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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

April Fool's Day and Earth Day Activities for Primary!

Earth Day & April Fool's Day

Besides the Recycle Crafts above, you might enjoy these April Fool's Day and Earth Day Learning Centers...

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Earth-Day-Activities-7-Posters-Pledge-Graphing-Certificate-Parent-Letter-231767

Earth Day Activities:

★ 7 Posters, Earth Day Pledge, Earth Day Graphing Activity (for in school or at

home), Earth Day Certificate and Parent Letter

★ 22 Pages – NEWLY REVISED to include Full Color Earth Day Versions as well

as Black and White Earth Day versions for students to color.

★ Earth Day Certificate

★ 7 Earth Day Posters

★ Earth Day Graph

★ Earth Day Pledge

★ Parent Letter

★ Use by itself or with my PowerPoint Presentation and/or mini-book at 2

different reading levels.

April Fool's Day Readers... Color and Black and White:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/April-Fools-Day-2466976

April Fool’s Day Booklet of Jokes!

Celebrate April Fool’s Day with this mini book containing seven jokes that are bound to be appreciated by K/1 students!

★ Plus illustrated April Fool's Day vocabulary cards for a word wall or pocket chart.

NEW PRODUCT DISCOUNT for a limited time!

3 Versions of the Book:

1) Full Color Illustrations

2) Black and White Illustrations for Students to Color

3) Versions for students to illustrate their own.

Keep in school for future fun, or send home for students to have fun with their families on April Fool’s Day!

April Fool’s Day Songs and Poems!

Use for April Fool's Day shared reading or fluency.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/April-Fools-Day-2468259

Celebrate April Fool’s Day with these 5 songs and poems...

★ Full Color and Black and White.

★ All Illustrated with April Fool’s Day themed Graphics

★ Songs/Poems sung to popular children’s songs.
Just choose those you like, and print just those pages.

★ Sing to familiar tunes, or chant.

★ Use some or all year after year.

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Earth-Day-PowerPoint-Things-To-Do-To-Help-the-Earth-10-Songs-25-Slides-231776

Earth Day PowerPoint "Things to do to Help the Earth"

I also added 10 Songs at a variety of levels so you can have an Earth Day Sing Along!

★ 25 slides - Use by itself or in conjunction with my Earth Day PDF file OR mini-book (2 Reading levels) that can be found in my other product listings. The PDF file (sold separately) has a parent letter, take home graph, Earth Day Pledge, Earth Day Certificate, and 7 posters about how students can help the Earth. There are black and white versions as well as full color versions of the Earth Day Posters, Earth Day Certificate and Earth Day Graph.

Browse my other Earth Day Resources for Literacy and Math by visiting my store and opening the Custom Folder labeled "EARTH DAY/CINCO DE MAYO", or just click below:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Linda-Post-The-Teachers-Post/Category/Earth-Day-Cinco-de-Mayo

Visit me on Pinterest for Product Close-Ups!

Earth Day Readers:

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Earth-Day-Activities-Readers-231994

Earth Day Build A Word Wheels For DIBELS Blending Practice: Real or Nonsense?

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Earth-Day-Activities-Blending-Build-A-Word-Wheels-629484

Earth Day Sight Word Game Boards -

First 106 Dolch Words

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Earth-Day-Activities-Sight-Words-Game-Boards-Set-1-640052

Earth Day Sight Word Game Boards -

Last 114 Dolch Sight Words

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Earth-Day-Activities-Sight-Words-Game-Boards-Set-2-640456

Monday, May 4, 2015

Making History Come Alive

Deann Marin at The Best of Teacher Entrepreneurs II

Offering for Educators, Comprehensive Teaching Aides.
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I remember sitting in history class, as a student, and being bored out of my mind. The teacher just lectured and all I could do was to look at the clock and wish that I was someplace else, ANYPLACE else! Needless to say I learned very little history that year. I only began liking it after I became a 6th grade teacher, years later, and vowed that I would make history come alive for my children. I didn't want them to go through what I did. That's when my hands on approach to World History came about.

I found that a good way to get your class motivated in history class is to make it exciting by adding little tidbits of personalized information about people and or civilizations that you’re studying. Kids love hearing a bit of gore, so when I teach about the Maya, Aztec and Inca civilizations, I give information about their bloody sacrifices, or the game pok ta pok which is a predecessor to some of our modern sports like soccer and basketball. This is one way to help them relate to what was going on at that time.

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Archaeology is a term that students should become familiar with. To just have them look up the word and perhaps write it in a sentence, or discuss it in class is tedious. I found some old clay pots, had my husband, who is an artist, draw designs on each one, we then broke them into fragments labeled them put them into bags and distributed them to groups of four students who were to work as an archaeological team. They were to walk around the room and find the missing parts from other groups of students. Once they had some pieces, they were to put the pots together so that they could figure out

what the design was. I wouldn’t recommend this to younger students as it was a bit frustrating since pieces were difficult to find. Of course my goal for the lesson was achieved; the class knew a lot more about archaeology than they did before. More importantly, they realized that it was essential to work as a team and they realized what a difficult task an archaeologist had.

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The Mesopotamians were the first architects of the ancient world, they built huge ziggurats. To help the class gain an understanding of what it was like to build bricks. One of their assignments was to make a brick out of mud, twigs, grass, etc. As a writing assignment, they were to write a daily journal of their experience. By doing this, they gained insight into the difficulties of brick building, and they

realized just how difficult life must have been back then.. As a culmination to the project, they brought their bricks into class so that they could build a ziggurat. Of course, many pictures were taken. Can you guess what their favorite part was? If you said smashing it to pieces, you would have been right.