Simple yet engaging ways to make your upper elementary lessons meaningful and fun!
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Hello friends, new and old! If you're just joining the Creatively Comprehensive club, welcome! i'm so glad to have you. ...and if you've been here awhile, I appreciate you just as much. (don't tell the newbies about the corny jokes yet, okay? give them a minute to get settled.) ANYWAY. There's a good chance that if we've crossed paths on the the ol' interwebs, you've probably tried a scavenger hunt or two of mine. Now, I love all my scavenger hunt babies equally, but this Earth Day version? It comes at the perfect time. You know April is a rough month. Spring Break is over, and you have to dive head first into test prep, testing, meetings about testing, alternative testing for promotion...you get the picture. This, of course, leads to a lot of butts in seats. Unfortunately, Reader, April (and the beginning of spring) is the time of year when said butts are dying to get out of their seats, which may lead to a little friction between teacher and student, amirite? Therefore, I'm giving you permission to take one day next month to plan this scavenger hunt activity for your students. They'll get to move AND still practice reading nonfiction and answering questions. It's a win for everyone. Until next time, Marianna |
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Simple yet engaging ways to make your upper elementary lessons meaningful and fun!
If you only have a small pocket of time for Memorial Day, Reader, this packet helps students get the point quickly. Students read a short passage, practice key vocabulary, respond in writing, and finish with a Memorial Day word search that reinforces the terms they just learned. GRAB IT ON TPT It works well when you want students to understand more than “we get Monday off,” but you do not have room in your plans for a full holiday lesson. Students will: ✅ Read a short passage about the...
How do you want to spend your time, Reader? You could spend hours making the perfect end-of-year bulletin board. Or...you could not. (because who has time for that in the year 2026?) There is a little-known 3rd option, however: GET THE KIT ON TPT This kit hits the sweet spot: a meaningful student display that already looks pulled together, without you having to build the whole thing from scratch...or at all, tbh. Hand the kids some scissors, and you're good to go. (Did I mention it's a...
Scroll to the PS for an important Mother's Day activity note No offense to the moms out there, Reader. ...but May is packed. It's a little tricky to fit Mother's Day* in between, you know, ::gestures vaguely:: That being said, you know you have at least one sweet friend who will look up at you with those big eyes and ask, "Can we do something for Mom?" And you, with the willpower of a squirrel near an unattended bird feeder, are going to say yes. So why not make it an easy one with this...