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Native American Heritage Totem Pole Crafts & Indigenous Writing Activities
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Add to cart❤️Looking for fun and creative ways 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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“Thank you for this resource! My students are going to have a blast making these.”
“this is the perfect resource i would recommend to anyone”
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Thank you for this resource! My students are going to have a blast making these.
Reply from Kimberly's Classroom
Thank you for choosing to use this resource with your 5th graders! I hope they enjoy the activity! Wishing you all a wonderful school year! :)
Pastel P.
Grades taught: 5th
This is a fun and easy activity to use with our study of Native Americans.
Reply from Kimberly's Classroom
Hi there! Thank you for choosing to use this activity with your 5th graders! I appreciate the kind words and am glad that this resource was a good fit for your classroom. Wishing you a great start to the new school year! :)
Classworks
Grades taught: 5th
This resource made the topic more engaging and accessible for my students. It helped bring the lesson to life and encouraged participation.
Reply from Kimberly's Classroom
Hi Abbeigh! It warms my heart to hear that this resource was helpful for your students. I really appreciate you taking time to share your experience and hope you are having a wonderful summer! :)
Abbeigh G.
Grades taught: 5th
We used this for rotations on Native American Heritage Day. The kids loved creating their totem poles.
Reply from Kimberly's Classroom
Hi Caitlyn! Thank you for sharing your experience with this resource! I'm so glad that your students enjoyed the activity. That means a lot to me. I hope you and your kiddos have a great rest of the school year! :)
Caitlyn F.
Grades taught: 3rd, 4th, 5th
I purchased this to use for my students as part of our social studies monthly theme. I absolutely loved it and more importantly so did my students!
Reply from Kimberly's Classroom
Hi there! You are so incredibly kind! It means the world to me that this activity was helpful in your classroom and that your students enjoyed it. I really appreciate the feedback and hope you have a wonderful rest of the school year! :)
The T.
Grades taught: 4th, PreK, K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th
this was al ot of fun for my kiddos. I wish the terminology used to address the Indigeous people was correct for Canadian content
Reply from Kimberly's Classroom
Hi there! I really appreciate your kind and honest feedback! I'm so glad that your students enjoyed this activity and love the idea of offering a version of this activity with Canadian terminology. I will look into this option further! :)
lakhwinder G.
Grades taught: 3rd, 4th, 5th
Awesome resource! Easy to use and students were engaged.
Reply from Kimberly's Classroom
Hi Aline! Thank you for choosing to use this resource with your 5th graders and for leaving a kind review! I'm so glad that your students enjoyed this activity and I hope you have a great summer! :)
Aline V.
Grades taught: 5th
This was such a great resource! I used it in my EL classroom and my students were engaged and learned a ton!
Reply from Kimberly's Classroom
Hi Michael! I really appreciate the kind words! Thank you for choosing to use this resource with your 5th graders. I'm so glad that your students enjoyed it and hope you have a wonderful summer! :)
Michael K.
Grades taught: 5th
All my students loved this we will forsue be doing it again.
Reply from Kimberly's Classroom
Hi Sheila! I'm so glad your students enjoyed this activity! Thank you for taking time out of your busy day to share your positive experience. It means a lot! I hope you and your students have a great rest of the school year! :)
Sheila A.
Grades taught: K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th
My students really enjoying reading and then making their own totem poles. I enjoyed having the different levels for students. Thanks for creating this.
Reply from Kimberly's Classroom
Hi Michele! It means a lot to me that your 5th graders enjoyed these activities and that the differentiation was helpful in your classroom. Thank you for choosing to use this resource with your students and I hope you all have a wonderful rest of the school year! :)
Michele M.
Grades taught: 5th
My students loved this activity. They couldn't wait to work on it and finish. So much fun!
Reply from Kimberly's Classroom
Hi Nicole! Thank you for choosing to use this resource with your 5th graders and for sharing your experience! It means so much to me that your students loved completing the activities. I hope you are all doing well and having a great start to the school year! :)
Nicole K.
Grades taught: 5th
My students loved learning about totem poles. Finding this project was perfect for expanding on their learning.
Reply from Kimberly's Classroom
Hi Allie! Thank you for choosing to use this activity with your students and for leaving a kind review. I love hearing that this resource was helpful in your classroom and I really hope you're having a great school year! :)
Allie L.
Grades taught: 5th
Solid value for what you get. Worked well in class.
Reply from Kimberly's Classroom
Hi Will! Thank you for the kind words! It means a lot to me that this resource worked well in your classroom. I hope you and your 5th graders are having a wonderful school year so far! :)
Will T.
Grades taught: 5th
This was a fun, easy project for my students to do to understand better what the totem pole meant to Native Americans. They were able to create their own and hang them on their lockers.
Reply from Kimberly's Classroom
Hi Brandy! Thank you for the kind and thoughtful review. I truly appreciate it! I'm so glad that this craft was helpful for your 5th graders and I love that they were hung up on their lockers! I hope you all have a great rest of the school year and summer! :)
Brandy B.
Grades taught: 5th
My students loved this resource. When we read and learned about the native Americans and the totems they used. They were so excited to be able to create a classroom totem.
Reply from Kimberly's Classroom
Hi Daphne! It means the world to me that your 5th graders enjoyed this resource! I really appreciate you taking time to leave positive feedback and to share your experience! Wishing you a wonderful start to the school year! :)
Daphne L.
Grades taught: 5th
We enjoyed this activity. The graphics are nice and it fit well with studying totem poles.
Reply from Kimberly's Classroom
Hi Talia! Thank you for the kind words and positive feedback! It means so much to me that your 5th graders enjoyed this activity. I appreciate you taking time to leave a review and hope you have a wonderful rest of the school year! :)
Talia C.
Grades taught: 5th
My students loved this project. They enjoyed making their own personal totem pole to take home and writing about why they chose the animals they put on their totem pole.
Reply from Kimberly's Classroom
Hi Melissa! I'm so glad your students enjoyed these activities! Thank you for sharing your experience and for taking time to leave a kind review! I hope you and your kiddos have a wonderful holiday season! :)
Melissa B.
Grades taught: 3rd, 4th, 5th
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