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1-2-3 Come Do Some More Earth Day Craftivities With Me

earth day activities, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, writing prompts for earth day, earth day bulletin boards, earth day bookmarks, earth day lessons, common core earth day, Are you looking for a little something to give your students on Earth Day?  How about a bookmark?   The "Every day should be Earth Day!" bookmarks come in full color or black and white, so your kiddos can color their own.  Click on the link to grab them.

earth day activities, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, writing prompts for earth day, earth day bulletin boards, earth day bookmarks, earth day lessons, common core earth day, If you're into owls, then I think you'll enjoy the "Give a Hoot; Don't Pollute!" writing prompt craftivity.  Take a close look and you'll see that I used 2D shapes to design the owl. 

Take advantage of this teachable moment on Earth Day to review shapes as well as ways your students can take care of the earth. 

earth day activities, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, writing prompts for earth day, earth day bulletin boards, earth day bookmarks, earth day lessons, common core earth day, The packet includes the owl poster pattern pieces and a writing prompt for older students.  They can glue this to the back of their poster. 

earth day activities, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, writing prompts for earth day, earth day bulletin boards, earth day bookmarks, earth day lessons, common core earth day, Completed projects look wonderful suspended from the ceiling. 

I set this up as a listening and following directions-whole group activity, so that I could assess how my students were doing with that life skill. 

earth day activities, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, writing prompts for earth day, earth day bulletin boards, earth day bookmarks, earth day lessons, common core earth day, Everyone got a large sheet of blue construction paper at their desk, along with the owl body and caption to cut and glue to their poster. 

earth day activities, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, writing prompts for earth day, earth day bulletin boards, earth day bookmarks, earth day lessons, common core earth day, When everyone accomplished that, I passed out the shapely owl pieces. 

To expedite this, I had set all of them out in student piles a head of time.  From there I'd hold up a piece and glue it on my sample and my Y5's would do the same.  We continued "monkey see-monkey do" 'til everyone had their poster done.  If you have older students, they can simply get their supplies and work away. 

earth day activities, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, writing prompts for earth day, earth day bulletin boards, earth day bookmarks, earth day lessons, common core earth day, I've also included some "Give a hoot" bookmarks in full color as well as black and white so that your students can color them.  Click on the link to view/download the Give a Hoot Earth Day Owl packet.

Another cute "craftivity" perfect for Earth Day, involves a litterbug.  We don't see littering as much as I used to when I was a child.  Eons ago, people threw lots of trash out of their cars, and the countryside was looking like an awful garbage dump. 

earth day activities, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, writing prompts for earth day, earth day bulletin boards, earth day bookmarks, earth day lessons, common core earth day, Thanks to Lady Bird Johnson way back when, laws were passed and fines implemented for littering and "Keep America Beautiful" became a popular slogan. 

With that in mind, I nostalgically drew a grumpy old litterbug and designed a "craftivity" around him, that encourages kids to be litter leaders and not litterbugs. 

earth day activities, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, writing prompts for earth day, earth day bulletin boards, earth day bookmarks, earth day lessons, common core earth day, Your students can create their own ugly litterbug, or color and cut out mine. 

For some 3D pizzazz, staple a Dixie cup to the bug's belly and wad up a piece of trash paper to put inside. 

earth day activities, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, writing prompts for earth day, earth day bulletin boards, earth day bookmarks, earth day lessons, common core earth day, The packet includes a writing prompt that older students can complete and then glue to the back of their litterbug.

earth day activities, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, writing prompts for earth day, earth day bulletin boards, earth day bookmarks, earth day lessons, common core earth day, There's also a poster of a song-poem I wrote, plus a black and white "promise" version for students to color. 

earth day activities, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, writing prompts for earth day, earth day bulletin boards, earth day bookmarks, earth day lessons, common core earth day, I've also included some litterbug bookmarks in color as well as black and white.  Click on the link to view/download the Litterbug Earth Day Writing Prompt packet. 

earth day activities, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, writing prompts for earth day, earth day bulletin boards, earth day bookmarks, earth day lessons, common core earth day, Thanks for visiting today.  Feel free to PIN away.  For more Earth Day FREEBIES scroll down to take a look at the other blog articles with that theme, or click on the link to pop over to that section of my site.

"When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world." -John Muir

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More Earth Day Activities & Crafts

1-2-3 Come Lend A Hand With Some Earth Day "Craftivities"

After studying the importance of taking care of our earth and discussing the fact that even little children can make a difference, I’d give a few directions, and tell my Y5’s that they were going to be part of Mrs. Henderson’s Kids Care Cleanup Crew.

earth day activities, cleaning up the school ideas, ideas for earth day, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, common core earth day earth day lessons, Each child got a pair of non latex gloves (You can buy a pack of 50 at The Dollar Store.) and armed with their own plastic grocery sack to put litter in, we’d hit the playground when no one was using it.  

Because their hands are so little, I also bought a pack of elastic ponytail holders and slipped those around their wrists to hold the gloves on.

It’s amazing how much garbage gets caught up against the fence!  My kiddos absolutely LOVED running around picking up all sorts of debris.  We’d then head to the dumpster and toss our sacks and gloves in.  

They were always very proud of themselves.  I made sure that the principal knew what we were doing and he always thanked our class over the P.A. during the announcements the next day.  

earth day activities, cleaning up the school ideas, ideas for earth day, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, common core earth day earth day lessons, Afterwards, we’d wash our hands really well and then settled down to watch a short and educational Earth Day video.  One of my favorites is an awesome 6-minute clip of the paper recycling process at the Staten Island Paper Mill.

For more interesting Earth Day YouTube videos, click on the link to this Pinterest board:  "Favorite Earth Day Videos on YouTube" .

 earth day activities, cleaning up the school ideas, ideas for earth day, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, earth day poster, common core earth day earth day lessons, The “craftivity" that day was “I can lend a hand.”  Children chose a partner and took turns tracing each other's hand.  

They then cut out their print and glued it to a variety of colors of construction paper.  For young children, you could have a room helper do this for you the day before.

Even the boys enjoyed decorating their hand posters with "tatoos" and jewelry. To add a bit more pizzazz,  have students paste on some flat-backed jewels using glue dots.

earth day activities, cleaning up the school ideas, ideas for earth day, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, common core earth day earth day lessons, Older students can complete the "Pitch in" writing prompt and glue that to the back of their poster. Punch a hole in the top and suspend from the ceiling.

earth day activities, cleaning up the school ideas, ideas for earth day, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, common core earth day earth day lessons, My students enjoyed discussing the many different ways little kids can 'pitch in" to make a big difference. 

At the end of the day have students color their certificate.  These always prompted parents to ask their child about the cleanup activity. 

Click on the link to view/download the Lend A Hand Earth Day activity. 

earth day activities, cleaning up the school ideas, ideas for earth day, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, common core earth day earth day lessons, While working on the above, I also designed another Earth Day craftivity that  I call the "Helping Hands Dangler".  Like the above poster, students can choose a partner to help them trace their hand, or they can do it themselves. 

earth day activities, cleaning up the school ideas, ideas for earth day, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, common core earth day earth day lessons, There are several options for "dangling" these mobiles from the ceiling. 

I've taken a photo of both samples to help explain this. 

Students can glue all 4 circles together in such a way that they make a 3D sphere (like the earth) or they can glue the circles vertically to a length of yarn.

Both writing prompt options, dangle from the child's hand.

For the latter option, give students 3 of the "I can help" writing prompt circles.  They write 3 ways they can lend a helping hand and then glue them back-to-back on to the other circles.  Punch a hole at the top and suspend from the ceiling.

earth day activities, cleaning up the school ideas, ideas for earth day, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, common core earth day earth day lessons, Click on the link to view/download the Helping Hands Dangler. 

Thanks for visiting today.  Feel free to PIN away. To see more Earth Day activities, scroll down to check out the other blog articles.

"We are living in a world where lemonade is made from artificial flavors, and furniture polish is made from real lemons." -Alfred E. Newman

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Earth Day Activities

1-2-3 Come Reduce, Reuse and Recycle With Me!

April 22nd is fast approaching.  Do you need a little something to plug in for Earth Day?

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Making a class book is a fun way to get your kiddo's excited about writing. Each child completes their page; you collect and collate them.

Students complete the thought for each of the 3 sentences. How do they reduce, reuse andrecyle to help our earth?

Remind them about capitalization, spacing and punctuation, so that you cover those standards as well.

When you share the completed book with your class, have each child read their own page.

Add some pizzazz by having students color the illustrations and then glue their own school photo over either the girl or boy's face.  Click on the link to view/download the Earth Day Class Book.

the 3 r's, reduce reuse recycle activities, earth day activities, writing prompts for april, earth day writing prompts, class books, recycling booklet, CCSS for Earth Day, common core for earth day, punctuation activities, capitalization activities, spacing, class books, class made books, earth day crafts, clock games, clock centers, clock activities, clock lessons, telling time activities, telling time lessons, time to the hour, earth day games, Another way you can have students write about reducing, reusing and recycling, is to have them make this simple, but striking Earth Day dangler.

The recycling symbols and hearts are glued together to form 3 sides; one for each R word. Students write how they reduce on one heart, how they reuse on another and finally how they recycle on the 3rd one.

Hang from a yarn loop so the writing prompt "craftivity" twirls and dangles from the ceiling.

Click on the link to view/download the Earth Day Writing Prompt Dangler.

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Students roll first one, and then two dice, to get a time-to-the-hour number that they write on their clock. 

They then glue the matching numbered item that it is "time to reduce, reuse or recycle."

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For more Earth Day "craftivities" scroll down to the next article.  Thanks for visiting today.  Feel free to PIN anything you think may be helpful to others.

"It is not the IQ, but the I Will, that is most impoortant in education." -Unknown

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Earth Day Activities II

1-2-3 Come Celebrate Earth Day With Me!

My Y5's enjoyed learning how to care for our planet more than on just Earth Day.  I took an entire week to teach them how even little kids could make a difference by simply turning the water off while they brushed their teeth, as well as not being a litter bug. 

earth day activities, earth day lessons, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, writing prompts for april, earth day bulletin boards, earth day bookmarks, earth day posters, recycling activities, reduce reuse recycle lessons, common core earth day, earth day common core, We were always amazed at how much small trash we cleaned up from our playground and fenced in areas, as we went outdoors for "Operation Clean Up!"

We had wonderful discussions of other things we could do and what they as a family were already doing.

A creative way to have students write about how they reduce, reuse or recycle, helping to take care of, and love our earth, is by making the "I Love The Earth" personal writing prompt "craftivity."

Students cut and colored their planet earth and glued it to a heart, where they wrote what they did to help out.

I traced my students' hands and they drew a self portrait to make this a real cute keepsake, as well as an awesome hallway display.

Click on the link to view/download We Love The Earth craftivity.

earth day activities, earth day lessons, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, writing prompts for april, earth day bulletin boards, earth day bookmarks, earth day posters, recycling activities, reduce reuse recycle lessons, common core earth day, earth day common core, You can use the Happy Earth Day poster as a center for your spring bulletin board, and then scatter the portraits around it. 

The cans on the poster have letters that say: We Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.  Make a copy of your students' school pictures and have them glue it to the lid.

Click on the link to view/download the Earth Day poster.

earth day activities, earth day lessons, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, writing prompts for april, earth day bulletin boards, earth day bookmarks, earth day posters, recycling activities, reduce reuse recycle lessons, common core earth day, earth day common core, "My Family Recycles!" Is a quick and easy writing prompt bookmark. Students color their recycling tub and symbol and jot down all of the things their family does to recycle.

Click on the link to view/download the Earth Day bookmark.

earth day activities, earth day lessons, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, writing prompts for april, earth day bulletin boards, earth day bookmarks, earth day posters, recycling activities, reduce reuse recycle lessons, common core earth day, earth day common core, Finally, an interesting way to have students examine the importance of recycling, and see what they can do, is to take a look at what their family throws out.

earth day activities, earth day lessons, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, writing prompts for april, earth day bulletin boards, earth day bookmarks, earth day posters, recycling activities, reduce reuse recycle lessons, common core earth day, earth day common core, This packet includes a letter to parents, recording data analysis sheet + graphing extensions and a writing prompt craftivity, to pull it all together.

earth day activities, earth day lessons, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, writing prompts for april, earth day bulletin boards, earth day bookmarks, earth day posters, recycling activities, reduce reuse recycle lessons, common core earth day, earth day common core, Click on the link to view/download What's In Your Garbage? Earth Day activities.

earth day activities, earth day lessons, earth day crafts, earth day writing prompts, writing prompts for april, earth day bulletin boards, earth day bookmarks, earth day posters, recycling activities, reduce reuse recycle lessons, common core earth day, earth day common core, Thanks for visiting today.  Feel free to PIN away.

I hope you and yours enjoy being keen and "going green!"

"Life is a great big canvas and you should throw all the paint you can on it." -Danny Kaye

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Fun With Jellybean Activities

1-2-3 Come Do Some Sweet Jellybean Things With Me

I LOVE jellybeans.  Like Fishy Crackers and Candy Hearts they are a “must have” manipulative in my classroom, as I’m a firm believer that “hands-on” learning is the best way for little ones to learn.  If you can involve something edible now and then, you'll certainly grab their attention.

Because of that, I just finished designing some interesting activities that will hopefully help turn the light bulb on for your students and reinforce report card standards in a fun way!

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I’ve also included a “count to 30” “trace & write” skill sheet and a certificate of praise bookmark.

When everyone is done, read the booklet as a whole group to reinforce concepts of print.

Click on the link to view/download the Jellybean Counting Booklet. The Jellybean Color Booklet is also an easy reader that reviews colors and color words.

Students trace and then write the color word and then color the jellybean the appropriate color.

This booklet includes 2 graphing extensions and 10 traceable color word flashcards with jellybean cards to color + a cover so students can turn the cards into an Itty Bitty booklet.

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  • A letter home asking for jellybean donations
  • Templates to make jellybean sorting mats
  • 3 graphing extensions
  • A tally skill sheet
  • A class book writing extension
  • A patterning page + 5 other skills sheets
  • Traceable upper and lowercase flashcards perfect for Memory Match games as well as Itty Bitty booklets
  • Traceable number flashcards, including skip counting cards by 2's, 3's, 5's and 10's with covers to make Itty Bitty counting booklets
  • An Easter Jellybean poem
  • A guest-imation Jar poster and guessing forms
  • Honey-Bunny cards to make CVC words
  • A jellybean bibliography and
  • A certificate of praise bookmark

jellybean counting booklet, jellybean centers, jellybean graphing, jellybean activirties, jellybean sorting, jellybean activities for preschool kindergarten and first grade, jellybean math centers, jellybean writing activities, jellybean math activities, jellybean writing prompts, writing prompts for april, jellybean color booklet, jellybean bookmark, jellybean certificate, counting booklet, skip counting activities, color activities, color word activities, number word activities, pinch and pokes, dot to dot alphabet dot to dots, alphabet traceable flashcards, traceable skip counting cards, Click on the link to view/download the Jellybean Activities Packet.  Thanks for visiting.  As always, feel free to PIN away. 

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