Thanksgiving Compound Words Worksheet

Here’s an easy way to practice compound words (1st or 2nd grade). Click here for the printable PDF: Thanksgiving compound words PDF  Happy Thanksgiving!

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Aesop’s Fables Collection (free worksheets)

 

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I realized the other day that kids don’t seem to know Aesop’s fables very much! So I made a little collection incorporating some simple reading comprehension, grammar (parts of speech) and writing to teach a few. Here’s the plan:

Days 1-4: read a fable, complete questions on the bottom of the page. Click below to download the PDFs: 

The Ant and the Grasshopper

The Dog and His Reflection

The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf

The Tortoise and the Hare

Aesop Answer Key

Day 5:  Help kids write their own fable using this organizer –> Fable outline

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End of the Day Review- NO PREP Jeopardy!

Sometimes you have a few minutes left at the end of the day you’d like to use productively.
Sometimes, you’re just an awesome teacher and you plan for an end of the day review on spelling, grammar, social studies, math vocab, etc. Here’s a super easy way to do it:

  1. Draw columns on the white board (1 for each topic you’d like to review)
  2. Title the columns from things you’ve done that day/week
  3. Write the following numbers under each column header: 10, 20, 30, 40, 50
  4. Divide your class into small groups (super easy if you have kids in tables already) and let a team choose a question.
  5. MAKE UP QUESTIONS AS YOU GO! Killer easy right!? Just make the higher point values a little more challenging. You can make any kind of question you want: multiple choice, true/false, fill-in-the-blank. Just do it!
  6. Keep track of points on the whiteboard

Additional rules/notes:

  • Let everyone try to answer so that everyone is part of the review (choose whoever raises their hands, or choose a student number randomly, you choose)
  • More than one team can answer if you make an answer with multiple answers (just day that the first team to raise their hands or whatever gets to choose the next question)
  • Whatever team gets the question right, chooses the next category/point value

Common vs. Proper Nouns- Christmas/Winter Holidays worksheet

Another common vs. proper nouns worksheet… but winter holiday themed! Right the worksheet below, choose “save image as” and save it to your computer so you can resize it before you print it (full page, half page). Happy holidays!

Thanksgiving Common vs. Proper Nouns worksheet

Another way to bring Thanksgiving into your classroom! Woot! This worksheet focuses on identifying proper and common nouns. This free worksheet is appropriate for 2nd grade and up. Click here for the free printable PDF: Thanksgiving common vs proper nouns PDF  Enjoy!

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Thanksgiving Grammar Practice Book for Upper Grades (free download)

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Here’s a great way to combine learning the history of Thanksgiving with some grammar practice! Start 9 school days before the Thanksgiving break. Students read a little bit of the story each day and do a few simple grammar exercises using the text for that day. Enjoy these Thanksgiving worksheets! Click here for the PDF workbook.

2021 update: if you can’t access the PDF in Google Drive right away, please request access when you’re promoted. Google will send me an email so I can grant your email address access to the PDF and I’ll respond to give you access as soon as I can. Thanks for your patience. I haven’t figured out why it’s sometimes unavailable now.

Mystery Noun Of The Week

I saw this cool idea and had to blog about it! Each morning, the teacher posts a clue to a the mystery noun and reveals the noun on Friday. Participation is voluntary, but most kids are pretty motivated by the mystery aspect if this activity. The teacher uses a book from the Daily Detectives series by Daryl Vriesenga.  It would also be pretty easy to make your own clues to introduce an important noun in a lesson the following week or clues that describe something your class learned a few months ago as a review. I liked this idea because it reinforces what nouns are in a painless way.

Turkeys Love Adjectives (free parts of speech worksheet!)

Thanksgiving is around the corner, so it’s time to bring out the turkeys! And after all, who doesn’t love adjectives!? This page is appropriate for first or second grade. Click here for the free worksheet: Turkeys Love Adjectives Worksheet PDF  Enjoy!

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