Students help make a classroom Thanksgiving decoration using fine motor skills–cutting & rolling–to create paper curls. Objectives: Art; fine motor skills: Students use cutting skills and pencil rolling to create paper curls. Materials: Brown posterboard Brown construction paper Assorted color construction paper Glue Scotch tape child- size scissors “primary” (fat) pencils colored copy paper Lesson…

Students will be able to identify what a pilgrim is and what it was like to travel on The Mayflower. Materials: If You Sailed on The Mayflower in 1620 by Ann McGovern blue paper boat shapes craft sticks triangle shapes glue sentence strips Lesson Plan: Using the book as a guide discuss What is a Pilgrim?…

Students create their own quilt square showing what they are thankful for and assemble into a class quilt. Materials: felt, cut 9″ x 9″ for each student large piece of felt fabric glue Lesson Plan: Begin the lesson by brainstorming a class list of things your students are thankful for. Provide each student with a…

Why we are thankful for what we have and what makes us thankful. Materials: You need to find a class that will exchange email with you. I have found that many teachers are willing to do this. It can be friends or someone new. Lesson Plan: For several days before this lesson we talk about…

Gingerbread Baby Unit – Lessons 6-11   View lessons 1-5. [hr]Lesson 6: Gingerbread Baby Language Arts/Grammar Children will create a mobile of characters from Jan Brett’s book, Gingerbread Baby. Materials: Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett Wire hangers String Paper Markers Pencils Lesson Plan: Have each children draw and cut out the characters from the story….