Martin Luther King

Celebrating Martin Luther King

This idea came from Chris Smith. Have students dictate or write about what they want to be when they grow up. Take their photograph dressed as that profession. Develop the pictures in black and white and mount them on black construction paper. 

 

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Valentine's Day Gifts

Holiday traditions

We also did some Christmas sentence starters like: "Christmas is special because," "My favorite Christmas tradition is," or "I like Christmas because." Each kid made 2 hand-prints and 2 sentence starters to make our wreath!

 

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Catipillar Contractions

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doesn't have to be holiday colors

Love, Splat Valentine's Day

For Reading/Writing we read "Love, Splat" and made a text-to-self connection with a little writing creativity from the one and only, Cara Carroll :)

The students finished the sentence stem "I feel loved when..." Then they were able to put their little Splats together!

"Grinchy Adjectives"

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I told them they were going to get to watch the Grinch movie (original) and they had to come up with a list of adjectives to describe him (when he was being bad). Then we did another blogland, Pinterest inspired anchor chart from Mrs. Carroll at The First Grade Parade:

They did a pretty good job coming up with adjectives for our old buddy the Grinch and had a blast! Then they wrote a paper on: Their day with the Grinch. Can't wait to read them all!!! They made covers for their papers and we made them books:)

And finally, one last idea from Go Fourth! With Mrs. Owens. I printed the lyrics of the Grinch song and we found the similes and metaphors. We chose the old famous words:
You're as cuddly as a cactus and you're as charming as an eel, which they drew and they were adorable:

I kinda pulled this all together at the last minute so didn't have enough time to get green candy canes....ours had green stripes so that counts right??