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Create a Thanksgiving Restaurant Menu

November 16, 2010 By: amyswanderingcomment

My older kiddos are having fun with their creative writing lesson today. I found the idea here.

They have to:

~ Create a restaurant

name
logo
style or theme

~ Plan a Thanksgiving Dinner menu

items must match style of restaurant
I gave them this list of local restaurant menus for inspiration

~ Design an ad

include name, logo, catch-phrase, location, phone #
use persuasive adjectives

~ Write a commercial

sing a jingle
convince me to come eat Thanksgiving Dinner at your restaurant

Here are some printables to use for menus, ads, etc:

our first week

August 27, 2010 By: amyswandering3 Comments

We had a great first week of school – I think we were all ready to see summer break go!

Here’s a look at what we did:

~Back to School Fun~

We had an I CAN’T funeral.
We read The Important Book and everyone wrote an Important Book page about themselves. (I will try to post them – they are really cute!)
The older kids filled out a This is Me! personal inventory, wrote a Bio Poem and did a handwriting analysis.
The younger kids made a Memory Book. (available to abcteach members)

~Science~

Everyone had to Draw a Scientist and see how many stereotypes they included.
These False Assumptions were the hit of the week! Anyone know where I can find some more?
The older kids did an M & M Lab while the younger just filled in a graph.
The older kids had fun with this Dogs & Turnips activity.
Lots of brainstorming went on in this Apple Observation.
We learned an easy way to remember the Days of Creation.

~Books~

We’ll see how much fun is had next week when we are back to our full schedule HA HA!

You can read more Weekly Wrap-Ups HERE.

school’s out for summer!

May 30, 2010 By: amyswanderingcomment

And it’s already too hot for this momma, LOL. School might be out for my kiddos, but it’s just beginning for me. I have a bunch of curriculum to put together by August.

I also have several ideas that I want to research that I think will really benefit our lessons – just gotta figure out which ones I want to use and how I am going to use them.

Here are some new-to-me ideas:

~ Interactive Notebooks – lesson notes go on one side and student’s interpretation goes on the other

~ Foldables – basically the components of a lapbook, but used individually (lapbooks do not work for us)

~ Flowchart Notes – colorful timeline notes

~ Mastery Club – great way to get in all the little extras & encourage independent learning

~ Calendar Corner – for Little Prince & Sassyfrass, they will love this

~ Prop Boxes – fun for Sassyfrass & Sweetpea

Do you use any of these techniques? Leave a comment and share!

Little Prince has had the best time reading about Roy the Singing Zebra! He reads a part of the story out loud to me at the beginning of the week, and then does a worksheet each day. There are also interactive reading games to play.

And best of all? It’s free!

Ok, I take that back… the best of all is that my too-cool-for-baby-readers son asks to do this everyday!!