Miss Melody

Integrated art and literacy lesson plan for the book "Miss Rumphius" by Barbara Clooney. Paint beautiful lupine flowers with your fingers using acrylic paints after reading and discussing a children's classic. {great for Earth Day!}

Simple graphic organizer and outline for writing five-sentence paragraphs with topic sentence, supporting details, and conclusion sentence. Easy-to-use format with lines. Use for prewriting, rough drafting, or as an accommodation for language-based needs.

Fractions foldable for interactive math notebooks or journals that includes halves, thirds, fourths, and eighths. Students cut on dotted lines, glue down title flap, and draw representations of fractions under each flap.

Interactive notebook or math journal foldable for studying quadrilaterals or during a geometry unit. Features a place for students to write their own definition, and flaps for square, rectangle, rhombus and trapezoid. Other foldables by Melody: Fractions Interactive Math Journal Foldable {freebie}

Math poster describing the parts of a fraction: top, bottom, numerator, and denominator. Use with lessons on equivalent fractions, adding and subtracting fractions, or simplifying fractions. Works with Singapore math curriculum - Primary Mathematics 4A/4B.

Comprehension and vocabulary questions for "Our Strange New Land: Elizabeth's Jamestown Colony Diary" (Book 1), part of the My America series, by Patricia Hermes. These questions are perfect for individual book study, reading journal responses, or book discussion groups. Included are... • Questions (with page numbers included!) that prompt higher level thinking and creativity • Comprehension questions • Vocabulary words

Great introductory presentation for a unit on poetry. Includes pictures of diverse poets, a definition of poetry, discussion questions, and introductions to ten styles of poetry (acrostic, ballad, cinquain, haiku, ode, and more!)

"What Am I?" – Headbands Describing Game - Fun ESL/ELL or Small Group Game Objective: Guess the noun (person, animal, or object) on the card you're holding to your forehead by asking yes/no questions in English.

Design a bedroom for a character in your book using what you know about his or her personality, life experiences, and the setting of the book! This project is perfect for homework, book groups, individual novel studies, extension for gifted students, or for anytime a student finishes a fiction book. {Rubric included!} Incorporates: - setting - character traits - symbolism - writing - hands-on, interactive, design project

Lesson plan and worksheet for hands-on geometry activity: measuring circles and calculating radius, circumference, and diameter for circles. Perfect for a geometry unit or Pi Day activity.

Differentiated choice menu - great for gifted classes! Students select activities to demonstrate their learning that are worth 2, 3, or 5 points. Assign students a required number of points (5, 8, or more!). Can be used in many subject areas (math, literacy, social studies, science) as an assessment tool, as well as for summative projects.

A word sort for the branches of the United States Government. Includes Legislative, Executive, and Judicial branches with the roles and responsibilities of each branch of government. Could be glued into an interactive notebook.

Students organize their word sort words by spelling pattern. Blank forms allow students to write in their weekly words and add other words that follow the same spelling patterns. Great for homework or daily word sort activity.