Learning by Lo

This project allows students to share their own cultures and traditions with their classmates. The students work on a Holiday's Around the World project by creating an informational poster about a holiday that is special to them and their family. Included are the directions that you can send home with each student, a note taking guide, a map, and writing pages for students.

Children will create their own ice cream shop! After they design their shop and choose their flavors, they will work through solving various problems about selling scoops of ice cream. This activity does not require a lot of materials and includes multiple ways to engage learners in practicing math skills.

This (editable) behavior chart breaks a student's day into four parts. I filled it in for the subjects I teach but you can fill it in for any subject and even add sections throughout the day. I circle the student's rating for each behavior. This is easy to keep up with throughout the day and can go home daily or at the end of the week as a way to communicate with parents.

Students will go through a series of word problems to practice addition, subtraction, and counting coins. The activities range from simple to some that are more challenging.

This log is great for students who are still in the earlier stages of learning how to read. They should be able to locate the title and author of a book and copy it directly to their reading log. In addition, students should locate three unfamiliar words and copy them into the boxes on the reading log. Even my below grade level students can complete this independently without much support after having the opportunity to practice a few times. Students are held accountable for independent reading

This activity is great to take along during a walk outdoors or playtime in the backyard. Students will use four of their five senses to describe the world around them.

Students can use this page as a guide for planning their designs for making a gingerbread house! This is a great way to bring the engineering design process to a really fun winter activity.

Students can try making comparisons using similes before adding similes to their own poems.

These are three different writing checklists that students can use at home to check their work before they decide they are finished. If you have a plastic sleeve or a laminator, laminate the lists so that your child can reuse the same one over and over! Students can use a writing utensil or dry erase marker to check off each element after they complete their writing assignments. The checklists are specific to opinion writing, creative writing, and summarizing a story.

This checklist helps student make sure they are including all parts of a letter. Students can use this checklist to write a letter to a teacher or friend about a book they have read. I have students glue this checklist in the front cover of their Daily 5 journals so they can refer to it at the end of each week. On Friday, they choose one book from their Independent Reading Log (coming soon in my TPT store). They then write a letter to me about whatever book they have chosen. This helps me hold m