Meagan Adams

These penguin themed task cards are the perfect way for students to practice solving to find the area, perimeter and volume of various polygons. Included in this package are 16 task cards (2 cards to a page), teacher directions, a recording sheet, and answer key. Use this product as a class game, center activity, or for individual remediation. Your students are sure to love helping adorable penguins solve word and picture problems related to perimeter, area and volume. Enjoy!

This holiday themed game is a great way for students to practice identifying causes and effects. Students will sort gingerbread themed scenarios into "cause" and "effect" groups. The groups will be organized underneath a festive gingerbread house. After sorting, students will match each cause to each effect, and record their answers on a worksheet. This download includes 2 gingerbread houses for sorting, 10 cause and 10 matching effect scenarios, and an accompanying worksheet. This deligh

This Thanksgiving themed review game is designed to help students review concepts related to the Woodland Indians of Virginia. Included in the download are teacher directions, student directions, 24 term and concept cards, and 24 matching definition cards, and an answer key. Students will sort the turkey term and concept cards into even rows and the pumpkin definition cards into even rows. Students will pick one turkey card and then one pumpkin card, in search of a match. This can be used

This activity is designed for students to get into the festive fall spirit! Students will try to create the spookiest story possible. The story can only have two sentences, or less. Included in this download is a set of teacher directions about the activity, an example graphic organizer, and a blank graphic organizer for students to complete. It also includes an example two sentence story, as well as a blank story writing sheet for students to use. This activity also includes a component

This visualizing activity has students imagine, design, and describe a winter scene of their choice. After visualizing and drawing their scene, students will then describe the scene to a partner. Their partner's job is the recreate the scene based on the descriptive vocabulary and imagery created from their writing. Partners will compare their creations after they have been completed. Correlates with 4th grade VA Standards 4.7.g.3 : Group common ideas into paragraphs. 4.7.i.2: Use specif

This quick activity has students review the parts of a letter. Using different colors, they will identify the key parts of a letter, and then answer follow up questions on the second page. The letter used in this activity was written to the main characters, Jess and Leslie, in the novel Bridge to Terabithia. Feel free to edit the letter to meet the needs of your students. Enjoy!

Included in this download are 8 writing prompts centered around animal pictures. Students will "tell the story" of each animal, and creatively weave background information, and their own imaginations onto each page. These writing pages are designed to be individual activities, however, they can be laminated and used in writing or literacy centers. In order to differentiate instruction, have students orally tell the animal's story.

This exit ticket is designed to review naming of decimals and fractions from pictures, comparing decimals, and shading in pictures to represent fractional and decimal values. Can be used as an exit ticket, or as a quick formative assessment. 2 pages, ready to print.

Teaching the 5 Regions of Virginia can be tedious. If you download this product, it will be mundane no longer! The Regions of Virginia Pageant is a fun whole class activity that will have students thinking beyond the products, features, and resources located in each region. They will be tasked with writing a detailed response about why 1 region is far superior than the other 4. The activity is structured in a pageant format. Teachers will serve as the pageant panel, and will assess all stud

Formatted similarly to Weekly Paragraph Practice #1 being sold in my store, this weekly practice will help students understand the function and format of a paragraph. Students will brainstorm ideas, write a paragraph on a separate writing page (not included), and follow a checklist to ensure all elements have been included in their writing. A rubric is included for quick and easy grading. Enjoy!

This writing outline was created to help students write a weekly paragraph or paragraphs in order to improve overall writing skills, sequencing of sentences, and to help students turn brainstorming ideas into quality sentences. This worksheet provides the paragraph prompt (describe your dream dessert), a space for brainstorming, writers checklist, and a VA SOL State standard rubric for writing. This activity can be used in a writers workshop, as a intervention for struggling writers, or as a

A great assessment to check for understanding on the 5 bordering states of Virginia, and the two major bordering waterways. Aligned with the new FCPS grading scale of 4,3,2,1. Includes standard and rubric.