English Fun Activities: Optimism Mindset

This independent work packet is designed to raise students’ spirits! All of the activities, from jokes, to riddles, to writing on happy events past, present and future, will put a smile on students’ faces. They will write a dice roll story that ends happily, pen a limerick, and send a greeting card to someone special. All of the vocabulary activities - the word search, the word cloud, the word scramble - focus on feel-good words.
This no-prep package is designed to be completed without adult assistance and so is ideal for homework, early finishers, and sub plans. Answers are supplied for the jokes mix and match pages (questions are separated from the jokes’ punchlines), the word search and the word scramble. A simple rubric is supplied should you wish to use this resource for marks.
This Happiness Activities packet has been especially formatted to make it easy for independent learning. The answers are in a separate document in the zip file. This means that you can post the activities resource to a password protected homework site, such as Google Classroom, and then post the answers several days later, so that students can check their answers themselves. Of course, you could just print off the resource in colour or black and white and include it as part of an independent paper work packet.
Banish the gray and let some ELA sunshine reign! Students will have fun, while sharpening their writing, vocabulary and comprehension skills.
Table of contents
Jokes (mix and match) #1
Limericks
Riddles
Greetings card
Dice roll story
Word search
Past happiness
Present happiness
Future happiness
Word cloud
What happiness looks like
Word scramble
Jokes #2
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