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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

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 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

This high frequency spelling word list is a review of the high frequency words found in units one through eight. It is extremely important for kindergarten and first grade students to be able to read and spell certain high frequency words to improve fluency and comprehension skills. All of the words in unit 9 have previously been presented in Units 1-8, but this can be used as a stand alone to reinforce high frequency words. It is perfect for differentiated instruction and comes with color .pdf

This ch digraph spelling word list contains words that begin with the ch digraph and end with the ch digraph. The last two words are high frequency words that kindergarten and 1st grade students encounter frequently. Word list activities include word sort, choosing the correct spelling, practice writing, reading and fill-in-the-blank, and word search. This is the perfect unit for differentiated instruction. It works well for homeschool, online learning, or classroom use. It is Unit 8 in a l

This resource is a th digraph spelling word list. It contains words that begin and end with the th digraph. Many words that are also high frequency words for kindergarten and first grade are also th digraph words. It is important for young children to be able to read and spell these words. The th digraph word list contains five words that begin with the th digraph and five words that end with the th digraph. The final two words are high frequency words for kindergarten and first grade.

This sh digraph word lists contains words that begin with the sh digraph and end with the sh digraph. There are digraph sh worksheets for first grade and kindergarten levels. The nine spelling activities include word sorts, practice writing, and an introduction to alphabetizing. The nine sh digraph worksheet activities are perfect to use for differentiated instruction and can be used as instructional material, independent work, or both. There are two options for assessment on Friday. The re

This short u word family spelling list focuses on the "ub" word family and the "ug" word family. There are 5 ub word family words and 5 ug word family words. The last two words are high frequency words that children in kindergarten and first grade encounter frequently. Students practice writing words daily. There is a word sort, identifying pictures activities, and learning about nouns and verbs. The nine pages provided allow for differentiated instruction. This resource is perfect for clas

This short o spelling list focuses on "ob" and "op" word families. It is unit 4 of a larger Year Long Growing Bundle. The 15 word word list contains 5 ob word family words, 5 op word family words, and 2 high frequency words. The short o spelling activities include a short o word family sort, counting consonants and vowels, practice sentence writing, and identifying correctly spelled word list words. There are ten pages of short o word family activities which allows for differentiated

This "ip" and "in" word family spelling unit is unit 3 of a larger Year-Long Growing Bundle. The short i word list consists of 5 ip word family words, 5 in word family words and 2 high frequency words that students in kindergarten and first grade encounter frequently. The nine pages of fun spelling activities include a word family sort, connecting beginning and ending sounds, finding the words hidden in a picture, and a picture crossword puzzle. These spelling activities are perfect fo

This is Unit 2 of my larger Year Long Spelling Growing Bundle which focuses on "en" and "eck" short e word family. There are 12 words in this spelling word list. The list contains 5 en word family words and 5 eck word family words. The final two words are high frequency words that students of this age need to become familiar with. There are ten pages of short e spelling activities which include en and eck word family sort, locating the correctly spelled word among misspelled words, separat

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

This is a "wh" word and a_e spelling packet. Students practice writing words daily. There is a word sort, identifying question words, fill-in-the-blank, and many more activities. The nine pages provided allow for differentiated instruction. This resource is perfect for classroom, homeschool, or virtual learning use. You can use one page for instructional activities and one page for independent work each day. An assessment page is for Friday. This resource comes with color .pdf, black-line .pdf,