Labor Day Book and Activities Labor Day is coming up. Your social studies standards require you teach national holidays as well as different workers and the jobs they do. However,    ELA programs have a required sequence topics. Your day is full and you have time for a 0 minute lesson for Social Studies. How do you fit it all in? This resource gives you everything you need to teach the standard: Identify national holidays and describe the people and/or events celebrated. With a nonfiction book and supporting activities, it can be done in one   What’s included:   * Nonfiction book with the history of the Labor Day holiday in age appropriate explanation. There are 12 different jobs with a brief description about what workers do. It included pages to show how the holiday is celebrated today. * Hat Template * Writing prompt page- Draw or write something you learned about Labor Day. * Matching activity- Six jobs are represented with a worker, students will draw a line t......

You can have fun teaching Now & Then. Teach it using technology; interactive and engaging.  Being able to compare life now with the past is a common first grade social studies standard. It is often taught around Thanksgiving with comparing pilgrim life to current life. Yet way we live has changed over recent years as well. The clothes, the cars, and the technology, all of these   look very different than what was used in recent history as well.   Now & Then is a Google Drive resource perfect for teaching changes over time. Each book and activity can be assigned individually to students are used a whole group. Now & Then non-fiction books highlights the changes over the past 70 years. Each book contains a page from the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and current times. Now & Then   Fashion , includes images of popular clothing styles for each decade. While  Now & Then   Technology , features common technological devices. For example ......