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🇺🇸 The ONLY Memorial Day STEM Craft Your Upper Elementary Classroom Will Ever Need! 🌹⭐ Stop choosing between art, STEM, history, and writing — this standards-aligned Memorial Day STEM Lantern Craft delivers ALL FOUR in one rigorous, meaningful project for Grades 3-5. Students engineer 12 different glowing 3D paper lantern tributes, apply the Engineering Design Process, measure and analyze geometric shapes, calculate fractions and area, and write research-based informational paragraphs hon

🌈 MEMORY TRAIL Jr. — End of Year Memory Book (K-2) 32 pages · 23 activities · 5 sections · NO PREP · B&W print-friendly Sentence frames + drawing boxes for emergent writers & pre-writers Grown-up helper tip on every page · Teacher Guide + Parent Guide included 5 cut-out Memory Badges + Year Hero Certificate 15–25 min per section · Works for the last week or as a year-end keepsake Just print, staple, and hand out — done. ✅ ══════════════════════════════════ 🌟 Section 1 — ALL ABOUT ME (p. 4–8) M