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!

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

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.

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.

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

10 More 10 Less Word Problems/Story Problems. Includes 7 word problems!

Desk name plates/ name tags with alphabet and number line to 30 in muted rainbow spots theme. Comes with black borders or rainbow borders.

Students work in groups or pairs to see who can melt an ice cube the fastest. The idea of this activity is for students to see that adding heat to the ice cube will make it melt. Students will see that the state of matter changed from a solid to a liquid when heat was added.

Holiday Word Builder:Includes 8 different winter holiday words for students to cut out letters and build words with them. Super fun and easy phonics, reading, or writing activity for students to do before winter break! Words included: Happy Holidays Christmas Hanukkah Reindeer Snowman Snowflake Presents Winter Break

Book Companion craft/activity to go along with the book Squirrel's New Year's Resolution. Includes options 4 different options depending on your students needs: with and without sentence stem to trace and with and without gluing seperate pieces. Fun writing activity for students to make goals for the new year!

Fun and creative way for students to practice place value! Students use base ten blocks to create any picture that they would like. After creating their picture, students count up their total value. Students write their number in standard form, expanded form, and word form, and identify how many hundreds, tens, and ones are in the number.

Ice cream themed place value matching puzzle. Students match standard form, tens and ones, base ten picture, and standard form. Includes 2 digit numbers.

Fun and meaningful way for students to practice skip counting by 2, 5, and 10. Students will draw a family portrait and skip count to find how many of different body parts that their families have in all.

Poster, bookmarks, and activity to practice reading fluency (accuracy, expression, punctuation and rate) After learning about reading fluency students will record themselves reading a story and watch it back to reflect.

Ice cream themed time matching puzzles! Students match digital clock to analog clock. Includes time to the hour (o'clock) and half hour (thirty).