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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 - 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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Math - Butterfly Magnet
This painting activity helps reinforce the concept of symmetry while creating a useful gift from a empty pop bottle. Butterflies can be used to hold pictures and lists on the fridge or can decorate the … 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 - El Greco: Drawing Tall People
Making a masterpiece like El Greco’s tall figures is easier for students when they use a magazine picture and cut it apart to s-t-r-e-t-c-h it. They trace over it to end up with a … View Full Lesson →
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Writing - Onomatopoeia Poems
A fun writing activity that solidifies students’ understanding of onomatopoeia. They become more aware of the sounds of words and objects. Spoken sounds are surrounded by quotation marks. After reading a short story, students retell … 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 - 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 →
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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 →
Lesson Plans for Elementary School Students
Full Length Lesson Plans from an Elementary School Teacher