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Arizona ELA Standard: 1.WF.1

Demonstrate and apply handwriting skills.

Valentine’s Day Codes

Valentine’s Day Codes

Teach your students about basic cryptography and code making.

Halloween Worksheets

Halloween Worksheets

Crosswords, image analysis, and writing prompts for Halloween!

Writing Haiku in Primary

Writing Haiku in Primary

Your youngest students will learn to write Japanese Haiku poetry.

Squiggles Collection 3

Squiggles Collection 3

Everyone starts with the same squiggle. No two drawings end up the same. What do you see?

Squiggles Collection 1

Squiggles Collection 1

Everyone starts with the same squiggle. No two drawings end up the same. What do you see?

New Uses For A Pencil

New Uses For A Pencil

So, what can a pencil be used for other than writing and drawing?

Pig Pen Cipher (Codes Part 2)

Pig Pen Cipher (Codes Part 2)

Let’s encode some secret messages with a cipher that was actually used during the American Civil War!

Word Pyramid: U to Brush

Word Pyramid: U to Brush

Add a letter at each step to form a new word. Can you connect the starting point and ending point?

Drawing Knots, Level 3

Drawing Knots, Level 3

How to draw the final version of the twisty Henri Matisse knot!

Drawing Knots, Level 1

Drawing Knots, Level 1

How to draw a simple version of this twisty Henri Matisse knot!

Writing in Pilish

Writing in Pilish

Pi can go beyond circles! What if you wrote using the digits of pi as your guide?

Cram

Cram

Try this a simple (but surprisingly strategic) grid-filling game!

Self Portraits: Text Art

Self Portraits: Text Art

What if a students’ self-portrait was made of words that describe the student!?

An Escher-Style Tessellation Project

An Escher-Style Tessellation Project

Create a piece of repeating art in the style of MC Escher!

Self Portraits Part One: Line Drawings

Self Portraits Part One: Line Drawings

Anyone, yes anyone, can create a (somewhat) realistic self-portrait using these steps. Anyone!

“Its Big Day” – A Children’s Story About Its and It’s

“Its Big Day” – A Children’s Story About Its and It’s

Let’s spice up a typically dull lesson about the difference between “its” and “it’s” by asking students to write a children’s story about the adventures of a critter named It.