It's Watermelon Week! A Reading/Science/Math/Writing Unit!
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Celebrate the summer with a Watermelon Week! This unit is filled with activities, experiments, informational reading, poetry writing, maps, and even a fun Reader's Theater to perform! A great way to integrate science into many areas of the curriculum!
This product includes the following:
- Colorful anchor charts
- Watermelon information to print or project that shows students the life cycle of the
watermelon, fascinating facts about this juicy fruit/vegetable, the parts of a
watermelon, as well as steps for growing and harvesting your own garden!
- Four pages of informational reading for students to complete on their own, along
with multiple choice comprehension questions at the end
- A fun Reader's Theater--"The Shocking Saga of the Poisoned Watermelon" (A TRUE
story with a TRULY happy ending!)
-Two maps to complete about where watermelons are primarily grown both in the
United States and in the world
- A fun, easy recipe for a watermelon slush
- Science and higher level vocabulary words printed on cards to display in the
classroom
- Vocabulary activities and worksheets that are designed to be fun and challenging
to complete
- Cut, color, and paste watermelon life cycle
- Label the parts of a watermelon
- Watermelon estimation and measurement activities (standard and nonstandard
units)
- Bar graphs for students to create after finding out information from the class
about both watermelons and other types of fruit
- Class Watermelon Spitting Activity (recording sheets, questions, and line plots)
- Exploding Watermelon Experiment--TOTALLY exciting!
- Forms to write an acrostic poem, as well as a quintain poem, as well as illustrations
to color with crayons and markers to illustrate them for display purposes
- Lists of watermelon adjectives and verbs to use during writing activities
- Beautiful color photographs!
Get your class truly excited and engaged in a unit that is guaranteed to give them
thrills and chills, as well as important practice with reading and measurement skills!