Printable for Waterhouse Hawkins

On Mondays we listen to our reading story for our center rotation. Sometimes I just don’t think that listening is enough.  In first grade there was time to listen to the story and do a reader’s response.  However, the stories in 5th grade are longer and there isn’t enough time to do the sheet also, so I just made it the seat work rotation.  I include the skill and strategy for the week and then something we need to review.  Including basic skills such as author/illustrator/genre/etc feel free to use it. My clip art came from Lettering Delights.

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Fact and Opinion Spider Activities

I was thinking how to incorporate fun cutesy activities for Halloween into our 5th grade curriculum, so I scored the internet and past activities from first and came up with F and O Spiders.

The first thing that we did was brain storm about what we already about spiders… I didn’t give any parameters and the list was pretty good.  Here’s what the kids came up with:

then we used our schema to make a True and False T Chart

Then students broke off into groups and read a book about spiders and took statements from their books to make there own t charts:

Then I took this adorable spider from ChalkTalk: A Kindergarten blog and just added the Fact and opinion strips the kids glued to the legs before then glued them on the paper:

Very Spooktacular!