Potato Day | End of the Year Theme Day Activities | Potato Pet, Reading, Math
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Embark on a thrilling and educational countdown to summer with our End of the Year Theme Days BUNDLE SET 2! This unique collection offers a blend of fun and learning experiences that will surely ignite your students' enthusiasm for the approaching end of the school year. Dive into a day filled withPrice $18.90Original Price $21.00Save $2.10
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I'm excited to introduce you to our POTATO theme day! While it may sound unconventional, I assure you that both you and your students are in for a delightful surprise. This low-prep day is packed with engaging activities that promise a memorable and fun experience. Ensure you have enough potatoes for each student to create their potato pet. Additionally, gather powdered sugar and chocolate chips if you choose to explore the optional potato candy activity. Trust me, it's simple, and your students will have a blast! Detailed step-by-step directions with accompanying pictures are included for easy implementation.
This comprehensive end-of-year unit has everything you need to infuse some extra fun into your classroom before summer break. It covers math, phonics, grammar, science, writing, and comprehension, offering a well-rounded educational experience. Your students will engage in sorting true and false equations, practicing long vowel words, categorizing nouns, verbs, and adjectives as "French fries," creating a Couch Potato (link provided if needed), crafting a story map for any potato-themed tale (links included), learning about potato growth, designing a potato pet, and composing a persuasive letter advocating for their adoption. To cap it off, students can enjoy some potato-inspired activities to wrap up the day. This end-of-year unit serves as a perfect countdown to the summer break!
Included in this unit:
- Lesson Plans Overview
- Potato Video Links (Grow Your Own Potato, Sprouting Potatoes, Invention of Potato Chips)
- MATH – True and False Equations
- PHONICS – Smash the Potato Partner Game (vowel teams)
- GRAMMAR – French Fry Sort (nouns, verbs, adjecives)
- READING COMPREHENSION – The Couch Potato, Potato Pants (Read aloud links included!)
- READING COMPREHENSION – Story Elements Map & Couch Potato BME Craft
- SCIENCE & READING – Growing Potatoes Passage and Questions
- SCIENCE – Growing a Potato in a Jar / Observations
- WRITING and Activity – Create a Potato Pet & Persuasive Writing Advocating for Pet Adoption
- JUST FOR FUN! – Potato Candy and How-to Writing
