Golden Ideas

Every November there is a day completely dedicated to kindness! This activity lets students think about those around them that show kindness. After thinking of that special person in their lives, this activity has students write how this person has demonstrated kindness. There is enough room for student to write one or multiple sentences- depending on grade level. Additionally, students can draw a picture at the bottom if they so chose. I hope this activity encourages and spreads kindness! I

This Thanksgiving themed math operation sort provides students with an excellent review of multiplication and division! Typically something that elementary students struggle with is reading a word problem and then determining the operation to use to solve it. This math operation sort focuses on finding key words and strategies to not only solve the problem- but differentiate between multiplication and division. Students will love these Thanksgiving-themed problems, reinforcing not only facts but

Your students will love this Froot Loop math activity! This is an excellent resource for students from 2nd - 4th grade. This activity allows them to practice sorting, collecting data, displaying data on a tally chart, and then transferring that data to a bar graph. Additionally, there are word problems to answer regarding their data. *Extension materials include fraction practice are included! FILES INCLUDE: (color or black & white) - Froot Loop Math- Prediction and Discovery Worksheet: (a

In Unit 2, students will be asking to complete a classification project. My students benefitted from having their information in a chart format, rather than a booklet. Fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals are all listed for the students. The following boxes and text are also organized for students to complete the following:Animal group: Animals groups are listed. Students may draw an animal that fits into that specific group. I too tell my students to draw an appropriate habitat

At the end of Unit 2, students are asked to write an informational text about a particular animal. These are beautiful final copy sheets for your students to get creative on! There are 3 different templates to choose from: -Template One: "Animal Classification Writing" heading and lines to write. -Template Two: "Animal Classification Writing" heading, lines to write, and a blank box for students to draw their specific animal. -Template Three: Students create their own heading, lines to write,

My students benefitted from specific guidelines & graphic organizers for a variety of lessons in Units 1 & 2 with the CKLA curriculum.In these documents, you will find supplemental materials for the following lessons: Unit 1, Lesson 4: "The Wild Woods"- This resource gives the students the prompt and guides for writing their responsesUnit 1, Lesson 14: "The Open Road"- This resource has the students find the setting, characters, and plot during the beginning, middle and end of the text. This is

This interactive resource has been a game changer for me while using CKLA, specifically for the spelling. For each spelling list, Units 2-9, students will have a place to sort their spelling words into the correct spelling pattern. This provides for an excellent visual- also helping them once they get to the assessment! This resource includes: Units 2-9 individual spelling sheets for each list Name, due date, and pattern linesSpelling pattern columns Challenge/ content words space for student

This winter themed worksheet gives students practice with rounding to the nearest ten and hundred. Students will have to carefully follow directions to round each snowball to the nearest hundred, while rounding each snowflake to the nearest ten. There is an answer key provided for easy grading!

This winter-themed math operation sort provides students with an excellent review of multiplication and division. After students have worked with both of these operations, it is so important for them to be able to differentiate what operation is needed to solve a variety of problems. This math operation sort focuses on finding key words and strategies to not only solve the problem- but differentiate between multiplication and division. Students will love this winter themed activity! This acti