Trains, Planes, and Seed Dispersal

Prep time: 20 mins. Class time: 50 mins. Materials: Enough sheets of white paper for the whole class Crayons, colored pencils, or markers Pre-made example sheets are not necessary, but helpful These past two weeks, my first-year students have found their end of the year energy and display it in extra spurts of delighted impromptu …

Class Newspaper

Time: 30-40 minutes, or homework assignment Supplies: Pencils and paper Computer with newspaper template One week I set my fifth grade to work on a new activity--a class newspaper.  I split the class up into groups of three, and assigned each a topic.  Among them were: Editing Transitioning from Fourth to Fifth Grade Testing Time …