Simple yet engaging ways to make your upper elementary lessons meaningful and fun!
🌻 ...you know they're going to ask
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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 thoughtful letter activity? Students get: a meaningful gift to make You get: sneaky writing practice In other words, everyone wins:
You get: ✅ detailed planning page Everything's ready. All you have to do is hit print. Talk soon, * I know Mother’s Day can be tricky, and some schools skip it altogether. That’s why the pages are designed so students can write to a special person without you needing to adjust the activity. Outside of one topper option (which you could easily cut off), the resource doesn’t explicitly say “Mother’s Day” on any of the writing pages.
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Simple yet engaging ways to make your upper elementary lessons meaningful and fun!
Trying to make history interesting, Reader? It can be a tough sell. One quick way to reel them in? Find a story they can see themselves in. And the Battle of Puebla has that built in. You've got: 🟢 A smaller Mexican army.🟢 A much larger French force.🟢 Long odds.🟢 A victory that surprised everybody. It's the kind of underdog story students connect to. But here’s the problem: Reading passages about historical events tend to be long. And dry. And hard to understand. So when a teacher told me...
Not everything needs to be invented from scratch, Reader. So if you need to come up with a way for students to respond to reading that doesn't interfere with your plans to binge The Pitt this week (because how is it the season finale already), may I humbly suggest this done-for-you option: JUST HIT PRINT They work with independent reading, centers, homework, small groups, and pair beautifully with whatever reading curriculum you are already using. So instead of spending your evening coming up...
Earth Day Every Day, Reader. ...unless you're a busy teacher prepping for test season. As much as torn construction paper collages and recycled art projects have their moment, this time of year is not exactly overflowing with extra wiggle room in upper elementary. You need your seasonal activities to pull their weight. Luckily, this one does: GET THE SCAVENGER HUNT Students move around the room reading Earth Day fact cards, answering text-based questions, working with vocabulary, and...