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Hi Teacher,
These activities belong in your lesson plans.
- An idea to boost students' writing skills
- An activity to introduce partitioning circles
- A worksheet that gives students practice comparing and contrasting
Have a great week!
Tina from The Mailbox
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Saving for a Rainy Day
Writing Students use these easy-to-make wallets to store writing ideas. To make one, a child cuts the flaps off five or more envelopes. He stacks the envelopes and staples the left side of the stack together. After he personalizes the front envelope, he labels each remaining envelope “Characters,” “Settings,” “Problems,” and “Interesting Words.” The student places an index card in each envelope and, whenever he is inspired with an interesting word or idea, he jots it on the corresponding card. When he is ready to write, he refers to his lists. Now that’s an investment!
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Make a Connection
Partitioning circles Teaching geometry terms isn’t so hard when you relate them to what students already know about clocks! To demonstrate, cut apart copies of the fraction pieces. Then project the clockface onto the board. Guide students to think about what they know about clocks, especially terms related to times at 15 minutes before and after the hour (quarter to, quarter after) as well as 30 minutes after the hour (half past). Next, cover the clockface with the four fraction pieces and ask students to think about the clock terms to tell how much of the circle is covered (four quarters). Then remove the quarter pieces and repeat with the half pieces, leading students to see that two halves are used. Once students are comfortable with these terms, tell them that even though it is not commonly used in telling time, the 60 minutes on a clock (or a circle) can be partitioned into thirds. Use the three third pieces to demonstrate. To expand students’ knowledge, lead them to rename the single partitioned areas as unit fractions.
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Foliage Facts
Comparing and contrasting
Students compare and contrast two types of trees with this worksheet.
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Crabtree PreK-9 curriculum eLibraries offer teachers and students access to more than 2000 fiction and nonfiction ebooks. All it takes to use them from school or home are web-enabled devices and a single access code. Learn more.
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