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This page is dedicated to all you Leaders of Littles out there. You know who you are: You're the teacher looking for just the right resource, the parent hoping to spark JOY in their child, the grandparent wanting to share their love of learning, an aunt or uncle desiring to make memories with your nieces or nephews, a family friend giving parents the night off. Whoever you are, whatever led you here, welcome!
Below lies a menu to all educational resources crafted or gathered by the Wolfe Stew chefs, who together share over twenty years of educational experience spanning Preschool to 6th grade in both homeschool and public-school settings. Can't find exactly what you're looking for? Won't you please consider submitting a "Made to Order QUIZine" form? Find it at the bottom.
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- Idea for EVERY Day Calendars - Calendars with classroom and family ideas for EVERY day. Inspired by daily holidays.
- Browse by Grade Level Bands - Activities crafted specifically for these grade levels.
- Browse by Subject Area - Multi-grade activities and ideas regarding specific subject areas.
- Browse by Season - Multi-grade, cross-curricular activities related to annual seasons.
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Preschool to First Grade
Centers
Who Will Win?Have your learners racing to the finish line with this editable center game.
Book Based Activities
The Big FiveLearn about animals, weather, ordinal numbers, story details, and simple planning with these resources that complement The Big Five by Bella Makatini.
Reading
ABC Nature Walks (YouTube: Mr. Wolfe's Kinder Garden)Join Mr. Wolfe on the trail as he discovers things in nature and discusses the beginning letter of the featured find. A video is available for *almost* every letter along with a continuously expanding learning guide menu to support each video.
Perfect for segmenting, blending and phonemic spelling, use this stoplight color-coded, hands-on tool to help learners identify beginning, middle, and ending sounds.
Full of tried-and-true ideas for name formation practice, from writing to using manipulatives.
A continuously updating pack of resources featuring weather activities for your little learners.
Writing
Name Writing PracticeFull of tried-and-true ideas for name formation practice, from writing to using manipulatives.
Science
Weather ActivitiesA continuously updating pack of resources featuring weather activities for your little learners.
The importance of drinking water with little learners in mind.
Use The Big Five by Bella Makatini to practice identifying verbs and adjectives. Then use them in writing animal clues.
Second to Third Grade
Book Based Activities
The Big FiveUse The Big Five by Bella Makatini to practice identifying verbs and adjectives. Then use them in writing animal clues.
Our STEAM Team is an original cast of characters created to help learners understand the need for STEAM skills in a post-apocalyptic environment. Find the stories and related activities here.
Silas the Scientist (YouTube: Mr. Wolfe's Kinder Garden)
Introduction, read aloud and review of the available corresponding activities.
Silas the Scientist: Vocabulary, Comprehension and Reading Activities
Silas the Scientist: Distinguished Apothecary
Compile a reading list to help Silas on his quest.
Silas the Scientist: Bot Bedlam
Reconstruct the sound of the robot as described in the story.
Silas the Scientist: City Run
Design, create, then run a Silas-inspired obstacle course.
Silas the Scientist: Orphaned World Citizen
In this social studies rich lesson, cadets create a list of vital community roles and complete their personal dossier detailing their contributions as an Orphaned World Citizen.
Silas the Scientist (YouTube: Mr. Wolfe's Kinder Garden)
Introduction, read aloud and review of the available corresponding activities.
Silas the Scientist: Vocabulary, Comprehension and Reading Activities
Silas the Scientist: Distinguished Apothecary
Compile a reading list to help Silas on his quest.
Silas the Scientist: Bot Bedlam
Reconstruct the sound of the robot as described in the story.
Silas the Scientist: City Run
Design, create, then run a Silas-inspired obstacle course.
Silas the Scientist: Orphaned World Citizen
In this social studies rich lesson, cadets create a list of vital community roles and complete their personal dossier detailing their contributions as an Orphaned World Citizen.
Comprehension activities to complement the Victoria STEAM Team story. With this Wolfe Pack, we'll guide you through differentiated before, during, and after reading activities in multiple instructional styles.
A template to help guide learners when researching a specific animal.
Find ways to link the two to really teach writing as an art form. This blog reviews a few books that inspire this type of writing instruction as well as a Wolfe Stew crafted activity that directly links the two.
Science
Animal ProfileA template to help guide learners when researching a specific animal.
Writing
Connecting Art and WritingFind ways to link the two to really teach writing as an art form. This blog reviews a few books that inspire this type of writing instruction as well as a Wolfe Stew crafted activity that directly links the two.
In this YouTube video, Mr. Wolfe describes the role of voice in writing, walks through his example and assigns a writing activity with multiple options for completion, to meet your learner's needs.
Picture books are useful with older learners too. Inspired by The Big Five by Bella Makatini, learners research animals, write their own version of The Big Five featuring varying geographical locations, and create art inspired by Jodi Abbot in this Wolfe Pack.
Book Based Activities
The Big FivePicture books are useful with older learners too. Inspired by The Big Five by Bella Makatini, learners research animals, write their own version of The Big Five featuring varying geographical locations, and create art inspired by Jodi Abbot in this Wolfe Pack.
Literacy
Universal Vocabulary Pack
Here lies a collection of all our vocabulary learning ideas. We will continuously update this pack each time we cook up a new idea.
An organizer to aid reciprocal reading instruction: predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing. Instructional ideas included.
Chicken Soup for the Soul day happens to fall in the month of NaNoWriMo. Read about this opportunity to write with your learners!
Read-a-Thon Activities
Use some of these activities during your next read-a-thon.
Read-a-Thon Activities
Use some of these activities during your next read-a-thon.
A template with a box to draw a picture and lines to write about it. Useful for any type of writing from narratives to reports. Helpful for encouraging reluctant writers to start with drawing a picture. Encourage good penmanship with triple-lined paper. The lines-only second page makes this printable a viable option for older learners too.
STEAM
Our STEAM Team think sheet walks your learner through the STEAM design process.
This colorful and versatile center is available in four varieties so you can individualize it to the tastes of your learners. It really is more a platform for you to use however you require, however if you're looking for us to do the cooking, we're happy to do that too. Wolfe Stew premade color centers cover the following skills: Color identification (PreK-1st); Parts of Speech (2nd & 3rd); and Poetic Devices (4th -6th)
Classroom Management
We've cleared off our "Idea for Every Day" calendar to make room for your awesome ideas.
Feedback NotesSeasonal notes send a positive note home with your learners. Just print off a stack and try to send a few home each day.
Discussion Norms
We cooked these up using both primary and secondary wording with three different stylistic options to keep discussions safe and on topic.
Discussion Norms
We cooked these up using both primary and secondary wording with three different stylistic options to keep discussions safe and on topic.
Brain Breaks: Star Wars
Seasons in General
Equinox and Solstice Manipulative
Use this tool, or have your learners craft it, to explain the changing day lengths throughout the year.
Fall
Featured favorite fall activities of ours both for the home and the classroom.
Would You Rather? Fall Edition
Three "Would You Rather...?" questions for each day of September, October, and November. Questions inspired by daily holidays.
Three "Would You Rather...?" questions for each day of September, October, and November. Questions inspired by daily holidays.
Preschool through Third Grade activities to complement the book, "Going on a Leaf Hunt."
Preschool through Sixth Grade activities to bring fall into the classroom.
Monster Writing Lab
Designed as a Halloween activity, but really applicable for anytime, this Monster Writing Lab contains activities for learners from Preschool to Sixth grade. The blog suggests many more Halloween learning ideas in a Kindergarten setting.
National Pickle Day (November 14th)
Make pickles the target of your learning. Find all sorts of ideas on how to incorporate pickles into your classroom. Don't be afraid of taking the taste-testing pickle challenge with data-recording sheets crafted just for you by the chefs at Wolfe Stew.
Thanksgiving Themed Activities
Find all kinds of cross-curricular, multi-grade activities for Thanksgiving learning including handwriting worksheets cooked up here at Wolfe Stew.
Monster Writing Lab
Designed as a Halloween activity, but really applicable for anytime, this Monster Writing Lab contains activities for learners from Preschool to Sixth grade. The blog suggests many more Halloween learning ideas in a Kindergarten setting.
National Pickle Day (November 14th)
Make pickles the target of your learning. Find all sorts of ideas on how to incorporate pickles into your classroom. Don't be afraid of taking the taste-testing pickle challenge with data-recording sheets crafted just for you by the chefs at Wolfe Stew.
Thanksgiving Themed Activities
Find all kinds of cross-curricular, multi-grade activities for Thanksgiving learning including handwriting worksheets cooked up here at Wolfe Stew.
Winter
Holiday Spirit
Christmas classroom ideas to spread the holiday spirit this season. Blessing planners, holiday spirit discussion prompts, Christmas kindness challenge, caught being kind notes, and verses to pray all cooked right here in your local, Wolfe Stew, hometown kitchen.
December "Would You Rather...?"
Three questions that are inspired by daily holidays in December in a PowerPoint format.
Three questions that are inspired by daily holidays in December in a PowerPoint format.
Three questions inspired by daily holidays in January in a PowerPoint.
Three daily questions inspired by February holidays in a PowerPoint format.
Spring
Three daily questions inspired by daily March holidays in a PowerPoint.
Three questions for every April Day!
Three questions for every May day!
Summer
Three questions for every June day!
Three questions to celebrate daily July holidays.
Three daily questions about August holidays.
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