Teaching Gracefully

Use this worksheet as part of the Sound is Vibration Lesson. Students will explore what they see, hear, and feel from the sounds made from humming, animal sounds, rubber bands, and a drum. This exploration should lead them to the conclusion that movement or buzzing is involved in each. Sound is made by vibrations.

Throughout the Living and Growing Together Unit, the student will choose a specific plant to research. This journal begins with a place to write the name and draw or find a picture of the plant that the student chose. After each lesson in which we discuss organisms need energy, water, stable internal conditions, a living space, organisms interact with each other, organisms have a particular life cycle, the student will research how each topic applies and relates specifically to the plant that h

Throughout the Living and Growing Together Unit, the student will choose a specific animal to research. This journal begins with a place to write the name and draw or find a picture of the animal that the student chose as well as what type of animal it is (mammal, bird, fish, reptile, amphibian, or insect) . After each lesson in which we discuss organisms need energy, water, stable internal conditions, a living space, organisms interact with each other, organisms have a particular life cycle, t

As Thanksgiving approaches, challenge your students to reflect on all of the aspects of their life that they are thankful for. How many things can they list that they are thankful for? Can they list more than 100? How many items can they list that are not things? This document gives 54 questions or statements to help them get started, from what they are thankful for today, to people, to places, their character traits, their home, their favorite things, and so much more! This document provides

Weather Forecast Words is designed to be used as part of the Weather Report Unit. Use this as an introductory activity when you are introducing the unit on weather. Have the students watch a weather report and listen to see how a real meteorologist describes what the weather is like. Pay attention to and write down all of the weather terms, phrases, or words related to weather that the meteorologist uses during the forecast.

Use this poem as a getting to know you activity at the beginning of the year. The students create a poem by filling in the blanks with facts and information about themselves that answer questions that are given. In this self-reflective activity, find out how the student would describe him or herself, what he or she enjoys about school, finds difficult about school, what he or she is good at, his or hobbies, what he or she does in their free time, what he or she knows a lot about, his or her fa

In this Newspaper Center activity, the students will construct a graph for high and low temperatures and will find the weekly average of both the high and low temperatures. The students will find the Forecast of the week’s weather in the newspaper. The students will record both the high and the low temperatures on the line graph. They will use red to record the high temperatures and blue to record the low temperatures. The students will give the graph an appropriate title and label both the x- a

Use this Book of Fractions to teach and help students practice fractional concepts. This Book of fractions enables students to locate and identify fractional parts, write and read fractions, construct fractions that represent a part of a whole shape, and create a part of a whole by coloring a shape that corresponds with a given fraction. The students will use markers, crayons, or colored pencils to color in equal parts on both the rectangles and the circles to represent halves, thirds, fourth

Author’s Purpose Scavenger Hunt (Literacy): Authors have different purposes for writing, either to persuade, inform, or entertain. An author’s purpose affects the way in which text is read. This activity will give the students the opportunity to identify the purposes of writing and give as to why they believe a text fits in the particular category they chose. The students will look through the newspaper and find an example of an article that was written to persuade, inform, and entertain. Recor

Use this to help students practice or as an assessment when teaching fractions and decimals. Students are to write a decimal and a fraction to represent the part of a grid that is shaded, compare fractions and decimals, shade grids to represent given decimals, write fractions as decimals, and write decimals as fractions.

The American Symbols Journal is designed to be used throughout the American Symbols Unit as a place for students to reflect on what they are learning after each lesson. In this journal, the students will reflect on the freedoms that they are most thankful for, the symbol on the American flag that represents the unity of the United States, the color on the American flag that represents freedom, and the special characteristics that the Great Seal represents.

Use this activity to help reinforce the idea of synonyms and antonyms or help the students enhance and broaden their vocabulary in their creative writing by realizing that words have nuances in word meanings. The students will find the Sports section of the newspaper. Skim the articles to find as many synonyms as you can for the two antonyms “win” and “lose.” Try to find at least five of each. Record the words that you find on the “Win or Lose” chart.

Practice writing numbers in standard form, word form, and expanded form in this fun activity. Students will find the Automotive Sales in the Classifieds section of the newspaper. They will choose five cars that they would like to buy. They will write the name, year, and the price of each car in standard form, word form and expanded form. Then the students will practice comparing and ordering numbers by writing the name of the cars in order from the least expensive car to the most expensive car.

As Thanksgiving approaches, challenge your students to reflect on all of the aspects of their life that they are thankful for. How many things can they list that they are thankful for? Can they list more than 100? How many items can they list that are not things? This document gives 54 questions or statements to help them get started, from what they are thankful for today, to people, to places, their character traits, their home, their favorite things, and so much more! This document has a fai

In this Christmas Song Challenge Activity, students will have the opportunity to analyze the meaning of songs that they have become accustomed to singing. The students will choose a favorite popular Christmas song, look up and read the lyrics, record observations and insights that they never thought of before when they had sung the song in the past, find 3 words that they are unsure of the meaning of and look up the definitions of the words, analyze the meaning of the song, recognize the story t

Newspaper Book Report (Social Studies/Literacy): This activity gives the student the opportunity to read and interact with different types of newspaper sections by requiring them to choose a nonfiction book to read and then choose a writing assignment through which to present the information that was read including a book review, advice column, advertisement, and an obituary. The student will create various types of writings to present a nonfiction text.

This Angle Scavenger Hunt is designed to be used at the end of the Types of Angles Lesson for the students to apply what they have learned about identifying straight, acute, obtuse, and right angles by naming or drawing the different types of angles that they can see in the classroom.

As Thanksgiving approaches, challenge your students to reflect on all of the aspects of their life that they are thankful for. How many things can they list that they are thankful for? Can they list more than 100? How many items can they list that are not things? This document gives 54 questions or statements to help them get started, from what they are thankful for today, to people, to places, their character traits, their home, their favorite things, and so much more! This document has a fai

In this Be the Gift Christmas Challenges, students will consider how it is better to give than receive. This activity encourages the students to focus on demonstrating acts of kindness to other people this holiday season by choose at least 3 ways to “Be The Gift” to someone else. They will then reflect on and write about their experience.

As Thanksgiving approaches, challenge your students to reflect on all of the aspects of their life that they are thankful for. How many things can they list that they are thankful for? Can they list more than 100? How many items can they list that are not things? This document gives 54 questions or statements to help them get started, from what they are thankful for today, to people, to places, their character traits, their home, their favorite things, and so much more!