Lesson This

Print-Making Card Designs

Mrs. Z — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 01:20:17 +0000

Here’s a great idea for easy print-making designs using pictures from magazines, pencils, and clean, washed styrofoam trays. These easy to do prints make it easy to create beautiful greeting cards for birthdays, Mother’s Day, … View Full Lesson →

Making Fossilized Eggs

Mrs. Z — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 03:00:24 +0000

This is a great dough for making fossils or fossilized eggs. The eggs are made by “burying” a small toy inside egg-shaped dough. Fossils are made by pressing shells or fish bones into the dough … View Full Lesson →

Math lesson plans for teachers

Pumpkin Addition and Subtraction

Mrs. Z — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:59:35 +0000

This is a great spare-time or centre activity for practising adding and subtracting. The pumpkin faces are easy to make and program with the number sentences that you want students to practise. Students may help … View Full Lesson →

Math lesson plans for teachers

Halloween Candy Counting

Mrs. Z — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:30:46 +0000

Lots of practise is needed when learning to count to 100, or even 200, and all that repetition may begin to get boring. The counting time around Halloween NEVER needs to be boring. There is … View Full Lesson →

Math lesson plans for teachers

Learning Healthy Eating Habits With Junk Food Jack and Healthy Harry

Mrs. Z — Fri, 09 Mar 2012 03:28:27 +0000

October or November is the perfect time of year to make these simple puppets from 4L milk jugs, white jugs or blue bleach jugs (great color for unhealthy Junk Food Jack puppet). With so many … View Full Lesson →

Box o’ Love

Mrs. Z — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:30:17 +0000

For a different spin on Valentine’s Day poetry, try this unique idea – have students make a Box o’ Love for a loved family member. Using a covered cereal box, students decorate the box with … View Full Lesson →

Valentine’s Day Gift Vouchers

Mrs. Z — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:30:44 +0000

Staple some envelopes together to make a booklet with “pockets” to place Valentine gift vouchers. Great idea for Father’s Day, Mother’s Day, and Grandparent’s Day as well. Students come up with ideas for helping around … View Full Lesson →

Valentine’s Day Booklet

Mrs. Z — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:44:22 +0000

This heart-shaped Valentine’s Day Booklet is written especially for mom or dad, grandma or grandpa. Pages are written and illustrated with lines like “Flowers love the sun./ Dogs love walks./Children love candy”, etc. with the … View Full Lesson →

12 Christmas Ornaments

Mrs. Z — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 03:02:55 +0000

#1 Clothespin Rudolph Ornament: Materials for each reindeer ornament: 3 old-fashioned clothespins 6″ piece of 1/4″ wide red ribbon decorative cloth holly applique (craft or scrap booking store) 2 small googly eyes tiny red pompom … View Full Lesson →

Ripped Paper Art – Snowmen, Mountains and Evergreens

Mrs. Z — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 02:35:47 +0000

This art lesson is easy enough for grades 1 and 2 but can be adapted for other grades as well. A huge amount of learning goes on in this lesson. Students learn about depth, foreground, … View Full Lesson →