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🏫✨ Should schools switch to a 4-day school week?Your students will love diving into this high-interest opinion writing unit as they explore the real-world debate around 4-day school weeks! This no-prep or low-prep argumentative writing unit is perfect for 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade classrooms—and it’s fully editable in Canva for maximum flexibility. This engaging resource has everything you need to teach students how to write a 5-paragraph opinion essay from start to finish. Scaffolded lessons

🧪✨ Make comparing fractions magical! Engage your students with this Fraction Potion Challenge—a hands-on math activity where students mix and match potion cards to create their own magical brews while practicing how to compare fractions with unlike numerators and denominators.Perfect for upper elementary classrooms, this activity combines conceptual understanding, creative problem-solving, and seasonal fun! Students will love designing their own potions while mastering 4th Grade fraction sta

🎢 Turn line plot lessons into an amusement park adventure! This 3-day unit is designed to make teaching and learning 4th Grade Line Plots (CCSS 4.MD.B.4) exciting, hands-on, and stress-free. With a 29-slide Canva presentation, guided notetaker, and practice activities, students will explore how to create line plots, answer questions using addition and subtraction, and solve for missing data points—all while enjoying an amusement park theme that keeps them engaged. ✨ What’s Included: 🎡 29-S

Celebrate Sandra Day O’Connor Day and bring civics to life with this fun, interactive resource designed especially for Arizona 3rd–5th grade teachers. Students will not only learn about Sandra Day O’Connor’s life and historic role as the first female U.S. Supreme Court Justice, but they’ll also step into the role of a judge themselves—ruling on age-appropriate court cases to deepen their understanding of fairness, justice, and decision-making. This download includes: 📘 Informational Presen

Boost your 4th graders’ reading comprehension skills with this comprehensive, fall-themed Main Idea Practice resource aligned to the Common Core standard 4.RI.2! Perfect for autumn literacy centers, guided reading, or homework, this no-prep, printable PDF pack offers everything you need to teach students how to identify the main idea, supporting details, and summarize informational texts — all centered around the engaging topic of fall leaves. Everything is editable in Canva! What’s Includ

Looking for a no-prep or low-prep informational writing unit for your 3rd, 4th, or 5th grade students? This engaging and editable writing resource has everything you need to teach students how to write a 5-paragraph informative essay—all centered around the high-interest science topic: How do germs spread?This writing activity includes scaffolded lessons, differentiated passages, and Canva-editable materials, making it perfect for meeting the needs of all learners in your classroom—especial

Set the tone for a year of strong reading habits and resilient thinking with this Back to School Close Reading & Annotating Resource—perfect for introducing expectations in a meaningful, engaging way! This upper elementary resource includes a direct instruction presentation, 3 high-interest nonfiction passages on famous failures, and built-in comprehension + writing components for deeper learning. Ideal for grades 4–5, this resource helps students learn how to annotate and why it matters—

Kick off the school year with this engaging and meaningful All About Me Letter writing project designed specifically for upper elementary students! This back-to-school activity helps students express themselves while giving you valuable insight into their personalities, strengths, goals, and writing abilities. Students will plan and write a personal letter to their teacher using a clear structure and graphic organizer. The final product is perfect for a bulletin board display, writing portfoli

Looking for a meaningful and easy-to-use end-of-year activity that’s free? "Letter to 5th Grade Me" is the perfect way to help your 4th graders reflect on their growth, celebrate their accomplishments, and set goals for the future! In this engaging writing project, students write a heartfelt letter to their future 5th-grade selves. They'll reflect on what they’ve learned in 4th grade, their favorite memories, advice for next year, and their hopes for the future. It’s a wonderful keepsake for st

Make division meaningful, fun, and engaging with this real-world party planning project!Perfect for 4th grade students, this 4-day math project puts learners in the role of party planners for a variety of fun and creative clients. As they work to design themed celebrations, students apply division, interpret remainders, manage a budget, and make strategic decisions — all while boosting real-life problem-solving and collaboration skills. ✅ What’s Included: Teacher Pacing Guide 6 Client Profiles

Looking for an engaging and hands-on Earth Day activity that promotes creativity, critical thinking, and real-world problem-solving? Eco-Inventors: Design a Greener Future is a perfect way to get students excited about environmental issues while incorporating STEM, teamwork, and presentation skills! In this interactive project, students will: ✅ Brainstorm real-world environmental problems (pollution, deforestation, plastic waste, etc.). ✅ Design a creative invention that helps protect the Earth.

Looking for an easy-prep persuasive writing unit for your 3rd, 4th, or 5th graders? Look no further! This resource includes scaffolded lessons for writing an argumentative 5-paragraph essay about whether or not TikTok should be banned in the United States!Each resource is editable through Canva for ultimate customizability! :) This resource includes:  18 Slide Canva Direct Instruction Presentation on Argumentative EssaysWriting Prompt about Banning TikTok2 Passages on TikTok (One Pro and One Con

In February, you have such a busy schedule (hello, Valentine’s Day) that it can sometimes be hard to teach students HOW to put forth their best effort. Using one of the best teaching tools, PLAY, students can practice developing their listening comprehension with this fun, seasonal activity! This activity takes 10-15 minutes and can give students opportunities to practice following single-step and multi-step oral instructions! Read the 12 instructions out loud and see how well your students util

Let your students get creative with this figurative language fill-in-the-blank ELA activity! Students will use 5 different sentence stems with a famous adage to come up with their own version! Then, they will explain it, write it in a paragraph, and illustrate it! Have students extend their thinking and get creative to utilize figurative language in their own story with this fun resource. This resource is completely EDITABLE in Canva!This resource includes:  5 Different Adage Versions to Choose

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with this standards-based ELA point of view mystery activity! Students will identify point of view and the narrator using the suspect list and clues in the passages and practice justifying their answers using text evidence. All the clues in the passages will also lead them to identify the suspect.Mrs. Petunia received a mysterious valentine from one of her students! Read the passages, identify the point of view and the narrator, and use the clues to help her determine w

Looking for mixed review for adding and subtracting mixed numbers with like denominators? Look no further! This worksheet includes 7 mixed review questions that includes word problems and decomposing fractions.  This resource includes:  PDF 7 questionsAnswer KeyLooking for more fraction practice? Check out this SLAP! Comparing Fractions & Equivalent Fractions Review Game or this Equivalent Fractions Direct Instruction Presentation! Or, check out this digital Thanksgiving Fraction Review resour

Celebrate Thanksgiving with this standards-based Turkey Day passage that helps students practice determining differences and similarities between firsthand and secondhand accounts. Using primary and secondary sources, students will answer multiple choice questions and a written extension. This resource is completely EDITABLE in Canva!This resource includes:  2 Passages about Thanksgiving Traditions and Thanksgiving HistoryOne FirsthandOne Secondhand4 Multiple Choice Questions1 Written Response Q

Remember veterans with this standards-based Veterans Day passage that helps students practice determining differences and similarities between firsthand and secondhand accounts. Using primary and secondary sources, students will answer multiple choice questions and a written extension. This resource is completely EDITABLE in Canva!This resource includes:  2 Passages about Veterans and Veterans DayOne FirsthandOne Secondhand4 Multiple Choice Questions1 Written Response Question Answer KeyYou will

I’m a huge fan of math enrichment and jokes, so why not combine the two? This resource provides a worksheet and answer key for students to find missing numbers using their knowledge of equivalent fractions. Then, they will use their answer to solve clues to help them find a hilarious equivalent fractions joke! This resource is completely EDITABLE using Canva! This resource includes:  Equivalent Fractions Puzzle WorksheetAnswer KeyLooking for more equivalent fraction practice? Check out this SLA

Master Text Structures with This Fun Matching Activity! 🎉 Students will identify, justify, and defend text structures—Chronological, Compare & Contrast, Problem & Solution, and Cause & Effect—while reading 4 short, engaging passages. Perfect for hands-on learning and critical thinking! ✅ Editable in Canva ✅ Includes 4 passages, one for each text structure and answer key ✅ Extension question encourages higher-order thinkingGet your students thinking like authors—and loving it! ✨ Check out