monday?
I designed several that I think your students will enjoy.
Since counting to 100 by 10’s is a standard, I wanted to design something with skip counting in mind, that would take the “same-old, same-old” out of having students keep reciting that sequence of numbers.
I decided to build Lincoln’s log cabin and number the logs. I’ve also included a template that counts by 5’s to 100 as well.
Simply run off whichever templates suit your needs, on light and dark brown construction paper.
You can review rectangles and triangles with your students as both shapes are represented.
Students cut out their pieces and glue them to a sheet of blue or green construction paper.
To add a bit more pizzazz, give each student a penny, and have them stick it inside the doorway, so that when they open the flap, President Lincoln can greet them.
Click on the link to view/download Lincoln’s Skip Counted Log Cabin.
I hope you can pop back tomorrow for another idea for President’s Day.
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“My life is backwards! I get up tired and I go to be wide awake!” -Unknown
1-2-3 Come Make Valentines With Me!
While looking for classroom charts today, I stumbled across the periodic chart. Boy did that bring back memories.
I LOVED chemistry lab, and could easily have become a mad scientist.
I'm always looking for ways for students to spell words, like using Scrabble tiles etc.
Since the periodic table is filled with letters and letter combinations, I frogged around half the morning dreaming up valentines.
There are 5 different sample valentines using the periodic chart to make the words.
You can use my templates or challenge students to think up their own.
I've included a periodic chart that you can shoot up on an overhead, so students can use it as a reference tool.
I hope they have a much fun as I did.
Hint: Think up something you'd like to say, and then see if any of the elements help you spell it.
Click on the link to view/download the We've Got Chemistry Valentines.
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"Education is not received. It is achieved." -Unknown
1 2 3 Come Tell Time With Me!
Woo hoo! After days of designing this "Telling Time" packet for you, it's finally done, and 145 pages long!
I think these cards will be a fun way for you to teach/review the Common Core State Standard: 1.MD.3
There is a set of analog and digital time cards for telling time to the hour and half hour for EVERY month!
I've included two sets for August. One set has a summer theme, the other has a back-to-school theme.
Set up a section of wall and make it into your "What Time Is It?" board.
My large seasonal teacher clocks would look cute in the middle.
I've also included an assessment page + a blank set for each month, so you can program with whatever.
There's a tip sheet with lots of ideas of how to use these cards, including games and puzzles; + kaboom bomb cards.
Run off a set for your kiddo's, have them include the cover, so children can make a monthly Itty Bitty Time booklet out of the cards.
Click on the link to view/download the Telling Time Through The Calendar packet.
For more telling time activities, click on the link to go to that section of my website.
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"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the peple all of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all of the time." -Attributed to Abe Lincoln
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Fluttering By With A Valentine "Hi!"
These waxed-winged beauties are made with wax paper and melted crayon shavings.
They are quick, easy and fun to make and look lovely stuck to a window, so that the sun can shine through, or fluttering across a bulletin board for February.
Here's how to make them:
Run off the body part of the butterfly on a variety of colors of construction paper.
Rough cut them and stack them into color piles so that students can choose their favorite.
While students are working on a tabletop lesson, call them individually to the table.
Students choose a color or colors of crayons that they want to shave.
Students hold the sharpener over a sheet of wax paper big enough to be able to trace 3 hearts on.
You need it larger so that when the shavings melt, they do not run outside of the wax paper.
Make sure the wax paper is on a mini ironing board or a folded towel.
When the child has enough shavings sprinkled around the paper, lay a second piece of wax paper on top.
Using an iron on the lowest setting, slowly melt the shavings. Be careful that the pools do not run off the paper.
Let cool a few seconds and have the child step to the side to trace the heart template onto the wax paper.
Once done, she takes her paper back to her seat and cuts out the hearts and glues them to the back of her butterfly’s thorax.
When they are done, they can bring their butterfly up to you, so that you can give them glue dots for their wiggle eyes and rhinestones that they have picked out.
These look fabulous on a window. Simply put a small piece of folded tape on the thorax and stick.
As a writing extension, children can make another paper heart and write, “Flying by with a Valentine hi.” Or “My heart flutters for you.”
Click on the link to view/download the Wax Paper Butterfly Valentine.
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"Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world...enabling us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn, at all distances of time and space. " -Abraham Lincoln
1-2-3 Come Eat 100 Things With Me!
I LOVE Eric Carle, especially The Very Hungry Caterpillar. I can teach all sorts of concepts with that story.
It's a bit early to be posting butterfly "stuff" that teachers are usually working on in April here in the midwest, however, I thought I'd post it now as I had the caterpillar eating 100 things, that fits in perfect for 100-Day, which some of you still haven't celebrated.
I have 2 different "last" pages for you to choose from: 1 celebrates 100-Day, the other has an ending that fits in nicely no matter what day of the year it is.
I enjoy nailing at least 3-5 Common Core State Standards when I design a lesson. This one covers quite a few CCSS: RF.K1a, RF.K.1c, RF.K.3a, RL.K.10, RF.K.4, L.K.2a, L.K.2b,L.K.5a, K.OA.1a, K.MD.3 K.CC.1a, K.CC.5, 1.NBT.2c, 1.NBT.5, 1.MD.3
Since the original Very Hungry Caterpillar goes through the days of the week, I decided to have this starving caterpillar eat through the hours in a day, so that I could cover telling time.
The packet includes
- The Hungry Caterpillar Eats 100 Things easy reader,
- 2 caterpillar craftivities,
- a food sorting idea,
- + 64 circle pictures of food
Students trace and write numbers & number words, as well as the time, drawing the appropriate hands on the clock.
They also circle the capital letters and add end punctuation to the simple sentences. I've used as many sight and Dolch words that I could fit in, that sounded appropriate.
Children cut and glue the groups of 10 pieces of food to their matching numbered boxes, as they count by 10's to 100.
I think you'll find this a fun addition to your day, no matter what you use it for.
Click on the link to view/download The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eats 100 Things.
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"All I have learned, I learned from books." -Abraham Lincoln
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