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Health and Nutrition - Learning Healthy Eating Habits With Junk Food Jack and Healthy Harry
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 →
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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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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 Tree Ornament or Gift Tag
Have students practise reusing old Christmas cards, bits of yarn or ribbon, and frozen juice lids to make beautiful Christmas tree ornaments. The only thing you need to add are the small doilies and the … View Full Lesson →
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Art - Standing Snowmen
By cutting and folding four snowmen, then gluing the halves to other pieces, students get Standing Snowmen. All four snowmen can be decorated differently or all the same. The bottom of them all is flat, … View Full Lesson →
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Writing - Stop and Go: Capitals and Periods
This is a fun and memorable way to remind students that sentences always begin with a capital and end with a period. I use 1/2 inch sticky labels in red and green to help students … 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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Reading - In Flanders Fields by John McCrae
I have had my class memorize this poem, using hand and arm movements to “illustrate” the poem. This makes it easy for them to remember the words and much more interesting to watch them recite … 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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Health and Nutrition - Making Germ Monsters
I do this lesson at the beginning of the year. It’s a really fun art activity and reminds students to cover their mouths when they cough or sneeze and to use their inner elbows, not … View Full Lesson →
Lesson Plans for Elementary School Students
Full Length Lesson Plans from an Elementary School Teacher