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Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Friday Freebies (Recipes for Friendship)

Friendship Pizza Lesson

How to Make a Friendship Salad: Lesson Plan for Elementary School

Friendship Soup Recipe (YouTube lesson) Lesson Plan HERE.

Friendship Recipe: A writing activity for Valentine's Day by Angelica Alves

Back to School Friendship Salad by Explore Create Discover

Back to School Friendship Salad (Picture Recipe Card)

Friendship Salad by Learning is something to treasure

Friendship Recipe by V-Squared

Valentine's Day Ingredients for Friendship by Lovely Literacy and More

Valentine's Day Ingredients for Friendship Writing

Friendship Pie Recipe Cards (Free) by Jessica Millar

How to Make a Friendship Snack (Free) by My Pink Clipboard

How to Make a Friendship Snack: A Community Building FREEBIE

Friendship Pizza by Laura Lawson

Friendship Treats by Especially Education

Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Stick and Stone

I recently added Stick And Stone to my collection of books and am really liking it for my kindergarten-2nd grade students. It is a very simple story with few words on each page but the message is still there. From the author's website: Stick and Stone are all alone. But when Pinecone makes fun of Stone and hurts his feelings, Stick steps in and defends Stone. "That's just what sticks do. Friends do it too," says Stick. Now Stick and Stone are inseparable best friends. When Stick gets stuck, it's Stone to the rescue. That's just what stones do. Best friendship rocks too," says Stone. I also love that an activity kit is easily downloadable! Purchase the book HERE.

Connections:

Stick and Stone Activity Kit from the Author's website: Download HERE

Stick and Stone - Friendship Freebie by Khrys Greco (Free on TPT)

Stick and Stone Reader Response Freebie by Nicole Oconnor (Free on TPT)

Stick and Stone: Interactive Read-Aloud Lesson Plans and Activities ($3.50 on TPT)

Bullying Unit ($2.00 on TPT)

Friday, February 3, 2017

Empathy (Hey, Little Ant)

Hey, Little Ant is a great book that challenges readers to look at life from an insect's point of view. It is the perfect book for teaching empathy. It can be really difficult for young students to understand the concept of "standing in someone's shoes" and this book does a really good job of showing just what this means.

Hey, Little Ant can be used to teach so many different topics. The teacher's guide lists the following:

Respecting differences

Fostering respect for all living things

Considering stereotypes

Recognizing alternatives to resolving tension through violence

Exploring concepts of big and small, powerful and powerless

Standing up to peer pressure

Connections:
I absolutely love the lesson that lunchbuddiesplus shared on her blog. She uses Hey, Little Ant to show the difference between a "thinking of you" person vs. a "just me" person.

You can also get some ideas from the Hey, Little Ant Teacher's Guide.

Some good resources on TPT:
Social Skills, Perspective Taking, Thinking about others ($3.50)

Social Skills, Perspective Taking, Thinking about others

Bullying- Hey Little Ant! ($3.50)

These are all FREE on TPT:
Hey Little Ant Point of View by Lockwood's Little Learners

Ant Writing Response Pages {Freebie} by Jen Ross - Teacher by the Beach

Hey, Little Ant Opinion/Persuasive Writing by Creativity-To-The-Core
FREEBIE Hey, Little Ant Opinion/Persuasive Writing

Ant Craftivity by Kelly-Morgan
Persuasion- Hey Little Ant

Hey Little Ant Bulletin Board Writing by Working-4-The-Classroom

Hey Little Ant Bulletin Board Writing Pages

Hey, Little Ant! Reader's Theater by Hanssen-House

Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Positive Post-it Day

My 5th grade students just finished celebrating Positive Post-it Day. If you haven't heard of Positive Post-it Day you can read about the student who created it HERE. You can also watch the YouTube video HERE. I plan to have a school-wide postive post-it day next year but started with the fifth graders this year.

Positive Post-it Day can be done with any grade level. The Kindergarten Smorgasboard shared here lesson HERE.

My Lesson:

1. Give each student a class roster (or write each student's name on the board).

2. Give each student a pack of post-it notes.

3. Have students write a positive message on each note. I asked students to write messages that would be meaningful to each specific student so we did include names in the messages.

4. Allow students to place post it notes on lockers.

5. Give students time to return to their own locker to read the messages their classmates wrote to them.

6. Students leave their post-it notes on their lockers until the end of the school day when they can remove them and take them home with them.

I had a lot of positive feedback after this lesson. Some of the students were really surprised by their classmates comments:)

Thursday, March 31, 2016

Second Step Connections

I use the Second Step Curriculum in all of my k-2 classroom lessons. I really love Second Step and it requires little planning. I do like to use other resources to supplement my second step lesson though and today I am going to connect you to some of my favorite resources. I found some really great worksheets on the TPT store Behavior Savers.

I love this Freebie from the Kindergarten pack:

Freebie...Second Step Kindergarten Belly Breath Worksheet

Here is a freebie from the 2nd grade pack:

Problem Solving-Making Responsible Choices-2nd Grade Second Step Lesson

The other worksheets must be purchased but at $5.00 a packet they are very reasonably priced and include some great material!

SECOND STEP KINDERGARTEN-24 Lesson Worksheets

SECOND STEP 1st Grade-21 Lesson Worksheets

SECOND STEP 2nd GRADE-21 Lesson Worksheets

Paiges of Learning is another TPT store that sells supplemental Second Step Materials. These packets are $3.00 each and she has a packet for 1st grade as well as one for 3rd grade.

Second Step Printable Pack {First Grade}