Learning Junction

This pack is the perfect supplement to your rocks and minerals unit! In this pack you will find an engaging way to teach your students about the three different types of rocks by using food. There is also a fun rock craft which will hold the vocabulary booklets that your students make. You can download the preview to sneak a peek at what else you will find inside this pack. - Pgs. 1-2- Title page and acknowledgements - Pgs. 3-4- Rocks and minerals folder cover - Pgs. 5-12- Schema maps, anticipat

This activity is perfect to practice sequencing. It can be used with the story "Pancakes for Breakfast" by Tomie dePaola or on its own. Included is a list of time order words, directions, a picture of the craft, and all the craft patterns. It would also make a fun bulletin board!

This poem and craft is a great way to incorporate Spring and poetry in your classroom. Students write a cinquain poem and make a bird to display their poem on. This craft makes a perfect bulletin board! Included are the patterns needed for the craft, a picture, directions, and a sample poem.

This Contraction Surgery pack has everything you need for students to become surgeons! Students work in pairs or small groups to perform surgery to form contractions. Included in the packet are contractions to use to model with, four pages of words to be made into contractions, three games, an independent practice worksheet, and recording sheets and answer keys for each activity. There is also a craft in both color and black and white. Pictures of the craft and activity are also included.

These activities can be used as mini-lessons, in centers, or whole group. This pack includes posters for similes and metaphors, a simile and metaphor activity with a direction and example page, a poem using figurative language with brainstorming sheet and cards, a descriptive writing game, a personal narrative prompt with outline, 4 different final copy paper options for boys and girls, and an owl craft with a picture.

Included in this pack are three activities to practice singular and plural possessive nouns. They can be used as centers or review as a whole class. The activities include a singular and plural possessive noun sort, a concentration game where students have to match a phrase to the correct possessive noun, and a game where students try to get around the game board by answering different types of questions about possessive nouns. Answer keys are provided for each activity, and recording sheets are

This graphing project is a great way to celebrate Valentine's Day while practicing graphing skills. This project can also be used as an assessment tool for the end of a graphing unit. Included in the download are pictures of a sample project, candy heart sort mat, title page, bar graph page, line plot and tally chart page, pictograph and graph observations page, graph labels, and project rubric for grading.

Need a fun way to start the month of March and an idea for a bulletin board? This figurative language poem is a great way to have your students practice writing similes while creating a cute display. Students will write a poem about the saying “March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.” This pack includes a simile poster, samples of poems, an outline for writing the poem, two options of final copy paper, a lion and a lamb craft with patterns and pictures.

This activity pack has everything you need for some quick, but fun President’s Day activities. You will find included in this pack: Abe and I A Measurement Activity: Students will see how they measure up to Abe Lincoln. This is the perfect measurement review activity for your class and good way to incorporate President’s Day. President’s Day Compare and Contrast: A compare and contrast activity with George Washington and Abe Lincoln with Venn Diagram and sorting cards. President’s Day Wr

Do you need fun activities to teach your students about symmetry? These activities will engage your students and will also create wonderful bulletin boards and displays. Included in this pack is directions and pictures to make a symmetrical kite, directions and a picture to make symmetrical scenes, two posters- one for symmetry and one for line of symmetry, a flip book for one line of symmetry and more than one line of symmetry, three different pictures to finish in order to make symmetrical, an

These activities are a fun and engaging way to have your students practice solving word problems. The finished product also makes a great bulletin board! The problems can be used as a center, or students can work in pairs or groups and rotate around to each problem. They can also be displayed on the board to review the answers as a whole class. The students will have the opportunity to create their own addition and subtraction word problems, and find the estimate and exact answers. Their work wi

This pack is the perfect supplement to your water unit! In this pack you will find 10 engaging experiments and vocabulary posters to teach your students about water and the water cycle. There is also a water cycle craft and rain cloud craft which will hold the vocabulary booklets that your students make. Also included in this pack is an experiment that will show your students each step of the scientific method and different ways to assess your students’ understand. You can download the preview t

Need to get your students and classroom ready for fall? This literacy pack has everything you need to have your students practice important skills and strategies while creating bulletin boards and class books. Here is what you will find inside the pack: Pgs. 1-2- Title page and acknowledgements Pgs. 3- 10- Goodbye Summer, Hello Autumn Poem- directions, example, craft example and directions, brainstorming pages, rough copy paper, two final copy paper options (1 is acorn pattern) Pgs. 11- 16- Fal

Delicious Descriptions is the perfect way to get your students to use excellent word choice and their five senses in their writing. Use this pack as mini-lessons for a week or as centers. Included in the pack are 48 word cards to be sorted into the five senses, a sentence fix-up activity where students rewrite boring sentences, a brainstorming sheet, a rough copy sheet, three different final copy papers, and two different mugs as options for the craft to go with their writing. Example answers an

This pack has everything you need to celebrate the Winter Olympics with your students. They will learn the history of the Olympics, vocabulary, and have the chance to create an Olympian and write about which sport they would want to participate in. There is a bulletin board banner to go with the activities included in this pack which makes a great winter display! These activities are NOT directly linked to the 2014 Winter Olympics, so you can use it every year! Here is what you will find inside

Help the penguins solve these multiplication problems by using the strategy of making a table! These tables can be used with the story 365 Penguins by Jean-Luc Fromental or on their own. The problems can be used as a center, or students can work in pairs or groups and rotate around to each problem. They can be displayed on the board to review the answers whole class. Included in the download are ten different problems, a recording sheet, and answer key.

This packet has everything you need for your students to become experts on mountains and deserts. Words and picture are provided to make schema maps to activate prior knowledge and engage students. The activities are great to use as centers during independent work to reinforce concepts. They can also be used as a whole class rotation to be sure that students get to each one. Games include fact and opinion, mountain and desert sorting, vocabulary, and cause and effect. There are also three differ

The “Rainy Days to Sunny Days Pack” has 5 literacy and 5 math centers to help your students celebrate the season of spring. Download the preview to see more! Included in the pack: -Flying Pronouns- Game with 20 question cards, spinners, game board, direction page, and answer key -Sorting Treats into Past, Present, and Future Tenses- 3 sorting jars, 24 treats to sort, recording sheet, direction page, and answer key -All Cracked Up Compound Words- 16 cut apart eggs, recording sheet, answer key, a

Get ready for literacy, math, and crafts all with a basketball theme! These centers and activities will be sure to get your students ready to score while practicing important skills In this pack, you will find: 3 Literacy Centers Common and Proper Nouns: 18 sorting cards, game headers, directions, answer key, and recording sheet ABC Order:12 sorting cards, directions, answer key, and recording sheet Descriptive Writing Game: 30 cards, scoreboard, teacher directions, student directions, record

The “Perfect Match Pack” has 5 literacy and 5 math activities to help your students celebrate Valentine’s Day while reviewing important skills and concepts. Included in the pack: -Sentence Sort: headings, answer keys, and recording sheets included for question, command, statement, and exclamation or imperative, exclamatory, declarative, and interrogative. 16 sentence cards for sorting -How Many Words Can You Make? : title page, recording sheet, and letters for the word Valentine - Monster Match