❤️Looking for a fun and creative way to celebrate Native American Heritage or Indigenous Peoples' Day in your classroom? Your students will love learning about totem poles and how they were used in Native American cultures, while making beautiful writing craft projects and worksheets!
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✏️Use the cultural guide and symbols guide to teach (social studies & history) about totem poles and how they were used in Native American cultures.
✏️Students can choose from 13 animals to create their personalized totem pole based on traits that they or their family members have. Works great as a social-emotional learning (SEL) activity!
✏️Crafts are differentiated! Students can color or decorate their craft, choose from a variety of writing prompts, and writing sheet options (dotted vs. single lines etc.)
✏️Dive deeper with reading comprehension, true or false, vocabulary, and sentence-fixing worksheets!
✏️Use the arts and craft writing projects to meaningfully decorate your bulletin board, classroom, or hallway, while displaying your students' creativity!
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⭐️Great for centers (literacy, writing, art), whole group lessons, independent work, partner work, indoor recess, sub tub, intervention programs, and more!
⭐️This resource is low prep and will save you time! Simply print and go!
⭐️Create a writing bulletin board, door, or hallway by displaying craftivities!
⭐️Check out the preview and video for more details!
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✅ Includes: (35 pages)
Teaching Materials: (5 pages)
☑ Totem pole information (2 pages)
☑ Animal symbols guide (3 pages)
Craft Project: (5 pages)
☑ Craft directions (1 page)
☑ Craft example (1 page)
☑ Craft pieces (3 pages)
Writing Projects: (13 pages)
☑ Animal name tracing - dotted lines (3 pages)
☑ Animal name / trait - blank dotted lines (1 page)
☑ Animal name / trait - blank solid lines (1 page)
☑ Sequencing (first, next, then, etc.) - blank dotted lines (2 pages)
☑ Sequencing (first, next, then, etc.) - blank solid lines (2 pages)
☑ "My Totem Pole" - dotted lines (1 page)
☑ "All About Totem Poles" - dotted lines (1 page)
☑ "My Totem Pole" - solid lines (1 page)
☑ "All About Totem Poles" - solid lines (1 page)
Worksheets: (12 pages)
☑ Reading comprehension (3 pages)
☑ True or False (3 pages)
☑ Vocabulary words (3 pages)
☑ Fix the sentences (3 pages)
✅ Bonus: (39 pages)
☑ What you need to know (1 page)
☑ Table of contents (3 pages)
☑ Black and white set (35 pages)
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✏️Writing prompt ideas:
☑ animal symbol names
☑ animal symbol traits
☑ all about totem poles in Native American cultures
☑ all about the students' personalized totem pole
✅ Animal symbols included: (13 animals)
☑ badger
☑ bear
☑ beaver
☑ deer
☑ fox
☑ frog
☑ moose
☑ otter
☑ owl
☑ rabbit
☑ squirrel
☑ thunderbird
☑ wolf
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Writing Craft Bundle
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CCSS
ELA-Literacy.RI.1.10
CCSS
ELA-Literacy.RI.2.4
CCSS
ELA-Literacy.RI.2.10
CCSS
ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.2
CCSS
ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.2
CCSS
ELA-Literacy.CCRA.W.2
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