Danielle Buttel

Do you use CKLA Knowledge and Skills strands?This is meant to be a meaningful activity to connect 2nd graders Knowledge Lessons on Ancient Greece to understanding their Skills concepts of common and proper nouns from their Unit 3 Skills lessons. Includes both a capitalized version and one without. Answer key included. We kept it super simple to not make extra overload for students with sensory needs. The content is simple and direct to the skill being practiced. Also includes larger sized car

Quick activity made to align to CKLA 2nd Grade Ancient Greece Unit. Chariot racing was mentioned with the Olympics lesson. Students get the chance to design and learn a little more background knowledge about what a chariot is. Made for students creativity or for planning but allows the ability to be flexible with where you go! The photo bonus activity is an example from my classroom where we did SPOOKY OLYMPICS and decorated with Halloween themes. The students then made kid-size versions and r

This is an outline to help guide students to create their own story after their CKLA skills Unit 1 decodable "The Cat Bandit". Start your year off adding in student engagement and students owning a piece of their learning. There are many uses from just sharing to creating a paragraph or illustrating a class book! Some Ideas of Use: Group brainstorming or anchor chart worksheetTurn and Talk PracticeSEL Practice for active listening to others workWriting prompts to inspire creativityStructure for