I have been teaching a long time. I enjoy creating theme based units of work that include activities relating to several subject areas. I like creating language arts and research units. I also have a passion for poetry, teaching and writing.
I have been teaching a long time. I enjoy creating theme based units of work that include activities relating to several subject areas. I like creating language arts and research units. I also have a passion for poetry, teaching and writing.
This is 16 pages of updated Grammar Activities that can be used in a variety of ways, as homework, group or individual activities or as an introduction a new concept to the students. There is answer sheets included at the end of the activity pages.
Activities Include:
Jumbled Words
Analogies
Tautology
Punctuation
Spelling & Proofreading
Homonyms
Spelling
Antonyms
Dictionary Work
Abbreviations
Similes
Apostrophes
Alphabetical Order
Answers
A set of 50 Task Cards designed to stimulate creativity and imagination.
The cards can be used as group or individual activities. As a group activity the cards foster communication and discussion in order to solve the problems.
In a mixed ability class, I found it necessary to have activities available for those students who complete work quickly. Not simply more work but tasks that the students would consider challenging and enjoyable.
Topics include:
Schools
Camping
Leisure
Road Rules
Tourism
Computers
This is a 15 page bundle of activities to improve student’s word skills. These activities can be used as homework, individual lessons, group work or an introduction into a specific skill.
Word activities included are:
Classifying words
Shades of meaning
Word associations
Animal idioms
One word for many
Collective nouns
Common errors
Singular & plural
Punctuation
Gender & their young
Adjectives
Direct speech
Vocabulary fun
ANSWERS
This unit is made up of 5 original pieces of writing and questions. There are two foreign postcards, two poems and a page of classifieds that require the students to read carefully and;
Locate Information
Identify Inferences
Work with Words
Dictionary Work
Sequence of Events
and
Answers
There are 9 pages of living things research topics, space to illustrate and answers. The research is based on the letters of the alphabet, so the sheets can be distributed to the students as a research project over time. Alternatively, the sheets can be cut into 26 individual smaller projects, I have found in the past that this is a good activity for students who finish work quickly or are motivated to do more work.
When the questions have been answered, the students illustrate the subject of their research on the sheet.
Answers included.
This is a unit of work designed to instruct primary students in the correct usage of conjunctions.
The unit consists of 31 pages of grammar activities, including 2 tests and 11 Conjunction Posters.
Included in the package are exercises to instruct in the correct usage of coordinating, subordinating and correlative conjunctions.
his is 15 pages of Halloween themed poetry writing. The poetry writing examples used in the unit are original verse. The students get so involved in Halloween each year and are so motivated by the numerous "scary themes" they are more susceptible to the writing process.
This is a poetry unit around the theme of Easter. I have worksheets for your students to complete to help them appreciate poetry writing. The exercises are easy and fun for the students but there are rules for writing that they need to appreciate and use. There is also an Easter card to make, coloring, short story writing, teacher tips and a look at Easter bonnets.
My Poetry Sheet
Acrostic Poetry
Beginning Cinquain Poetry
Haiku Poetry & Teacher Tips
Simile Poetry
Painted Easter Eggs
Shape Poetry
Easter Card
Egg Coloring
Clowns & Eggs
Short Story & Teacher Tips
Short Story Writing
Diamantes
Catalogue Poems
Spring by MOAG
Spring Drawing
Spring appreciation questions
Easter Bonnets
Easter card
Story writing
The Bilby – Environmental activity
This is a Language and research unit of work written for students around medieval themes. The unit has numerous activities that will appeal to various age groups, as individual tasks, group activities, extension, as a book of work to be completed etc. I have tried to arrange the activities around a short story that I have written, A Knight’s Tale! I have tried to balance language and research activities in this unit.
This is a standalone unit on medieval times, it is also a part of a larger unit I have written called Dragon and Medieval Themed Unit.
Contents:
A Knight’s Tale!
Change the Ending
Idioms
Design the Castle
Damsel in Distress
Synonyms
Coat of Arms
Shields
Medieval Research – Weapons
Medieval Research – Siege Weaponry
Technology and Military Developments
A Day in the Life of a Medieval Knight
Medieval Clothing
Medieval – War Games
Castles
Inside the Castle
The Black Death
Medieval Food
Limericks
Medieval Wonderword
Tapestries
These cards are designed as extension for those students who often complete their work at a faster rate.
The cards could also be fun for the whole class. The activities on the cards are creative and imaginative and require the students, in some cases, to use problem solving skills.
Students are required to draw, list, invent, design and adapt to a number of different situations.
UPDATED 11/2016
These cards are designed as extension for those students who often complete their work at a faster rate.
The cards could also be fun for the whole class. The activities on the cards are creative and imaginative and require the students, in some cases, to use problem solving skills.
Students are required to draw, list, invent, design and adapt to a number of different situations.
These are task cards and do not fit into any category.
These cards are designed as extension for those students who often complete their work at a faster rate.
The cards could also be fun for the whole class. The activities on the cards are creative and imaginative and require the students, in some cases, to use problem solving skills.
Students are required to draw, list, invent, design and adapt to a number of different situations.
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This is 14 pages of activities cantred on the theme of Halloween.
There are various types of activities; most of them require the students to use their imaginations,
design,
reminisce on their personal knowledge of Halloween in the past,
visual literacy,
story writing,
colouring,
writing Halloween invitations
writing spells
These activities can be used as a mini literacy unit of activities.
or
We all have the lessons that finish 5 or 10 minutes before breaks, there is not enough time to begin another topic and too long for the students to sit not doing work. I would create different activities and the student could choose what they wanted to do, it kept them interested, filled in the excess time and they learned as well.
or
I used this unit in other ways as well. They were suitable as homework activities, used as group work to encourage discussion, for those students who always finished their work quickly or kept in a booklet that the students could complete during the term.
Halloween Fill-er-in-er-ers – Set 2
This is 14 pages of activities centred on the theme of Halloween.
There are various types of activities; most of them require the students to use their imaginations,
design,
visual literacy,
story writing,
colouring,
writing Halloween invitations
writing spells
These activities can be used as a mini literacy unit of activities.
or
We all have the lessons that finish 5 or 10 minutes before breaks, there is not enough time to begin another topic and too long for the students to sit not doing work. I would create different activities and the student could choose what they wanted to do, it kept them interested, filled in the excess time and they learned as well.
or
I used the Fill-er-in-er-ers in other ways as well. They were suitable as homework activities, used as group work to encourage discussion, for those students who always finished their work quickly or kept in a booklet that the students could complete during the term.
This is a Valentine’s Day mini unit. I have designed this unit to highlight that Valentine’s Day does not exclusively mean the love between male and female. It is a “Love” celebration and there are numerous types of love.
I have tried to include a variety of activities that will engage the students. I have “gone over the top” using colour and decoration, could be classified as gaudy.
The students are asked to source information on the history of the holiday; St Valentine’s Day customs celebrated in various countries; great love stories from history; write Valentine’s Day Card poetry; construct a simple origami Valentine Holder and use the templates to make their own cards.
5 Christmas pictures that have scenes that can be interpreted by students in different ways, what one student thinks is happening in the picture another may not.
I have suggested possible scenarios, and asked pointed questions of each picture to assist the student’s thinking and creative process.
This unit can be used in a number of ways. We all have the lessons that finish 5 or 10 minutes before breaks, there is not enough time to begin another topic and too long for the students to sit not doing work. I would create different activities and the student could choose what they wanted to do, it kept them interested, filled in the excess time and they learned as well.
I used the Fill-er-in-er-ers in other ways as well, they were suitable as homework activities, used as group work to encourage discussion, for those students who always finished their work quickly or kept in a booklet that the students could complete during the term.
10 pages of Christmas visuals to stimulate writing activities. This unit has Christmas writing activities using a picture as the stimuli.
We all have the lessons that finish 5 or 10 minutes before breaks, there is not enough time to begin another topic and too long for the students to sit not doing work. I would create different activities and the student could choose what they wanted to do, it kept them interested, filled in the excess time and they learned as well.
I used these activities in other ways as well, they were suitable as homework activities, used as group work to encourage discussion, for those students who always finished their work quickly or kept in a booklet that the students could complete during the term.
My Fill-er-in-er-ers contain 10 pages of mainly geography based general knowledge questions. There are various types of activities, most of them require the students to conduct research and find answers to the questions.
We all have the lessons that finish 5 or 10 minutes before breaks, there is not enough time to begin another topic and too long for the students to sit not doing work. I would create different activities and the student could choose what they wanted to do, it kept them interested, filled in the excess time and they learned as well.
I used the Fill-er-in-er-ers in other ways as well. They were suitable as homework activities, used as group work to encourage discussion, for those students who always finished their work quickly or kept in a booklet that the students could complete during the term.
Answers are included in the unit.
This unit contains 10 pages of mainly geography based general knowledge questions. There are various types of activities, most of them require the students to conduct research and find answers to the questions.
We all have the lessons that finish 5 or 10 minutes before breaks, there is not enough time to begin another topic and too long for the students to sit not doing work. I would create different activities and the student could choose what they wanted to do, it kept them interested, filled in the excess time and they learned as well.
These worksheets can be used in a variety of ways, they were suitable as homework activities, used as group work to encourage discussion, for those students who always finished their work quickly or kept in a booklet that the students could complete during the term.
Countries and Capitals.
National Flags.
Landmarks.
Islands and Oceans.
American States and Capitals.
Traditional Foods.
Famous People.
Rivers and Cities.
Answers are included in the unit.
This unit contains 10 pages of mainly geography based general knowledge questions. There are various types of activities, most of them require the students to conduct research and find answers to the questions.
We all have the lessons that finish 5 or 10 minutes before breaks, there is not enough time to begin another topic and too long for the students to sit not doing work. I would create different activities and the student could choose what they wanted to do, it kept them interested, filled in the excess time and they learned as well.
These worksheets can be used in a variety of ways, they were suitable as homework activities, used as group work to encourage discussion, for those students who always finished their work quickly or kept in a booklet that the students could complete during the term.
Ports & Bays
Bridges & Buildings
Deserts, Jungles and Waterfalls.
Lakes and Mountains.
Who Wrote these Children’s Classics?
Countries and Capitals.
Flags.
American States and Capitals.
Populations.
Answers are included in the unit.