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Spring Ideas for Your Classroom

I don’t know about you but I for one am very happy that Spring is starting to show up here. Here on the West Coast of Canada, we’ve had a mild winter but an enormous amount of rain and gloomy skies. Today was super sunny and warm and I was able to get out for a nice walk. I have missed you,nature. I wanted to stop in and show you some Spring resources that just may make your life a little easier so that you can spend more time doing the things you love.

 


With Spring comes rejuvenation! Our GREEN celebration will be here soon – none other than St. Patrick’s Day. What could be more fun than following a leprechaun and seeing if you can get to the pot of gold before he does??

This also seems to be the time of year when many teachers need more writing ideas. Not time fillers, actual writing lessons that will move their students forward. March is the beginning of exciting times in the classroom because you start seeing so much growth and you want some fresh ideas to keep the kids engaged. I have just the set for you!

Follow the Sneaky Leprechaun was a ton of fun to create. It incorporates writing with a theme. Research shows that students do much better with choice (i.e. like book choice) and this includes writing. Giving students choice is powerful! This set is meant to be set up as stations around the room. Each station has another clue or question that students will need to figure out in order to create their story with all the pertinent story elements and traits of writing. There are footprints that you can cut out and put on the floor. Students will go to stations in partners and collaborate and plan out their story with the planning sheet included.

In the end, students will get to decide if they found the pot of gold or whether the leprechaun tricked them and found it himself. Story writing paper is included.

Click here or on the picture to see the resource.

If your students enjoy this set, stay tuned. I am also working on an Easter one!

Lucky Learners is a set of writing activities that are mindful in nature.  Instead of just “luck” having to do with good things happening, what about good things happen when we are kind?  This set has several activities that allow even the youngest students to goal set and reflect.

What is Spring without poetry? In April we go more in depth with poetry like this set I have for year long poetry but sometimes, you would just like some poems with a Spring theme.  This pack has original poems (written by me) and activities to go with them.  What a great way to continue to build fluency with your students.
You can also get these two and in a small money saving bundle right here ==>
If writing centers is your jam, I have just the thing for your Spring writing.  Check out this Work on Writing: Spring bundle.  This set is overflowing with a variety of writing and thinking activities for both fiction and non fiction.  Click on the picture for more.  (Take a look at the feedback while you are there, you won’t be disappointed.)
Finally, another set that you might like that integrates Writing and Science is this Write About Science Set. Here, students will learn about lifecycles of animals and plants as well as procedural and  descriptive writing.
It wouldn’t be Spring without baby animals on the farm.  This cute set has students learning about baby animals in Spring as well as using literacy and lifecycles as a springboard to writing.
Easter will be coming up sooner than we know.  I have a few Easter sets.  At this time of year, my students have usually been writing up a storm and now I want to get more explicit about editing their work.  This practice set will help your students to understand the editing process through an Easter theme.

I hope this overview of resources available has helped you to find something that will make your teaching life a little easier so you can spend more time engaging WITH your students instead of planning and trying to find quality materials for your classroom.

Cheers!

Shelley

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