We made the Johnny Appleseeds posted by Kerri over at Teacher Bits and Bobs. I love this project! It gave the kids such a confidence boost when they saw how nice their drawings looked! I modified the tissue paper to be just torn construction paper and it worked out just fine!
We also read stories about scarecrows and created this TLC project. It was fun and gave the kids the opportunity to do fringe cutting on the straw! I love to see how each scarecrow has its own personality! So cute :)
In other news, I am thinking about starting a blog/website that banks "Higher Order Thinking" questions for some of the most common children's books we use. Our school is BIG on using higher order thinking and a few of our staff members were mentioning how there is no resource for these questions. Coming up with those synthesis, analysis, and evaluation questions is challenging, and every teacher shouldn't have to reinvent the wheel for each book they do.
Good idea or is there something just like that already out there?