Our Planet Earth Activities
Celebrate Earth Day, Arbor Day, or any day when it comes to saving our planet and celebrating Earth!
I love to celebrate Earth Day when Spring is awakening the beauties of the earth. Whether you celebrate our planet for a week or a day, take note of this special day.
Take a walk, plant flowers, or pick up litter with your students. Have a discussion around the concept of “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.” Play a game, construct or paint a replica of the Earth. Whatever you do, it will help your students develop a greater awareness of their role in taking care of our Planet.
Learning about our planet can be as simple as placing a recycle bin in your classroom. Students quickly engage in saving the earth one scrap of recycling at a time.
Connecting our beautiful planet earth to across the curriculum academic learning helps student connect to think outside of themselves and consider the care of the beautiful world in which we live.
Here are a couple of books that I like to enjoy with my students.
Here is a fun activity my students always enjoy:
First: Cut out a blue circle.
Glue some irregular green shapes onto the blue.
Place a pair of hands (trace hands or use die-cut hands) so they are holding the “earth.”
Make a sign (i.e. The earth is in our hands.) to place between the hands.
For more detailed directions of this project or other Earth day learning games and materials, check out our Earth Day unit. For ideas, songs, math and reading games, literacy activities, and a construct project, check out our Earth Day unit.
You may also want to use your Earth Day Thematic Unit as a springboard to the study of space, or as an introduction to Earth Science: Plants, rocks and dinosaurs. I love to incorporate an entire earth science extravaganza!
What people are saying…“The games you created in this unit supported the activities we were doing in the classroom for Earth Day very well. I was able to teach about Earth Day and know I was meeting some common core standards.”
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Celebrate Earth Day, Arbor Day, or any day when it comes to saving our planet and celebrating Our Earth!
This Thematic Earth Unit is filled with active, age-appropriate learning activities that are strategically linked to the core standards.
Contents Include:
Shared Reading Activities:
Joseph Had a Overcoat: Recycling
Mud: Sorting Middle Sounds
Literacy Activities
Earth Day Dominos: Naming Sight Words
Recycle It: Writing CVC Words or Alphabet Letters
Earth Day Order: Alphabetizing Letters
Math Activities
Grow a Tree: Joining Numbers to Make 10
Earth Day Lotto: Subtracting Numbers
Spring Clean Up: Composing Teen Numbers
I Love Earth: Writing Sums
Sight Word Reader
Our Earth
Writing
Earth Day Word Wall
Writing Prompts: My Planet Earth
Art Projects
The Earth is in Our Hands
Songs/Fingerplays
Take Care of The Earth
I Love the Mountains
Mud
Earth Day
Earth Day: Ideas for the Day or Week
Pond Independent Writing Center Activities
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Are you looking for some great writing activities, ready to print and go!
My students love these "Folk-Tale" based writing activities. Complete with "I Can- Task Cards."
Story Elements Anchor Chart
Story Elements Student Worksheet
Adjectives Anchor Chart
Adjectives Student Worksheet
The Giant: Can, Has, Is Anchor Chart
The Giant: Can, Has, Is Student Worksheet
Write About the Giant (Adjectives/Can, Has, Is)
Label-It I Can Chart
Label-It Student Worksheets
Make a List I Can Chart
Make a List Student Worksheet
Jack and the Giant Word Wall
Write a Story I Can Chart
Write a Story Prompt Worksheet
Write The Room Words (Sight Words)
Write the Room I Can Chart
Write the Room Worksheets
Write The Room Words (Alphabet)
Write the Room I Can Chart
Write the Room Worksheets
QR Alphabet Anchor Chart
QR cards
QR Worksheet
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Call them what you will, Readers’ Theater, Partner Plays, or simply, what it is, reading for fluency and comprehension. No matter the name or the purpose, young children love to read, practice, rehearse and perform!
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Strategically Linked to the common core, this best-selling Thematic plant unit is divided into areas of literature, media, music, art, literacy activities, math activities, worksheets, science activities, creative writing, word wall words, and guided reading for cross-curricular learning.
The activities are clearly written, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation. The lessons are fun and engaging and will leave your classroom or homeschool students begging for more.
Math Center Activities
Flowering Math: Joining Sets
Watermelon War: Comparing Numerals
Garden Party: Demonstrating Subtraction
Counting Seeds: Count out items to match a given number.
Planting Seeds: Making Combinations to 10
Adding Flowers
Garden Takeaway
Plant a Garden Ways to Make 8
Reading Center Activities:
Flower Garden: Reading Sight Word & CVC Word Sentences (or alphabet recognition).
Tip Toe Through the Tulips: Alphabet letter sound fluency (or sight word fluency)
Run Rabbit Run: Alphabet Letter Fluency
In the Garden: Naming Sight Words
Greenhouse Words: Reading Sight Words
Blooming Words: Isolating Phonemes & Writing CVC Words From Dictation
The Garden Show: Writing Color Words
Science Activities
Building a Science Center
A Seed Grows: Planting a seed in a bag
Kitchen Science: Edible Dirt
Plant Parts: Observation of Plants
The Thirsty Stem: Capillary Action In Plants
Seed Sorting: Using the Scientific Process
Art Projects
Plant Parts: Portfolio Sample
Artful Flowers
Mother's Day Flower
Fingerprint Flowers
Songs
Watermelon Pie
Inch by Inch (adapted) by David Mallet
Plant A Seed
Guided Reading
The Little Seed
Writing
Plant Word Wall Words
Prompts: All About Seeds,What I Know About Plants
I Can Writing: Label it, list it card it
Pond Independent Writing Center Activities
Spring Themed Intervention Games
Lamb and Lion Spring Themed Activities
Each activity is clearly written, easy to use, and needs limited preparation. The lessons are fun and engaging and will leave your students begging for more!
Teach science standards in developmentally appropriate and authentic ways! Our complete lesson guide not only delivers the aligned science content with quality, it crosses the curriculum into language arts, math, art, and music. Your teaching of the science with be completed with excitement and engagement!
Table of Contents
Objective and Standards Overview
Lesson Outline
Student Worksheeds
Plant Themed Writing Practice
Cross-Curricular Plant-Themed Games
Plant Art
Plant Music
Plant Needs Experiment & data gathering
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