Teach Classically

Unleash your students' creativity with this simple blank script! After reading a novel, students may choose a chapter or a few pages in the book to use as a guide for creating their own Reader's Theater or play. Advanced students may use this to create something entirely their own. Print multiple pages of the second page and staple together.

A simple, fun retro resource to give to your students for an end-of-year activity. They will treasure their memories with you and their classmates! Pages include: -School Memories Cover -My Friends -My Teacher -About Me -Awards -Summer Bucket List -Autographs -A Note from my Teacher

Use the following format for the acrostic (capitals are where the VALENTINE letters belong) : For God so lo Ved the world That he g Ave His on Ly Begott En So N That whosoever Believeth In Him Should Not perish But have Everlasting Life Have students write John 3:16 at the bottom and decorate them beautifully!

Have students draw what each specimen looks like before and after seeing it under the scrutiny of a microscope. They love drawing details and are amazed at the difference between their two pictures.

Enjoy this peaceful poem from Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass with your students. It invokes imagery of summer while reflecting on childhood innocence, imagination, and how quickly happy moments pass by like a dream.

Memory work handout for the Nicene Creed.

If you are reading a book with the theme of friendship, or if you are teaching about how to be a good friend, use this resource! For our unit on Charlotte's Web, I had my students get into groups and practice elocution by reading the poem they chose aloud to the rest of the class. You could also use it as a memory work homework assignment. Includes 3 poems: The Arrow and the Song by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Spider's Web by E.B. White, and Hug O' War by Shel Silverstein.

Use this as a reference in your classroom to help build godly relationships. I have a Friendship Book that students may use throughout the year to write sweet and encouraging notes to each other. This handout is their main resource for starting their notes/letters to their classmates.

"But as for me and my class, we will serve the Lord." You can print this for binders or hang it in your classroom. I put mine in a frame and hung it on my door.

This song goes to the tune of "Ten Little Indians". Super easy and effective way of having your students memorize all our Presidents.

Here is a wonderful poem to have your students memorize, especially at the beginning of the year, when you can speak to their hearts about persevering through many challenges they will be facing academically, socially and spiritually.

A beautiful poem by William Shakespeare! Have your students memorize one of his most famous sonnets to enrich your history, literature, or fine arts lessons.

A poem about perseverance to add to your collection.

Happy October! Enjoy this poem about leaves by poet George Cooper. It contains personification and imagery perfect for ushering in the fall season.

A fun poem to add to your poetry memorization for students!

This is a handy questionnaire to hand out to parents on Back to School Night so that you can get to know their child a little better. It will give you a glimpse into what brings the student joy and what family life is like so you can think of ways to make that child feel special.

This shortened version of Cecil Frances Alexander's hymn can be used as a poem or hymn.

Lyrics to classification!

Help your students memorize the parts of a seed with by singing it to the tune of Row, Row, Row, Your Boat.

Memory Work handout for the Preamble to the Constitution