Consider collages or crafts that incorporate your week's theme. Young children enjoy coloring or cutting and pasting, while older children can produce impressive water colors or dynamic posters to illustrate what they have learned.
To switch things up a bit, play challenging games that promote thinking skills. These don't need to be related to the weekly concepts to be valuable. Try list-writing by giving kids a topic, such as "Things that are orange" or "Things that squeak," and allow them to brainstorm. You may be surprised by the clever responses they produce. Other games like Guesstures or Pictionary challenge kids to express themselves in new ways. These games work well for upper elementary and middle school students.
Stem bins or stem activities as a class. Can your students build a bridge for the bears to cross with 10 popsicle sticks and 2 snap blocks? When the weather is nice, have a bubble day. Make your own bubble solution, paint with bubbles and read bubble books. Teach life skills. Practice shoe typing, teach proper manners at the table, setting a table, how to wrap a gift.
So many great options that some of the kids may not get help at home with. Play bingo! This is seriously a favorite.
Whether you want to review something your class has been learning about or just for fin bingo we have you covered with all of our bingo sets. Create stories or puppet shows using puppets or story popsicle stick puppets.
Have them put on a show for the class. Make a class book. We have this fun class cookie cookbook to use during the holiday season. Do yoga as a class.
Our favorite one to use is Cosmic Yoga. She takes the kids on a whole adventure using yoga. Do an author study. Choose an author, read several books by them, do a craft and make a snack to go along with one of the books you read. Eric Carle is a favorite for us. Have a flashlight Friday.
You can purchase small flashlights at Dollar Tree or Walmart for a dollar to hand out to the kids. Foods That Originated in the Old World: apples, bananas, beans some varieties , beets, broccoli, carrots, cattle beef , cauliflower, celery, cheese, cherries, chickens, chickpeas, cinnamon, coffee, cows, cucumbers, eggplant, garlic, ginger, grapes, honey honey bees , lemons, lettuce, limes, mangos, oats, okra, olives, onions, oranges, pasta, peaches, pears, peas, pigs, radishes, rice, sheep, spinach, tea, watermelon, wheat, yams.
Extension Activities Home-school connection. Have students and their parents search their food cupboards at home; ask each student to bring in two food items whose origin can be traced to a specific place foreign if possible, domestic if not. Labels from those products will be sufficient, especially if the products are in breakable containers.
Media literacy. Because students will research many sources, have them list the sources for the information they find about each food item. Have them place an asterisk or checkmark next to the food item each time they find that item in a different source. If students find a food in multiple sources, they might consider it "verified"; those foods they find in only one source might require additional research to verify.
Assessment Invite students to agree or disagree with the following statement:The early explorers were surprised by many of the foods they saw in the New World. Have students write a paragraph in support of their opinion. Click here to return to this week's World of Learning lesson plan page. Where Did Foods Originate? Foods of the New World and Old World. Check out our helpful suggestions to find just the right one! The following statements will help you tailor your comments to specific children and highlight their areas for improvement.
Related: Report Card Comments for positive comments! Needs Improvement- all topics is a hard worker, but has difficulty staying on task. Additional work on these topics would be incredibly helpful. Practicing at home would be very beneficial.
Slowing down and taking more time would help with this. We are working on learning when it is a good time to share and when it is a good time to listen. Talking through the classroom routine at home would be helpful. Practicing these at home would be very helpful. Active participation would be beneficial. Paying closer attention to the class discussions and the readings that we are doing would be beneficial. Intervention is required. Practicing this at home would be helpful.
Student Award Certificates! Back to Top. We will even find a dance challenge on YouTube and see who can follow the steps. This activity is as old as time. And after everyone has had their chance to share, give them some time to play with their toys in the classroom. STEM projects are great because students get to practice valuable problem-solving and teamwork skills. And they are pretty quick to complete, so perfect for a Fun Friday activity. We have had many teachers tell us that they will watch an episode of Magic School Bus or another show on PBS Kids , or watch pieces of a movie each week.
Just make sure that you have permission from parents and school admin before popping that movie in or turning on the show. Each student gets to grab a few books to read and you pass out flashlights to them. Then they go and pick a comfy spot somewhere in the classroom to read. Once everyone is settled and ready, the overhead lights are turned off and everyone flicks on their flashlights. Your students will love reading this way. I darken the room and we use flashlights for silent reading under desks and tables.
Take your students outside for those last minutes. There are so many different activities and games you can do.
Plant flowers, take a nature walk, have an extra recess, chalk the walk, play Red Rover, or Duck Duck Goose.
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