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.

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!

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!

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!

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

Sticker Charts or individual students numbered 1-30. In muted rainbow/pastel spots theme! Easy tool for classroom management: Give out students stickers for good choices, hard work, being kind, etc. and students can trade in stickers for different rewards.

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

Happy mail is a quick and easy way to send parents and guardians a positive note home about their child's behavior. This is a great way to communicate with families and students love receiving happy mail!! Can be printed in black and white on colored paper or printed in color!

Ice cream skip counting puzzles--Includes counting by 2's, 5's, and 10's

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.

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!