Smilin' through Second

These Animal Activity cards offer a range of ways to use them. Students can act them out, draw them, use them as a story starter, use as community building game or find your own creative way to extend an activity. Use with the Countdown to Summer Unit (COMING SOON!) or on their own.

Animal fact cards are a fun way to start the day with SEL time, Morning Meeting, Morning Sharing or however you choose the start your classroom day. Students will find the facts fun while learning something new.

This is a great addition to supplement any animal themed unit. It includes acrostic poetry, animal book scavenger hunt, word web organizers and animal themed writing paper. Plus a little bonus reading activity. These are easy to use in centers as well.

These match the animal name to the animal are meant to be printed on cardstock paper, laminated and cut out. They can be used for animal themed units, or for kicking off the COUNTDOWN TO SUMMER which is available as a complete unit in my store. There are a plethora of activities you can use with these simple cards.

A great resource to teach alliteration using students' names.

This is a part of a larger Countdown to Summer unit (COMING SOON). The A activities include literacy and math focused mini activities to incorporate into your day. The task cards can be used in many different ways throughout the day. Use the activities as centers to make A day easy for you and fun and insightful for students!

Easy and fun. Engaging and insightful. These organizers will help your students with organizing information about animals and guide them in their informational writing.

SO. MUCH. FUN. What a creative and engaging way to practice math and building number sentences. This is a hands on activity where students use Animal Crackers to compose number stories and sentences.

Acrostic poetry is always a great way to make learning fun. This includes one CAMEL template and one make your own template for up to 7 letters. Use as a center activity, group activity or a great resources for sub plans!

Super little resource to supplement literacy. Use as a center, great for an easy substitute teacher activity, theme day activity or just for fun!

This calendar can be used to plan activities as students countdown to summer vacation. I have made it in a word document so that you can edit it to suit your classroom. Each year I change a few things so that it matches up with our learning. Students love this and it is a great way to keep them engaged during those last weeks of school.