Spring Thematic Unit





Spring Thematic Unit
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Product Description
This Spring Activities packet is filled with authentic active learning activities that will thrill your classroom or homeschool students as they learn important academic skills.
It's a Spring Thing is strategically linked to the common core standards, based on proven reading, math, and science research and best practices.
The activities are divided into areas of literature, music, art, literacy, math, science, creative writing, word wall, and guided reading. The activities are clearly written, differentiated, easy to use, and need limited amounts of preparation. When laminated and filed, these become Ready to Go for your teaching years ahead!
Contents Include:
Literacy Games
- Lambs & Lions: Naming Letters Quickly 
- Lambs & Lions: Sight Word Fluency 
- Let’s Go Fly a Kite: Alphabet Fluency 
- Let’s Go Fly a Kite: Sight Word Fluency 
- The Bird’s Nest: Building Familiarity With Punctuation Marks 
- Abracadabra: Decoding CVC Words (Or Nonsense Words) 
- Hens and Chicks: Reading Reading CVC Words 
- Spring Words Worksheet: Distinguishing Between Similar Words 
Math Games:
- April Showers Bring May Flowers: Decomposing Numbers 
- Fly Away Birdie: Solving Subtraction Problems 
- Spring Fling: Solving Addition Problems 
- Runaway Chicks: Solving Mathematical Problems Using 5-Frames 
- Bountiful Bunnies: Decomposing Numbers 
- Who Is Ready For Spring?: Connecting Numbers 1-43 
- Hippity Hop: Connecting Numbers 1-47 
Songs and Fingerplays
- It is Springtime 
- Springtime 
- March Wind 
- Put Up Your Umbrella 
Science Projects
- Jello Mixing: Mixing Colors Tactilely 
- Color Mixing: Making Secondary Colors 
- Paint Mixing: Recording Data From an Experiment 
Art Projects
- Lamb & Lion: Portfolio Sample 
- Under the Umbrella: Portfolio Sample 
- Vase of Flowers: Artist Study 
- Easter Bunny Hat 
Writing
What I Like About Spring
The Easter Bunny
Guided Reading Books
Mix It Up
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Pond Independent Writing Center Activities
Contents Include:
Literacy Games:
Lambs & Lions: Naming Letters Quickly
Let's Go Fly a Kite: Naming Sight Words Quickly
Abracadabra: Decoding CVC Words
The Bird's Nest: Building Familiarity With Punctuation Marks
Odd Duck: Word Families
Independent Literacy Activities:
Spring Words: Distinguishing Between Similar Words
Math Games:
Fly Away Birdie: Solving Subtraction Problems
Spring Fling: Solving Addition Problems
Runaway Chicks: Solving Mathematical Problems Using 5-Frames
Chicks Together: Developing Mental Math Using 5-Frames
Bountiful Bunnies: Decomposing Numbers
Independent Math Activities:
April Showers Bring May Flowers: Decomposing Numbers
Who Is Ready For Spring?: Connecting Numbers 1-43
Hippity Hop: Connecting Numbers 1-47
Songs/Fingerplays:
Springtime
March Wind
Put Up Your Umbrella
Science Projects:
Jello Mixing: Mixing Colors Tactilely
Color Mixing: Making Secondary Colors
Paint Mixing: Recording Data From an Experiment
Art Projects:
Lamb & Lion: Portfolio Sample
Under the Umbrella
Vase of Flowers: Artist Study
Easter Bunny Hat
Writing:
What I Like About Spring
The Easter Bunny
Guided Reading Book:
Mix It Up
Total Pages: 112
“My studunets loved the activities and were totally engaged.”
“The kids love this unit!”
“Great spring resource”
“can hardly wait for spring to come to use these”
 
          
        
       
                        
                        
                          
                             
                          
                        
                       
                        
                        
                          
                             
                          
                        
                       
                        
                        
                          
                             
                          
                        
                       
                        
                        
                          
                             
                          
                        
                       
                        
                        
                          
                            