Have your students pretend to become the gingerbread man and fill in the blanks on the girl or boy writing prompt page. To make things more believable, and to practice research skills, encourage students to include factual information about the place they want to run to, using lots of description in their "ed-venture". Have students do a rough draft and underline their adjectives to make sure they have enough. To help explain what you want your students to do, I've included a completed sample.
I LOVED designing this gingerbread writing and activity packet and hope you have oodles of fun with your kiddo's doing these interesting activities.
Get students excited to write with these interesting writing prompts. Includes a class book, travel journal + diary pages.
After reading several stories about the Pilgrims, so that your students have some knowledge of their life and times, an interesting November writing prompt would be to have them write a letter to a Pilgrim child on the Mayflower.
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Build children's self-esteem with this class-made book. Write names of students on the Pilgrim hat; toss them into a container, children choose one and write about that child.
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The Thankful Tree is a nice alternative to the "I'm Thankful Turkeys" that are such a popular November writing activitiy. With the tree, you are also covering the four seasons.
I think your students will really enjoy all of these lessons related to Pilgrim children. The packet is filled with a nice variety of interesting writing activities to help your students learn more about this time period, as well as a dozen colonial games and 2 measurement activities to do outdoors.
15 "craftivities" are included in this packet. Besides Veterans Day, they would also be appropriate for any of the other patriotic holidays.
This packet will be FREE for an entire year! Woo hoo. After which time, it will be up-dated & included in my whopping 113-page Veterans Day packet, in my TpT shop. Click on the link to have a look see. For your convenience, I've included a PREVIEW here.
Reinforce lots of Common Core State Standards with this sweet easy-reader that incorporates the 5 senses. Students read, trace, write, add end punctuation, underline the adjectives and color the pictures.
Getting your students excited about writing, and WANTING to write, can be a bit difficult. I've found that if children have an interesting writing prompt to jump start their brains, they WILL be enthusiastic and get right down to business! Give them a choice of any of these six, fun-scarecrow writing prompts, perfect for Daily 5 or your writing block.