Balloons over broadway balloon ideas

Anna Demeritt on Instagram: "One of my FAVORITE activities during the school year is doing our own Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parades! We read the book “Balloons Over Broadway” to learn the history of the parade. Then we make our own floats! It’s SO fun! Check out my TpT to snatch these worksheets!"

Room 20 read Balloons Over Broadway & created our own balloons for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade! 🎈 @JMDragons5

Basing STEM off of favorite read-alouds is my new obsession; it is the perfect way to integrate reading with science, technology, engineering, and math. In my post about Halloween Storybook STEM, I took four of my favorite Halloween read-alouds and created STEM challenges to go with them. Now I've done the same thing with Thanksgiving stories. Finding quality Thanksgiving stories is not the easiest task; for some reason, there are tons of picture books about Halloween, and billions (more or…

READY TO ROW: Balloon pancakes seemed like a great way to kick-off our holiday row! Jordan colored our story disk and added it to New York! We’ve read Balloons over Broadway: many times, but …

Use Creativity Challenges to set up your Balloons Over Broadway STEAM Activities!

Maria Provenzano is taking styrofoam balls and turning them into a mini-parade.

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Students in kindergarten through second grade have been celebrating Thanksgiving by reading and talking about the book Balloons Over Broadway by Melissa Sweet. We brought the parade to life for students by sharing online images from early Macy's parades, and we took students to Macy's website to talk about the stats on some of this year's balloons. Finally, we played a short video that showed students how people work together to move the balloons along the parade route. Students then had the…

Using Balloon Creativity Challenges to Set Up Balloons Over Broadway STEAM Activity