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The Crayons Love Our Planet
These tasks are for the book – The Crayons Love Our Planet – DeWalt and Jeffers
Use it to explore World Environment Day, Earth Day and/or Arbor Day.
Pre Reading Prediction
• predictions from the cover
• predictions for what will happen after two pages
• Interactive Flap Page for recording predictions
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Vocabulary Tasks
• Alphabet Key
• Word Wall
• Words to describe our planet
Summary templates
• What did the crayons draw?
• Recount template
Print and Go
• I see, I think, I wonder
• 3-2-1 facts-opinions-questions
• Plus, minus, and interesting parts
• Text to Text, Self, World
• Write a sequel
• Sequencing task with two options
• Wordfind – two options
Book Report
• Read the text and decide if you would recommend it to others.
Craft Idea
• Create a display with our Earth and choices for headers and footers
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ANZAC Day - Junior Activities
ANZAC Day is an important day in Australian and New Zealand History. April 25 marks the day to remember the people who were lost and families who were changed forever. This pack is for early learners to begin to develop an appreciation of this significant day.
ANZAC Day Reading and Writing Tasks - This pack is also included in our ANZAC Day Bundle at a discounted price.
This pack includes
Background notes and suggested books to read
Word Work
How many words can you make from Australian and New Zealand Army Corps?
A recording sheet to write down your words
Work on Writing
Record my thoughts about ANZAC Day
Recount of an ANZAC Day March you have attended
What is the significance of the wreath?
What symbols are associated with ANZAC Day?
Complete a Venn Diagram on flags from Australia and New Zealand
Reading
PMI facts about ANZAC Day (positive, minus and interesting)
Alphabet Key – use words or phrases to describe this day
I see, I think, I wonder about the symbols, traditions or history
Read ‘Only a Donkey’ – list the animals in the story
ANZAC Fact Chart
ANZAC Day 3-2-1
“Only a Donkey’ – response sheet
Read ‘My Grandad Marches on ANZAC DAY’ – complete a character map, story board and beginning/middle/ending
Templates for the above tasks that can be used for any books you may read based on ANZAC Day
Small share book
Craft
Make a flag for Australian and New Zealand
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Diary of a Wombat
Read and share the ‘Diary of a Wombat” by Jackie French and enjoy the simplicity of the text! This book is great for consolidating days of the week and establishing what routines are. Work through the initial tasks to become familiar with the text and then record your own diary.
All the tasks included for Diary of a Wombat are all print and go-
Word splash for a wombat
A wombat is-has-can
Compare the two – wombat and koala
Recount of the book
Recount of my week
Change the ending
Students choose an animal to have as their character in their own diary
Discuss days of the week and brainstorm ideas that they could use in the diary
Choose a cover to use for your diary which includes a make your own design a front cover
Write and enjoy the diaries that they write
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Elmer the Elephant
Elmer the Elephant Writing and Craft Activities - Elmer is a much loved elephant and the series of books are read over and over again. These writing tasks and craft activities will support increasing vocabulary and writing skills.
Tasks include -
• Alphabet Key – write down words or phrases to describe Elmer or the books you read
• Record words to describe Elmer – inside or outside traits
• Label parts of an elephant
• Create a summary – read a book and complete the task
• Recount of the story – choose a text to recount
• Plus, minus and interesting facts – for any book
• Concept map – can be used to describe characters or texts
• Three facts, two opinions and one question you have about Elmer
• I see, I think, I wonder statements about Elmer
• Elmer can, is, has
• Elmer Fact Chart
• Make a paper weave Elmer
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Pirate's Perfect Pet
Pirate’s Perfect Pet - Writing a persuasive or opinion piece takes skill and repetition. The book “Pirate’s Perfect Pet” is an excellent introduction to writing this type of text. Use these printables to argue what would be the perfect pet for a pirate.
Use the Alphabet Key to list the animals that could be a great pet for a pirate.
Work with a partner to record the pros and cons for each pet mentioned in the text. Use these to help write a plan.
The planning templates are differentiated to support students to record their point of view, reasons and supportive arguments.
The Pirate Booklet is used to record the sections from the planner. Print the pages you need for each group.
The Persuasive Text Rubric is used to show how successful each writer has been. Share the rubric before you start.**
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The Doorbell Rang - A Division Problem
Wombat Stew is a much loved story about some adorable Australian animals. Follow Dingo as he tries to make a stew to eat while the other animals try to trick him.
This book study for ‘Wombat Stew’ contains the following printables
Getting to know the text
Alphabet Key
Parts of speech – classify the words and make a display
What I know, want to know and new learning
Alphabet Wall for a class display
Working through the text tasks include -
Beginning, middle, end
Text Connections
Problems and solutions
Write a summary
Story Elements
I see, I think, I wonder
A Dingo-Wombat-Emu-Echidna-Kookaburra-Lizard-Koala-Platypus is, can, has
Use adjectives to describe
Beyond the text tasks include -
Main Idea and sub plots
Conversations
Venn Diagrams compare animal characters in Wombat Stew
Change the ending
A recipe to use
Alternative coping methods
Personality Traits
Use adjectives
List Australian animals
Amazing illustration
Visual Illustrations
New Book Cover
Book Reports
Author Tools
Interview questions
Conversation between Wombat Stew characters
Innovation on the text
Sequel to text
Make your own book
Non-Fiction Responses for an Information Report include -
Photos to use as display and conversation prompts
Fact cards to share in colour and black/white
Planners (USA and Non-USA spelling)
Pages to use for writing text
Information Text rubric (USA and Non-USA spelling)
Map of the world
Interactive Note Pages for planning (USA and Non-USA spelling)
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Rosie's Walk Book Companion
Rosie’s Walk is a great book to teach positional words. This book companion looks at many aspects of the book and provides opportunities to respond to the text in differentiated tasks.
Vocabulary Cards – to sort and look at parts of speech
Word Wall – create a list of words together
Visual Representation
Draw a map and recount
Create your own version to read.
Print and Go Section
Word splashes for Rosie, the fox and the chase
Plus, Minus and Interesting facts
Alphabet Key
I see, I think, I wonder
Record three facts
3/2/1 – Facts, options, questions
Text to text, self and world
Design a book cover
Responding through the senses
Book Review
Writing about the Reading
Writing a letter- convince the fox to leave Rosie alone
Main Idea and sub points
Author tools – what does the author do to keep us reading and interested?
Interview questions – for the foxes and the farmers
Dialogue between characters
Write a different ending
Write an innovation on the text
Make a list of important facts from the text
List the complications and resolutions
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Stellaluna Book Study
Stellaluna is a story about a young bat that finally makes their way back home after trying to fit in with a bird family. These tasks will explore the text and inspire your students to write.
Tasks include -
Word Wall Cards - Use these words as a display or in a learning centre to sort into categories or to find out meanings or to put into sentences or stories or use in writing or put into alphabetical order
KWHL - Copy each page and display as a grade list the things you - Know about Stellaluna - Want to know about Stellaluna - How will we find this out - Our New Learning about Stellaluna
Word Splashes - Around each picture record words to describe it. Discuss adjectives, verbs and nouns
Interactive Pages - On the front – draw an illustration. Under the flap – write a description for the Beginning, middle and end of story and Personality traits for Stellaluna
Writing Tasks - Flap Book, Stellaluna loves to…, Life in a nest, Spare writing pages, ACROSTIC poem, Side graphics for stories, Venn Diagram, At night I …If I were a bat I would
Word Work - Use these class lesson or an individual focus for word work tasks. Pages for – at, ir, ight
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Persuasive Opinion Writing Prompt Pack
This Persuasive Opinion Writing Pack has 22 prompts for writing about opinions that will motivate your writers. Your students will present a point of view with supporting arguments. The Persuasive/Opinion prompts can be printed or displayed on your whiteboard or TV screen.
This pack includes
Simple planning tool - You can use this to plan to help your students plan using a blank piece of paper.
Persuasive prompts - These 22 prompts can be printed off and shared. I would suggest that they are displayed on your Smartboard or IWB and used as discussion starters.
Print and go sheets - The ‘print and go’ copies are for your students to write on and check off as they include parts of the text in their writing.
Assessment - Choose between one for each child or a class recording sheet.
Writing pages - You can use this as a draft or published piece. The empty box can be used as a plan or for a supporting illustration or diagram.
Please Note – Australian teachers – this pack is supportive of NAPLAN (this is a National Assessment Program) as it is about good teaching from day one of primary school, not just teaching the writing styles just prior to the assessment time. This pack will help you to work with Year 2 to Year 6 students to help prepare them for our National Testing as well as write well planned and reasoned persuasive texts.
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Fractions | Making a Farm | Project Based Learning
At the end of this Fractions – Making a Fraction Farm your students will have produced a farm based on fractions, decimals and percentages. Each step in this project based learning project is clearly explained and supported by resources in the pack.
Included in this PowerPoint are
Curriculum Standards for Common Core and Australian Curriculum
A description of what Project Based Learning is
A Learning Intention – ‘I will show what I know about fractions
The Nine Steps
a) What do we know about fractions using manipulatives? Photo of examples provided. Fraction wall graphics included.
b) A rubric for assessment to track progress and give feedback throughout the unit.
c) Designing the farm for fraction work – determining the scale and size of animal or crop fields. Examples are provided to explore before students develop their own farms.
d) Discovering more about fractions through INB pages
e) Accumulating more knowledge – develop your own posters about knowledge – examples provided.
f) Comparing fractions- decimals – percentages
g) Presenting the work with guidelines
h) Reflecting on my work through a written response
Extra resources – Fraction Walls, Fractions posters that include – vocabulary, equivalent fractions and the four operations
I use these steps for Project Based Learning in my teaching and learning space.
Setting the stage for the learning that is about to happen and making a link back to a real life scenario
The teacher negotiates the criteria for evaluating the projects
Students become project designers
Students discuss the information needed for their designs
Students accumulate the materials necessary for the project
Students create their projects
Students prepare to present their projects
Students present their projects
Students reflect on the process and evaluate the projects based on the agreed criteria
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Design a Cubby or Treehouse | Project Based Learning
Our Project Based Learning Design a Cubby House or Tree House has prompts, posters and rubrics that will help you to design some amazing cubbies or treehouses. Our students love designing and producing models that mean something to them. Explore tree/cubby houses and work out which design will influence your STEM process.
There are five posters to help guide you through the Design a Cubby House process.
There are four Cubby Designs to make comments on and reflect positives or negatives for your own design.
Design a Cubby House Learning Book – Copy the pages and place them together in a book. Work through each page together and check in often. Share great work along the way and provide help with giving feedback
Digital Learning Option Guide for Design a Cubby House
We have used the free version of Book Creator and we made a new class assignment within the app. When they have completed the task they upload this to Showbie – which is also a free version.
Rubric Assessment included for Design a Cubby House
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World Environment Day Printable Recording Worksheets
These recording templates support the Powerpoint contained in the zip file.
• What do we need to keep doing and what can we stop doing to make our planet a better place to be?
• Record words to describe World Environment Day
• Plus, minus and interesting ideas about our planet
• Alphabet Key – Our Planet
• What I see, I think and I wonder about our planet
• Environment Day Fact Chart
• World Environment Day 3 facts, 2 opinions and 1 question I have
• Compare and contrast our world 50 years ago and today
• Convince your grade to look after our planet.
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Skip Counting Project Based Math - BBQ Costings
Skip Counting - Addition - Problem Solving are all covered in this BBQ activity. Skip counting provides an understanding of number patterns. The skip counting skill helps with the four operations and gives confidence to solve problems. Our BBQ Problem Based Learning task explores a menu and solving the price of food eaten.
Prompts for purchasing BBQ menu items
There are prompts to use for display.
They will motivate your students to draw, record their BBQ choices and then cost each order.
Skip Counting Mats
The skip counting mats are provided to review 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, 7s and 10s from a zero and non zero starting point.
Start at 0 or start at any number.
Student Workbook
Select the pages you want to be printed in your students’ books.
Some students may not need all the pages. Use play money to help work out the skipping patterns.
Small whiteboards can be used to record the skipping pattern.
Interactive Note Book Pages
These are Interactive Note Pages for extension work.
Draw the BBQ order on the front and under the flap work out how much the order would cost.
The answer key is provided at the back of this pack.
Teach the students how to record dollars and cents.
Answer Keys
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Addition Project Based Learning - How Many Pages Have You Read?
Skip Counting - Addition - Problem Solving are all covered in this BBQ activity. Skip counting provides an understanding of number patterns. The skip counting skill helps with the four operations and gives confidence to solve problems. Our BBQ Problem Based Learning task explores a menu and solving the price of food eaten.
Prompts for purchasing BBQ menu items
There are prompts to use for display.
They will motivate your students to draw, record their BBQ choices and then cost each order.
Skip Counting Mats
The skip counting mats are provided to review 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, 7s and 10s from a zero and non zero starting point.
Start at 0 or start at any number.
Student Workbook
Select the pages you want printed in your students’ book.
Some students may not need all the pages. Use play money to help work out the skipping patterns.
Small whiteboards can be used to record the skipping pattern.
Interactive Note Book Pages
These are Interactive Note Pages for extension work.
Draw the BBQ order on the front and under the flap work out how much the order would cost.
Answer key provided at the back of this pack.
This section has the answer keys for the Student Workbook and the Interactive Note Pages.
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ANZAC Day - Writing, Craft and Cooking
Even our young students need to have an understanding about ANZAC Day. This pack will help you to explore through reading, writing, craft and cooking why ANZAC Day is so important to commemorate with our young students.
This pack contains
Print and Go tasks
A Word Wall to brainstorm words that you may find in books you read or words you may need in writing tasks
Read an ANZAC Day book of your choice and complete the beginning, middle and end template – 3 choices (these could be enlarged to A3)
What I see, what I think, what I wonder about ANZAC Day
A soldier, sailor, pilot and nurse is-can-has. This can be done individually or in small groups and then shared
How does our school commemorate ANZAC Day?
Why are medals given out to our Armed Forces?
Craft Activities
Make a wreath
Poppy torn art
Cooking activities
Recipe for ANZAC Day biscuits
Recount of making ANZAC Day biscuits – 2 options
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ANZAC Day Reading and Writing Tasks
ANZAC Day is a huge part of our Australian and New Zealand shared history. It is a huge responsibility to make sure we engage our students in the recognition and commemoration of this event. This pack will assist in building their knowledge and understanding of the sacrifices that have been made by all ANZACs and their families.
Tasks include -
Word Wall – brainstorm words with your students and record them on the colour or black or white versions. Use these words to add to your writing sessions.
Adjectives - Brainstorm with your grade words to use as adjectives to describe each photo. Then use to write a sentence about the photo. Edit, refine and then publish.
Symbols – Read the information provided on Slouch hat, Wreath, Last Post, Medals, Poppies and answer the questions
Reading tasks - What is ANZAC Day? ‘The Ode’, ‘Flanders Fields’, War Memorials. Read the information and answer the questions
Interview - If you could interview a ‘digger’ what would you ask? Record on the template provided
Personality traits of a digger
Wordfind – locate and colour the words found
Mapping - Locate Australia, New Zealand, Turkey – locate and colour
ANZAC Biscuits - History of ANZAC biscuits.
A recipe to make these biscuits with a recount template
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Earth Day Reading Writing and Craft
Earth Day Reading, Writing and Craft
Earth Day is an important day to focus on so that our children understand that we need to take care of our planet. Work through these tasks to provide support to help protect our planet.
Included in this pack
Word Wall – color copy and display. As a grade add to this throughout the unit. Students can see the words and use them in writing and in extending vocabulary tasks.
Emergent Reader – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Use the color cover and b/w. You may copy back to back and staple the pages together. As the children read the text, add color to the pictures. Use to reread each day.
3Rs Jack Johnson – the lyrics are here to read on a poster. Record how the song makes you feel and then write your own verse to share
I love my planet because… two formats. One allows the students to add their own picture
My Earth – ways I can save my home … two formats. One allows the students to add their own picture
Use the tub pictures to record what you can Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
What can be recycled? Add your thoughts in the circles and discuss with others
Interactive Notebook page for - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Mind Map for Reuse, Recycle
Collage of items for Recycling
Persuasive Plan for the need to recycle, plus writing page
Persuasive Plan for we need to plant more trees, plus writing page
Earth Day – How can we promote this?
Earth Day – My Footprint
Yellow and Black Hat thinking for compost
Earth Day – Acrostic Poem
Earth Day – Wordfind
Fact and Opinion – 20 cards to sort under these headings
This pack is aligned to the USA CCSS and Aus Curriculum
Sorting and Matching Tasks
Craft task - make a mobile
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Mother's Day Interactive Card
This Mother’s Day Interactive Card gives your students the opportunity to record memories, facts and thoughts about their mother. Every year when we make this card we get amazing feedback from our parents.
This Mother’s Day pack will help create a large card that has many sections. There are instructions with photos to help assemble the card.
The file contains pages for the following options - Mother, Mum, Mom, Grandma, Nan and Auntie.
Instructions
Photocopy all pages
Choose an A3 card and fold in half
Cut out the template pages and glue in
Cut all the Memory Pages, staple and glue
Cut and put together the ‘Our Holidays’ booklet and glue into place
Put together the IOU booklet and glue in
Now it is time to write……
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Room on the Broom
Use the magical picture story book “Room on the Broom’ to explore language, have shared experiences and look at character, setting and plot development. Quick and easy setup plus clear student directions make these activities perfect for centers.
Your students will love exploring new vocabulary, sharing what they discover, listing parts of speech, sequencing and writing tasks through this book study.
Tasks included in our product -
Words – There are words from the story on cards for you to use. You can display them in your room as writing or reading prompts. They can be used to put into alphabetical order, sort words into similar groups and name the groups. In word work, students can find the meanings of them. Labels are provided to sort into nouns, adjectives and verbs.
KWHL - Copy each page and display. As a grade, list the things you - Know about Witches- Want to know about Witches - How will we find this out? In the last section, record your new Learning about Witches (there is one on each page as well as a template that includes all four on one page).
Word Splash - Around each picture, record words to describe it. Discuss adjectives, verbs and nouns
Print and go – sequencing task, label the characters, fill in the missing word, two comprehension tasks, two sequencing tasks, beginning/middle/end, witch/dragon are-have-can, fact task, story map – setting, characters and problem/solution, true or false, making connections, my opinion, narrative template, witch and animals to go on the side of your writing, a recount, Dragon loses fire, word work – oo – itch – and, phonic challenge.
Stick Puppets - Copy page of your choice. Cut and attach to sticks. Students perform oral plays with the characters.
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Living and Non Living Science Unit
Make teaching the difference between living and non living easy! This pack includes low prep printables and centers that guide your students to learn the difference between living and non living. Watch your students categorize items with confidence.
Lead your students to discover the concepts of living and non living through sequenced activities that are planned for you. Your students will be guided through a learning sequence that builds their knowledge about living and non living.
Your students will love discussing how they classify items and will be proud to share their learning with you.
What will you get in this product?
● I can statements to display in your classroom
● KWHL templates to record what you know, want to know, how you might find out new learning and your new learning
● Posters -two printing options, full color and a save ink version (I teach that plants do move – a Venus Fly trap certainly does, a vine can curl around a frame and plants turn toward the sun. Some schools teach that living things can move and others do not so the posters provide both options.)
● Matching - sorting pictures into categories of living and n living
● Print and Go - cut and sort the pictures and glue under the correct headings, record living and non living, explanations on how to classify, a reflection task
● Reader - print and go
● Interactive Note Pages
Prep is quick and easy… Just print the student pages, gather the materials listed, and you’re ready for a fun and engaging class!
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This was a fun and easy way for me to teach 1st graders about Living and Non Living Things. My students enjoyed the activities we did. Julie
I love the assortment of resources in this product. I used it for morning work, independent work, homework and small group work. Love that it is no prep and easy to use. Great resource! Ashlee
A beautiful layout of resources to help build my Biology resources - excellent picture and great range of activities easy to use and minimal prep! Love your work! Deanne
Great resource! It was fun to use as a whole group to teach an engaging lesson on science. This resource is loaded with a ton of activities for all the students to use throughout the week both as a group and to work on independently! Nicole
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