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......

shhh... Don't tell my administrator, I don't always plan my lessons two weeks in advance. Sometimes I look for a book and that is what I read for the next week. So..... I was looking at the Sunshine State Young Readers Award Jr . book display to determine what books I haven't read yet.  Inky the Octopus  by  Erin Guendelsberger  caught my eye. I have shown my students videos of an octopus escaping a tank; this book is the perfect addition to that lesson. Inky escaped from the National Aquarium in New Zealand. This book is a fictional account of what might have happened on his journey to the ocean. I started with a third grade class. They were full of skepticism, commenting that the story cannot be real. Cue the YouTube videos. Fact: if you start watching animal videos with 8/9 year olds, they don't want to stop.  Later that day, I needed to pull books for Kindergarten to choose from for check out. I let them choose from a book cart with about 50 bo......