Free Fall Online Creative Lesson Planning Newsletters

Plan interdisciplinary lesson plans around upcoming fall
holidays.

Visit http://www.amonco.org and click on the AMC Montessori Fall 2003 Hands-On
Creative Lesson Planning
Newsletter. Participants from our AMC Montessori Resource Center
http://www.amonco.org/directory.html have once again generously submitted
some marvelous *free* fall lesson planning ideas and activities.

Here is a sampling of what you will find the

Part I

Aebleskiver ~ A Danish Pancake
Color Wheels ~ A Lesson Plan for Learning to Mix
Colors with Poster (Tempera) Paint
Felted Ball Ornament
Blue Foods: Do They Exist?
Zoom Balls
Jack-O-Lanterns
Special Decoupage Craft
Instructions for Making a Guiro - Caribbean Musical Instrument
Decorating Wooden Fish Shapes
Merengues ~ Colombian Dessert
(Also known as Suspiro in South America)
Finger Paints Recipe

Part II

Come to the Feast
Tiny Clay Feast
Collage Place Setting
A Simple Wreath
Easy Pecan Granola Apple Crumb-Pie Recipe
Pumpkin Cookies
Recipe for Wood Dough for Sculpting
Spanish/French Fishing for Words Activity
Rice Pudding
Cotton Boll's Bounty Activity
Cotton's Journey - A Field Trip a Box
Apple Sauce Parfait
Kathy O'Reilly Shares the Recipe - Fresh Fruit Freeze
from Cooking With Children Can Be Easy

Part III

Baklawa (Middle Eastern Dessert)
"Bread-on-the-Inside" Sandwich snacks
Omelet in a Bag
Snow Covered Pine Trees
The Friendship Tree
Adventures with the Vikings
Adventures in Ancient Egypt
Adventures in the Middle Ages
PrintNStitch

Part IV

Pressed Flower Garden Rocks
Middle School Word Puzzles
Free Art Lessons
Easy Popovers Kids Can Make
Painted Kitchen Trivet
Soft Pretzels
Peanut Crunch Cakes
Delighting in Little Things - Children and Microscopes
Spiced Pecans
Ham & Cheese Feuilleté ~ A French Recipe
Article ~ Searching for the Right Book?
When in Doubt, Start with the Winners!
Hot Fudge Pudding Cake
Free Dressing Skill Activities

Part V

Family Traditions, Fathers and Weekend Mornings
Buttermilk Oatmeal Pancakes
Design Your Own Family Tartan
A Ramadan Meal
Sopa de Chocolate (Chocolate Soup Recipe from Mexico)
No Fail Holiday Fudge
Orange Pineapple Sherbet
Scott's Famous Pizza Dough Recipe
Elephant Ears Pizza and Elephant Ears Sugar Cookies
Math Activity ~ Which of the Following Curves are Transversable?
Apple Wreath
Rocky Road Candy ~ A Recipe from the Past

Part VI

Geography Catch Games ~ A Game to Promote International Peace
Fish Printing ~ An Ancient Art First Perfected in Asia
Lithuanian Cranberry Cake
Beginning Cross Stitch and
Continental Stitch for Making Coasters, Etc.
Martha Parker Oatmeal Cookies

Part VII

Mother's Spaghetti Sauce
Old Fashioned Apple Crisp
Krispie Wispies
Date Fridge Cake Recipe from South Africa
PrintNStitch ~ Free Sewing Graphics Program
No Cook Candy
Treat on a Stick
Corn Muffin Mix
Oma's Cookies ~ A German Recipe

Part VIII

Using Your Eyes to Draw ~ An Art Project
Theme Gardens Projects - New Ways to Express Learning
3 Sisters Native American Garden
Sunflower Hypothesis Garden
Zebra Stick Craft
Kaidy's Kommunication Kookies ~ A Chinese Recipe
Macaroni and Cheese

Part IX

Combine Learning and Fun at Art Museums
*Treasure Hunt
*Art Collector
*I Spy an Eye
*Scavenger Hunt
Ever Been on a Microscope Safari?
Sugar Cookies
Blending Music into the Curriculum: Apple Time! (for ages 2-7)
Family Heritage and Timelines
Nectar Recipe for Hummingbirds ~ Science Hands On Learning
Free Science Activities from The Science Place


Help young students appreciate poetry and science with some fun filled
autumn activites. Learn how the Mkeka, one of the seven Kwanzaa symbols, can be
used to create some interesting math projects. Plan a scavenger hunt for
students at the library to help them learn more about Kwanzaa. In the
Fall/Winter 1999 newsletter, you'll also find detailed instructions on how to
make an Oware game and suggestions for having children plan and help create a
Kwanzaa meal.

Those not familiar with Hanukkah traditions, will learn how to make a
menorah, receive traditional Hanukkah song sheets, and see an illustation of
how to make a dredial.

You'll also find some interesting interdisciplinary activities which
could be used to incorporate literature or science into the holiday lesson
planning. You will find links for recipes, lesson plans and activities to
make this hoilday season an extra special time for your students.

In our 1997 Fall/Winter newsletter, we have included a rather large booklist
which includes traditional meals for almost any culture you can think of.
(This booklist appears at the end of our newsletter.) These books have been
recently published, so your local public library probably has purchased them
within the past four years. We have included the ISBN, publisher and author so
you can give this information to the reference librarian and he/she can see
whether your local library system owns a copy.

Whether your roots are from Thailand or New England, you can find some
wonderful recipes in these books which you may remember from your childhood.
Some of these books are to be used by parents and teachers who want to assist
their older children in learning recipes which have been passed down from
generation to generation and reflect the culture/country their ancestors came
from.

Half of this newsletter is devoted to gardening; the other is devoted to
cooking and some deals with holiday planning. We discovered a wonderful
Thanksgiving site which is filled with nearly anything you need to know about
the origins of Thanksgiving to tips which will make this Thanksgiving extra
special for your family. Locate additional, comprehensive multicultural lesson
planning in our Summer Supplement 2001 newsletter.

Our multicultural lesson online planning newsletter will also save you hours of
searching the net
for multicultural lessons.

The links to free lesson planning information are located in the
middle to latter portions of both Part I and Part II of this
newsletter.

Some of the links have actual lesson plans for multicultural
education ranging from preschool through high school.

You can read this issue online by visiting http://www.amonco.org
Just click on the multicultural lesson planning links to the left of
the page.

All of these newsletters can be easily accessed from our home page
(http://www.amonco.org). Just
click on the blue newsletter collection icon.

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