This will be my 25th year searching for cute new Mother’s and Father’s Day ideas! Because I often have siblings of my students from previous years, I don’t want to repeat those ideas too often.
I’ve collected a big list of ideas, most of which I’ve tried in my classroom to see how well they work out in real life!
The first one is super simple: a bouquet of paper flowers with a twist! Each flower stem has a coupon that mom’s [Read More…]
Ted Harrison Art and More!
If you’ve read many of my posts, you’ll know by now that we integrate almost all of our content areas in class. Rarely do we let an opportunity for writing go by, and using our own art is so motivating!
But we do keep it simple! For example, we recently studied the art of Ted Harrison, who painted in the north of Canada. His colorful but simple images are perfect to study with elementary students.
We googled his artwork and simply talked [Read More…]
