Wendy Bell

Growing Bundle of all 5.1 Resources and Notebooks

Looking for a resource to teach Virginia (VA) Science SOL 5.1 c? This is the notebook for you! From work on key vocabulary to guided practice on analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating data, this notebook leads students to practice with different types of graphs and tables, comparing data, and refining design solutions. Interactive Notebook pages are a great way to introduce these topics to establish classroom vocabulary for referring to the scientific investigation process. Establishing a gener

Looking to get some great information about your students as you start the year? This 5-4-3-2-1 Parent Survey is a great, quick glimpse of the student through the eyes of the parent/guardian. Over my 7 years using this survey, I have learned some very valuable information about my students that has helped me create long lasting relationships with the parent and the student.

This bundle includes everything you need for a first week of school to review the basic skills of observing and inferring! Start with a whole group lesson directed by slides to differentiate between observations and inferences. This lesson is engaging and fun for students as they get to practice the skill of basing inferences on observations that can be made! Next, have students introduce themselves using the About Me Inferencing template where students decorate and fill in their backpack wit

Use this product as part of a daily routine to practice the challenging concepts of observing, inferencing, questioning, and hypothesizing. Help students differentiate between observations as things you can see versus inferences as things you think, feel, or believe. Next have students begin developing testable questions and practicing the If, then format of a hypothesis. This makes a great daily warm up or quick general review! Great for 4th and 5th Grade Virginia SOL Review!

Looking for a resource to teach Virginia (VA) Science SOL 5.1a? This is the notebook for you! From work on key vocabulary to guided practice on identifying testable questions, recognizing a hypothesis as a cause and effect relationship, and practicing identifying design problems, this resource covers it all! Interactive Notebook pages are a great way to introduce these topics to establish classroom vocabulary for referring to the scientific investigation process. Establishing a general understa

Looking for a resource to teach Virginia (VA) Science SOL 5.1 b? This is the notebook for you! From work on key vocabulary to guided practice on determining independent, dependent, and constant variables and using metric measurement tools and units this has it all. Interactive Notebook pages are a great way to introduce these topics to establish classroom vocabulary for referring to the scientific investigation process. Establishing a general understanding of these products at the beginning of t

This is a great way to get a fun writing sample from your students! Perfect as a back to school, beginning of the year writing activity. This allows your students to demonstrate creativity by writing a prompted narrative story. As only one emoji is revealed at a time, students must use creativity to link the emojis together into one fluent story. Available in both 3 sentence and 5 sentence format. Students will use an emoji generator to create a story. Emoji generator used in samples found here

It is always fun when starting the year by learning about your students! This pennet employs the 5-4-3-2-1 format to gain some key information about each student while allowing them to add some creativity to each piece!

My students seem to always struggle with knowing the difference and the relationship between observations and inferences. Here is a quick, fun mini lesson to help refresh their memories and create a common vocabulary to use in your science classroom!

Looking for a first week of school science activity? This is a great way to review key science vocab such as observations and inferences while getting to know your students and allowing them to get to know their classmates. Students will begin by designing their backpack and the three things inside. They will then circulate the room, making observations and inferences about their fellow classmates. This is an all around great first week of science activity, perfect for back to school!

Perfect print and go bulletin board for Virginia Science SOL 5.1. Use these cards as a display in your classroom and easily refer to key vocabulary as you teach your science lessons. This resource matches up perfectly with my other 5.1 resources. Be sure to check them out below! FREEBIE: VA Sci SOL 5.1 Interactive Notebook Cover and TabsVA Sci SOL 5.1 a Interactive Notebook: Testable Questions, Hypothesis as Cause and Effect, and Defining Design ProblemsVA Sci SOL 5.1 b Interactive Notebook: Def

This would be a great way to get to know your students better at the beginning of the year through the creation of a timeline of their lifetimes! Students will visit Life Stats and type in their birthday. This website will tell them things like how many breaths they have taken in a lifetime, how many times their heart has beaten, how many more people have electricity now than before, etc. This would be great practice with reading numbers, working on place value, and comparing numbers as well. Si

This is a great number sense get to know me activity for the first week of school. Engage students by having them share information about themselves while using math facts to do so. This is easily differentiated as the equations created can by advanced to step equations or simple addition and subtraction. Start the math talks early in the year with this easy to use resource available in both color and black and white!

FREEBIE! Enjoy this observation and inference free resource to help your students practice differentiating between an inference statement and an observation statement. This dog themed resource would be a great quick check or easy homework assignment for students. Don't forget to check out my other Observation and Inferencing resources! Observation and Inference About Me Back to School ActivityObservation and Inference Mini Lesson Slides

Here is a great cover for starting Unit 1! Pairs perfectly with my Interactive Notebooks for all Virginia Science 5.1 SOLs. VA Sci SOL 5.1a Testable Questions, Hypothesis as Cause and Effect, & Design Problems Interactive NotebookIt would mean a lot to me if you would also take the time to leave a kind review as I work on bettering my products each and every day. Thank you for downloading my product!