All You Need is Paper (and a little love) ESL/EFL activities

 My first-graders are studying what objects we can find in different parts of the house and of course, there are chairs. We watched a short video about Van Gogh's bedroom painting which they were flabbergasted to find out had sold at 117 million dollars. Then, we got busy making our own chairs (I made one too). I used a pencil to limit where they were supposed to draw their chair and they could add anything else they wanted to their bedrooms. When they were done, I cut the paper and glued their work onto another paper so it would stand up more firmly. I love to be able to use the kids' work to review vocabulary and that's what we did the following class with their chairs.

My third-graders are still on the topic of how animals grow and change. After listening to a chant about changes in animals as they grow, we made these 3D spiders. Before they glued the spider legs to the yellow paper, they drew a spider web and wrote the sentence: spiders grow and change. The following class they made little playdough spider eggs and glued them to the web. We'll be using these spiders on the last day of class when parents come to our open house to see what their kids have been doing.  Just look at all the happy spider faces protecting their eggs! 💗