I teach classes up to the last minute every day. For the holidays, this past
week I've done a lot of craft/participation extensions of language arts
lessons.
Kindergarten and First graders enjoyed listening to Snowy Day and Snow and
looking at the Caldecott winning illustrations. We then made pop-up cards
with snowmen and an evergreen tree they could decorate.
Second graders had the same stories, but we made glue/glitter snowflakes
that they took home and stuck on their windows (and showered their mothers'
carpets with glitter!)
Third grade, (who must study biography), listened to Snowflake Bentley,
discussed what a biography is, how to find them, etc.; then cut out
snowflakes, folding holiday paper to make some really beautiful ones.
For Fourth grade, I talked a little about O. Henry, read a children's
version of The Gift of the Magi, then we made paper boxes for them to use as
tiny gift boxes.
But my favorite was Fifth grade. We have a pretty good sized Hispanic
population, so we read Too Many Tamales, then made tamales. Actually they
just mixed masa and water and put it in corn husks then folded. But I made a
huge batch of tamales so each kid who wanted got to sample a real one.
I saw over 700 kids that week. Each grade level each day. It was killer, and
I could not have done it without an extraordinary aide. But we did it, the
kids were learning and having a blast. And I think they will come back in
January, ready to get back to work for me.
We teach by example, both to children and our fellow teachers.
Herb Wilburn
NBCT Library Media
Ashby Lee Elementary School
Quicksburg, VA 22847
hwilburn@shentel.net
hdwilburn@shenandoah.k12.va.us
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