Amy Larson

Use this story map after you read Strega Nona.

I made these vocabulary assessments to go along with the spelling lists that come from Saxon Phonics lists. My kids take the spelling test and then do a vocabulary test so that I can be sure that they know the meaning of the word and not only the spelling.

A test on Jimmy Carter and a peanuts coloring page they can color and write about Jimmy Carter on the back.

Color a pond. Cut it out. Glue pond on construction paper. Color and cut out only the animals that belong near a pond, and glue them near the pond.

Activities for all of the Indians mentioned above: sorting activities tests coloring/writing picture cut/paste

Activities to go with the story

Each of the sheets can be projected on the board with an overhead and the kids an do it in their journals for morning work...or you can print them, or use them all to make a book for the kids. I used color so I could project them on board, but if you print them they'll just print grayscale, unless you have a color printer.

Sorting activity for complete and incomplete activities. You can print them and laminate them for a workstation or print them for each child to sort and glue on construction paper.

Color each type of ant. Match the ant name to the job it performs. Glue them in matches on construction paper.

You can use these for a unit on baseball, or a unit on Jackie Robinson. there's a Jackie Robinson test included. The Venn diagram is for comparing and contrasting Jackie Robinson with the Maya and Miguel video on United Streaming called "The Slump". They watch video and then do venn diagram.

Cut out the sentences (3 groups to a page), and sort them into fact or fiction.

Lots of ideas for 2D and 3D shapes

Read a Kite story, color picture, and write the beginning, middle, and end of story

Color the Easter basket. Cut out Easter eggs to place around the basket. Use the poster for the kids to put the Easter words in ABC order, and then fill out sheet using those same words and use them in sentences.

Worksheets to enhance your teaching of commas

Write the 2 words that make a compound word, plus the compound word, and then use the compound word to write a story. Also, match the cupcakes together that will make a compound word and glue them on construction paper (or print and laminate for a center).

Activities to use for an animal/plant unit.

Mixed phonics skills sheets you can project on the board for kids to do as morning work in their journals.

Activities on Community Helpers/Law Day

This is a sequence sheet that goes with the story Bedtime Thumps.Children can color picture of bed, and then fill in the beginning, middle, and end.