Need Wonder activities for your classroom or home school Wonder teaching resources? We have Wonder lesson plans, Wonder worksheets, and more ideas for book projects, kindness activities for middle school, and diversity lessons to make a great study unit for students using both the novel by RJ Palacio and teaching with movies (including the popular precepts project!).
Discover the perfect All About Me preschool activity designed for young kids! Get a free printable worksheet that's simple, engaging, and ideal for emergent readers. Download now!
Thematic unit lesson plans and printables for elementary, kindergarten and preschool, perfect as a screen-free homeschool curriculum too.
These FREE Printables and Unit Studies for Eric Carle's Books will help you expand on what your kids are learning through these beloved books.
Use our Farmer Boy unit study to create an amazing lesson plan and learning adventure for your students.
Need Wonder activities for your classroom or home school Wonder teaching resources? We have Wonder lesson plans, Wonder worksheets, and more ideas for book projects, kindness activities for middle school, and diversity lessons to make a great study unit for students using both the novel by RJ Palacio and teaching with movies (including the popular precepts project!).
Little Social Studies Thinkers is a complete curriculum specifically for Kindergarten. It's everything you need to introduce, teach, practice, and assess your kinder friends. It is cross-referenced and aligned to the main topics of Kindergarten Social Studies Standards. -------------------GET THE FULL YEAR-LONG CURRICULUM HERE-------------------- Little Social Studies Thinkers FULL YEAR CURRICULUM for KINDERGARTEN UNIT 4: My Community teaches students about different types of communities and people that live and work in them. It contains lessons on these specific topics: Types of Communities (rural, suburban, city) Diverse Families in a Community Important Places in a Community Community Helpers/Jobs Why People Work Wants and Needs Here are the components of the Unit: -A complete Teacher Guide -8 printable/projectable Books for Read-Alouds -Step-by-step, Scripted Lesson Plans (Twelve, 35-minute lesson plans in all) -Essential Question and Learning Target posters -Anchor Charts -Whole group Games and Activities -Craftivities and Culminating Unit Activity -Student Workbook that follows each lesson -Quick Check for every lesson -Kinder-appropriate Assessment and Rubric for scoring -Parent Letter -A COMPLETE unit PowerPoint to guide your teaching during each and every lesson (all books, targets and workbook pages are included in the PowerPoint to help you save paper) Here is an outline of the lessons for UNIT 4: Lesson 1: MY NEIGHBORHOOD- PLACES AND HOMES Lesson 2: MY NEIGHBORHOOD- PEOPLE AND FAMILIES Lesson 3: PLACES IN A COMMUNITY Lesson 4: PLACES IN A COMMUNITY CRAFTIVITY Lesson 5: COMMUNITY HELPERS Lesson 6: MORE COMMUNITY HELPERS Lesson 7: WHY PEOPLE WORK Lesson 8: WANTS AND NEEDS Lesson 9: WANTS AND NEEDS REVIEW & CRAFTIVITY Lesson 10: HOW WE HELP OUR COMMUNITY Lesson 11: UNIT REVIEW AND ASSESSMENT Lesson 12: CULMINATING ACTIVITY *Please download the preview to see all that is included, including samples of everything!* ************************************************************************** Click below to view additional units: UNIT 1: Citizenship UNIT 2: Then and Now UNIT 3: Holidays Around the World UNIT 4: My Community UNIT 5: Our World K-1 MINI-UNITS: MINI UNIT A: Pilgrims and Native Americans MINI UNIT B: America
If you are looking to add some high interest activities to your lessons, try using animated shorts to teach the reading skill cause and effect.
Check out our FREE unit studies that explore science, history, and biographies! Each one accompanies a Who Was, Magic Tree House, I Survived or Carole Marsh book!
For anyone new to the blog, we are a second year homeschooling family and have been doing the Gather Round Homeschool Unit Studies since the beginning! I
Need Wonder activities for your classroom or home school Wonder teaching resources? We have Wonder lesson plans, Wonder worksheets, and more ideas for book projects, kindness activities for middle school, and diversity lessons to make a great study unit for students using both the novel by RJ Palacio and teaching with movies (including the popular precepts project!).
Full of fresh ideas, diverse pairings, and helpful resources, engage high school students with these fun activities for teaching Beowulf!
Learn about Poland with this unit study! Printable pages, videos, book recommendations, recipes, hands-on projects and more!
20 Preschool thematic units with fun and creative activities based on books. Step-by-step lesson plans that are done for you and perfect to enhance your preschool curriculum!
Use our Free Friendship Unit in your classroom to teach students the characteristics of a good friend and how to make the right choices at school and at home when it comes to navigating and maintaining friendships. This free friendship unit is perfect for back to school time or a refresher anytime during the school
Grab these free printable activities to go with the book, Rosie's Walk. All the Rosie's Walk activities work on positional words.
Do your kids know that Namibia has a coastal desert and speaks German? Everything you need for a weeklong lesson plan is right here.
Kids will have fun learning about the parts of their body and what it is called with this easy-to-make, FREE My Body Mini Book.
This blog post explores innovative and engaging lesson plans for any novel unit... ranging from task cards to book instagram pages to a novel podcast project. Student choice is key here, and students can find something they would like to complete in order to convey their reading, comprehension, and
If there is one thing I have learned from working with preschoolers and now, homeschooling my own preschooler, it is that they love, more than anything else,
A comprehensive list of resources to teach your children and homeschool students about the Elections process.
Wild Thing Book Activities! This unit is fantastic for Maurice Sendak's book Where the Wild Things Are. Writing worksheet and craft included. Perfect for kindergarten or first grade!
Do you teach growth mindset to your students? These new growth mindset picture books by Kobi Yamada are perfect for helping students.
Here are ten creative ideas to make your unit planning for The Outsiders easier. Sprinkle these in between your discussions and you'll be set for a fabulous unit. And don't miss the free final project, integrating STEM + ELA, at the end of the post.
My 6 kids and I spent the last 6 days learning about Iceland. Here's everything we did!
Use this collection of Paul Klee teaching resources and complete Klee Famous Artist Unit lesson plans to teach elementary art class.
This is a wonderful book about liking who you are and what you look like no matter what everyone else might think of you. This book offers so many great character lessons, it is definitely a must have for any library. I have created an "I Like Myself" writing activity to go along with the book, but there is so much more you can do. Listed below are the reading skills, strategies and ideas you can use to create a great lesson. Reading level: 1.8 Theme/subject: self-esteem Genre: general fiction Suggested Vocabulary/phrases: protruding, knobby knees, warts, snout, tame Reading skills and strategies: Asking questions - {possible questions before} I wonder what the story is about. I wonder what she is like. {possible questions during} I wonder why she likes herself so much. {possible questions after} I wonder if she will feel that way when she gets bigger/older. **Remember to have your students answer/reflect their questions. Author's point of view – Third. Be sure to find 3 pieces of evidence to support this. Author's purpose – entertain {evidence} The main character looks very silly. The illustrator drew some crazy pictures. The story is written in rhyme. All of this makes a very entertaining story. Classify & categorize – you: things you like, how you look Compare & contrast – you and someone else. Connections - {possible text-to-self connections} all the different things you like about yourself. Drawing conclusions & inferencing – The girl likes the way she looks now but do you think she will like the way she looks when she gets a little bit older. {text clues} She looks very young. She likes everything about herself {what I know} I know that most teenagers usually don’t like the way they look. I know that teenagers can be mean sometimes to other kids that look a little different. {my conclusion} I think she will always like the way she looks even if others start to tease her. Main idea & details - {main idea} The story is mainly about a girl who likes who she is. {details} She doesn’t care if anyone calls her a silly nut or a crazy cuckoo bird. She would still like herself with knobby knees and polka-dot lips. Theme – there is only one of you and you should like who you are. It doesn’t matter what people think about you, you should like who you are. IT'S FREE!! Happy Reading!
Encanto is the hottest new Disney film for kids right now, and lucky for us homeschool moms it's chock full of learning opportunities! H...
The Day the Crayons Quit Unit Study has book based activities ad snack ideas that you can use to create a unit study that is fun and educational.
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K-1 WRITING UNIT 4 This is such a fun writing unit to teach! In Unit 4 of my K-1 writing series , we are tackling “How-To” writing pieces, and my kiddos love it when I tell them they get to be the teacher. I say, “You get to teach me! You have to write and tell me how to do something!”
Are you looking for activities for an insect or firefly life cycle unit? If so, then here's a blog post for you! This "How to Survive as a Firefly" FREE book companion activity is a fun way for students to gather and organize facts that they learn about fireflies. It's a great way to incorporate science and non-fiction into your lesson plans.
Looking for a fun and enagaging way to teach linear measurement? Check out these monster themed measurement activities that make learning fun
If you are looking for some high-interest activities, try using animated shorts to teach inference. Free handouts focus on student learning.
A Charlotte's Web unit study perfect for homeschool, classroom, or thematic novel study. The book study resources listed in this post are all FREE!
Novel Studies that Promote Higher-Order Thinking Have you been following along our novel study journey? If so, you may have seen my posts about using interactive novel workbooks instead of typical novel studies. Novel workbooks are
