These are papers (19 pages) to go along with a unit on Comparing and Contrasting. I found 2 excellent books for my students to use: National Geographic Kids: Titanic by Melissa Stewart and Ships by Emily Bone (an Usborne Beginner Book. I got both of these from Amazon.com. These papers should be able to be used with any books (or websites) on the Titanic and Ships. This set includes basic comprehension papers for both the Titanic and Ships. There are Fact pages for each (Titanic and Ships) with 5 boxes for the students to write interesting facts they learned. There is a Double Venn Diagram page to Compare and Contrast the Titanic and Ships. There are 2 pages of 10 questions for students to Compare and Contrast using multiple choice answers. There are 36 Vocabulary Word cards that can be used for a Word Wall or class Venn Diagram chart. There is a large clip art picture of the Titanic and one of a ship to use on the chart along with the words “Titanic”, “Ships” and “Both” to use on the chart. Thanks, SDH Creations

These pages are meant to help introduce the changing lengths of shadows to children. I have included 2 versions of a Shadow investigation- measuring the length of someone’s shadow several times during the day and over several days to see patterns in the length. One version follows the Scientific Method using the words: Question, Materials, Procedure, Data/Observations, Conclusion and Further Questions. The other is a simple one page investigation with room for observations and questions to answer. There are 12 pictures with shadows to sort into 2 Headings: Shadows Near Noon and Shadows in the Morning or Afternoon (based on the length of the shadow). There is a student worksheet with pictures to cut out and put in the correct column. These are the same pictures as in the Shadow Sort. There is a Shadow Web in which the children can write what they have learned about shadows. (10 pages in all) Thanks! SDH Creations

This set includes 2 pages for students to fill out while doing a simple gravity experiment. There are 9 word cards for a gravity Word Wall and a 6 page student book on Gravity. For the experiment, students need marbles, cubes, coins, sand, and pans or trays. This is a great mini-unit on gravity for young students. Thanks! SDH Creations

This Tall Tales Unit (81 pages) includes activities for these Tall Tales: John Henry, Annie Oakley, Babe the Ox, Calamity Jane, Davy Crockett, Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, Sally Ann Thunder Ann Whirlwind and Slue-foot Sue. The versions of the Tall Tales can vary somewhat, so I made the worksheets so they should be able to be used with any version, including a video version. There is general information about Tall Tales, Vocabulary Word Wall Word cards for Tall Tales and a section for each Tall Tale story. For each Tall Tale, there is a cover page (which can be used on a bulletin board), general information about that Tall Tale (although there may be different versions out there), Student Worksheets: Exaggerations, Writing a Letter to that character, a Story Map and a Web. There are additional worksheets: 3 pages of Making Connections between different Tall Tales with characters that are interacted together in their Tall Tales, a page for students to write their Schema about Tall Tales before you start your unit, a K-W-L chart page and 3 pages to help students write their own Tall Tales (pre-writing page, planning page, and writing page) Thanks! SDH Creations

These are pages I made to help my class explore the properties of objects (properties such as: hard, soft, wooden, plastic, circle, square, heavy, light). The papers tell the students what to do and has room for them to draw and write what they did. For these activities, you will need 2 bags of objects. Bag A should be a random group of objects including some wooden objects, some plastic objects and some soft and hard objects. I used things such as cotton balls, wooden blocks, pattern blocks, counters, straws, etc. Bag B should include various items that have a circle shape and a square shape. If you choose to do the Weight activities, you will need to use balance scales and cubes. (3 pages) Thanks, SDH Creations

These Centers help students practice their subtraction skills. These are the Centers: • Hungry Caterpillar Subtraction Problem Match-Up • Hungry Caterpillar Subtraction Game • Find the Subtraction Facts for the Fact Family • Hungry Caterpillar Subtract and Write There is a Center card for each Center. There are also 66 subtraction problem cards and 66 answer cards that are used for the Centers. There is a game board in color and one in black and white for one of the Centers. I have laminated the pieces for my class and the students use vis-à-vis markers, which wipe off when they are done. There are 38 pages. Thanks! SDH Creations

This is a 27 page file of cards with numbers from 1-120 - to meet a First grade Standard. There are random cards with the numbers in black. The other numbers are color-coded to help the children when they represent the numbers with base 10 blocks. The Ones place is green. The Tens place is blue. The Hundreds place is red. I have my students choose a card, which they put on a tray, and then put the base 10 blocks to show that number on they tray. The cards have R2-D2 and C3PO from Star Wars on them. Thank you!

This is a set of labels for a Teacher Toolbox (Hardware box). They will fit the 22 or 18 drawer sizes. The labels are done with pineapples. They match the other Tropical Fun themed items we have posted recently.. The font color comes in both black and green, There are 14 large labels and 1 large blank label. There are 22 small labels and 2 blank small labels to choose from. I have used my Teacher Toolbox for about 5 years now and I love it! It is great to have small items right at hand when I need them. Enjoy! Education Whimsy

This is a set of labels for a Teacher Toolbox (Hardware box). They will fit the 22 or 18 drawer sizes. The labels are done with the same Tropical Fun theme that we have also posted other items recently. The background is yellow and white and it has flamingos, pineapples, watermelons, popsicles, and ice cream cones. The font color comes in both black and pink, There are 14 large labels and 1 large blank label. There are 22 small labels and 2 blank small labels to choose from. I have used my Teacher Toolbox for about 5 years now and I love it! It is great to have small items right at hand when I need them. Enjoy! Education Whimsy

This is a set of labels for a Teacher Toolbox (Hardware box). They will fit the 22 or 18 drawer sizes. The labels are done with flamingos. They match the other Tropical Fun themed items we have posted recently. The font color is black. There are 14 large labels and 1 large blank label. There are 22 small labels and 2 blank small labels to choose from. I have used my Teacher Toolbox for about 5 years now and I love it! It is great to have small items right at hand when I need them. Enjoy! Education Whimsy

This is a set of cards to label Math bins and Notebooks with a Tropical Fun Theme. It has a yellow and white background with flamingos, pineapples, watermelons, popsicles, and ice cream cones. It is done with pink, yellow, orange, green, and teal. It is a very light and fun theme for your classroom. There are 52 labels for Math materials in your classroom. There is a page of 4 blank labels that you can use to write on for additional words you may need. I use packing tape to attach these to my math bins. I also use some of these to label my notebooks and storage bins. Enjoy! Education Whimsy

This is a Reading Comprehension packet to go along with the Magic Tree House Book #4: Pirates Past Noon. I have used it with First and Second grade students. There is a cover page to make each student a packet, along with a comprehension page for each chapter. There is a page to preview the book and a page at the end for the students' thoughts on the book. I have used the packet with both a small group of students and with a whole class at one time. You can differentiate when you use the packet. The more independent students can work on the book and packet on their own or with a partner, while you work with the students who need more direction and help. In the packet, I have included different types of reading comprehension questions and activities, such as Text-to-Self (text, world) connections, Predicting, Visualizing, Character Traits, and different styles of questions. I have the packet for Book #1 listed for FREE so you can see what a packet is like. Each packet I have made is specific to the book, so they are a little different, but you would get the general idea. Thanks so much for looking!

This is a Reading Comprehension packet to go along with the Magic Tree House Book #2: A Knight at Dawn. I have used it with First and Second grade students. There is a cover page to make each student a packet, along with a comprehension page for each chapter. There is a page to preview the book and a page at the end for the students' thoughts on the book. I have used the packet with both a small group of students and with a whole class at one time. You can differentiate when you use the packet. The more independent students can work on the book and packet on their own or with a partner, while you work with the students who need more direction and help. In the packet, I have included different types of reading comprehension questions and activities, such as Text-to-Self (text, world) connections, Predicting, Visualizing, Character Traits, and different styles of questions. I have the packet for Book #1 listed for FREE so you can see what a packet is like. Each packet I have made is specific to the book, so they are a little different, but you would get the general idea. Thanks so much for looking!

This is a Reading Comprehension packet to go along with the Magic Tree House Book #3: Mummies in the Morning. I have used it with First and Second grade students. There is a cover page to make each student a packet, along with a comprehension page for each chapter. There is a page to preview the book and a page at the end for the students' thoughts on the book. I have used the packet with both a small group of students and with a whole class at one time. You can differentiate when you use the packet. The more independent students can work on the book and packet on their own or with a partner, while you work with the students who need more direction and help. In the packet, I have included different types of reading comprehension questions and activities, such as Text-to-Self (text, world) connections, Predicting, Visualizing, Character Traits, and different styles of questions. I have the packet for Book #1 listed for FREE so you can see what a packet is like. Each packet I have made is specific to the book, so they are a little different, but you would get the general idea. Thanks so much for looking!

This is a Reading Comprehension packet to go along with the Magic Tree House Book #9: Dolphins at Daybreak. I have used it with First and Second grade students. There is a cover page to make each student a packet, along with a comprehension page for each chapter. There is a page to preview the book and a page at the end for the students' thoughts on the book. I have used the packet with both a small group of students and with a whole class at one time. You can differentiate when you use the packet. The more independent students can work on the book and packet on their own or with a partner, while you work with the students who need more direction and help. In the packet, I have included different types of reading comprehension questions and activities, such as Text-to-Self (text, world) connections, Predicting, Visualizing, Character Traits, and different styles of questions. I have the packet for Book #1 listed for FREE so you can see what a packet is like. Each packet I have made is specific to the book, so they are a little different, but you would get the general idea. (This set has an Answer Key.) Thanks so much for looking!

This is a Reading Comprehension packet to go along with the Magic Tree House Book #17: Tonight on the Titanic. I have used it with First and Second grade students. There is a cover page to make each student a packet, along with a comprehension page for each chapter. There is a page to preview the book and a page at the end for the students' thoughts on the book. I have used the packet with both a small group of students and with a whole class at one time. You can differentiate when you use the packet. The more independent students can work on the book and packet on their own or with a partner, while you work with the students who need more direction and help. In the packet, I have included different types of reading comprehension questions and activities, such as Text-to-Self (text, world) connections, Predicting, Visualizing, Character Traits, and different styles of questions. I have the packet for Book #1 listed for FREE so you can see what a packet is like. Each packet I have made is specific to the book, so they are a little different, but you would get the general idea. Thanks so much for looking!

This is a Reading Comprehension packet to go along with the Magic Tree House Book #5:Night of the Ninjas . I have used it with First and Second grade students. There is a cover page to make each student a packet, along with a comprehension page for each chapter. There is a page to preview the book and a page at the end for the students' thoughts on the book. I have used the packet with both a small group of students and with a whole class at one time. You can differentiate when you use the packet. The more independent students can work on the book and packet on their own or with a partner, while you work with the students who need more direction and help. In the packet, I have included different types of reading comprehension questions and activities, such as Text-to-Self (text, world) connections, Predicting, Visualizing, Character Traits, and different styles of questions. I have the packet for Book #1 listed for FREE so you can see what a packet is like. Each packet I have made is specific to the book, so they are a little different, but you would get the general idea. Thanks so much for looking!

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Contents: Student Booklet with Cover (12 pages) 1 page of questions for each chapter and one for a Book Preview and one for Thoughts about the book. Includes Reading Strategies such as Predicting, Schema, Text to Self Connections, Visualizing, Sequence, Compare and Contrast, Character and Setting, along with Comprehension questions about the story.