Birdhouses/Fairy houses - cute craft for kids - paint a toilet paper roll and cut out a window. Trace a plate onto stationery and cut out circle for roof. Tie a button on the end of a string, pull string through tip of roof's cone to anchor. Make.
Mr. Potato Head Building Variation. Take pictures of Potato Heads with an iPad. Students can scroll through pictures to choose Potato Head. Have the students make matching potato heads. Goals - requesting, WH questions, describing, sentence building
Bloom's Taxonomy / new teacher evaluations require evidence of lesson planning for higher level thinking ~ I like thinking of it as a ladder and not a pyramid. All students can get to the top, with a pyramid it feels like only a few can.