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Math - Pumpkin Addition and Subtraction
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 →
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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 - Print-Making Card Designs
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 →
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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 - 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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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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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 →
Lesson Plans for Elementary School Students
Full Length Lesson Plans from an Elementary School Teacher