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Plant Life Cycle Activities: Writing About Science & A Freebie

March 22 By Linda Kamp 21 Comments

Plant life cycle activities-guiding students to write about science. Part of a complete plants science unit for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade.

              Kids love learning about life cycles and studying plants is always a highlight in my classroom. I am always looking for ways to get my students writing more about science and these plant life cycle activities are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Popular Posts, Science, Writing Tagged With: experiments, life cycles, Plants, science, writing

Measurement Math Activities

February 16 By Linda Kamp 6 Comments

Happy Sunday, no school Monday! I love Monday holidays when I feel like I can catch my breath and get caught up! Last week was a whirlwind with two half days, parent/teacher conferences,  our daughter's birthday, our wedding anniversary and Valentine's Day!  WHEW!  I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Math, Writing Tagged With: MATH, measurement, opinion writing

Eat More Hot Dogs!

November 15 By Linda Kamp 13 Comments

It's all things Pigeons and Pilgrims in my classroom and this week we had some Pigeon fun, Thanksgiving-style!  My class had a blast with this little twist on disguise-a-turkey and we made these Pigeon  persuasive writing booklets from The Turkey Wants a Hot … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Holidays, Thanksgiving Activities, Writing Tagged With: Thanksgiving, writing activites

October Means Stellaluna!

October 10 By Linda Kamp 5 Comments

Happy October friends!  I'm on Fall Break this week, but school is never far from my brain!   I'm planning for next week and wanted to show you some of the things we'll be up to!  We'll be focusing on nocturnal animals through the end of the month but most of all, October … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Reading, Writing Tagged With: bats, fall, read alouds, reading, writing

Teaching with Tomie dePaola Books Part 4: Responding to Literature

May 21 By Linda Kamp 11 Comments

Teaching with Tomie dePaola books: The Strega Nona series

  Welcome to part 4 of the series, Teaching with Tomie dePaola books: Responding to Literature. In this post I'll walk you through some of the ways I have my students write about what they are reading during our Tomie dePaola author study. As we transition to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Reading, Writing, Writing About Reading Tagged With: book activities, Tomie dePaola, writing activities

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