Topic: Fall Activities

  • Let’s Learn All About Those Creepy Crawly Spiders Activity Pack

    Let’s Learn All About Those Creepy Crawly Spiders Activity Pack

    Learning about spiders can be fun! This unit includes informational articles, hands-on activities, and vocabulary posters for those creepy, crawly creatures. This unit focuses on Arachnids, Life Cycle of a Spider, Black Widow Spiders, Wolf Spiders, and Tarantulas.

    What’s inside:
    ✔ Informational Articles About Awesome Arachnids, Black Widows, Wolf Spiders, Tarantulas and Life Cycle of a Spider
    ✔ Black Widows Close Up
    ✔ Spotlight on Wolf Spiders
    ✔ Tarantulas Uncovered
    ✔ Compare & Contrast All Three Spiders–Cut-n-Sort Activity with Hidden Words
    ✔ Black Widows Fact Wheel
    ✔ Wolf Spider Fact Wheel
    ✔ Tarantulas Fact Wheel
    ✔ Labels the Parts of a Spider
    ✔ All about Spiders Fact or Opinion
    ✔ Life Cycle of a Spider Diagram
    ✔ Spiders Flip Booklet (5-pages)
    ✔ Vocabulary Flip Flaps
    ✔ Spotlight on Vocabulary
    ✔ Spider Vocabulary Posters

    There are lots of hands-on activities and organizers for students to show what they know. This pack can be set up as five fun activities for centers for a weeklong investigation.

    This pack includes six vocabulary posters with real-life photographs for students to connect to the information. There are several vocabulary activities included too. These colorful posters make an awesome bulletin board in a snap!

    There are three main activities in this pack:
    Vocabulary:
    Introduce the six vocabulary words with the real-life photo posters included. You could post these posters around the classroom and have students travel around to define the words in their flip-flaps that fit nicely inside their science notebooks. There is a Spotlight on Vocabulary. These colorful posters make an awesome bulletin board display too!

    Reading:
    Next, have students read the informational articles all about spiders, the life cycle of a spider and more. Read the case studies where they will learn about Black Widows, Wolf Spiders, and Tarantulas. There are organizers for each type of spider to reinforce learning.

    Activities:
    ✔ Comparing All Three Spiders (Cut-n-Sort Activity with Hidden Words)
    ✔ Black Widows Fact Wheel
    ✔ Wolf Spider Fact Wheel
    ✔ Tarantulas Fact Wheel
    ✔ Labels the Parts of a Spider
    ✔ All about Spiders Fact or Opinion
    ✔ Life Cycle of a Spider Diagram
    ✔ PLUS a 5-page Spiders Flip Booklet

  • Give A Hoot for Owls: A Non-Fiction Activity Pack

    Give A Hoot for Owls: A Non-Fiction Activity Pack

    Students will love learning all about owls including Barn Owls and Snowy Owls with this creative and interactive pack!

    Owls are amazing birds! Did you know that owls are one of the oldest species in existence? Fossils of owls have been found dating back over 60 million years ago. People in countries from all over the world have always had a fascination with owls. Many cultures have made up stories or myths about owls for thousands of years.

    In this activity pack, students will learn all about Barn Owls, Snowy Owls, Life Cycle of an Owl, body parts, and how owls help humans.

    This unit includes many interactive activities and learning opportunities for students including:
    ✔ Informational articles
    ✔ Mini-booklet all about owls
    ✔ Compare/Contrast Activity
    ✔ Life cycle of a barn owl
    ✔ A Life Cycle Chart
    ✔ Color the Owls with True Facts
    ✔ Create an Owl Mini-booklet
    ✔ Owl Organizer
    ✔ Vocabulary Posters
    ✔ Spotlight on Vocabulary
    ✔ Owl Writing Project
    ✔ Great for the Fall Season
    ✔ Common Core Aligned

    Students will meet two owl characters:
    ✔ Meet Hoot (a barn owl)
    ✔ Meet Snowy (a snowy owl)

    There are three main activities in this pack:
    Vocabulary:
    Introduce the eight vocabulary words with the real-life photo posters included. You could post these posters around the classroom and have students travel around to match up and define the words in their flip flaps or use as a center activity. These posters are excellent for a bulletin board display too!

    Reading:
    Next, have students read the informational articles all about owls, the life cycle of an owl, body parts, and more. Read the character studies where they will Meet Hoot, a barn owl and Meet Snowy, a snowy owl. The informational articles are written in the form of a mini-booklet with questions and scenes for students to connect, color, and assemble. Pages can be stapled at the top to make a full-sized booklet or be cut in half to create a half-page mini-book. See product pictures for ideas.

    Activities:
    Have students complete the Barn Owl Mini-booklet, organizer, and writing activity to complete their study on owls. These make excellent activities to do independently at centers. They can use the articles as a reference source to help them complete the pages of the Mini-booklet. Lastly, they cut, color, and assemble the Mini-booklet. Mini-booklets can be glued or stapled inside their interactive notebooks, file folder, or a 12 x 18 piece of construction paper folded like a book cover. Students could then decorate the cover of the booklet. Hoot! Hoot!

  • Fall Activities: Pumpkin Activities for Science Centers

    Fall Activities: Pumpkin Activities for Science Centers

    Pumpkins come in all different shapes, colors, and sizes just perfect for students observation and exploration. In this unit, students will predict, explore, and estimate all about their chosen pumpkin(s).

    By combining a variety of reading, math skills, and scientific observation skills students will learn all about pumpkins. These activities are great for fall centers! Your students will love this fun hands-on activity pack!

    Students will learn all about pumpkins including:

    ✔ Life cycle of a Pumpkin

    ✔ Parts of a Pumpkin

    ✔ Fruit or Vegetable?

    ✔ Homemade Pumpkin Treats

    This unit includes many interactive activities including:

    ✔ Meet Alexander – a young botanist

    ✔ Summarize How to Grow a Gigantic Pumpkin

    ✔ Create a Pumpkin Facts Mini-booklet

    ✔ Math Task Cards

    ✔ Fruit & Veggie Pocket Sort

    ✔ All About Pumpkins—Fact, and Opinion

    ✔ Mystery Flaps

    ✔ Vocabulary Posters

    ✔ Spotlight on Vocabulary

    ✔ Vocabulary Flip Flaps

    ✔ PLUS 6 page Flip Booklet

    There are 3 main activities:

    Vocabulary:

    Introduce the vocabulary words with the real-life photo posters included. You could post these posters around the classroom and have students travel around to define the words in their flip flaps. These posters are excellent for a bulletin board display too.

    Reading:

    Next, have students read the passages and complete the different activities. You could have students work with a partner or in small groups. Putting one article and related activity at each center works well with intermediate students.

    Activities:

    There are lots of activities included in this pack including a 6-page flip book. Have students complete the flip booklet and build it page by page. I usually have them do one page at each center or station. They can use the articles as a reference source to help them complete the pages of the booklet. Lastly, cut, color, and assemble the booklet. Flip up books can be glued or stapled inside their interactive notebooks, file folder, or a 12×18 piece of construction paper folded like a book cover.

  • Batty for Bats Activity Pack

    Batty for Bats Activity Pack

    Your students will go batty for this creative hands-on resource! This non-fiction unit focuses on 1st and 2nd Grade Common Core ELA Standards with lots of fun activities that are perfect for interactive notebooks, too! This unit has been newly updated and now includes the Life Cycle of a Bat and a Bat Flip Book!

    Bats are amazing little creatures that are very helpful to people! Bats are mammals just like us! But the one thing that makes bats special from all other mammals is that they can fly!

    Introduce your bat unit with these three fun and factual character bats: Buddy Boo, Berry Boo, and Bitty Boo. Students will love reading and learning all about them.

    Students will learn all about bats with informational articles on:
    ✔ Diet
    ✔ Body parts
    ✔ Echolocation
    ✔ Hibernation
    ✔ Ways bats help people

    This packet includes many interactive activities for students including:
    ✔ Three character bat stories (a micro, mega, and fruit bat)
    ✔ High-interest reading passages about bats
    ✔ “An Uninvited Guest” – a batty fictional story
    ✔ Vocabulary Posters
    ✔ Vocabulary Flip Flaps
    ✔ Author’s Purpose
    ✔ Cause/Effect
    ✔ Bat Organizers (2)
    ✔ Create a Mini-Accordion Bat Book
    ✔ Compare/contrast bats and you
    ✔ Writing Prompt
    ✔ Life Cycle of a bat
    ✔ 5 page Bats Flip Book
    ✔ For Elementary Grades – First grade, Second grade, Third grade
    ✔ Great for Core Knowledge
    ✔ Perfect for 1st and 2nd Graders

    There are a lot of ways to use this packet in the classroom depending on your students and the time allotted for this unit.

    There are 4 main activities:
    Introduce the unit with the 3 fun and factual bats: Buddy Boo, Berry Boo, and Bitty Boo. Have students write three facts they learned about their favorite bat on writing paper choices that match the bats. These look great as a display on a bulletin board. Next, read the “An Uninvited Guest” story and answer the questions to pique their interest and build background knowledge. These are perfect for guided reading groups with two sets of skill-based questions. This is also a great discussion starter for real-life situations.

    Introduce the 6 vocabulary words with the real-life photo posters included. You could post these posters around the classroom and have students travel around to match up and define the words in their flip flaps or use as a center activity. In addition, the vocabulary flip flaps are a great hands-on activity that works well in their interactive notebooks.

    Next, have students read the informational articles and complete the Batty for Bats Organizer (2 sided). These are great for centers too. There is a Batty for Bats Accordion Book. There are two options to do this depending on age and time limits. They will color, cut, and build the book. Once completed it can be used as a stand-alone mini booklet or glued inside their notebooks. There’s also a writing prompt for students to write their own “Uninvited Guest” story. Newly added are a Bats Mini-booklet and Bats Flip Book.

    Bonus: A cause and effect activity, a Venn to compare and contrast bats and you, and bats writing papers in three different styles to use any way you want. For example, for a research report, personal narrative, or to give facts they’ve learned about bats.