Creative Learning Ideas

This is the perfect Holiday Author Study. Included in this unit is a reproducible booklet for students to use as you read through the different picture books: An Orange for Frankie, Uncle Vova's Tree, Welcome Comfort, Christmas Tapestry, and the Trees of the Dancing Goats. Reading strategies and writing prompts are built into the booklet, as well as real-world connections and background knowledge for her stories. After finishing the books, use the extension activities for hands-on connections t

Have students cut out these notes and glue in to their math journal when learning about rounding. Includes fill-in the blanks with simple vocabulary and steps for rounding a number. Also includes a cute picture to help concrete students visualize which numbers "rest" and which numbers "raise the score." Answer key included. If you enjoy this resource, download Rounding Frogs Sorting Game as an activity students can play to practice their rounding skills.

Do you have students who are ready for Literature Study groups but still need some scaffolded support? Then this is just the pack for you! Included are guided activities (vocabulary words and text based questions) to be used in one week of class in guided groups for the first half of the book. Students then use the Book Mark to complete the book independently applying the skills from the previous week. Granny Torrelli Makes Soup is on a reading level of 4.5.

Need a fun, hands-on activity to introduce the Scientific Method? This activity is just what you need. Kids will love learning what happens to different types of gummy candy that are left in water over 24 hours! Use this experiment to meaningfully go through the steps of the scientific method. This pack includes step by step instructions for the experiment, recording pages for students, pre/post test, extension activity ideas, and word wall cards. Great way to integrate science and math as stude

Puzzled Penguin is a cute, little penguin who needs student's help in figuring out whether he has the right or wrong answer. Students respond to P. Penguin in a speech bubble and use words and numbers to justify their response back to him. Students must use critical thinking skills in order to support their reasoning. This pack includes: comparing numbers, writing numbers, subtracting and adding numbers, multiplying, dividing, comparing fractions, unit fractions, mixed numbers, decimals, and ela

This pack includes resources to compare and contrast the themes among three different folktales: "Martina the Beautiful Cockroach" (Cuban Folktale), "Mufaro's Beautiful Daughters" (African Folktale), and "The Rough-Face Girl" (Native American Folktale.) Handouts to use while reading each book as well as a quiz are included. After reading the three tales, students write their own folktale following the same format of a character looking for someone to marry or befriend. Plan pages, checklists,

These three problems allow for students to construct their own answer and then justify the solution. The questions are based off facts about the human body system: respiratory, digestive, and circulatory. The math word problems require students to round to the nearest ten, repeated addition or multiplication, and subtraction.

This packet includes several activities for the start of school including an All About Me page, Reading Interest Survey, and a Get To Know You Glyph Activity, and a Learning Style Inventory. The packet also includes management pages such as How Students Get Home first day of school, Reading checkout pages, Book list pages for students, Book Monitor pages, Username and Password page for students, Guidelines for Literacy Workshop, and a setting goals page for students, Student of the Week, procedu

This pack includes what you need to practice and reinforce perimeter and area skills. Included are cards to be used in math centers for students to practice solving various problems, Hands-on activities for constructing shapes, Geoboard questions and record sheets, Problem solving pages, word problems for discovery math/CGI, and a quiz for an assessment of student's understanding. Created by Jaclyn Seiders, NBCT

Do you have students who are ready for Literature Study groups but still need some scaffolded support? Then this is just the pack for you! Included are guided activities (vocabulary words and text based questions) to be used in one week of class in guided groups for the first half of the book. Students then use the Book Mark to complete the book independently, applying the skills from the previous week. Dying to Meet you by Kate Klise is on a reading level of 4.9. Students will love the pieces o

This Guided Reading pack is designed to be used to get students excited and into the book by using Guided Reading strategies for the first half of the book and then releasing responsibility to the students to finish the book on their own. The Guided Reading pages include vocabulary words for each of the first 8 chapters, inferencing questions, purposes/tasks for each day, and a spot for students to record their responses. After the first week, students complete the book by responding on the prov

Do you have students who are ready for Literature Study groups but still need some scaffolded support? Then this is just the pack for you! Included are guided activities (vocabulary words and text based questions) to be used in one week of class in guided groups for the first half of the book. Students then use the Book Mark to complete the book independently applying the skills from the previous week. No Talking is on a reading level of 5.0.

This journal entry is ready to be cut out and glued into Reading Journals or student's notes. The information is presented like a Nonfiction piece of text embedding the new vocabulary and content skills into the layout. Students will learn what the words mean and can also see them being used in context. Great way to introduce Nonfiction. Answer key included.