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This set of Magic Tree House lesson plans takes you through the second book in The Magic Tree House series chapter by chapter. A chapter summary is included for the instructor to help with planning. Along the way, this literature study guide explores castles, knights, and the middle ages. Students learn about medieval life in a castle, parts of a castle, complete castle drawings, design medieval clothing based on their research and learn about the life of a knight. This literature focus unit wra

This bundle is full of 5 chemistry experiments perfect for grades 2-5. Topics in this bundle include: Changing States of Matter Chemical Reactions Polymers Hydrophobic and hydrophilic substances Some of the experiments cover more than one topic. All experiments work through the scientific method. You can use this bundle over a period of 5 different days or as a science camp activity focusing on chemistry. All activities are hands on activities that demonstrate just how awesome science is! Follo

Thank you for looking at my product. This resource demonstrates a magic trick while also teaching about changing states of matter. It is a great opportunity to have the students practice their drama skills as they practice to become a great magician! Although you can order the sodium polyacrylate needed for this experiment, you can also get it from cutting up diapers! Yes! Sodium polyacrylate is the liquid absorbing material found in disposable diapers. Students will learn the science

This is Unit 4 of a larger 1st Quarter Spelling Bundle and a Year-Long Spelling Growing Bundle. This unit focuses on long e spelled ee words and Rule Breaker words. In the English Language there are many words that are considered rule breakers. The rule breaker words in this unit are words that use the ee or ea spelling pattern but do not have the long e sound. Each of my units has 10 words that go along with the spelling rule used for the unit and 5 age appropriate high frequency words. These a

The long a vowel sound can be spelled with long a vowel teams ay and ai. This long a vowel sound unit is packed with nine pages of spelling activities. In this unit, students sort the long a vowel sound into long a spelled ay and long a spelled ai categories. Students practice the spelling pattern to really get a deep understanding of the spelling rule. Activities include word sort, alphabetical order, pyramid spelling, scrambled words, subject/predicate, and more! Nine different worksheets all

What is energy? This bundle combines energy units. YouTube videos are linked to explain what energy is, forms of potential energy, forms of kinetic energy, and the transfer of energy. Science is best learned through doing. Each unit comes with safe experiments that students conduct in order to learn more about energy. Have fun!

What are the forms of potential energy? When we understand that there is potential and kinetic energy, we ask ourselves, "Are there different forms of potential and kinetic energy?" This lesson introduces four forms of potential energy and explains three of them in depth. The fourth, nuclear energy, is a concept for high school. The three that are taught are mechanical energy, gravitational energy, and chemical energy. Students watch a video created by "Let's Do Learning" and demonstrate their u

In this milk with food coloring and soap experiment students will be awestruck with the outcome. The packet includes links to student appropriate websites so students can gain background knowledge about the properties of milk in order to better form a hypothesis. They will navigate through the scientific method while being amazed by the results of this hands on science activity. This is sure to elicit many, "Oh!'s from your students. Included at the end of this unit are photographs of

What happens when you mix cocoa powder with water? Not much. It comes out dry. In this hands on science activity, students will explore the properties of hydrophobic substances. They will read a story about a girl named Cocoa who loves chocolate milk, but has a hard time getting the chocolate to dissolve. Students will be amazed that when a spoonful of cocoa powder is dipped in water, it comes out looking wet but a simple pop with a toothpick reveals a dry spoonful of cocoa powder. In

What is energy? Let's watch a YouTube video explaining the transfer of energy from potential to kinetic. Once students understand the terms energy, potential energy, kinetic energy, and work, they decide what experiment they wish to perform in order to explain how energy transfers from potential to kinetic. A student's Wow! moment comes from actually experiencing the learning process. In this inquiry based lesson, students get to explore the concepts presented on their own rather than just bein

Long i spelled igh, i Spelling Unit 6 This unit is also included in the 1st Quarter Bundle and the Year Long Growing Bundle. This is a 15 word list which focuses on the spelling patterns igh and i making the long i sound. The first 10 words follow these spelling rules. The additional 5 words are age appropriate high frequency words. These high frequency words may be found in later word lists focusing on a specific rule, but are words that students in grades 2-4 will encounter frequently in th

Long o Spelled o, oa, ow Spelling Unit 8 This unit practices words that utilize the long o sound but are spelled with a single o, oa or ow. Activities in this unit include word sort, cursive writing of spelling words, word search, and using letter tiles to find the value of a word. There are nine pages of fun activities. Instructors and parents can assign in a variety of ways: one page per day as instruction, and one page per day as independent work; differentiated instruction; completely indepe

This short e, long e spelling unit works on the CVC rule for short vowels and the ea spelling pattern. Students learn about the two vowels walking rule. It is Unit 3 of a larger Year-Long Spelling Growing Bundle. This spelling curriculum for homeschool, classroom and virtual use includes the activities: writing words in cursive, using numbered tiles to add the value of the words in the word list, sentence writing, and word search. The word list includes 10 words that follow the rule CVC and CVC

Looking for words with long a and short a spelling patterns? This is the resource you need! Nine different activities practice the short and long sound of a. For this unit the spelling patterns follow short a cvc and long a cvce. Activities include word sort, fill in the blank, find the misspelled word, noun and verb identification, and more to practice long a and short a spelling patterns. This resource comes with .pdf color, .pdf black and white, and Google Slides versions as well as an ans

Present Tense and Past Tense Verbs These worksheets for past tense verbs include the present tense form of the verb and then its past tense counterpart. This unit focuses on those words and the rules for changing present tense verbs to past tense verbs. This word list contains 9 present tense verbs and their past tense counterparts. Activities in the 9 pages include identifying present tense and past tense verbs, syllabication, finding misspelled words. The final assessment is connecting the cor

Long o, short o - CVCe, CVC Spelling Unit 7 This unit focuses on the CVC, CVCe spelling rules in order to create the short o sound and the long o sound. The first 10 words of this word list follow the spelling rules. The last 5 words are high frequency words that children in grades 2-4 will encounter in every day reading. These high frequency words may show up in later units that focus on other spelling rules. This nine page spelling unit consists of word sorts, an acrostic poem activity using

This long and short i vowel sound unit has nine great pages of activities. This unit focuses on the short i and long i vowel sounds and the spelling rules of consonant-vowel-consonant for short vowel words and the "magic e" rule for long vowel words in a CVCe pattern. The first 10 words of this spelling list follow the spelling rule. There are an additional 5 words that are age appropriate high frequency words. These words may be included in future units, but are commonly encountered in a studen

Students will have fun learning how to spell Halloween words with these fun Halloween Spelling Activities. There are five days of fun activities that are perfect for grades 2 - 5. This resource comes with a color pdf, black and white pdf (perfect for printing), Google Slides version, and an answer key. Have fun!

This is the full version of my freebie. The free version is only 10 pages and a color .pdf. This version also contains the black and white .pdf as well as the Google Slides forced copy link. There's not much that's more fun than rockets! This cool experiment explores states of matter while creating so much fun! Students begin by learning about the different states of matter. Links to student appropriate resources are provided. Working through the scientific method, students form a hyp

Thank you for looking at my product. This hands on science experiment explores the properties of both milk and soda and the possible effects soda has on bones. Students will conduct research in order to gain background knowledge and make an informed hypothesis to answer the question, 'How does soda affect your body?" They will then perform a milk and soda experiment and discover how soda affects the calcium in milk. NOTE: THIS EXPERIMENT TAKES SEVERAL DAYS TO ONE WEEK TO COMPLETE