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Your Just Desserts
Students integrate language arts with math applications. They write letters to town officials and local businesses asking for favorite dessert recipes. They then tabulate their responses in a spreadsheet and turn their survey results...
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Your Just Desserts
Students write letters to town officials and local businesses asking for favorite dessert recipes. They tabulate their responses in a spreadsheet. Students turn their survey results into colorful graphs.
Read Works
First Thanksgiving Meal
Cranberries, oysters, lobster, deer, and cabbage were just a few of the foods found on the table at the First Thanksgiving. After reading a two-page passage about the historic meal, class members respond to 10 reading...
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JUST SANDWICHES
Second graders brainstorm, share ideas, categorize and choose a favorite sandwich. They then make their favorite sanwich as a prewriting activity.
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Similar Words
In this spelling and grammar worksheet, students study words which look or sound alike such as "desert" and "dessert." Students use the 24 words in the word bank to choose correct words to complete 20 sentences.
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Just Sandwiches
Second graders design sandwiches for all meals, courses, and occasions. They list or draw many, different, and unusual sandwich creations. Basic ingredients should be identified for each idea.
Curriculum Corner
November Bell Ringers
All things November in a set of 32 bell ringer ideas to get you through the month. From writing about November to writing about colors and feelings in fall, these bell ringers are fun and allow creative writing practice.
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Introduce Vocabulary: Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse (Henkes)
Familiarize budding readers with new vocabulary in context as they listen you read Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse, which can be found on YouTube if you don't have in on hand. Recommended focus words here are: considerate, creative,...
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Book Review
Reflect on your reading with a book review form. After finishing a novel or short story, kids choose the correct genre and discuss their favorite part. They also decide which part they would change, and whether or not they would...
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Topic Sentence
Looking for a simple worksheet on topic sentences? This one's for you! Learners find the topic sentence for each paragraph by cutting out the paragraphs and placing them in the right order.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Fifth graders participate in a variety of math and language arts activities based on chocolate.
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Africa and Us
Students read a story about a boy in South Africa. They identify places in South Africa they might want to visit. They compare and contrast life in South Africa with their life in the United States.
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Keep + Prepositions
In this online interactive grammar skills activity, students respond to 10 fill in the blank questions regarding the use of prepositions.
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Taste Treat Writing
Students use their 5 senses to write a paragraph about yummy treats they sample. In this writing lesson plan, students use a graphic organizer to organize their tastes and how they can write about them and then write.
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Introduce Vocabulary: Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse
Students discover the meaning of tier two vocabulary words. In this vocabulary activity, students read Lily's Plastic Purple Purse, listening for 3 pre-selected, tier two vocabulary words. Words are defined by the teacher and...
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Is There Seaweed/Algae in Your Food?
Young scholars discover that seaweed/algae is a small part of the resources the oceans provide. By investigating common household products, students discover that human senses are not enough to detect the presence of seaweed/algae in food.
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ESL Homonyms -Quiz 49
For this homonyms quiz worksheet, students complete a set of 20 multiple choice questions, choosing the correct homonyms to complete sentences. Students may click on an answer button for immediate feedback.
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Pbs Teachers: Just Desserts
Identify advertising techniques designed to encourage children to overindulge in unhealthy foods. Explore the motives behind advertising and use your knowledge to think critically about ads all around you. Scroll down to "Just Desserts,"...