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Writing - Valentine’s Day Booklet
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 →
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Health and Nutrition - Spill Your Guts (Review Game)
This is a review game for any subject. Using leftover pieces of bristol board or heavier paper scraps (free from printing shops), question and answer cards are made. Teacher can do this in every subject … View Full Lesson →
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Art - Picasso Portraits
This art activity will take two sessions to finish. Once the paintings are finished, they need to dry before they are cut up into “Picasso Portraits”. (This second session will not take long.) In this … View Full Lesson →
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Art - Christmas Potpourri Hangers
This is a beautiful, useful Christmas craft. Although this activity needs adult help for gluing, I have safely done this activity with grades 1 and 2. We collect clean metal lids and bits of ribbon … View Full Lesson →
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Art - Christmas Rudolph
Have students make a Christmas Rudolph that mom or dad will love to keep forever. Students trace their foot for the face and trace their hands for the antlers. Big brown eyes and a giant … View Full Lesson →
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Art - Ripped Paper Art – Snowmen, Mountains and Evergreens
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 →
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Math - Hugs and Tallies
A memorable way for remembering how to make tally marks that equal 5. Four students stand close together in a row, and a fifth student faces them with outstretched arms and gives them a group … View Full Lesson →
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Writing - Macaroni Quotation Marks
This lesson is to help students remember HOW to make quotation marks and WHEN to use them. It combines an artsy aspect that makes it a little more fun. After gluing the quotes in order, … View Full Lesson →
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Writing - Homework Books
This is an activity I do with my grade 1′s and 2′s at the end of each day. It’s a way to communicate with parents, letting them know what’s been done during the day. (It’s … View Full Lesson →
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Reading - Rhyming Word Poems
Use poetry to find and identify rhyming words. Students highlight rhyming words on their own copy of the poem glued in their Poem Book, with each rhyming word pair highlighted in a different colour. View Full Lesson →