Presidents' Day Freebies Just for You - Plus a Little Bit More!

Happy Presidents' Day!

Hello Friends,

Hopefully you have today off and are enjoying your three day weekend. While you're planning for next week, I'd like to share a few freebies and resources to help you with your up coming weeks.

FREE Presidents Day Writing Center Printables

 With and without lines for your grade level.

 

 

I also have two larger resources for sale, 

United States Presidents Book - Kindergarten and First Grade Version

United States Presidents Book - Second and Third Grade Version

For all of February, to celebrate Dental Health Month, I have a Color for Fun freebie for you.

Use it for fun, for morning work, for a writing prompt at centers or morning work, the possibilities are endless! 

Click here to get it too! 

I also have a new set of free task cards for introducing or reviewing time to the "five minutes" for analog and digital time.
 Click here to get them.

For more ideas, visit my blog for videos, resources, books and all sorts of Presidents' Day fun.

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I'm Fern from Fern Smith's Classroom Ideas, stop by my blog anytime for tips, tricks, resources and freebies for your classroom!

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Technology Resources to Celebrate President's Day

Happy President's Day Week! Stephanie from 3rd Grade Thoughts here and I hope you've been enjoying all of the great resources so far to help your students learn even more about this holiday. I'm excited to share some fantastic President's Day technology resources for you to use with your students as soon as today!

BrainPOP, Jr.

Even if you're not a subscriber, BrainPOP and BrainPOP, Jr. have some fantastic free resources for you to use! I highly suggest BrainPOP, Jr.'s free video on Abraham Lincoln for a quick biography of Lincoln's life with a mention of President's Day.

At the bottom of the video, there are loads of activities for you and your students, including quizzes, an interactive word wall, book suggestions, and a stovepipe hat craft!

Click HERE or any of the pictures above to be taken to the video.

Interactive Tours of The White House

If you've ever seen Google Street View, you know how cool the 360* view can be! Fortunately, they have toured The White House and share it HERE for you and your students to see!

Not only can you see this beautiful home from all angles, there are links below of famous artwork that will take you to their specific spot in the room. Highly informative and interactive!

The other interactive tour is filled with more fun facts and videos to show the different highlights of the home. It can be found HERE:

President for a Day!

I had so much fun with this game and I know your students will, too! PBS offers the chance for you to go through a day as the president in a "choose your own adventure" style and follows up each choice with how past presidents have done it-- pictures and facts included!

The game is personalized at the beginning with a few simple questions and at the end of the day, you get your own newspaper cover story :)

It is too much fun and really gives you a sense of the variety of meetings and obligations a president has on a daily basis.

Presidential Trading Cards

Also on PBS' site are ten Presidential Trading Cards to print and fill in. There are answer keys and even a Teacher's Guide for how to use them for a "Who Am I?" game. Find these cards HERE:

Duck For President on YouTube

I *love* this book and will always share it during election year, but it fits in perfectly around President's Day, too. If you don't have access to the book, or would like to spruce up your Read Aloud time, there is a nicely-done video of the book below.

*Note that it is hosted on YouTube, which is sometimes blocked by districts.


I hope these resources gave you some ways to integrate technology as you teach about presidents this week!

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Do you have any other favorite technology resources for this holiday? Share them below in the comments!

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Literacy Centers for President's Day!

Aloha! This is Nicole from Teaching With Style, bringing you some President's Day goodies today!

In my room, I teach literacy using the Daily 5, allowing me to meet with small groups.  At my Word Work center, I typically have 2 different literacy centers.  The skills correlate with what we are learning whole group, and are aligned to the Common Core standards. For the next two weeks, my Word Work centers will be Presidents Day themed!  I love to integrate holidays and seasonal themes into my literacy centers, just because sometimes it's hard to fit it in otherwise.

The centers focus on Fact & Opinion (to complement our opinion writing unit), possessive nouns and collective nouns (we've been working on a lot of parts of speech lately since so many of my students are ELL and need language support), and contractions (just because they are hard and my kids need lots of opportunities for practice!)

Just for my Owl readers, I turned the Fact & Opinion into a mini-center for you and your students! Just click the image below to go to my Dropbox and download.  Enjoy!

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Kid President Love {Class Book Freebie}

Hey y'all.  It's Amanda from Teaching Maddeness.  Today is my first day at work in over a week!!  We will have a lot to catch up on, but I'm sharing something I whipped up to do in my classroom TODAY!


Just because Presidents' Day was yesterday, doesn't mean it's over in the classroom.  At least, not ours!  I'm keeping Presidents' Day alive with Kid President.

Please tell me you know this kid...I, for one, cannot get enough of him!  If you're not familiar with this YouTube sensation, check out this "Top 10 Kid President Moments" video...



My students (and myself) think he is HILARIOUS!  His message is really inspiring, too.  You can click here to read a bit about how this all got started. 

In celebration of Presidents' Day, I thought it would be fascinating to hear from my students.  I wanted to know what their point of view would be if THEY were KID PRESIDENT!  So, I made a little class book that you can download below.

It was inspired by the "An Open Letter to Moms from the Kid President" video - probably my all-time favorite video of his.  You know, sometimes, we really should stop and listen to kids more. ;)


The book includes 25 page options - hopefully enough for each student in your class.  I think you'll be impressed and entertained by their advice.  If only we could put kids in charge!  At least, for a day, maybe. :)

*********************************UPDATE*******************************************
So, we did this activity today in my classroom.  We started out by talking about Kid President and watching a couple of the videos listed in the FREEBIE.  Then, we watched the one above.  Since there are 25 pages in the class book, that left a few extras, so we brainstormed and completed those together to help students understand the assignment.  We talked about what we would "want" to say (you know, what we're thinking in our heads, but don't always verbalize) to the person.  I emphasized that it was okay to add a little humor in, also.

Students did a great job!  Here are a few samples of their completed pages.  I hope your students enjoy making the book, too!

 

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Spend the Week with our Presidents

Hey again! It's Rachel from the tattooed teacher. I just love February! I love biographies and that's what I do all month long! I spend a week on all things presidential then the rest is Black History. I wanted to share a few things I do during our presidential studies. Each day this week we Owls will be sharing our ideas! So get your downloading on!

Just fyi...I am fascinated with Lincoln. I don't know why, but I am! Each year I use this free, little craft from Amy. And it sure wouldn't be complete without the kiddos adding the lips magnets!

We also go online and read about presidential favorites. Last year we were working on our graphing unit so we graphed favorite foods. Very interesting.

But my favorite, quick and easy activity is reading this book I found and developing a list of presidential character traits. First, the book is simply to die for! But my literal kids never get it! 

Second, I love any craft I can use their little face on!

we turn this...into this

You can make your own too! Here's my freebie just for you!

click to download

Happy President's Day!

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