$10 - $20 Thematic Unit Plans

Create an unforgettable Christian summer experience with "The Ultimate VBS Summer Camp Planning Book - Christian + Bible." This comprehensive guide is designed for anyone looking to organize a vibrant Vacation Bible School (VBS) or summer camp. Packed with Bible-based activities, Christian-themed crafts, and lesson plans, this book ensures your camp fosters spiritual growth and fun. Perfect for churches, youth groups, and Christian educators, this essential resource simplifies planning for a faith-filled VBS or summer camp.

Are you a small camp struggling with the high costs of VBS (Vacation Bible School)? I understand the challenge, having spent seven years creating and writing my own VBS to support my small camp. Now, I am excited to share my Summer Camp Program Planning Package, over 170 pages of meticulously crafted content designed to elevate your camp experience without breaking the bank.

All-Inclusive Resource for Camp Organizers

• This comprehensive resource equips camp organizers with everything needed to create an extraordinary summer camp. From detailed schedules and creative crafts to engaging Bible lessons and thrilling gym games, this package is a treasure trove of inspiration and organization.

Key Features:Extensive Six-Week Collection (170 Pages)

• Our Summer Camp Program Planning Package offers a robust collection of 170 pages, providing carefully curated schedules for six weeks of camp. Each schedule balances structured activities, free time, and special events, ensuring daily excitement and engagement.
• Creative Crafts with Step-by-Step Instructions: Inspire campers with a wide array of craft ideas, each with detailed step-by-step instructions. From friendship bracelets to nature-inspired masterpieces, these crafts foster creativity and provide campers with lasting memories and tangible mementos.

Bible Lessons for Daily Spiritual Growth

• The package includes comprehensive Bible lessons for each day of camp, seamlessly integrating faith-based teachings. These lessons promote spiritual growth through engaging activities, thought-provoking discussions, and memorable stories, helping campers develop a strong moral compass and meaningful connections with their peers.

Thrilling Gym Games Galore (Over 50 Pages)

• Keep campers active and energized with over 50 pages of gym games. From classic favorites to innovative team challenges, these games promote teamwork, physical fitness, and healthy competition, building essential life skills such as communication, strategy, and sportsmanship.

"Welcome to Camp" Handbook for New Staff

• Set your new staff members up for success with our specially crafted "Welcome to Camp" handbook. This invaluable resource provides comprehensive information on camp policies, procedures, safety guidelines, and practical tips, ensuring a seamless integration into the camp community from day one.

Weekly Themes and Bible Studies:

Week 1: Building Our Foundation on the Rock

• Theme: The Solid Rock
• Bible Verse: Matthew 7:24
• Lesson Summary: Focuses on the importance of building our lives on Jesus, the solid foundation.

Week 2: Discovering God's Creation

• Theme: The Wonders of the Sea
• Bible Verse: Psalm 150:6
• Lesson Summary: Explores the beauty and wonders of God's creation in the sea, highlighting God's power, creativity, and love.

Week 3: Walking on Water

• Theme: Trusting Jesus
• Bible Verse: Matthew 14:27
• Lesson Summary: Covers the story of Jesus walking on water and emphasizes the importance of trusting Jesus in life's storms.

Week 4: The Pearl of Great Value

• Theme: Finding True Treasure
• Bible Verse: Matthew 13:44
• Lesson Summary: Teaches the parable of the Pearl of Great Value, emphasizing the importance of seeking and treasuring God's kingdom.

Week 5: Beach Blessings

• Theme: Gratitude for God's Abundant Blessings
• Bible Verse: Psalm 107:1
• Lesson Summary: Reflects on God's blessings and the importance of gratitude and using blessings to help others.

Week 6: Trusting God's Plan

• Theme: Journey to the Stars
• Bible Verse: Proverbs 3:5-6
• Lesson Summary: Explores the story of Joseph from Genesis 37-50, emphasizing trusting God's plan even in difficult times and how God works for our good.

Purchase Now and Transform Your Summer Camp! Unlock the full potential of your summer camp with this invaluable VBS Planning Package. Create a transformative experience that will leave a lasting impact on the lives of your campers. Order now and embark on a journey of inspiration, growth, and spiritual transformation!

Need a way to introduce or reinforce color words for back to school? This resource plans it with daily activities to use for your kindergarten learners. Students will:

• Learn to recognize all the major color words
• Work on fine motor skills with coloring, tearing, cutting, etc.
• Work on gross motor skills as they sing and dance when singing the songs

You can even have students wear the color of the day for a fun bonus!

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Dive into the rich tapestry of Black history with our Ultimate Black History Month Educational Bundle, meticulously crafted for educators passionate about providing a comprehensive, interactive, and engaging learning experience. This bundle combines a variety of resources, ensuring a well-rounded approach to teaching pivotal moments and figures in Black history. Suitable for grades 4-8, these resources are perfect for integrating into ELA, Social Studies, Art, and more.

1. Black History Month Athlete Trading Cards - Interactive Digital & Print Resource: Engage and educate your students with this interactive set of athlete trading cards. Celebrate the achievements of influential Black athletes with this 60-slide resource, perfect for classroom activities, creative projects, and bulletin board displays.
2. Claudette Colvin STAAR Test Prep Text (Grades 6-8) - FREEBIE: Dive into the inspiring story of Claudette Colvin with this STAAR test prep text. Designed for students in grades 6-8, this resource not only enriches students' knowledge about an important figure in the Civil Rights Movement but also sharpens their test-taking skills.
3. MLK 3 Interactive Timelines, Bulletin Boards & Door Decor: Honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with interactive timelines and visually appealing decor. This resource is perfect for creating an educational environment that celebrates MLK's journey and teachings, inspiring students through interactive learning and creative expression.
4. Black History Month Digital Resource - 45 Google Slides, 15 Texts, Video & Writing: This comprehensive digital resource is a treasure trove of information, featuring 45 Google Slides, 15 texts, videos, and writing prompts. It's designed to provide a rich educational experience, sparking discussions and deepening understanding.
5. Civil Rights Movement Song Analysis (Grades 5-8) - Valentine's Day Special: Analyze the profound messages in songs from the Civil Rights Movement with this unique resource. It's an engaging way for students to connect with history through music, enhancing their analytical skills and emotional understanding of the era.
6. Color & Discover Modern Heroes of Black History Month - Freebie: This creative resource allows students to learn about modern heroes of Black History Month through coloring activities. It's a fun, engaging way to introduce younger students to influential figures and their contributions.
7. Claudette Colvin STAAR Test Prep Text (Grades 6-8) - FREEBIE (Duplicate): Reinforce your students' understanding and appreciation of Claudette Colvin's courageous stand during the Civil Rights Movement with this STAAR test prep text. This resource doubles the opportunity to integrate critical reading and historical knowledge into your test preparation activities.

Each resource in this bundle is thoughtfully designed to cater to different learning styles and classroom needs, making it the perfect package to explore, celebrate, and honor Black History Month in your classroom. Equip your students with knowledge, critical thinking skills, and a deep appreciation for the contributions and stories of Black individuals with our Ultimate Black History Month Educational Bundle.

Are you wanting to use French comprehensible input in your classes, but:

• You are required to use a district textbook?
• You need a little bit of structure as you get your feet wet with comprehensible input?
• You are required to give a district final, but want to use CI to teach your classes?

If so, this comprehensible input unit for French is for you!

This unit is the perfect complement to a district curriculum or textbook - it covers some of the typical vocabulary and grammar taught in French 2, but with a more communicative approach.  Work through the unit with circling and repetition and at the end of each unit, your students will be amazed at how much they can do with the language!

A complete unit that can be used to begin the second year of French. It builds on the vocabulary from the first year units 1-8 and second year units 1-6. Includes lesson plans for 11 days, talking about the futur simple. technology, social media and space exploration.

This unit includes the following materials:

• Lesson plan guide for each day

• PowerPoint with lesson for each day

• Student dictionary handout page

• Word wall posters for vocabulary

• Links to vocabulary set on Gimkit, Quizlet and Blooket

• Handouts to practice writing and reading about future plans

• Grab it! game for science fiction and technology vocabulary

• Handout for students to practice speaking about future plans

• Handout for students to write predictions for the future

• Activities to practice forming the future tense

• Unit story using structures from this unit

• Cloze activities to accompany story - one with and one without word bank

• Running dictation game to accompany unit story

• Handout for unit story retell/rewrite

• Animated video of unit story

• It's not fair game in English for the unit story

• It's not fair game in French for the unit story

• Short assessments for unit: reading, listening, presentational speaking, interpersonal communication and presentational writing

• NEW! Digital/distance version of student activities

Use the unit on its own or as a follow-up to the level 1 units 1-8 and level 2 units 1-6.

Units 1-8 are available for level 1 and units 1-7 for level 2.  Each unit builds on the previous units' vocabulary. A list of the vocabulary for each unit is available here: http://bit.ly/2Sg3tLK

If You Give Laura Numeroff BUNDLE including 5 book companions :
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie ;
If You Give a Moose a Muffin ;
If You Take a Mouse to School ;
If You Give a Pig a Party ;
If You Take a Mouse to the Movies.

Total of 247 pages of Literacy Book Companion Units with Comprehension & Fun Activities, based on each book listed.

Grab them all as a bundle for 30% off!

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Included in this bundle:
- Empowerment Series Printable Yoga Cards + Lesson Plans
- Autumn Sequence Printable Yoga Cards + Lesson Plans
- Sun Salutation Yoga Cards
- Yamas & Niyamas: Successful Relationships with Self & Others

Enjoy!

Our Backyard Chickens study is fun, engaging, informative, and easy to follow! We have created seven lessons with only one required book, *Chickenology: The Ultimate Encyclopedia by Barbara Sandri and Francesco Giubbilini. *Our study is the perfect thematic unit for grades K-5! Our four children helped create this study, and we are excited to share it with your family! 

Did you know chickens do not suffer hearing loss with age? Their damaged hearing cells are able to regrow!

A Cochin chicken was imported to England around 1850 as a gift to Queen Victoria!

Highlights include

• 24 Chicken Breed Cards with fun facts!
• 18 vocabulary cards
• Activities for each lesson
• Learn how eggs are produced and how they are used around the world!
• An egg experiment
• Get an up-close look at chicken feathers.
• Chicken anatomy
• Chicken instincts
• Chickens and music!
• Chickens and their relationship to humans
• Chickens through history
• How chickens can help your own yard
• The perfect recipe for a happy henhouse!
• We share our own recipes, photos, and videos. 
• Cover art, science, history, geography, language arts, and math!

We suggest the book, Farm Anatomy, but it is not required! Thank you!

This bundle includes CHOICE boards for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentine's Day, & Easter! Print or share and go!

A black and white version and color version for easy printing. 5 activities in each of the 6 areas: math, literacy, life skills, fine motor, sensory/art, and music/gross motor. Each CHOICE board has 30 activities - enough to last 5 days/e-learning/distant learning days; for a total of 5 weeks/150 activities.

Also included--supply lists and supplement pages for many activities.

Fall Halloween Bundle

Over 150+ activities included in 9 packets for Fall and Halloween fun!

Descriptions:

Activity Packet 1: Halloween Coloring Sheets

40 pages

Halloween fun with 40 coloring sheets (nothing scary!) of:

pumpkins
scarecrows
friendly ghosts
haunted trees
haunted house
Dracula
Frankenstein
and more...

Non-controversial and with lesson plan ideas to encourage coordination, multi-tasking skills, writing, listening, reading, storytelling, puppet theater, and more. Great for introducing Halloween as a friendly holiday.

Activity Packet 2: Eerie Writing Prompts

21 pages

Eerie story starters to get your students in the mood for writing scary stories! Great visuals with one liner story starters. Colorful and imaginative prompts for creative writing practice and peer workshopping.

Includes:
Perhaps we could become friends...
Two eyes peered back at me...
I've had a very interesting life!
Come closer...
Let me tell you how I ended up here...
C'mon out...there's nothing to be afraid of!
Meet my new friend
The eerie glow of the pumpkin...
I know what you did!
Have a seat and let me tell you my story!
The howl of the wolf scared me.
Something went bump in the night
I started up the winding road...
The blaze lit up the night's sky...
Let me show you my castle!
"Help!" screamed the principal.
We found the shipwrecked boat...

Great Halloween writing prompts for practicing creative writing, storytelling, and peer workshopping skills!

Activity Packet 3: Get Fit Action Story: Frank N. Stein’s Haunted Horse

15 pages

Get students exercising and moving as they follow along with Frank N. Stein's move to a new neighborhood, where he finds new friends to help make his house a home. Action words include:

looked around
moped
juggled
skipped rope
frown
blow
shivered and shook
dropped to the ground
ran
slammed
quiver
danced
stood still
knock
jump
shook hands
waved
stepped to the right
boogied to the Monster Mash
shouted,
“Happy Halloween!”

Practice/assess coordination, comprehension, fitness, following directions, listening, and sight words with Get Fit Action Stories. Use for daily warm-ups, rainy day indoor activities, PE, reading, and learning styles. Fun and enjoyable for all!

Activity Packet 4: Write a Scary Story with Word Banks and Coloring Images

16 pages

16 Halloween coloring images with holiday word banks that include:

Cats
Bats
Dracula
Frankenstein
Ghosts
Pirate
Pumpkins
Trick or Treat
Witches
Zombies
and more...

Includes: Suggestions For Use sheet and template to create your own vocabulary word bank. Upper levels can use for poetry and contest writing. Fun way to assess writing skills in an ELA classroom. Grab a blanket and flashlight, turn on the lighted pumpkin, and have a classroom read-around of Halloween stories.

Activity Packet 5: Wacky Wayne’s Halloween I-Spy

11 pages

10 I-Spy Halloween pictures and items to help students with basic letters, hand-eye coordination, and matching skills. Can be colored and displayed. Includes:

Ghost
Frankenstein (2)
Bat
Haunted House
Mummy
Dracula
Scary Tree
and more...

Fun matching activities for early elementary students.

Activity Packet 6: Wacky Wayne’s Fall I-Spy

11 pages

10 I-Spy handouts with fall themes. Find and match basic letters and shapes. Includes:

Scarecrows
Farm
Farmer
Pumpkins
Squirrels
Leaves
Shapes
Basic Letters
and many more...

Handouts can be colored and displayed.

Activity Packet 7: Halloween Color, Count and Match Activities

22 pages

22 Halloween themed handouts for early learners to practice math skills, such as:

coloring/motor skills
counting
holiday
matching
numbers 1-10
sight words
themes
(No controversial or scary images!)

Find the correct Halloween symbol sheet to match the handout then cut, color, and paste. Practice basic numbers and sight words recognition, as well as matching symbols. Can be used for assessment. Includes extra activities and ideas for use of handouts.

Activity Packet 8: Fabulous Fall Activities

26 pages

25 fall themed creative writing handouts, poetry sheets, coloring activities, and more for elementary grades:

Includes:
Fall Scavenger Hunt
Classmate Scarecrow (Facebook page with Scarecrow)
"F is for"
My Pumpkin Poem (writing & craft activity)
Fall Acrostic Poem
What I love about fall
Create a Fall Feast party invitation
Write a Fall Story (with fall vocabulary word bank)
Write a tongue twister (with fall vocabulary word bank)
Draw a fall scene in the camera's lens
How many words can you make from "corn and oats"
Quack! Quack! If I were a duck...
Design a sign to sell your veggies/photos
My Fall Message for You
My Favorite thing to do in Fall
Fall interview
Fall newspaper
Fabulous Fall Recipe
Fall word search
& more...

Lots of creative and engaging handouts and activities for fall fun!

Activity Packet 9: Falling Leaf Spelling Activities

18 pages

15 Fall themed scenes that provide sight word/consonant and vowel practice. Falling leaves contain letters which can be written on the lines to make as many words as possible using consonants and vowels. Color the scenes, put together letters to make words, compare answers, small team game included.

Includes:

Fall scenes: trees, scarecrows, farm, farmer, pumpkins, squirrels, and more...
Basic alphabet letters: vowels and consonants
Directions with Optional Play and Use

Great for consonants, vowels, spelling, vocabulary, and writing practice, as well as assessments.

Fall Halloween Bundle includes over 150+ fun activities!

FIVE sequencing crafts for five of my favorite Old Lady stories!

This documents have 170 pages of activities, games, printables and teachable slides.

I cover:

• Confidence and identity
• Social and cultural impacts on identity
• Stereotyping and influencing
• Self-regulation
• Anxiety and stress
• Coping mechanisms

Many activities come with step-by-step instructions, discussion prompts to guide your teaching. The activities you'll find in this bundle include:

• "Juste en me regardant" (an activity on identity)
• "Tout est dans le nom" (an activity on the history of our name)
• "Solidarité en identité" (an activity on sharing identity)
• "Ma carte d'identité" (an activity on creating an identification card)
• "Réflechir sur mon identité" (a reflexive activity)
• "De combien de façons es-tu intelligent?" (a multiple intelligences quiz)
• "Mes intelligences multiples" (a short questionnaire on learning styles)
• "Mes intelligences multiples" (reflection questions)
• "Vous n'en trouverez jamais un autre comme moi" (a collage project as an end-of-unit activity)
• "Une réflexion sur mes sentiments" (thinking about what helps or hinders our emotional states)
• "Gérer mes pensées" (reflection questions on our thoughts)
• "Positif ou négatif?" (a group activity on categorizing thoughts and then creating their own categorizing game)
• "Garder le positif!" (managing my thoughts and feelings)
• "Trier mes sentiments" (a sorting activity for negative and positive thoughts)
• "Pensées... Sentiments... Actions" (a retrospective activity on a frustrating situation)
• "Changer votre façon de penser" (activity on changing our feelings, thoughts and actions)
• "Démêler mes réactions" (evaluating healthy responses to negative situations)
• "Miroir... mon beau miroir" (an art activity on depicting negative and positive facial reactions)
• "Visages émotionnels" (an art activity on drawing feelings on faces)
• "Ressentir les sentiments" (an art activity on drawing feelings)
• "Ma playlist adaptée à moi" (a musical activity to have students creating a playlist suited to their multiple emotions)
• "Technique d'apaisement" (A calming technique for anxious moments)
• Petites textes à lire (les sautes d'humeur et l'irritabilité, la conscience de soi, maniérismes spécifiques aux sexes, la pression par les pairs)
• "Éjaculations et érections" (a short text with questions)
• "La puberté" (tableau SVA)
• "Entrevue avec un grand" (in relation to growing and puberty - in both English and French depending on parents' languages)
• "Ma liste de vérification" (a guide to girl's being prepared for their period)
• "L'hygiène personnelle" (tableau SVA)
• "L'hygiène personnelle - Le TOP 5!" (small competitive group activity)
• "Chère Sophie" (multiple activities on asking uncomfortable questions and answering them with respect and kindness).

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Spring is in the air, and you'll enjoy using these seven French activities and games with your students to improve their printemps vocabulary and to get them speaking more! This bundle will save you 20%. Just click on the individual products for detailed information on each resource.

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Want to have all of your secondary French resource needs covered? Check out the following curriculum supplement bundles:

➯ Ça y est, Je parle français! French 1 & 2 curriculum

➯ Ça y est, je parle français! French 3 curriculum

➯ Ça y est, je parle français! Advanced French curriculum

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This product was created for students who require instruction adapted or differentiated in order to achieve their independent academic goals. Writing and reading are emphasized within this packet. Students will learn how to write a narrative paragraph, narrative story, friendly letter, address an envelope, write a thank you note, invitation, message, story, play, informational paragraph, compare & contrast paragraph, cause and effect paragraph, compare and contrast essay, research report, solve a problem, news article, complete a form, opinion essay/paragraph, book report, poem, and a business letter. Examples and templates are included for each writing assignment.

Bring reading, writing, and a love of vocabulary to your students! Introduce fun, new, thematic vocabulary words with this bundle of Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Chinese New Year, Valentine's Day, and other Winter Holiday vocabulary word wall cards and spelling word work worksheets. These make a great supplement to holiday activities or as a fun and educational way to count down to the winter holidays!

This money-saving bundle includes the Christmas Word Work Pack, the Hanukkah Word Work Pack, the Kwanzaa Word Work Pack, the Chinese New Year Word Work Pack, the Valentine's Day Word Work Pack, and the matching Winter Holiday Vocabulary/Word Wall Cards at 20% off the cost of the items individually.

Each of the no-prep word work packets includes 1 set of worksheets, except the Christmas packet which includes 2 sets of worksheets**.** Each worksheet set comes with 10 different activities and more than 25 worksheets! That's a total of more than 150 worksheets. There are a few tracing versions of the worksheets included as a bonus for students who need review or for homeschooling families where younger siblings want to play along!

*All words used in the word work packs are in the word wall card set that is included in this bundle.*

Words in the Christmas packet include wreath, tree, nutcracker, lights, candy cane, ornament, gingerbread, caroler, stocking, presents, reindeer, fireplace, cookies, holly, poinsettia, and snowglobe.

Words in the Hanukkah packet include star, presents, gelt, dreidel, sufganiyot, latkes, applesauce, and menorah.

Words in the Kwanzaa packet include straw mat, unity cup, crops, corn, kinara, table, presents, and flag.

Words in the Chinese New Year packet include dragon, coin, envelope, lantern, knot, blossom, firecracker, and tangerines.

Words in the Valentine's Day packet include cupid, arrow, rose, valentine, heart, chocolates, balloons, and candy hearts.

What's Included?

6 sets (2 for Christmas and 1 for each of the other holidays) of each of the following:

-Write the Words - includes five versions to meet students where they are

-Alphabetical Order - includes four versions, one is a cut & paste

-Word Search

-Syllable Sort - includes two versions, one is a cut & paste

-Write the Plural

-Unscramble the Words

-Write and Draw - includes two versions

-Spinner Games - includes three versions

-Dice Games - includes three versions

-Write It 3 Ways - includes two versions for students to write with pencil, pen, and marker

Plus, Word Wall cards and a matching write-and-wipe tracing version of each card for the following holidays: Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Year's Eve, Chinese New Year, Valentine's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Groundhog Day, and President's Day.

Check out the preview above for visuals of each type of worksheet and the word wall cards!

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This low prep Kindergarten ELA and Read Aloud Curriculum is just what you need to implement a successful ELA Reading block during the first month of back to school. Unit 1 is titled Welcome to School and provides lessons and activities paired with specific read aloud picture books that require kindergarteners to focus on the theme of "How to Make the Classroom a Joyful Place".

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Is this reading curriculum for you?

✓ Are you a kindergarten teacher who NEEDS an ELA Curriculum?

✓ Were you provided with little or NO curriculum at all?

✓ Do you homeschool and need a resource that is engaging and interesting?

✓ Do you need to supplement a current program that you feel may be "lacking" or "too slow"?

Note: I do not provide copies of the books needed. You will need to purchase the books yourself, borrow from a library, or use YouTube read aloud videos!

What is Included?

⭐ 11 days of lessons

⭐ 11 Lesson Plans

⭐ 11 PowerPoint Slides

⭐ 10 Discussion Questions (one for each book)

⭐ 9 Alphabet Sounds with proper mouth formation images and movements ----- letters included in Unit 1: a (short vowel), m, s, t, e (long vowel), r, d, f, and l

⭐ 9 sight words (the, I, and, a, is, as, said, to do)

⭐ 6 Do Nows (proper letter formation, tracing lines, tracing letters, writing letters -- 1 do now for 2 lessons)

⭐ 11 Opinion discussion prompts (on the slides)

⭐ 16 Vocabulary Words (mostly 1 word per lesson, but 2 lessons have more than 1)

⭐ 11 Exit Tickets (Kinder's unit 1 teaches students how to draw a picture to answer questions)

⭐ End of Unit Assessment (Lesson 11)

What Books Are Needed:

→ Wemberly Worried

→ King of Kindergarten

→ I Like Myself

→ I Am Every Good Thing

→ The Crayon Box That Talked

→ Amazing Grace

→ Ruthie and the Not So Teeny Tiny Lie

→ Words Are Not For Hurting

→ Today I Feel Silly & Other Moods That Make My Day

→ You Hold Me Up

This resource will grow to have 8 units total. The units will focus on:

❤️ Unit 1: Welcome to School

❤️ Unit 2: Noticing Patterns in Stories

❤️ Unit 3: Celebrating Fall

❤️ Unit 4: Falling in Love with Authors and Illustrators

❤️ Unit 5: Winter Wonderland

❤️ Unit 6: What is Justice?

❤️ Unit 7: Exploring Life Cycles

❤️ Unit 8: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

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Transform your classroom this spooky season with our comprehensive Halloween File Folder Bundle, featuring 10 engaging resources designed to boost math and language arts skills. Ideal for minimal prep and maximum fun, these Halloween-themed activities are perfect for independent work stations and small group settings. Make learning enjoyable and effective for your students with activities that seamlessly integrate into your curriculum. Prepare your classroom for an exciting and enriching Halloween experience today!

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Explore themes of equity, disabilities, and resilience with this dynamic resource bundle designed for grades 5-8!

1. 18-Day Disabilities & Equity Unit (Grades 6+): This comprehensive unit includes engaging projects, thought-provoking essays, rigorous assessments, and Socratic seminars to help students explore visible and invisible disabilities, equity in schools, and societal challenges. Perfect for deepening understanding and fostering empathy in your classroom.
2. Out of My Mind Movie Guide and Activities (Grades 5+): Dive deeper into Sharon Draper’s Out of My Mind with this movie guide and activity pack! Students will analyze characters, themes, and key scenes while practicing critical thinking and reflection skills.

This bundle is ideal for educators looking to combine standards-aligned instruction with meaningful, real-world themes. Save time and inspire your students with these ready-to-use resources!

Are you wanting to use French comprehensible input in your classes, but:

• You are required to use a district textbook?
• You need a little bit of structure as you get your feet wet with comprehensible input?
• You are required to give a district final, but want to use CI to teach your classes?

If so, this comprehensible input unit for French is for you!

This unit is the perfect complement to a district curriculum or textbook - it covers some of the typical vocabulary and grammar taught in French 2, but with a more communicative approach.  Work through the unit with circling and repetition and at the end of each unit, your students will be amazed at how much they can do with the language!

A complete unit that can be used to begin the second year of French. It builds on the vocabulary from the first year units 1-8 and second year units 1-8. Includes lesson plans for 13 days, talking about the conditional tense, a review of the imparfait and vocabulary to talk about local and world problems.

This unit includes the following materials:

• Lesson plan guide for each day

• PowerPoint with lesson for each day

• Student dictionary handout page

• Word wall posters for vocabulary

• Links to vocabulary set on Gimkit, Quizlet and Blooket

• Handouts to practice writing and reading about how to solve problems

• Grab it! game for problems facing the world

• Handout for students to practice speaking about what they would do

• Handout for students to write about how they would solve problems

• Activities to practice forming the conditionaltense

• Unit story using structures from this unit

• Cloze activities to accompany story - one with and one without word bank

• Running dictation game to accompany unit story

• Handout for unit story retell/rewrite

• Animated video of unit story

• It's not fair game in English for the unit story

• It's not fair game in French for the unit story

• Short assessments for unit: reading, listening, presentational speaking, interpersonal communication and presentational writing

• NEW! Digital/distance version of student activities

Use the unit on its own or as a follow-up to the level 1 units 1-8 and level 2 units 1-7.

Units 1-8 are available for level 1 and level 2.  Each unit builds on the previous units' vocabulary. A list of the vocabulary for each unit is available here: http://bit.ly/2Sg3tLK

Cette unité complète et très attrayante de plus de 100 pages comprend tout ce dont vous avez besoin pour enseigner confortablement les systèmes du corps humain à vos élèves de 5e et 6e année. Les versions PPT et PDF sont incluses avec cette ressource ; Cependant, je recommande fortement d'utiliser PowerPoint pour que vos élèves puissent voir les diapositives animées (qu'un PDF ne pourrait pas afficher).

Il y a 42 diapositives de contenu qui vous guident dans votre enseignement. Je couvre:

1. Le système circulatoire

• Le coeur, l'aorte, les artères, les veines, le sang, les globules blancs et rouges, les plaquettes.
• Courte vidéo anatomique incluse.

2. Le système respiratoire

• Les poumons (droite et gauche), la respiration, les tractes (supérieure et inférieure), sinus, pharynx, larynx, trachée, bronches, poumons, les alvéoles.
• Courte vidéo anatomique incluse.

3. Le système digestif

• La salive, la digestion, l'estomac, l'intestin grêle, le gros intestin, le côlon, le rectum, anus, bouche, oesophage, les sucs digestifs, pancréas, foie, intestin, les reins (et je touche à la vessie.)
• Courte vidéo anatomique incluse.

4. Le système nerveux

• Le cerveau, la moelle épinière, les nerfs (sensitifs, moteurs et autonomes).

5. Le système musculaire

• Muscles, tendons, os, tissu musculaire, muscles involontaires et volontaires, ligaments vs tendon. 

Les termes système, organe, organes vitaux et non-vitaux, la génération et la régénération de cellules, le nettoyage du sang dans plusieurs systèmes.

Les jeux!

• Un jeu animé pour tableau intelligent ou tableau blanc où les élèves tentent de retrouver les "pinces" d'un chirurgien qui se sont perdues dans le corps d'un patient. Ils doivent deviner l'emplacement de l'outil manquant en nommant correctement les organes. 

• Un mini-jeu de questions-réponses permettant aux partenaires de choisir le système corporel approprié pour différents organes du corps.

• Inclut le corrigé !

• La bataille du corps humain (Similaire au jeu Battleship mais avec le corps humain!)

Projets et activités

• En équipe: Recherche et présentation sur un système du corps

• Organisateur graphique: Les systèmes du corps humain (3 pages)

• Organisateur graphique: Mes notes d'écoute (2 pages)

• Rubriques:: Évaluation de la production orale, évaluation du travail d'équipe, autoévaluation (2 pages)

• Indépendant: Recherche et présentation sur une maladie infectieuse (maladies fournies).

• Organisateur graphique: Ma maladie infectieuse (3 pages)

• Rubriques : Évaluation des compétences de recherche, évaluation de la présentation orale, autoévaluation (3 pages)

• 36 maladies à imprimer et découper (2 pages)

• I feuille de suivi pour le prof pour prendre note des maladies des élèves et les tâches terminées, besoins des élèves (1 page)

• Tableau S-V-A

• Prendre soin de mes organes sensoriels

• Le corps humain (tracer et colorier)

• Mes organes (identifier et colorier)