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2nd grade critical thinking art resources
Editable Morning Meeting Daily Slides Activities Digital Resources Morning Work
Are you ready to turn your morning meeting into the best part of your daily routine? Unlock the power of morning meetings with this Editable Morning Meeting Daily Slides & Activity Pages Yearlong Set, designed for K-6 grade. These NO PREP INTERACTIVE EDITABLE morning meeting slides will revive your morning routine in a fun and engaging way. These Editable Morning Meeting Daily Slides are an easy-to-use, time-saving way for you to build a consistent morning routine and a strong classroom co
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K - 6th
Create a Board Game! Project Based Learning Unit - Templates + Rubrics + Slides
Unleash creativity with our Board Game Project Based Learning Unit! Ideal for 1st grade and up! Make learning fun by creating a board game. Includes templates, rubrics, and more! PDF & Powerpoint Slides to introduce the project to students.KEY FEATURES:64 PAGES OF VALUE: Includes 464 pages of resources to support the entire project lifecycle from planning and crafting to reflecting.TEMPLATES FOR EVERYTHING: Comes with a variety of templates including warm up activities, planning, game design
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2nd - 8th
Fun End of Year or Summer Activity | Emoji Coloring Pages by Art with Jenny K!
Emoji Expression Coloring Sheets—interactive and pattern-filled Pop Art coloring sheets including writing prompts—NO PREP for teachers (or parents), tons of FUN for kids! These coloring sheets are a great activity for the start of the year, the end of the school, a neat contribution to your morning work collection, and/or a fun, creative project for any time! These coloring sheets are also great for helping with any calming activities. Artistic activities such as sculpting, painting, drawing, or
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K - 7th
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Summer Packet & Early Finishers Activities - Math Review, End of Year 2nd Grade
This bundle includes a summer packet perfect for end of year review that is FUN! These NO-PREP early finishers activities are packets for 2nd grade fast finishers that are full of engaging pages! They are fun & easy activities for early finishers, skill practice, or review! Each worksheet targets a math, ELA, science, social studies, art, or SEL skill. This helps students practice content in a fun way! ⭐️DOWNLOAD THE PREVIEW FILE TO SEE THE EARLY FINISHERS ACTIVITIES IN DETAIL⭐️Need no-prep
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2nd
Flower Craft | Summer Art Activity | Summer Activities | May Bulletin Board Idea
Are you looking for an engaging, meaningful, and calming spring or summer activity for your students? This Planting Positivity Happy Flower Craft is the perfect primary and junior craft that your students will love! This craft is great for spring or summer bulletin boards, supply plans, art lessons, mindful lessons, and MORE!!! Students will love this art craft activity in grade one, grade two, grade, three, grade four, grade five, AND BEYOND!!!What is included?smile face page (4 smile faces per
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1st - 8th
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Memorial Day Activity | Patriotic Soldier Classroom Collaborative Poster
Don't miss out on this popular Patriotic Soldier Classroom Collaboration Poster for Memorial Day from Art with Jenny K.!! Your kids won’t soon forget this project! This activity is so much fun because, in the end, you will have a very large (approx. 28” x 35”) poster to display in your classroom, hallway, or front entryway, to honor our soldiers on Memorial Day, Armed Forces Day, and/or Veterans Day. Along the way, students will work together as a group to create this beautiful tribute.The size
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1st - 8th
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Persuasive Writing Donut Theme - Design a Donut Project - Art and Writing
Kids love donuts, but writing? Not so much. Enter the "Design a Donut Contest," a persuasive writing project so delicious even your most reluctant writers can't resist. Your students will use their persuasive skills to pitch their dream donut for the coveted "Flavor of the Month" spot.You have two options for this exciting writing adventure: the digital version or the classic pencil-and-paper version.Note: I just gave the Donut Project a big update on February 5th, 2024. Please download the reso
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2nd - 5th
Also included in: Persuasive Writing Bundle {Design a Donut and Promote a Pet}
HUGE Seller's Toolkit Bundle - Digital Papers, Borders, Frames, and Fonts!
HUGE Seller's Toolkit Bundle - Digital Papers, Borders, Frames, and Fonts!
Wow! Save over 50% by purchasing these items bundled. This HUGE Seller's Toolkit Bundle includes 96 digital background papers, 91 frames & borders, and 6 fonts.
When purchasing this toolkit, all products may be used commercially WITHOUT providing credit!
Also check out my Huge Seller's Toolkit Bundle #2
This is a bundle of the following items:
Black and White Doodle Cover Frames for Commercial Use
Black and White
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PreK - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
Fraction Robot Mathtivity Craft
Combine a lesson on fractions (halves and quarters) with craft and creativity with our super cute Fraction Robot.This packet will provide you with all the template pieces to make a cute robot craft! Please make sure you have time to print and prepare the necessary pages before you teach. To make this a comprehensive activity we have included a robot with detail.Students color the templates pieces and then cut and paste to make the robot. Use traditional colors or mix it up with brights!These pie
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1st - 4th
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Also included in: Mathtivity Bundle 1 - Math Crafts to Combine Math and Creativity
Would You Rather Sampler - Fun Questions for Discussion, Writing Prompts, & More
Dive into writing prompts, classroom discussion, and more with our exclusive sampler from Would You Rather Questions!!These 18 digital or print Would You Rather questions are great for discussion, class polls, writing prompts, language building, facilitating higher-level thinking, brain breaks, building community, and more! This sampler gives you a taste of our comprehensive Would You Rather resource that promises to make learning engaging and effective.Try before you buy!Purchase this sampler f
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2nd - 9th
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15 Working Memory Brain Games: Improve executive function in 5 minutes a day!
WORKING MEMORY BEST SELLER--UPDATED FOR 2024! These 15 research-based brain games are designed to improve kids' working memory in five minutes of partner game play daily for just 9 weeks! If you've ever complained that students lack the following skills, an executive function of the brain called working memory might be the issue!-staying focused and on-task-following complex and multi-step directions-copying information and taking notes-keeping their place in a text-retelling stories-explaining
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K - 6th
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Balloons Over Broadway Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activity
Have a classroom Thanksgiving Day Parade! Make learning fun with this Thanksgiving STEAM challenge in which students design their very own Thanksgiving Day Parade Balloon! An excellent companion activity to the fall read aloud book Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet.Not only do students design the balloon, but as an added challenge they must create a device to keep it floating in the air!Students plan, design, and execute their own ideas. After they have completed their activity, there is t
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K - 5th
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, 3-5-ETS1-1
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Also included in: Thanksgiving READ ALOUD STEM™ Activities and Challenges BUNDLE
"Be Kind" 3D Collaborative Poster | Fun End of the Year Kindness Craft Activity!
Promote kindness among your students and let them work together to create this one-of-a-kind 3D collaboration poster! Great activity for Kindness Day, Valentine's Day, Harmony Day, or every day!!Art with Jenny K.'s Be Kind 3D Collaboration Poster is easy for teachers and fun for kids and makes the perfect kindness activity for your class! This project is a "3-way" agamograph (3 images spliced together) and a collaboration poster mixed into one. An agama what?? An agamograph is a picture that mor
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1st - 8th
Fact and Opinion Activities Sort 2nd 3rd Grade Fun Reading Centers Comprehension
Are you looking for a fun, highly engaging, and EFFECTIVE way to teach fact and opinion? This set of activities will teach your students how to distinguish between fact and opinion by becoming observant text detectives. You can even use it as the basis for a room transformation!This resource includes:Fact Detectives Reading CentersFact vs Opinion SortAssessmentDigital ActivitiesSOLVE THE CRIME FACT DETECTIVESThis activity is super engaging for students! They will read each storyline along with t
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2nd - 3rd
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Also included in: Fact and Opinion Activities BUNDLE Text Detective Reading Comprehension
Art Lessons & Art History | Art Lesson Plans for Elementary | Famous Artists
Your elementary students are going to be so excited to study history, culture, geography and literacy when they have the opportunity to view it through the lens of Art and Art History. These amazing Art History lessons provide a unique and interesting way to engage learners and integrate learning on multiple levels. Each Art History unit includes a student-friendly teacher script to read aloud to students. Questions are also included to support you in helping students to engage in discussions. T
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1st - 3rd
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Telling Time Clock Craft Flower
Learning about times is fun with our telling time clock craft flower! Students can engage in math activities or lessons first and record their learning with a creative visual display! They will record time in analog and digital. This project in also included in a Mathtivity BundleThey will draw the numbers on the clock and create a time to record on the leaves. I've included options to help you make the perfect lesson for your class:cut, paste and write numbers crafta one-page version (all piece
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1st - 2nd
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Also included in: Mathtivity Bundle 1 - Math Crafts to Combine Math and Creativity
Summer Packet & Early Finishers Activities - Math Review, End of Year 1st Grade
This bundle includes a summer packet perfect for end of year review that is FUN! These NO-PREP early finishers activities are packets for 1st grade fast finishers that are full of engaging pages! They are fun & easy activities for early finishers, skill practice, or review! Each worksheet targets a math, ELA, science, social studies, art, or SEL skill. This helps students practice content in a fun way! ⭐️DOWNLOAD THE PREVIEW FILE TO SEE THE EARLY FINISHERS ACTIVITIES IN DETAIL⭐️Need no-prep
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1st - 2nd
125 Directed Drawing Activities - Early Finisher Writing & Reading Comprehension
Help kindergarten, first grade, and second grade kids learn to draw with this Bundle of 125 step-by-step directed drawing and art activities. There are 4-6 step drawing lessons, as well as writing, reading passages, and comprehension activities. Use them with early finishers, in a directed drawing journal, as art lessons, small group reading comprehension, or fun writing center activities! ⭐Build fine-motor drawing skills, following directions, vocabulary, and reading comprehension with these v
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K - 3rd
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Habitat Pop-Up Craft 2nd Grade Science Activities - 7 Diorama Animal Habitats
Learning about biomes and animal diversity for the Second Grade Next Generation Science Standards™? Let your students design one or all 7 animal habitat diorama projects. They will love getting to illustrate/draw their very own habitat scenes for: arctic, forest, savanna, ocean, desert, pond, and rainforest. Click on the green "VIEW PREVIEW" button above to see what is included in this resource.Your prep for the pop ups is so easy. Just copy the blank pop-up pattern onto tag or cardboard. Pr
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2nd - 3rd
Food Chain Links Activity Set
A fun activity set where students will create the order of two different food chains and show the transfer of energy. Great way to visualize the order of food chains for your students!
Bring art and creativity into your science lesson by having students create paper chain links that show the order of a food chain. This activity is great for English Language Learners because all the parts of the food chain have pictures and are labeled. There are two different sets that are differentiated so t
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2nd - 4th
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Roll A Monster Drawing Game • Halloween Art Activity • Elementary Art Sub Lesson
Drawing monsters is fun and easy with the Monster Roll & Draw! Just roll the dice to choose your monster body, eyes, mouth, and texture! Whether you're a beginner or a pro, this creative kit makes it easy to teach students to draw a monster. So get your pencils ready and get creative with the Monster Roll and Draw!Classroom teachers!! Roll & Draw pages are a student favorite for your centers, math games, early finishers, or even morning work. Drawing pages allow your students to practice
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1st - 6th
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3-D Shapes Activity with Monsters (Geometry Math Craft for Elementary)
This fun elementary craftivity will get kids excited about 3-D geometric shapes while incorporating art into the classroom. This product includes 7 different shape (monster) templates (both in color and as line art for the student to color) and 3 accompanying worksheets. Please open my preview file to view everything that is included. This activity can also foster teamwork when students work together in groups of two to assemble their 3-D shape monsters.Save Money, buy the bundle! Monster Themed
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K - 2nd
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Also included in: 2-D & 3-D Shapes Monster Bundle
Christmas Tree Name Craft
Students will love making a Christmas Tree Name Craft to display with the class for a beautiful December bulletin board! This packet will provide you with all template pieces you need for your students to make a cute name or word tree!Included: uppercase letterslowercase lettersblank branches (write own letters)face branch (optional)trunk and starminimal cutting version (draw and write your own letters, 2 sections included on each shape to cut)These pieces can be printed on color paper, or print
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K - 3rd
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Also included in: Name Craft Bundle
End of the Year Activity | Spring Interactive Coloring Pages by Art with Jenny K
Art with Jenny K. is the originator of these innovative, engaging, add-a-pattern "interactive" coloring sheets. This set of “Pop Art-style” coloring sheets features a variety of Spring images that make a great accompaniment to your springtime celebrations. There are 4 interactive pages and 4 pattern-filled pages included in this Spring activity—appropriate for all ages. Writing prompts are also included!Students add bold patterns to different spring symbols and then color their designs to produc
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1st - 8th
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Benefits of arts education
Arts education encompasses various disciplines, including creative writing, dance, music, theater, and visual arts. Through arts education, students learn valuable life skills, including creativity, cooperation, discipline, and critical analysis. Additionally, it provides students with positive means of self-expression and empowers them to find their voice.
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- Develop vital social-emotional and interpersonal skills
- Enrich their overall experiences and perspectives
- Learn to handle constructive criticism gracefully
- Improve their ability to focus and concentrate
By teaching the arts, teachers can also instill a lifelong appreciation and enjoyment of various art forms, encouraging students to continue exploring and participating in creative activities throughout their lives.
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