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1-Cut various sized circular shapes for the insect’s body.
2-Add 2 sets of wings and eyes (construction paper or googly eyes).
3-If your students can handle smaller motor work, have them make antennae.
Dragon Fly- insect art;spring/summer art project
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Word Families:make your own using unifix cubes- Reading lesson
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After learning about word families, have students make words with unifix cubes that have word parts on them as shown. or
Have students write on unifix cubes to create word families.
Importance of Nursing Education for Your Career Building- career education
Importance of Nursing Education for Your Career Building
The highest impact of economic slowdown can be felt in the employment scenario of the country. The current unemployment rate in the country has climbed to 7.5% in Apr 2013, whereas few states such as California, Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina and Rhode Island are reeling under acute employment crisis, where the unemployment rate has even crossed 9% in Mar 2013, according to the American Bureaus of Labor Statistic Employment (BLS) report. The mass workers layoff in the same period by various employers has further deteriorated the employment crisis and employees are out of work in large numbers.
In such employment crisis, Healthcare field of the country has come up as a great saviour because this sector is still blooming and offering ample career building opportunities. The salaries offered to qualified nursing professionals are also sufficient to sustain their family costs comfortably, and nursing jobs also offer job stability.
Future Nursing Job Prospects
The demand for different category nursing professionals can be best understood by the fact that the expected growth of different category of nursing jobs in the US will be – Nursing Aides, Attendants and Nursing Aides: 20% Registered Nurses: 26 % and Licensed Practical Nurses: 22%, from 2010 to 2020, according to the BLS report.
The BLS report clearly indicates, that today, nursing sector is the best option for easy employment and sustainable income for people. One can complete few weeks to 2-8 years nursing training programs to earn certification, certificates, degrees and advance practice degrees for lucrative nursing field career.
Different Category Nursing Qualification
There are various kinds of nursing programs, such as CNA, LPN, RN, APRN and PhD for various degrees and certificates. Among these programs, Nurse Aide Training program can be completed in 4-8 weeks, whereas Associate Degree and Baccalaureate degree program for becoming a LPN and RN require at least 1-4 years respectively for completion. The advance degree program for masters and specialty certificate courses need 6-8 years. It is upon the individual, which degree or certificate he/she desires for his career building.
Nursing Schools
The nursing programs can be completed through campus based nursing schools, community colleges, universities, trade schools and technical institutes, or online classes. There are also American Red Cross offered CNA classes and long term care facility based nursing classes.
Free Nursing Programs
The severe nursing shortages throughout the country have also urged the state and federal government to offer different kinds of financial incentives such as grants, loans, scholarships, and loan reimbursement schemes to allow higher number of students from different echelons of society to attend the programs free of cost and increase the graduating nursing population to ease the nursing shortages. There are also private party scholarships and loans for deserving students to attend classes without paying for tuition and other program related costs.
School Admission
Different schools have separate enrolment requirements, but there are few common prerequisites that must be completed by all applicants applying for the admission including:
· A High School graduate or GED.
· Possess minimum SAT scores as per program requirements.
· Complete back ground check.
· Depending upon the program requirement, the high school course curriculum must have Geometry, English, Maths, Algebra and few science subjects.
· Pass nursing school or college enrolment tests.
· Appear for drug screening and immunizations tests.
· Free from contagious or communicable disease.
· Complete Application Form and additional admission criteria of the school.
Once the admission prerequisites are completed successfully, students may have to complete few pre-admission courses before they are admitted to a nursing school.
Training Classes Curriculum
Nursing classes are divided between theoretical classroom instructions, lab training and clinical hands-on experience, and the total program hours are divided accordingly.
The classes are also scheduled as day, evening and night classes, keeping in mind the requirement of different category students and professionals. The day classes are campus based regular classes, begins and ends at a schedule time. The evening and night classes are most ideal for working professionals because they can attend these classes after their working hours.
Similarly, online classes are getting immensely popular these days due to flexible class hours. One just needs a computer with a Broad band connection to attend the online program. The classes are open 24/7 days and can be attended from any corner of the country or world at large at homely leisurely hours.
Nursing Exams
It is also necessary to remember that for earning a certification, certificate or degree, you must complete the concerned training program, and pass the state offered nursing tests for different qualifications. Different programs require separate nursing tests. For example, a competency evaluation test is essential for a CNA Certification, NCLEX-PN, or NCLEX-RN exam for LPN and RN degrees, and specialty certification exams for advance practice degrees.
Once you earn a certification or degree, you can apply for an entry level or advance level job position in varied health care settings for a respectful salary.
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I have been writing educational and informative articles on nursing field since last 5 years. My sole purpose for writing is to help students and professionals who want health care field career. In addition to other nursing related information, they can also find valuable details on CNA Certification. The facts on CNA Practice Test provided can be an immense help for students to pass their nursing aide exam easily and confidently.
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10 Benefits of Playing a Musical Instrument Parents Won’t Want Their Kids to Miss
From www.aupaircare.net
There are many benefits to playing a musical instrument that go beyond improving hand-eye coordination and instilling a sense of responsibility in your child. Some other benefits include doing better in school, increasing attention span and having fun playing familiar songs for an audience of family and friends. It can also improve a child’s ability to socialize with their peers. Truly, the benefits are innumerable. Here’s a list of additional benefits that stem from playing a musical instrument that you won’t want your kids to miss.
- Time Management and Organizational Skills – Practice makes perfect, but you have to make time for practice. Learning to play an instrument requires a child to work on managing their time in order to fit the appropriate amount of practice into their day. In addition, a child must learn to be more organized so they don’t lose or misplace music books or parts of their instrument.
- Focus, Concentration and Determination – Playing an instrument helps improve focus and concentration skills. A child must learn to dedicate a certain amount of attention and focus to learning new notes or chords. Consequently, for them to learn an entire song they will have to assemble all the new notes they have learned. The reward of performing well can increase their level of determination to succeed, as well.
- Goals and Aspirations – It takes discipline to learn to play a musical instrument, and every note produced is another goal met, another triumph along the way. When a child gets into the swing of things, they often become committed to the idea of learning and perfecting a new song they enjoy. This part of the process can promote short term and long term goal-setting habits in a child.
- Sense of Achievement and Confidence – Learning how to read music is like learning a second language, so learning a new instrument is an accomplishment in itself. Conquering every song he tackles is hard work and something he will feel proud of. This will boost his confidence and sense of accomplishment, especially when he begins to learn songs that are familiar or tunes that he loves.
- Stress Relief – Initially, learning a new instrument can be a bit overwhelming and even a bit stressful. Over time, however, as your child becomes more comfortable, it can become a source of stress relief. Playing music that brings joy can help soothe a child. It can also be calming for others to hear them play music.
- Creative Expression – There’s nothing more releasing than learning a song that makes you happy or writing your own music that moves you. Playing an instrument allows your child to be expressive in how they are feeling by using music as an emotional and creative outlet. A child’s personality and talents can shine when they are allowed to be creative with music.
- Patience – Learning a new instrument takes patience. Mistakes are repeated many times before getting an entire song down pat. The process of learning through small triumphs and defeats teaches a child to have patience and to be diligent. They will begin to understand that with time and practice, they can achieve greatness.
- Improved Memory, Reading and Comprehension – Playing an instrument with sheet music requires constant reading and comprehension. Seeing notes and chords on the page and translating them to finger positions takes skill and committing them to memory takes persistence.
- Being a Team Player – Playing an instrument in a school band teaches a child to be a team player just as well as being on the football or basketball team. Each instrument has its own part and place in a song, and in order to participate in an ensemble a child will be forced to learn the art of working with others as a team to meet a common goal.
- Better Grades – A child who is taught music has been exposed to the necessary skills of concentration, focus and patience. These are abilities that tend to translate to above-average academic performance, as proven by a report released by the College Entrance Examination Board, which showed that students with a musical background outperformed their non-arts peers on the SAT and other standardized tests.
Playing a musical instrument promotes a child’s self-esteem by improving several key skills and habits. But most of all, playing a musical instrument is fun and exciting for kids. Children learn to overcome challenges in the process of learning an instrument, which spills over into a greater level of patience. Playing a musical instrument is a cycle of creative outlet and discipline that will likely carry on later in life.
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10 Things to Recycle into Great Picture Frames- art project
From www.housekeeping.org
Doing your part to help the environment and keep discarded items out of landfills doesn’t have to be simply your civic duty; it can also be a fun and creative way to add interesting decorative touches to your home. If you find yourself in need of some funky, unique picture frames and have the following items lying around the house, don’t throw them away! Instead, create some brand new frames to showcase your favorite snapshots.
- Reclaimed Barn Wood – If you live in a rural area, there’s a strong possibility that you have access to someone who has an old barn on their property. In most cases, property owners who are faced with managing the mess will be happy to donate all the wood you want to reduce the amount they have to dispose of. You can create rustic, charming picture frames by arranging pieces of barn wood into pleasing shapes after cutting the planks down to size.
- Old Magazines – If you have a box of magazines that you keep meaning to drop off at the recycling center, you can use the contents to create cute and clever picture frames. By rolling strips of magazine paper cut to about three inches wide into tight cylinders and gluing them to the lid of a shoe box, you can make a fun, creative picture frame or two!
- Glass Bottles and Jars – Adding a few inches of pebbles, sand or other materials to the bottom of a glass jar or bottle will provide support for photographs tucked inside, giving the jars a new use and showcasing your snapshots at the same time.
- Compact Discs – If you have a stack of CDs that are scratched beyond playability, or if you have a tendency to hold onto the free discs that Internet service providers used to send out as promotional mailers, they don’t have to be resigned to the trash heap. Cutting the discs into small shapes with a pair of tin snips or sturdy scissors makes eye-catching pieces for a mosaic, which you can then glue onto an old frame that’s a bit battered or even a papier-mâché frame from a craft store. Before you start cutting those discs, though, be sure you’re wearing protective eye-wear to prevent any possible shards from flying into your eyes.
- Wallpaper Scraps – If you’ve recently completed a wallpapering project or still have remnants of left-over rolls lying about from an old project, you can use it to create beautifully patterned, customized picture frames. Simply soak the paper in water to activate the adhesive and paste it over wooden frames. When you’re finished, you’re left with a one-of-a kind frame that’s sure to catch plenty of compliments.
- Corrugated Cardboard – Packing materials like corrugated cardboard offer a sturdy enough surface to stand up to paint without disintegrating and have an interesting texture, which makes it an ideal craft project for kids. Using a craft knife, cut your cardboard into frame shapes and hand those pieces over to the kids, along with some acrylic paint and glue to attach all the glitter, beads and rhinestones their little heart’s desire to keep them occupied for a rainy afternoon and keep the cardboard out of the trash.
- Old Books – If you have an old book that’s losing its pages due to disintegrating binding, you can chuck it in the recycling bin and forget about it. Or, you can use it to create a picture frame fit for a bookworm’s retreat. This tutorial will even help you create a frame that doesn’t affect the book’s integrity, so favorites can be re-read when they aren’t displaying favorite snapshots.
- Puzzle Pieces – When there are children in the house, it’s next to impossible to hold onto every little puzzle piece in the box. Rather than tossing the puzzle out and chalking it up as a loss when pieces go missing, you can create clever picture frames from the remaining ones. Just glue the picture of your choice to a piece of cardboard, then follow with the puzzle pieces around the outside borders. Finish it off by arranging the pieces to your liking and propping the whole structure up on a miniature easel.
- DVD Cases – With this video tutorial, you can fashion a spinning picture frame that holds three photographs, perfect for a tech-crazy teen’s bedroom.
- Board Games – Just like puzzle pieces, small board game accessories tend to get lost over time, especially in a household full of kids. Using a craft knife, carefully cut windows into the board, wherever you like. Tape your photos to the back of the board and cut a piece of cork that’s slightly smaller than the game board to create a backing. Using Velcro tabs on the four corners of both pieces, attach the back to the board to create the perfect frame for a family room or kids’ rooms!
These ideas can help you get started, but the sky truly is the limit when you start looking at items you’d like to re-purpose or recycle with a creative and inspired eye. Try to think outside of the box before tossing something into the garbage to determine whether or not you think it may find life in a new form. In no time, you’ll be finding new uses for things that have outlived their original usefulness or have been damaged somehow, keeping them out of a landfill and filling your home with items that bear your creative fingerprint instead.
http://www.housekeeping.org/blog/10-things-to-recycle-into-great-picture-frames/
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Mother- acrostic poem for Mother’s Day
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1.Brainstorm with students different adjectives for the letters spelling out “Mother”.
2. Have students create and decorate and acrostic poem.
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5 Ways to Help Kids Who Are Struggling With Homework- tips to share with parents
Though some progressive schools around the country have taken steps to eliminate homework, it still remains a fixture in the lives of most students. Homework can also be the source of much household suffering, either due to a refusal to complete assignments that ultimately affects academic performance or a difficulty completing the work. Before you throw in the towel altogether, give these five suggestions a try in order to get the students in your family back on track.
- Nip Excuses in the Bud – Kids will come up with remarkably creative excuses to get out of doing their homework, especially if they’re having trouble with the work or are eager to pursue activities that they enjoy. Refusing to accept excuses and establishing a routine of completing homework on a set schedule can make a noticeable difference in homework struggles that are built around kids’ efforts to evade homework. When your child knows that his efforts to avoid his homework will not be effective, he’s more likely to direct his energy elsewhere.
- Verify Kids’ Claims – Two of the most popular ways of getting out of homework is to claim that it was completed during free time or that there was none assigned. While actively showing distrust for your kids’ claims can be detrimental to their self-esteem, it’s still a good idea to make sure that you establish a system of verifying their claims in regard to homework. Making it routine to go over assignment planners or to check homework together can help you ascertain just how much homework your child has without actively accusing him of being dishonest.
- Work on an Incentive Plan – For many kids, homework just doesn’t seem to serve much of a point. There’s no tangible payoff for the time invested in filling out those worksheets or writing assigned papers, so it can understandably seem like a waste of time to them. There’s a fine line between creating an incentive plan and bribing your child to do the things he’s supposed to do, but it is possible. When your child is able to connect his hard work and all the effort he’s putting into his homework with actual, tangible results, he may change his tune. Making sure that your child understands how his grades are connected to the effort he puts in and that there are rewards for doing his very best in school is important.
- Establish a Line of Communication with Teachers – Whether you’re looking for verification of assignments or looking for the best way to help a child that’s having trouble with his schoolwork, it’s important to make sure that you’ve established and are actively maintaining an open line of communication with your child’s teacher. Kids that want to do their best in school, but find it difficult to grasp the work, can easily become frustrated and lose their interest in academia altogether. Working with his teacher to find the best way of helping him overcome his difficulties is essential, especially if your child’s frustration is reaching a level that’s difficult to manage.
- Get to the Root of the Problem – The most effective way of helping your child overcome a homework struggle is to find the root of the problem and address it directly. If he’s having trouble focusing or grasping the material and is avoiding it because he feels that it’s above his skill level, work with him until he’s feeling more confident. It’s also important to swallow your pride and ask for help yourself if you need to. Not only have teaching methods changed since your own school days, but skills that you haven’t used in decades can become rusty. When you’re able to work with your child one on one to determine his individual learning style and needs, you’ll be able to tailor your approach to homework help accordingly.
In some cases, it may be necessary to consider working with a tutoring program to give your child the extra attention that he needs to succeed to the best of his abilities. Helping your child reach his full potential is your job as a parent, even if doing so requires you to take measures you wouldn’t expect. You may also want to discuss persistent problems with a specialist, especially if you suspect a learning disability that requires special care. In such cases, many young students’ academic performance improves significantly after the appropriate measures are taken to help him work around the roadblocks he’s encountered.
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15 Ideas for Motivating Your Child to Do Well in School- tips to share with parents
It’s no secret that your child’s academic performance can directly affect her future, but it’s difficult to get kids to think about such long-term goals in relation to a task they don’t find particularly enjoyable. Helping your child to reach her full potential is one of your most important jobs, but it can also be one of the most challenging you face as a parent. These 15 tips can help you find ways of motivating your child to be the very best she can be, even when she’s struggling at school.
- Get Involved – Open a line of communication with your child’s teacher, work directly with her to make a difference and stay involved with her academic life to affect positive change. It’s almost impossible to make a quantifiable difference in your child’s performance at school when you’re just shouting orders from the sidelines.
- Support Independence – Helping your child when she truly needs it is important, but so is fostering a sense of independence and faith in her own abilities. Encouraging an independent, can-do attitude will almost always have better results than making her feel as if she can’t succeed without your help at every turn.
- Maintain a Positive Attitude – Even if you worked for weeks to prepare for a test that your child ultimately received a bad grade on, maintain an upbeat attitude and refuse to dwell on past failures. Instead, emphasize all of the steps you’ll take together to get better results next time.
- Praise His Efforts – When you know that your child is doing his best, it’s important to praise his efforts regardless of the grades that he gets. Embracing strengths and weaknesses lets your child know that his effort has value and that your love isn’t conditional upon his report card.
- Provide Corrective Feedback – Underscoring every mistake and using them to browbeat your child will only make him more upset, but providing constructive, positive feedback when he slips up can help him to avoid those mistakes next time.
- Know Your Child’s Individual Needs – It’s natural to want to believe that your child is an undiscovered genius in all aspects of life, but it simply isn’t likely to be true. Just like their adult counterparts, every child has his own areas of strength and weakness. If he’s a great speller but tends to struggle with math, spend extra time studying the numbers and offer plenty of praise for his grades on a spelling test.
- Create a Homework Schedule Together – Kids feel more ownership over a schedule they helped to create, and as such are more likely to respect it. Working out a homework routine together and giving your child plenty of input can cut down on struggles when it’s time to crack the books.
- Offer Incentives – There’s a difference between incentives and bribery, even if the line is a fine one. You may understand the long-term rewards of doing well in school, but a young child only sees something unpleasant and unrewarding. Offering incentives for strong efforts can help your child connect hard work with recognizable results, something that will come naturally as he gets older and understands the impact school and education will have on his adult life.
- Reward Extra Effort – Some kids struggle in school because they’re genuinely having trouble with grasping the material, while others fall behind out of a disinclination to do the required work. If your child falls into the latter camp, work with her to provide rewards for expending extra effort. For instance, an extra 30 minutes of study time gains 10 more minutes of leisure time before bed.
- Live in the Moment – You look at your child’s fifth grade report card and see a college admissions letter. She just sees the grades she got this term. While it’s important to keep the big picture in mind, it’s also essential to live in the moment and work on one step at a time.
- Set Attainable Goals – Expecting your child to go from a failing grade to the honor roll in one term simply isn’t reasonable, and her failure to reach that unrealistic goal you’ve set for her will only increase her frustration. Setting a series of smaller, more attainable goals will help her improve over time under less intense pressure.
- Communicate the Importance of Schoolwork – Berating your child about her future and the damage she’s doing by failing to perform academically probably won’t help much, but calmly explaining the role that her education plays in the rest of her life could be effective. Make sure that you talk about the reasons why good grades are important, rather than simply demanding that she get them.
- Look for Everyday Learning Opportunities – Work on simple math skills at the grocery store or sound out words by reading a menu together. Every day you can find a variety of real-world applications for the skills your child is trying to learn, and helping her to find them will not only hone those skills, but will also make it easier for her to understand their uses.
- Encourage Resilience – Learning to bounce back from a disappointment is an essential coping skill for everyone, regardless of their abilities. It’s especially important for young children that are struggling to keep up with their peers academically, as the experience can be a humiliating and disheartening one.
- Avoid Self Comparisons – Telling your child that you were great at reading when you were her age and that you don’t understand why she’s struggling doesn’t encourage her to do better, it only makes her feel worse about herself. Avoid the urge to draw comparisons, and remember that your child is an individual completely separate from you.
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30 Blogs with the Best Ideas for Teacher Appreciation Week
Teachers are unsung heroes. Parents rely on teachers to teach and care for their children five days a week for seven to eight hours a day. Without teachers, many children would not learn what it takes to graduate high school and go on to college. While it’s important to appreciate your child’s teachers all year long, there is a week designated as teacher appreciation week whereby everyone can let their favorite teachers know how much they appreciate what they do for kids, day in and day out.
Theme Ideas for Teacher Appreciation Week
Coming up with a theme for teacher appreciation week might make it easier to tie all of your plans together. The theme may even inspire new ideas that you may not have thought of had you not come up with a theme. These five blog entries can help you come up with a theme for your teacher appreciation week festivities.
- Dr. Seuss Themed Teacher Appreciation Week
- Teacher Appreciation and Pi Day
- Teacher Appreciation {Gardening Gift}
- Teacher Appreciation Week and Spanish Oaks
- Teacher Appreciation Week
Ways to Celebrate Teachers
There are many different things you can do for your teachers during teacher appreciation week without spending a lot of money. Maybe you can wash all of the teacher’s cars. Or you can have parents donate food for a potluck. If you ask, maybe you could get a local business to donate food for a special treat day. The kids can make cards or bring flowers for the teacher on a different day. Little things can add up and mean a lot to your teachers. Take a look at these five blog posts and see if you can find any ideas that appeal to you.
- Teacher Appreciation Week Ideas
- 5 Simple Ideas to Celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week
- What Parents Can Do During Teacher Appreciation Week
- Teacher Appreciation Week
- Teacher Appreciation Week Ideas
Gifts to Make for Teachers
When you make gifts for your child’s teachers you will be putting a little bit of yourself into each gift. It will be personalized for her and not something that she will receive from 10 other students. Try to make the gifts useful, like making her a grocery bag. She would think of you every time she used the bag to carry home groceries. Think how many years it would last. Now that many teachers are getting an iPad and other types of tablets, they might need to have a sleeve to protect it. These ideas and others can be found in these five blog posts.
- Make Your Own Grocery Bag
- Teacher’s Gift Ideas
- Laptop/Kindle/ iPad Sleeve Tutorial
- Magnet Memo Boards: Made from the Dollar Store
- Caterpillar Eyeglasses Case Tutorial
Ways to Recognize Teachers
For a special touch to your teacher appreciation week, find a way to publicly recognize your teachers. Maybe you put an ad in the paper thanking all of the teachers at your school. You can also recognize them in other ways, like plaques or awards. Check out these five blog entries for more ideas.
- Teacher Appreciation Ideas
- The Sentimental Teacher Appreciation Gifts
- Teacher Appreciation Ideas
- Teacher Appreciation Gifts
- Celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week
Gifts to Buy for Teachers
Sometimes teachers receive a lot of gifts that they can’t really use. How many candles do you really need? When asked, teachers will most likely say that it’s the thought that counts, but if they are honest they would tell you that gift cards are always appreciated. These five blog entries share ideas for gifts using store bought items put together in a creative way.
- Quick and Cheesy Teacher Appreciation Gifts
- Best Teacher Gifts for Teacher Appreciation Week
- Best Personalized Teacher Appreciation Gift Ideas
- Berry Basket Gift Idea + Free Download
- (Freebie Friday) Teacher Appreciation
Ideas on a Budget
In this economy, the budget to celebrate might be on the small side. You can find things to do for the teachers that will pamper them without breaking the bank. Instead of catering a lunch in, see if you can get parents to bring in a covered dish. For other ideas on how to celebrate teacher appreciation week on budget check out these five blog articles.
- Teacher Appreciation Week Ideas on a Budget
- Ideas for Teacher Appreciation Week
- YAY! It’s Teacher Appreciation Week!
- Teacher Appreciation Week: Frugal Gift Ideas!
- Top 10 Ways to Appreciate Teachers
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Showers and Flowers- Spring bulletin board
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“Showers and Flowers”
Use large raindrops between spring flower art projects. This particular project was done with tissue paper to create flowers.
One Fish, Two Fish- art project to go along with Dr. Seuss book
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Inspired by Dr. Seuss
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After reading One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish by Dr. Seuss follow up with this fun art project.
1. Trace and cut out 4 hand prints (red, blue, and 2 other colors).
2. Draw faces on the fish (hand prints).
3. Glue fish onto large white construction paper.
4. With a white crayon, draw bubbles coming from the mouths of the fish.
5. Use blue water color paint and paint the white paper, going around the fish.
5. Once the paint is dry, use black marker to write the words.
Tip- Placing dry work under heavy books will help to keep it from curling up.
Flowering Facts- Math bulletin board
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“Flowering Facts”
Use for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, or 
fact families.
The answer to the problem is in the center of the flower. The problems are written in the petals.
Flower Facts- Basic math facts activity and art project
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Use for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, or fact families.
The answer to the problem is in the center of the flower. The problems are written in the petals.
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Raining Rhymes- Spring bulletin board
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