kalyOn 9/26/14, Pete wrote: > I love this idea! Do you have photos of the event or > students working with the legos? Would love to post this > on IdeasForClass.com! > > -Pete
MelanieOn 12/29/12, Teachers.Net Gazette wrote: > Recycle old calendars, cards for instruction and crafts! > Teachers share their best ideas. I use old calendars to encourage my students to think descriptively. Describe the person, place or thing. What is the person doing? What would you do if you were in this place?
Retired Teacher,Grade School,have approx. $1500.00 plus worth of school supplies that needs to be sold,willing to let it all go for $250.00,have just about everything a classroom needs. Please email me,located by Legacy High School
Can you please give an idea of some of the things tha...See MoreOn 7/02/14, Troy Bugher wrote: > Retired Teacher,Grade School,have approx. $1500.00 plus > worth of school supplies that needs to be sold,willing to > let it all go for $250.00,have just about everything a > classroom needs. > Please email me,located by Legacy High School
Can you please give an idea of some of the things that are included in this supply and about how many pounds and what about shipping is it free Where are you located
This mask activity is designed for older kids, but if you have the time to make the bases, you can use it with grades K-3. They require 9"x12" colored construction paper, and I'd use a variety of colors.
Although the directions explain how to use ruler to create the mask base itself, you can use a paper cutter to skip this step. It's possible to cut four masks at once, and to save time, I'd staple the forms instead of gluing them.
After the bases are made, the kids can cut a little off each corner to round it, and then show them some basic ways to work with paper, as discussed in the activity, to decorate.
Unless you reinforce the sides, these are more for decoration than wearing. If you want specific directions about cutting using the paper cutter, send me an e-mail.
On 10/21/07, mh wrote: > On 10/19/07, k-1 wrote: >> for my spider unit > > > Draw a large spider web on a piece of 8 1/2 x 11 paper. Draw 3-4 square inch boxes on the bottom of the paper. Have 3-4 different colored dice ready to roll. Rool a red dice and make fingerprints for the # on the dice. 6==6 red fingerprints. Continue with each of the dice making the appropriate 3 of fingerprints. Draw 8 spider legs on each spider. If you rolled a 6 with the red dice then write 6 with a red crayon in one othe boxes on the bottom of the paper. You roll a 4 with the blue dice then write a 4 with a blue crayon in a box on the bottom of the paper. That is all I do for Kindergarten But for first grade you have have the students count ALL of the legs and write them in a seperate box OR you could have them count how many red spiders and how many blue spiders all together...
This is a late response, but you could use it next year. It's a group-building activity.
Have students in groups of eight to ten stand in a circle with their shoulders touching. Tell them to put their hands into the center of the circle and take the hands of two different people, neither of whom are standing next to them. Then tell them that they can't let go of each other's hands (but they can rotate their hands so they don't twist off!), and have the groups escape the tangled spider's web so they form one big circle. (Tell them they are all insects trapped in the web.)
Sometimes it takes a group a while to unravel, but when they do, applause erupts from the group.
It's a wonderful group building game, because they feel like they worked as a group to solve a seemingly impossible task.
Younger grades, use eight per group. Upper grades, use ten or eleven.
I am looking for projects the kids could make to sell for a funrasier when the drama department puts on the play "Annie" I also want so coloring pages from the play annie>>>I can't find any???? thanks
On 10/23/07, MSQ wrote: > I am looking for projects the kids could make to sell for a > funrasier when the drama department puts on the play > "Annie" > I also want so coloring pages from the play annie>>>I > can't find any???? > thanks
Have the kids paint or draw interpretations of the play -- or the characters and then you send the art to me and I transfer them onto tiles and then you sell in your fundraiser.. or make a table or a mirror and insert the tiles into the item.. I have made lots of tiles for fundraisers and the schools have sold the items for huge amounts of money.. Plus if there multiple people interested, I just make more tiles
On 10/23/07, Monica wrote: > Hey! > I would love some pictures or explanations of a mural > activity conducted in a classroom. > Thanks!
Murals - 1. you must be REALLY organized for this. It involves lots of kids working at the same time on different parts of the mural. 2. Establish a theme: animals for instance. This is a science integrated project I am suggesting - animal habitats. 3. LONG roll of paper - the brown paper is fine. 4. tape it on the wall if you can, or put it on the floor. 5. Have lots of markers available. 6. Before letting groups draw on the mural, discuss with class what they will be doing. (I could turn this into a well written lesson plan, but I"m doing this off the top of my head and have done this lesson a gazillion times with first graders.) 7. Usually I have one child draw a line all the way across the sheet with brown - maybe ending in the middle? and then the rest of it with a blue marker. You could do this yourself but the kids love making this looooooong line. The brown-earth, the blue-water 8. With a pencil I would partition the sheet for 10 students - maybe 1-2 feet in width. Maybe even number them so there is no mistake as to who goes where. 9. Then as part of your demo/motivation, after the lines are drawn for the earth and water - elicit answers as to what animal lives where - birds fly in the sky, etc. I would integrate all sorts of things with this lesson - descriptions of different kinds of birds, long beaks (why?), short beaks -why, etc. 10. Next have students go in pairs to draw on their "spot" (which was numbered or lettered or however you wish to do this part) They are allowed to draw their animals in the habitats for 10 mins. and then the next group comes up.
You could have the whole class working at the same time - maybe do two murals if you have the space, or use the gym or the stage - a new location for "school" is always fun... The possibilities are endless for this activity. I've also had students draw at their desks, then cut out the animal and glue it to the mural when they were done. You could call this an art project but as the art teacher, I would call it using art materials unless you are teaching some art concept like line, color, shape, texture...The art teacher will be thrilled that you included the art curriculum, just as you get thrilled when the art teacher includes math in the art lesson too. Have fun! --- hang the mural so the principal and incoming visitors to the school can see it. Always show off your art stuff! And don't forget to put the names of the kids on it...and yours too! Dolores Russo Art teacher, 25 years, retired and missing the kids!
One mural idea I did that got rave reviews started with taking head shots of the kids. I'd put 4 or 5 children in each picture and get close so that it was mostly their heads in the shots. After printing the pictures, I cut out each head and gave it to the student. They went through old catalogues ( Sears, JC Penny etc) and found body that would "fit" their head. These were cut out, head glued on and then placed on a large piece of mural paper. The next step was to add all the rest of the things to make the mural complete. The class came up with the idea of making the mural look like a park. What a neat job they did. Some of the catalogue bodies were kicking soccer balls, others were flying kites, some were just sitting reading. Using coloured pencils, scrap fabric etc the mural was completed in several sessions.
-Pete