Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Native Lesson

The kids loved this lesson.  Every student had to bring in their own paper towel roll.  They taped off one end and then paper mached the roll.  The following week we filled the stick with rice, molded tinfoil into spirals and put them in the roll and taped off the other end of the stick.  We also did a power point on Wampanoag Indians and Native art.  Students got native American pattern references before painting, so they had some ideas of what to paint.  .... Rain sticks! 

Monday, November 21, 2011

Turkeys Turkeys


This lesson was perfect for my Special Education students.  They had a lot of fun sponge painting their turkey feathers! You could easily modify this lesson for 1st and 2nd grade too!

Harvest Corn


The first graders loved learning about the very first Thanksgiving.  We read the story This First Thanksgiving Day by Laura Krauss Melmed and T is for Turkey by Tanya Lee Stone.