Inspiration with KTJO

This is a great reading activity for students to complete after reading the story, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs by Jon Scieszka. Students will identify the characters, then cut and paste the setting, a problem and solution, and a cause and effect. A quick way for students to practice identifying story elements. Enjoy! By Midnight Inspirations with KTJO

Get Pac-Man fever with this fun math comparison game. Students will love using Pac-man to show greater than, less, than, or equal in addition to identifying two-digit numbers using base-ten blocks. The packet contains six ghosts, six base-ten cards for comparison, student game board, an additional game board for continued math practice, a homework page, morning practice page, and detailed instructions on how to prep and play. There are 14 pages you can use to enhance student understanding with g

A fun winter themed book activity. Students enjoy and love trying to sequence this fun story by Lita Judge. A quick way to encourage students to work on finding details in order to sequence events. By Midnight Inspirations with KTJO

Students will love this short, fun Halloween story about Skeleton and his friend Ghost. After reading the story, as a whole group or in small groups, test the kids memory by having them sequence the events. Does Skeleton finally get rid of his hiccups?

Clever Tom and the Leprechaun is a great story to practice problem and solution. This is a fun March reading activity that will allow students to identify the problem and solution from the story to the characters. Read the story as a whole group or in small groups. Discuss the characters in the story and the problem each of the characters had and how they solved their own problem (or tried to solve it.) Give students the first page and then the half page with the pots. Have students cut the pot

Here are two quick activities to use with this popular book by Lucille Colandro. Students can practice alphabetical order and sentence writing with the many nouns the old lady swallows and/or students can order the events and answer some comprehension questions. With this one, students can number the events after reading the story or sequence it as they listen. Either way students will have fun with this March favorite. Have fun! Midnight Inspirations by KTJO

This is a great fall math activity using ten-frames to add tens. Students start with an equation and then it's time to get up and move. Students search the room for the ten-frame seeds that match their leaf equation. Next, test the students listening, tracing, and cutting abilities as you guide them through making a cute apple. Students will use their knowledge of addition for numbers 10 -20. Use it as a bulletin board to decorate for fall. By Midnight Inspirations with KTJO

This is an activity for drawing conclusions and inferences using a fun folktale - The Tortoise and the Hare. The comprehension worksheet could be used with just about any version of The Tortoise and the Hare, but I used The Really Groovy Story of the Tortoise and the Hare for my inspiration. The two-sided page has students writing sentences to answer questions as well as a couple of multiple choice. Then students can compare two more animals to the tortoise and the hare and decide who they think

This is a math unit of story problems for young readers. Recognizable characters will engage students while solving these word problems. You will get a Word Clues poster, two 2-sided addition practice pages, two 2-sided subtraction pages, one 2-sided mixed review page, one 2-sided quiz, and four 1-sided homework pages. By Midnight Inspirations with KTJO

This is a compound word activity perfect for around Valentine's Day. Students will make words by matching the heart pieces and add words to create compound words. Use this as practice during morning work, as an introduction activity to compound words, or homework. Turn the pages into a compound word packet or use individually; either way students will have fun! Enjoy! From: Midnight Inspirations with KTJO

Everybody loves Bear and his friends and the story Bear Wants More is no exception. Students will love reading about Bear in the springtime, waking after a long winter's nap. Students will practice drawing conclusions filling out a chart. They can write complete sentences or use bullets to fill out the chart. In addition, a rhyming page with some words that rhyme but do not belong to the same word family gives students' good practice at listening for the sound. Use the pages together (back to ba

This is perfect February practice for skip counting. Use the heart pages as a math packet or individually to exercise students written skip counting practice. In this group you will get: * Count by 5's * Count by 10's * Count by 2's *Backward counting by 1's By Midnight Inspirations with KTJO

Students say and listen for beginning and ending sounds using this fun holiday lights page. Where do you hear the /l/ sound? Is it at the beginning or the end? Then extend the word work by having students us some of the words in simple sentences. by Midnight Inspirations

A fun project activity to go with Bear Says Thanks by Karma Wilson. After reading the story, students will identify the little details of what the characters brought to share with Bear. In addition, students will practice sequencing the characters while putting together a festive cornucopia. I hope you enjoy this timeless story and activity. By Midnight Inspirations with KTJO

Get your students moving and cooperatively working together to sort short "a" word families. A great fall lesson for a Morning Meeting activity, whole group word work, small group, or as a center. Extend the lesson into a writing activity, too! Enjoy from Midnight Inspirations with KTJO!

Check your student's understanding. This quick comprehension activity covers setting, main idea, and details. You can do this as whole group with younger students or have students read and answer on their own.

This fun holiday activity is a great way for students to compare themselves to the Snowmen at Christmas by Carolyn Buehner. The snowman graphic organizer is perfect for the kids to fill out and then extend the activity by having students write sentences using the compare/contrast snowman. How much do we have in common with our snowmen friends? Let me know how it goes. By Midnight Inspirations by KTJO

This a reading activity paired with the book, Christmas Eve Good Night, by Doug Cushman. A fun story that uses sound words to help tell the story. Students will enjoy sequencing the story by the characters and then have fun unscrambling the onomatopoeia words each character uses in the story. Can be used for 1st - 3rd grade. Mostly used with 1st and 2nd. I hope you enjoy.

Use this quick rhyming activity for a fall apple theme. Students match words that rhyme after reading the story, Big Red Apple by Tony Johnston. By Midnight Inspirations with KTJO

Using the classic tale of Chicken Little, students will draw conclusions and answer questions. My inspiration came from author Mark Teague's version, The Sky is Falling. The two-sided page will ask students to write complete sentences, answer multiple choice, and true or false questions. In addition, students will need to use their deductive reasoning and be detail detectives while listening and looking at the illustrations. I hope you enjoy this activity! By Midnight Inspirations with KTJO