Summer Review

Studies show that many children forget what they've learned at school during the long summer break. This however needn't be the case if children were to spend just 15-20 minutes of their day engaging in some fun learning activity. Reading daily and doing a couple of math activities would help maintain their learning stamina and keep them mentally alert till it's time for the regular routine of school again.

A key to keeping children engaged on learning tasks during their summer break is to provide them with fun interactive activities. For instance, the sheet below targets the skill of number identification and tracing and all through a fun medium of spinning a spinner and seeing what number the spinner lands on. Students will love flicking the pin and will even predict the number it will land on - I know my students do!

Visuals too play an important role in arresting a child's attention. In the sheet below, students have to identify the greater number and color the representing scoop. My students enjoyed coloring their ice-cream scoops different colors and learned to differentiate between the greatest and smallest number in  the process.

Here's another one on writing the number before and after a given number.

These interactive sheets are definitely  more visually appeasing and fun to work on than plain old boring 'worksheets' - don't you think?

You will find more fun interactive activities in this 60 page pack:

Wish you and your children a super summer!

English Language Arts Lessons – "FEBRUARY FLAIR Acrostic: Letter L"

By: Connie Casserly
Grades 6-12
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Today, February 11th is L day on the English Language Arts Lessons – FEBRUARY FLAIR Acrostic list. The L in this post stands for

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•  Literature Task Cards (Comprehension, Writing and Critical Thinking Lessons)  https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Comprehension-Literature-Task-Cards-1131263 

     

This product offers teachers a set of Elements of Literature Task Cards when they want their students to reinforce, review and develop their understanding of a text, or any time that their students need to work on expanding their comprehension/higher thinking skills and /or writing aptitudes. These cards are beneficial for individual, small group or whole class study and discussion, for in-class writing and for homework.

• Lesson Ideas – Journalism Whole Course  Year Overview and Lesson Ideas (Journalism Lessons)  https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Journalism-Whole-Course-Year-Overview-and-Lesson-Ideas-45173

This 14 page posting offers a chronological order of lessons, by quarter, to teach beginning journalism students the basic concepts of journalistic writing such as What is News?, the various structures and genres of journalistic writing,interviewing, learning layout and design and studying media ethics. It offers lessons and activities that reinforces these concepts and prepares students to write and publish a quality high school newspaper.

• Literature Super Bowl - Score With the Literature Super Bowl (Reviewing a Book Lessons) *  https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Comprehension-Activity-Score-With-the-Literature-Super-Bowl-1058494

     

This FREEBIE literature review product, Score With the Literature Super Bowl, ties together all of the elements of literature and how they form the structure of any literary text, while preparing students for the assessment. It energizes students to review the novel or narrative nonfiction book that they have been studying prior to an assessment or anytime comprehension reinforcement is needed. This activity not only checks students’ understanding of facts, ideas and details, but it also assesses their analytic and interpretive comprehension, ergo, it develops their higher level thinking skills. A football-themed literature review activity motivates students any time of the year.

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This L lessons and activities trio will Lure your students to Learn  during February's Lethargic days.

     Stay warm, stay stress-free and stay lesson-planned.

Happy Teaching,

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English Language Arts Lessons – "FEBRUARY FLAIR Acrostic: Letter F"

By: Connie Casserly
Grades 6-12
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Today, February 10th is F day on the English Language Arts Lessons – FEBRUARY FLAIR Acrostic list. The F in this post stands for

• Fact- Finding Scavenger Hunt (Journalism Lesson)  https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Journalism-Fact-Finding-Scavenger-Hunt-REVISED-19349

One vital aspect of being a successful reporter is learning how and where to find factual information. With this activity, students will use any source that they can, i.e. the internet, the telephone, in-person interviews, etc., to figure out the needed information. An answer key is included. This product offers students the chance to exhibit a number of reporting skills. Although I use this activity for a Journalism 1 class, teachers could also use this in any language arts class to reinforce a lesson on facts vs. opinions or on research techniques.

• Fiction’s Physique Activity (Comprehension and Writing Lesson)  https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Comprehension-Critical-Thinking-Skills-Activity-Fictions-Physique-1270261

This English Language Arts activity- Fiction's Physique- enables Middle and High School students to develop their comprehension and reasoning skills as they show- in writing and orally- a story's buff or flabby qualities. Teachers should offer this lesson after students have finished reading the story. When they have completed this activity, students will reveal the buffness of their thinking skills from knowledge through evaluation. 

This F lessons and activities duet will your students Fight February's Fickleness.

     Stay warm, stay stress-free and stay lesson-planned.

Happy Teaching,

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