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Taking Care of Earth

Anonymous — Wed, 01 May 2013 01:29:00 GMT

Get your kids thinking about trash and being responsible with how they throw it away.

My annual Earth Day unit would not be complete without using the cute and creative Wartville Wizard story. The characters in the story literally get trash "stick ons" for being slobs, until the town wizard teaches them the valuable lesson of caring for our resources.

This Power over Trash writing activity ends my read aloud.

Students think of a consequence for littering and illustrate it...complete with a "stick on"
trash object.

Love it...a not very happy slob's consequence is for trash to stick to their feet so they can't move.

A little pestering to help slobs throw away trash might help here.

Yuck, a trash shower ought to teach everyone a lesson!

You can get this lesson at my TPT store

Earth Day and The Power Over Trash

Anonymous — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 22:36:00 GMT

Hi all. I'm excited to share with you my all time favorite Earth Day story. It's called The Wartville Wizard by Don Madden.

It's a book with a powerful message about taking care of our world.

The main character, an old man, lives in a town called Wartville.

He picks up litter day after day until one day he tires of picking up after everybody else's mess.

He gains the power over trash and it literally becomes "stick ons" to the slob that left it on the ground.

I've done this cute writing craft following the read aloud and my class LOVES it.

Students explain what would happen if they had the power over trash and then create a person with

"Stick On" trash. So cute!

"I would make the trash people dropped go into their faucets and TV so when they wash their hands trash will pour on their hands. Also when they watch TV all the trash will block the screen"

" I would make the people have bad luck for a long time. After they have bad luck they will know not to litter."

"I would make people eat the trash they littered. So I would either make the food go directly into their mouths or mix it into their food."

You can get this activity for your class {HERE}

My first two followers that leave a comment with their email will get this

writing activity free.

I'm also excited to see that a Wartville Wizard movie is in the works.

What a great extension to the book this will be!

What are you plans for Earth Day? You can link up with Go Fourth with Mrs. Owens.

Framable Gingerbread Art

Anonymous — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:27:00 GMT

I am in love with these watercolor/oil pastel gingerbread men

that my kiddos made this week.

Thanks for the inspiration Art Projects for Kids!!

artist at work...

Farmer Mac Nugget's Turkeys

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 06:01:00 GMT

What a classic read for Thanksgiving!

For my first grade blogger friends I ran across a math story mat lesson I used to do with my firsties following this story.

I guess now I can enrich this same lesson by dividing or multiplying turkeys and haystacks for my 3rd graders!

These mats used turkeys and hay stacks to build subtraction word problems.

I laminated the mats for reuse.

Attitude of Gratitude Lessons

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 23:03:00 GMT

Thanksgiving at the Tappleton's is an adorable holiday read aloud with a great message of finding gratitude in all situations. The Tappleton's traditional Thanksgiving meal goes all awry when Mrs. Tappleton lets the frozen turkey accidentally slid down the icy sidewalk into the pond. The meal plans go from bad to worse shape from there on in! It's a very cute read.

This book is a perfect lead in to my Gratitude Journal prompts I use in November.

This set has 18 prompts focused on thanks and gratitude.

I also love having each student complete a "Grateful Poster" with thoughts and images of gratitude.

Click picture to grab a copy of the poster

What are your favorite November literature reads? Check out Mrs. Parker's Literature Link Up

mostly monsterly

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:44:00 GMT

we made model magic monsters...

our blow paint monsters...

mostly monsterly books...

We did lots of activities from Mrs. Lee's awesome Monster Madness packet...

Room 131's Wild Things

Anonymous — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 19:44:00 GMT

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