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Enclosed are thirty-one word searches, one for each day of the month of December. Each page starts out with a short summary of something significant that happened on that day in history. Underneath is a puzzle containing key words from the summary. Have your students do one a day or save them to use throughout the year when you are teaching topics related to the wordsearch.

Students build their vocabulary through making word associations. They build their logic skills through analyzing analogies. So, word analogies are exactly the type of critical thinking skills we should have students engaging in on a regular basis. Included in this packet are six word analogy Centers around subjects including: U.S. geography, math, art, measurements, opposites, and word parts. Use these during a unit on one of the subjects above or have them available as extra credit station

Here is a free page from my fall packet--a Dia de los Muertos wordsearch.

This is a fall packet containing five activities/stations for Halloween and Day of the Dead. It includes puzzles, a scavenger hunt and writing prompts.

Students who are learning new vocabulary are making associations. This is how they make sense of words in their surroundings...by connecting them to schemata. This activity is created to ask students to group words, identify the word that doesn't belong and explain why. It turns this important mental activity into a written activity, requiring students to use metacognition. The topics vary from geography to Spanish numbers to cognates and beyond.

This is a 30 question matching quiz that asks students to identify the Greek gods and goddesses by their characteristics and legends. The Greek gods/goddesses that are covered include: Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, Hera, Hestia, Demeter , Aphrodite , Hephaestus, Apollo, Ares, Hermes, Athena, and Artemis.

Here is a worksheet you can use to have your students practice formatting a variety of sources uses MLA guidelines.

Ever struggle to engage your students in an activity where they dialogue in Spanish with each other? Here is a lesson plan and necessary handouts for a class session of human bingo/loteria humana.

Here is a packet of winter holiday word problems practicing fractions, decimals and percentages.

This is a three part quiz on the Scarlet Letter. It contains short answer questions, characterization questions and an essay.

I really enjoy preparing food with my students, and so do they. So, here are three easy, bakeless cookie recipes to make with students for the holidays.

This is a free one page handout for brainstorming ideas to write about and a brief outline for how to format a formal letter.

This is a word search with one clue--to find the 10 American Christmas traditions hidden inside it.

Many of my students live in communities struggling with violence. I created a homework assignment requiring them to survey people in their community and analyze the results about the problem.

This is a simple conjugation chart and bingo card. It is an easy and fun way to practice conjugation.

This document has links to high quality databases of children's literature.