Enhancing Elementary

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.

Worksheet to go along with living nonliving activity: Students will compare live earthworms to gummy worms, record their observations and explain how they know which one is living and nonliving. Such a fun, hands on activity to learn about living vs. nonliving!

Students test out and record if different 3D shapes roll, stack or slide Included shapes: Sphere Cube Rectangular prism Cone Cylinder Triangular prism Pyramid

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

Two games to practice turn around facts/commutative property Addition Dice Roll: Students roll dice two times to create a number sentence and write the turn around fact Subtraction Dominoes: Students choose a domino and write a number sentence that shows the total minus one side and create the turn around fact

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.

Recording to sheet to go along with cracker lab experiment. Super fun and engaging activity to teach the properties of matter!

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.

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!

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

Experiment for predicting what heating does to different materials!

Realistic Fiction Planning Pages and Book Templates

Recording sheet for observing and describing the different types of soil: sand, silt, and clay. Students will look at different types of soil, draw a picture, and describe the color, size, and texture.

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

Students predict what will happen when we add heat to popcorn kernels and explain whether or not the state of matter was changed!

Students estimate how many dice rolls that it will take to get to 100! Then roll their die and record how many it actually took. Great for 100th day of school or just for counting to 100 practice!