Enhancing Elementary

Hands on activity to teach students balanced equations. Students will create two number sentences that are equal using different colored squares and explain how they know the equations are equal/balanced.

Perfect for learning about animal adaptations! Includes a page for feet, teeth, eyes, ears, nose, hair, and tail. Students choose an animal whose trait they want to have and explain how it would help them survive.

Realistic Fiction Pocket Chart Sort Students practice sorting realistic vs. unrealistic problem, setting, character, and solution. Great for practice before students start planning their own realistic fiction stories!

High Frequency Words/ Sight Word Word Wall aligned with The Science of Reading. Orthographically mapped out HFW words with heart parts added on irregular spellings of words. Includes over 200 words! Words Included: A, about, after, again, all, also, always, am, an, and, another, answer, any, are, around, as, ask, at, ate, away, back, be, because, been, before, best, better, big, black, blue, both, boy, bring, brown, but, buy, by, call, called, came, can, carry, change, cold, come, could, day,

Fun Christmas/Holiday or any time of year craft to practice fractions! Students decorate their cookie and partition it into halves, thirds, fourths, or whatever they have been working on!

These fraction posters are designed to help anchor student learning. There are 4 posters in total including definitions and examples for "fraction", "halves", "thirds", and "fourths".

Reader's Response interactive notebook graphic organizers. Includes notebook/journal sized comprehension graphic organizers for students to respond to their reading. What is included? Story MapStory ElementsSequence of EventsCharacter TraitsAuthor's PurposeConnectionsPredictonsInferencingMain idea and DetailsCentral Idea and DetailsAsking QuestionsCompare and Contrast

Spring Flower Craft used to review place value! Includes two options: tens and ones and hundreds, tens and ones Concepts included: Place value with base 10 blocks Comparing numbers (less than, greater than) Ten more, Ten less Expanded Form Standard Form Written Form

Follow up activity for students learning about the animal adaptation camouflage. Students will draw the chameleon in an environment of their choice and camouflage the chameleon to help it blend in to its environment.

This is a fun writing activity to help students master opinion writing. Students will choose what animal that they believe would make the perfect or best pet and think of 3 reasons why they believe that. They can plan out their writing and then create a final draft to publish.

Poetry Templates and Planning Pages Poems Included: -Five Senses Poem -Color Poem -Acrostic Poem -Cinquain Poem -Bio Poem Bonus: -Table of Contents -Cover Page I use this to have students create different types of poems and make a poetry book! You can also pick and choose which poems you would like to do.

Craft for students to review/practice identifying 2D shapes

Fairy Tale planning templates and writing paper/cover page to create a book!

Experiment recording sheet for students to use flashlights and see if they shine through different materials.

After learning about different types of adaptations, students pick a habitat and create an animal using adaptations that would help it survive in their given environment!

Punctuation reference posters/anchor charts

Activity to teach students that shapes can go together to create other shapes/things (a shape is just a shape until...) Pairs perfectly with the book "The Shape of Things" by Dayle Ann Dodds Includes teacher example

Fun thanksgiving craft to practice fractions! Students decorate their pie and partition it into halves, thirds, fourths, or whatever they have been working on.

Experiment for predicting what heating does to different materials!

Realistic Fiction Planning Pages and Book Templates