Teaching Fabulous Firsties Give Away

Well it has been a month of give aways!  I am so excited to be working together with Corinna over at Teaching Fabulous Firsties and a another crew of lovely teachers to help celebrate her 100+ Follower give away!  I have donated my own Bring Your Stuffy to School Packet for the lucky winner.  

So head on over and check out her blog for your chance to walk away with some lovely lessons for your classroom!!!

  

Thought I would also throw my first sale along with the Back to School TpT sale.  Better late than never!!  

National Aboriginal Day

Today, we celebrated National Aboriginal Day in my class!  One of my kiddo's mom works with a lady who had ordered all these wonderful resources to celebrate and learn about the Aboriginal cultures of Canada.  I decided I would use these materials and have our own Pow Wow in our class.  The curriculum objective is to name activities that Aboriginal peoples do in each season.  So, I introduced the centres and then I would stop the class occasionally and ask for ideas as to what season they might do the activity in or use the model being built.  I enlisted our Grade 4 Buddies to help with the centres - they were a great help!!!

We coloured Inuit art.  I put out black, blue and red markers with placemats in case the marker bled through.

We made inukshuks.  These are used to mark trails.

While students got fake tattoos, the others worked on an Aboriginal art inspired puzzle.

We folded and made a fortune craftivity.  Inside were different things you could do to celebrate National Aboriginal Day.

We made little wagons or "Red River Carts"

This triple canoe on the water was the most difficult.  It was so neat to see who excelled - often the kids who have trouble with printing and writing excel at building and putting things together.  The same was true today.

Happy Aboriginal Day ~ Summer Solstice!