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This is a Thanksgiving activity based on the book Stone Soup by Marcia Brown. It involves making the soup.

This is a unit designed to go with stories from around the world. The exact books have not been selected so that the teacher can choose from what is available at their school and at their students' level. There are many activity ideas and graphic organizers designed to be used with the unit. I actually gave this to my teacher assistants to do with groups of students during guided reading. My students enjoyed the stories and the activities that went with it.

This is a science experiment perfect to do in October close to Halloween.

This is a record mini book that each students records what color apple was their favorite and describes it in a few words. Then as a class favorite apples are tallied and then graphed. Three questions are asked about the graph. The students are then asked to draw an apple tree through the seasons. It works very well with the book The Apple Pie Tree.

This lesson involves the teacher making bread in a bread maker while reading stories about making bread. This lesson works on vocabulary as well as reading comprehension. There is a science aspect involved as well with the cooking. This lesson is designed to accommodate English language learners and special education students.

This is the hand out to scaffold young children into writing simple reports on a subject. I had my students then take this and create a power point or they can be taken and used to create an actual written report. I used this with first graders but it can be used with older students as well.

This is the hand out to scaffold young children into writing simple book reports. I had my students then take this and create a power point or they can be taken and used to create an actual written report. I used this with first graders but it can be used with older students as well.

This is an in-service to help teachers to become cognizant of what they do to develop language within their classrooms.

This is a great beginning of the year activity. It is a science experiment designed to allow students to realize they are unique and each have their own thumbprint.

This is an 8 writing periods of 45 minutes mini-unit designed for 1st grade esp English language learner students. This unit works on writing using the past, present and future.