Earth Day creative writing thematic unit plans

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Also included in: ABC Countdown to Summer End of the Year Collection of Resources Bundle

Ice Cream Day End of the Year Theme Day Activities Countdown to Summer

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Creative Writing, End of Year, Phonics

Enjoy the last week of school with this fun end of the year themed day. Have a yummy day with your students celebrating and learning all about ice cream! It is the perfect way to end your year, engage your students, and still learn. There are activities to review math, word work, writing, crafts, and so much more. This would also make great summer camp activities for a week filled of fun.Math Activities:Class SurveyIce Cream Sundae Form120 Grid puzzles colorful 5 versionsBuild an Ice Cream Sunda

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Grades:

K - 3rd

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Thematic Unit Plans, Activities

CCSS:

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Also included in: ABC Countdown to Summer End of the Year Collection of Resources Bundle

Popcorn Day End of the Year Theme Day Activities Countdown to Summer

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Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Reading

Enjoy the last week of school with this fun end of the year themed day. Enjoy eating popcorn, complete loads of activities and watching a movie with your students. Children will learn all about popcorn and complete popcorn related activities. There are math, writing, literature, experiments and more! Your students will be engaged and learning on one of the last days of school. This would also make great summer camp activities for a week filled of fun.Read all Popcorn Day here.Popcorn Fun Packet

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Grades:

K - 3rd

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Worksheets, Thematic Unit Plans, Activities

CCSS:

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Also included in: ABC Countdown to Summer End of the Year Collection of Resources Bundle

Monthly and Seasonal Crafts & Projects Bundle - Lapbooks All Year

Created by

Lucky Little Learners

Lapbooks All Year Bundle is a great, hands on resource that will take you through the entire year. Lapbooks are a fun and unique way to dive deep into a variety of topics all while providing your students with the opportunity to prove their evidence of learning through writing. These make great keepsakes and also make a great bulletin board display!Which projects & lapbooks are included in the bundle?⭐️All About Me (September) ⭐️Bats and Spiders (October) ⭐️I Am Thankful (November) ⭐️Holiday

Subjects:

Earth Day, End of Year, Spring

Grades:

2nd - 3rd

Types:

Research, Thematic Unit Plans, Activities

Earth Day Activities & Lesson Plans Unit for Preschool Pre-K

Created by

Play to Learn Preschool

Are your preschoolers learning about EARTH DAY? Do you need Earth Day circle time lessons to help them understand the importance of reducing, reusing, and recycling? This Earth Day unit teaches about these important ideas on Earth Day or any day. Ten days of complete Earth Day circle time lesson plans are done for you! It includes 10 Earth Day Circle Time Lesson plans:Introduction - photos, Earth Day song, ASL sign for earthWater - photos, class poll, songLand - sorting activity, movement songPl

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Earth Day, Numbers

Grades:

PreK - K

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Activities, Lesson

Also included in: Earth Day Activities | BUNDLE for Preschool and Pre-K

Planet Earth - Earth Day Activities - Using Maps and Globes - Science - Reading

Created by

Keeping My Kinders Busy

This comprehensive, standards-based unit teaches your kindergarten and first grade students all about planet Earth. Children love learning about our place in the solar system, an overview of our planet, how to use a map and a globe, where we live in the world (address, city/town, country and continent), how to take care of the Earth, how to reduce, reuse, recycle and compost.... plus so much more!Students are incredibly engaged:watching and learning through a slideshowmaking an Earth Day craft

Subjects:

Earth Day, Geography, Science

Grades:

K - 2nd

Types:

Worksheets, Thematic Unit Plans, Activities

Also included in: Kindergarten First Grade Science Social Studies Community Helpers Friendship

Earth Day Mini Unit: Activities and Printables!

Created by

Curriculum Castle

Get your students excited about Earth Day with this fun and interactive unit! You will find supplemental activities to engage your students as you explore environmental awareness, such as: hands on activities, crafts, science explorations, math and language arts printables, a mini book and so much more! 1. Recommended Book List2. Earth Day Word Wall (2 Pages)3. "Earth Day" Mini Book4. "Gifts from Our Planet" Natural Resources printable5. "My Earth Day Pledge" craftivity with directions and templ

Subjects:

Earth Day, Environment, Spring

Grades:

K - 2nd

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Activities, Printables

Circus Day End of the Year Theme Day Activities Countdown to Summer

Created by

Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, End of Year

Enjoy the last week of school with this fun end of the year themed day. Have a silly day with your students celebrating and learning all about the circus! This unit is filled with math games and activities, writing, word work, reading connections, snack ideas, a silly clown craft, and so much more. It is the perfect way to end your year, engage your students and still learn. This would also make great summer camp activities for a week filled of fun.Read about Circus Day here!Circus Themed Goodi

Subjects:

Grades:

K - 3rd

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Activities, Games

Also included in: ABC Countdown to Summer End of the Year Collection of Resources Bundle

Earth Day Activities- Lapbook Craft Project with Writing and Art Earth Day Unit

Created by

Lucky Little Learners

Looking for an engaging Earth Day activity? Teach your students all about taking care of the Earth while they make this Lapbook Craft! This activity is perfect to work on and then display in the hallway, then send home for a keepsake of student learning.***Do you want to own an entire year of lapbooks and save money at the same time? Click here to purchase the Lapbook Bundle!***What components are included?-Earth Topper-Earth Day Lapbook Cover-Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle Pockets-Reduce, Reuse, a

Subjects:

Earth Day, Other (ELA), Writing

Grades:

2nd - 3rd

Types:

Projects, Thematic Unit Plans, Printables

Also included in: Monthly and Seasonal Crafts & Projects Bundle - Lapbooks All Year

Christmas Book Companion Activities BUNDLE Reading Comprehension Writing Crafts

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Balanced Literacy, Christmas/ Chanukah/ Kwanzaa, Creative Writing

This fun bundle is a combination of four different individual stories. The stories included are, If you Take a Mouse to the Movies by Numeroff, Mooseltoe by Palatini, Bear Stays up for Christmas by Wilson, and Olive the Other Reindeer. Each unit is packed with several choices of reading comprehension strategies, writing ideas, some math games, and crafts. These are the perfect stories to use during the holiday season. Now included colorful anchor charts for each story. If you Take a Mouse to t

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Grades:

1st - 2nd

Types:

Worksheets, Thematic Unit Plans, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

Creative Writing, Writing

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Build a Zoo Creative Pack

Created by

Briana Beverly

Have your kids loved building their zoo?! Extend the project with this creative pack! This is a great way to get them creatively thinking and writing about their zoo.Activities included:My Zoo: Name the zoo and create a slogan and logoAnimal Habitats: Create habitats for different animals using background scenes and clipart for students to color and designAnimal Research: Students conduct simple research on 4 animals and list 3 facts about each oneZoo Snack Shack: Students design a specialty con

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Grades:

1st - 4th

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Activities

Also included in: PBL Bundle - Project Based Learning Math Projects

Build a Theme Park PBL Creative Pack

Created by

Briana Beverly

Have your kids loved building their amusement park?! Extend the project with this creative pack! This is a great way to get them creatively thinking and writing about their theme park.Activities included:My Theme Park: Name the park and create a slogan and logoBuild a Roller Coaster: Design a new, themed roller coaster and sketch itCreate a Billboard: Create a billboard that advertises your park and persuades people to comeTheme Park Brochure: Create a brochure, complete with a theme park map, h

Subjects:

Creative Writing, Writing

Grades:

1st - 4th

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Activities

Also included in: PBL Math Enrichment Projects - Math & Writing Bundle #2

Where Does Garbage Go? An Earth Day Experiment

Created by

Katie Mense

This activity is the PERFECT hands-on, activity for Earth Day. It provides an amazing visual for kiddos to actively see the process and results of reducing and recycling! This packet includes: ~A Non-fiction book about Garbage, Landfills and Dumps and what we can do to help ~A sorting activity for kids to sort different household items that they can recycle ~A lift the flap visual that gets kids thinking about how to recycle tires. ~Instructions and response sheet for the experiment. (Now 2 opti

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Earth Day, Science

Grades:

K - 2nd

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Printables

Jack and the Beanstalk Activities - Sequence - Craft - Comprehension

Created by

Laura Martin

Jack and the Beanstalk Literacy and Comprehension is a 65-page mini-unit loaded with engaging Literacy activities to beef up and supplement the classic Fairy Tale, Jack and the Beanstalk. Your students will love these ready-to-go activities and creative writing templates complete with a super cute and EASY craft to display the final products! DIGITAL OVERLAY added on activity pages for use with GOOGLE CLASSROOM!WHAT'S INCLUDED:Vocabulary/Character cardsStory SequencingCharacter Speech Bubble Mat

Subjects:

Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Reading

Grades:

K - 2nd

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Activities, Centers

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Kevin Henkes Author Study Back to School Reading Comprehension Activities

Created by

Creative Writing, Reading Strategies, Tools for Common Core

This author study was created using Chester's Way, Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse, Lilly's Big Day, A Weekend with Wendell, Wemberly Worried, Sheila Rae the Brave, Julius Baby of the World, and Chrysanthemum. Students will work on the following skills: analyze/evaluate, beginning, middle, and end, text to self, text purposes, character comparison, character change, story sequencing, story mapping, main idea and details. opinion, and narrative writing, and much morel Loads of goodies from each bo

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Grades:

K - 3rd

Types:

Worksheets, Thematic Unit Plans, Guided Reading Books

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Bats Nonfiction Book Study Informational Text Reading Comprehension Fact Opinion

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Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Tools for Common Core

One of my favorite fall units to teach is this unit on bats. We transform our reading area into a batty cave, dress in black on the last day, and learn so many amazing things. During this week the focus reading strategy is fact vs. opinion although there is SO MUCH more included. Each day a different story will focus on fact vs. opinion, and loads of review comprehension strategies we have already learned. Each week will include daily lesson plans, posters, parent connect letter,original strateg

Subjects:

Grades:

K - 2nd

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Graphic Organizers, Lesson

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Also included in: Reading Comprehension Guided Reading with a Purpose BUNDLE

Gingerbread Boy Gingerbread Man Gingerbread Baby & Gingerbread Friends

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Creative Writing, Reading Strategies, Tools for Common Core

This Gingerbread set includes activities to go along with The Gingerbread Boy, The Gingerbread Man, The Gingerbread Baby, and Gingerbread Friends. The primary focus in these stories is sequencing and comparing and contrasting. There are colorful cards, posters, sequencing activities, comprehension activities, writing, crafts and more. Please note that this is part of a larger GINGERBREAD BUNDLE which includes 12 different themed stories. The Gingerbread Boy by EgielskiColorful Anchor ChartsCol

Subjects:

Grades:

K - 2nd

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Activities, Graphic Organizers

CCSS:

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Creative Writing, Holidays/Seasonal, Other (World Language)

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Also included in: Gingerbread Activities BUNDLE Boy Man Girl Baby Friends Cowboy Pirate

Aloha Welcome To Hawaii

Created by

Surfin' Through Second

This is a unit I created to teach students a little bit about Hawaii. Included in this pack are printables, writing templates, a matching game and a few crafts. Topics Include: -The 8 Islands -The State Flag -Common Hawaiian Words -Volcanoes -Humpback Whales -State Fish -Pele The Fire Goddess -Surf **Updated 3-10-15 I have added a Powerpoint with photographs and facts about Hawaii. Just open the powerpoint and play the slideshow for your class. This is the perfect activity to get ready for s

Subjects:

Grades:

1st - 3rd

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Activities, Printables

Animal Group Bundle Insects Reptiles Amphibians Fish Birds and Mammals

Created by

Balanced Literacy, Creative Writing, Informational Text

Would you like to teach your students about 6 different animal groups? This non-fiction unit could last you 6 or more weeks. It is filled with informational text on birds, insects, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, & fish. Each unit has activities to guide the instruction of each group. Loads of writing, animal reports, animal crafts, and literature connections. This unit can be used for distance learning and google classroom with the new TpT digital tool. ***********************************

Subjects:

Grades:

K - 3rd

Types:

Thematic Unit Plans, Guided Reading Books

All about Reptiles Nonfiction Unit Reptile Research Reports

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