Beach Week ELA Math
A beach-themed packet of ELA and math practice activities: opinion/persuasive writing prompts, multiplication fact practice, and parts-of-speech sorting.
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A beach-themed packet of ELA and math practice activities: opinion/persuasive writing prompts, multiplication fact practice, and parts-of-speech sorting.
Track mastery of doubles facts on record sheets, cut out and use doubles flashcards (with answers printed on the back), and complete timed doubles addition practice pages, scored out of 80 in 1 minute.
Observe nature scenes, brainstorm descriptive words, draft a haiku following the 5-7-5 syllable pattern, share for feedback, revise, and glue the finished poem into an interactive notebook cover/response sheet set.
Day 2 of the masons unit, with less emphasis on vocabulary/research and more focus on fact fluency and multi-step word-problem strategy, using an 8-yard by 3-yard wall scenario.
Give students extra practice with the 'Start From The Left' mental math strategy for whole number addition, as a follow-up to classroom Number Talks instruction.
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Compare and contrast two pieces of literature (e.g., stories, myths, traditional literature) on how they treat similar themes and topics.
Identify the theme of a text, support the identification with examples, and write a summary of the text.
Day 3 of the masons unit, using a 9-yard by 9-foot wall scenario to continue practicing area, cost, and profit word problems at a higher multiplication-fact level.
use comparison vocabulary cards, sort objects or playdough shapes by size, walk around the room finding objects longer/shorter than a benchmark object, and measure objects or lines with non-standard units (paperclips or links), recording answers to 'how many/how long' prompts
This lesson plan is great for 4th grade students who need to work on reading and comprehending literature, including stories and poetry. The RL.4.10 Fourth Grade Common Core Lesson is designed to help students with this common issue.
This lesson is designed for third grade students and meets common core standards. It includes a reading of a story or poem followed by comprehension questions.
Match a 'Restate' card to its word problem, use an 'Understanding the Problem' card (4-step process) to work through it, choose the correct equation for each problem, and solve the problems on an activity sheet.
Day 4 of the masons unit, using a 12-yard by 12-foot wall scenario and x12 facts as the culminating fact-fluency challenge of the week.
Teaches non-standard unit measurement using ladybug-themed cards.
Students play/complete four independent center activities: matching base-ten block cards to numerals ('Base Ten Buddies'), matching number-bond/complements-of-ten cards, a greater-than/less-than/equal-to comparison card game ('Number Wars'), and an addition doubles/doubles-plus-one sorting activity ('Saber Sort').
A math activity teaching students to draw and interpret scaled bar and line graphs, and to solve one- and two-step 'how many more/less' comparison problems using graphed data.
Give students practice identifying and choosing the correct homophone (words that sound alike but differ in spelling and meaning) to complete a sentence correctly.
Day 1 of a mason-themed inductive math unit tying real-world area, cost, and profit word problems to the history of masonry (linked to Ancient China / Native American earthen-shelter history).
Students match starfish number cards showing plus/minus 10 and plus/minus 1 relationships to the correct answer boxes; match fish ten-frame cards to seashell ten-frame cards that combine to make 10; solve ten-frame addition/subtraction facts (e.g. 10+_=10 down to 1+_=10, and 10-_= various); match two halves of…
Match CVC word cards to pictures; play memory/concentration with the cards; read or write CVC words in a 'read/write the room' format; read rebus sentences and write or illustrate the complete sentence; build CVC words by assembling letter cards; identify correct medial vowel sounds on cards; play a cover-up…
Practice recognizing and using Fry's seventh 100 sight words in context through fill-in-the-blank sentences, flash cards, and a word search.
Give students practice identifying and choosing the correct homophone (words that sound alike but differ in spelling and meaning) to complete a sentence correctly.
Students read a one-sentence story prompt (e.g. write a story about an evil witch, a spooky ghost, a dragon) with supporting brainstorming questions, then write a narrative on the ruled lines provided.