So Creative!!

Elementary Academy Ideas to begin the new year.......................

Take small photo albums and turn them into learning center activities!

They could be adapted to fit almost any content area or grade level.

First, decorate the cover........

then insert activities to each page protector.

Give students dry erase markers and a small eraser, and they are ready to go!

This cute activity was found on a popular website!

Give each student several cotton balls, a glue stick, and a few vocabulary words from the week's lessons.

Have them pull the cotton balls apart and then use them to rewrite the vocabulary words so that they look like "clouds."

FRYE WORD CUP CASTLES

Give each student a stack of cups each labelled with a different Frye word.  

Start a time.

 As the students recognize each word and say it out loud correctly, they will take that cup from the stack and begin building a tower.  When they come to a word they do not know, have them remove the cup containing the unknown word from their stack and place it on the bottom of the cup stack.

Cntinue on with the game.

One last elementary academy memory.......................

As students learn new facts and concepts, they begin to create tracks in their memory.  When newer concepts are taught, students are then able to mentally "look back" at past learning experiences (tracks) and combine the two depths of knowlegde.

This is a poster depicting the concept of "leaving tracks of learning."
Thasnk to all!