Kids get tired of doing the same ho-hum book reports and worksheets. The best way to teach any subject is with hands-on activities. Teach reading and literature study with interactive, personalized reading response journals. Get students interact with books, to take stories apart and live them, to explore characters, themes, symbols. Here are 50 printable activities to do that. They're multi-sensory, and employ HOTS (higher order thinking skills). I've included a template for a student activity calendar to organize response activities. Note. One of the activities is to create Facebook social profiles for characters. Optional Activities for an ELA (English Language Arts) Response Journal Rubric
free printable lesson plans on alphabet to zoology and everything in between
Free Printable Memorial Day Worksheets, Crafts, Games, Activities, Lesson Plans
Memorial Day, celebrated the last Monday in May--May 26 in 2014, is more than just a summer kickoff. It's Remembrance Day and we honor veterans and those lost in U.S. wars. It's also Decoration Day, when we commemorate loved ones lost by putting flowers on their graves. Teachers, homeschoolers, parents, use these free printable lesson plans to teach students about Memorial Day. Printables include history lesson plans, social studies worksheets, patriotic American crafts and games, military and United States coloring pages, puzzles, word searches, crosswords for party games and loads more. I've listed music and movie suggestions for a complete educational Memorial Day unit.
About.com lists pages of free printable patriotic
holiday games, word searches,
crossword puzzles, writing activities and coloring pages. Why not print the
packet and use for homework. Or let kids complete it while listening to stories
on American war history. They could also watch one of these Memorial Day
movies. Check my blogs Film Femme Fatale for educational movies for Memorial Day.
Homeschool Deals links to several free
resources for Memorial Day
printables and activities.
There are Medal of Honor and soldier coloring pages, history worksheets,
holiday games, reading and writing lessons and patriotic printable crafts.
There are poems and literature-based activities. When I was young, teachers
would have us write out seasonal poems in our best penmanship and create our
own illustrations. Then she'd mount poem and picture on construction paper.
This made a nice take-home project.
Free printable Memorial Day activities are suitable for 4th of July and Veterans
Day, DL-TK offers pages of holiday printables. There are greeting cards,
coloring pages and crafts. My favorite is a printable mini-book on Lieutenant
Colonel John McCrae's stirring World War 1 poem "In Flanders Field."
The poem is the basis for the poppies worn on Memorial Day. Print the booklet
in black and white so students can color images.
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Patriotic Coloring Pages at Raising our Kids has dozens of free printable American history coloring pages featuring, military, national memorials
and landmarks, soldiers, historic images, national liberty symbols and more.
Have students use these as greeting cards. Assign them to color images and
write a message on the back. Mail or better still hand-deliver to seniors in
nursing homes. Memorial Day is particularly poignant for elderly who remember
wars and lost so many loved ones.
Free Printable Spider-Man, Avengers Captain America Civil War coloring pages
The
epic Marvel Comics "Captain America Civil War" opens May 6 and
features a clash between Marvel Avengers Captain America and Iron Man. But word
is the most exciting part Captain America Civil War is the introduction of
Spider-Man to the cast. Spider-Man (Tom Holland) is attracting fans like flies!
So now Avengers fans can see Spider-Man, Thor, Iron Man, Venom and all their
superheroes in Captain America Civil War. Sounds like some pretty
"Marvel" ous fun! Captain America v Iron Man, Batman v Superman--2016
promises to be a summer of brotherly brawling! How about free printable
Spider-Man coloring pages to keep you tied up till Captain America Civil War
opens?
Start
your Spider-Man "web" adventure (pun intended) at Pic Gifs. It's home
to a ginormous collection of freebies, including over 100 free printable Spider-Man coloring pages. Access Spider-man clipart, gifs, animated
graphics, wallpapers, cursors and icons by typing "Spider-Man" in the
search box. Got a child who wants a Spider-Man themed birthday party? You can
do it darn near free, printing the clipart and making homemade birthday cards,
party decorations and invitations.
In
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 superhero sequel, the mutant man with spider reflexes
and graceful arachnid moves thrilled fans. What's not to love about superhero
who needs no fancy gadgets and shoots webs from his hands? If your Spidey
senses are tingling, swing on over to Coloring-Book.info for a bunch more free printable
Spider-Man coloring pages. These print in black and white and could be made into bedroom
wall art. Kids could color them, write messages on them and send like greeting
cards. Or you might laminate their colored images and make them into placemats.
Snag these free printable Spider-Man coloring pages too.
And
don't forget your free printable Captain
America coloring pages.
Disney Family has loads offree printable Avengers
Captain America Civil War crafts. Print masks for Captain America, Iron Man and Hulk. Print an
entire Thor costume with helmet, wings and war hammer. You could use them for
Spider-Man, Avengers, Iron Man or Captain America Civil War birthday party themes.
Want to learn more about spiders? Then, get spinning and crawl over to KidZone
for free printable spider
lesson plans. Learn about
spiders with these games, crafts, puzzles. math activities, songs and stories,
writing prompts, science worksheets and diagrams and reading lessons. This
should keep you busy till Captain America Civil War. The Amazing Spider-Man 3
movie is in the works too!
Free Printable Spring Seasonal Lesson Plans, Coloring Pages
March
20-22 marks the vernal equinox, the first day of spring in many countries. For
those of locked in ice and snow and cold, this date can't come too early. Many
have had a long winter and are pretty happy to hear those cheery little birds
singing and see tiny crocuses bravely trying to poke their lavender heads up
through the snow. How about some free spring coloring pages, Easter holiday
activities and spring crafts to occupy those children who are sick of winter
and school?
Coloring Book Fun free printable spring coloring pages are
simple enough for the not yet seasoned colorers, and yet offer more challenging
pictures for veteran colorers. This site has a huge stock of free printable
spring coloring pages and spring crafts based on seasons, weather, Easter
holiday activities, topics, Bible based pictures, multi-cultural and animals.
You can find just about any cartoon character from G.I.Joe to Barbie to Pokemon
to Rug-rats to Rainbow Brite to Dragon Ball Z to Dora, plus all your Disney
favorites.
DL-TK
provides all sorts of free printable spring coloring pages, seasonal spring crafts, lesson plans, puzzles,
crafts, projects, scissor practice, sequencing practice, music, song sheets,
stories, spring crafts and Easter holiday activities. DLTK has all kinds of
pre-school activities that will reinforce pre-reading, letter and number
recognition, fine motor practice, telling time, tying shoes, counting, tracing
and other skill builders based around a theme. You will find printables for
baby animals, new life, butterflies and other insects, plants, flowers, rain,
and more. You'll find some really cute Easter holiday activities and spring
coloring pages as well!
Print
Activities has a really large data bank of banner and ad-free printables with
educational themes,
There's no sign up or registration, very few if any pop-ups and easy one click
printing. I found many styles of cross-word puzzles, calendars, tracing, mazes,
word scrambles, word sorts, connect the dots, connect the dot using math
problems, Sudoku, fill in the blanks, color by numbers, color by math (students
complete math problems and complete a code to color pictures. All these spring
crafts and puzzles are themed on seasons, but you can find other topics with
themed puzzles: Easter holiday activities, seasons, animals, It may take a
moment to load, but it is worth it.
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