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  • Art Lesson - Picasso Portraits

    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 →

  • Turkey Napkin Art Example

    Art - Thanksgiving Turkey Napkins

    A little fabric paint and a little creativity, brushed on re-usable cloth napkins, makes a beautiful keepsake of each  child’s hand print that can be used every Thanksgiving. Objectives: grade 1’s learn about the elements … View Full Lesson →

  • Math - Handprint Counting by 5’s

    Simple worksheet (see below) makes the concept of counting by 5’s very easy to understand.  The layout allows students to see the pattern of the 5’s and 0’s in the one’s column, and the patterns … View Full Lesson →

  • Art - Joseph Stella Art: Line Designs

    Art is created using the 5 elements of design by drawing a focal point, with 10-12 lines radiating from it. Each space between the “lines” is a different size (“mass”) and each will be filled by a different art medium (pastels, paint, crayon…) and using a different method, creating different “textures”, “colours”, “shapes”, and “lines”. View Full Lesson →

  • Domino Adding

    Math - Domino Adding

    A fun way to practise adding numbers to 12.  Using the familiar picture patterns of dominoes, students match ends of two paper dominoes, saying “3 plus 6 equals 9”.  Teacher models reusing photocopy paper, cutting … View Full Lesson →

  • In Flanders Fields

    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 →

Learning Objectives

3 R's addition Adjectives Alphabet blends colours counting creativity health identifying words Imitation Reading Recycling reusing Rhyming Spelling symmetry tracing

Tags

acting adding Art christmas counting counting by 2's counting by 5's creativity Drama Halloween horizontal Math number patterns primary colours reading regrouping reusing symmetry Valentine's Day Writing

Materials

Blackboard Chalk Chartboard chartpaper eraser erasers Marker Markers newspapers notebooks paint Paper pencil Pencils Printer ruler rulers Scissors towel white glue

Grades

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Adaptable