The Legend of the Poinsettia FULL Day of Lesson Plans for Upper Elementary

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Fifth in the Forest

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Grade Levels

3rd - 5th

Subjects

English Language Arts, Social Studies - History, Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa

Resource Type

Activities, Lesson

Standards

CCSS3.MD.D.8

CCSS4.MD.A.1

CCSS4.MD.A.2

CCSS4.MD.C.5

CCSS3.NBT.A.1

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43 pages

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My students enjoyed this resource. It was great for reviewing and keeping my students engaged as we got closer to winter break!

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Modified this a bit for my exploratory Spanish students but the materials and layout were great. If I were teaching at a lower level, they could easily have been used as is.

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This product is everything the busy classroom has been looking for! You'll receive a FULL day of lesson plans based on The Legend of the Poinsettia by Tomie dePaola (a lesson for reading, writing, math, science, social studies, plus a hallway display!).

Update November 2020: This product can now be used digitally with Google Slides™! You must have a Google Classroom™ account to use this feature. You will download a PDF with links and directions for assigning this to your class.

How does this work?

Your download will come with 4 files: student activity sheets, teacher lesson plans, an informational PowerPoint, and Google™ links. Simply print, gather your materials, and GO! No need to look for extra activities, or write out your lesson plans.

Lessons Included:

Reading: 4 activity sheets that focus on comprehension, vocabulary, and summarizing. The comprehension questions can be used as an informal or formal assessment if you wish!

Math: 10 task cards and a student recording sheet. Skills include addition, subtraction, measurement, geometry, patterns, and word problems. The levels of the task cards vary in the 3-5th grade range. Choose the cards that will work for your class!

Writing: Learn about legends and write your own! Brainstorming and 2 versions of recording pages are included. Sample this lesson as a freebie here!

Science: Go through an informational PowerPoint and allow students to write an "All About Poinsettias" booklet.

Social Studies: Read an article about poinsettias coming to the United States. Then, students will find evidence and answer text-based questions.

Answer Keys are also included!

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Total Pages

43 pages

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Standards

to see state-specific standards (only available in the US).

CCSS3.MD.D.8

Solve real world and mathematical problems involving perimeters of polygons, including finding the perimeter given the side lengths, finding an unknown side length, and exhibiting rectangles with the same perimeter and different areas or with the same area and different perimeters.

CCSS4.MD.A.1

Know relative sizes of measurement units within one system of units including km, m, cm; kg, g; lb, oz.; l, ml; hr, min, sec. Within a single system of measurement, express measurements in a larger unit in terms of a smaller unit. Record measurement equivalents in a two-column table. For example, know that 1 ft is 12 times as long as 1 in. Express the length of a 4 ft snake as 48 in. Generate a conversion table for feet and inches listing the number pairs (1, 12), (2, 24), (3, 36),...

CCSS4.MD.A.2

Use the four operations to solve word problems involving distances, intervals of time, liquid volumes, masses of objects, and money, including problems involving simple fractions or decimals, and problems that require expressing measurements given in a larger unit in terms of a smaller unit. Represent measurement quantities using diagrams such as number line diagrams that feature a measurement scale.

CCSS4.MD.C.5

Recognize angles as geometric shapes that are formed wherever two rays share a common endpoint, and understand concepts of angle measurement:

CCSS3.NBT.A.1

Use place value understanding to round whole numbers to the nearest 10 or 100.

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