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Middle school Christmas-Chanukah-Kwanzaa creative writing resources for SMART Notebook
Attendance January Winter Interactive Smartboard Morning
If you are looking for a fun way to take attendance in the morning, you will love this January SmartBoard attendance file. It comes complete with a page of detailed instructions for changing your student names. I know your students will love using the SmartBoard to take attendance. Look for more of my themed attendance pages including months September through May in addition to a birthday, beehive, butterfly, cookie, computer, Easter, garden, Halloween, Kite, monkey, patriotic, pizza, sports, su
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PreK - 6th
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SMARTBOARD Figurative Language in Christmas Songs Activity
Smartboard Christmas activity - identify figurative language in Christmas songs. Students have to read through the lyrics of different winter tunes and Christmas songs and identify types of figurative language, such as metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole, or idiom. This is a digital resource. YOU MUST HAVE SMART NOTEBOOK SOFTWARE for this version.* Lyrics have examples highlighted in different colors, so they can try to figure out the color code. Each song has a snowflake link to a mus
Grades:
5th - 8th
Also included in:Â Christmas Activities BUNDLE - Fun ELA Resources Grades 4 - 7
Smart STEM Tallest Christmas Tree
Tis the season for holiday STEM! Here is a SmartBoard activity that I made for a 2nd grade class. This Smart has directions, materials, charts and timers for the activity. Students are to build the tallest Christmas tree that they can in 15 minutes. At the beginning, I have the jobs broken down. For my class, I will not assign specific jobs, but for some classes it could be needed. For older grades, have the students graph their data they collected.
Grades:
1st - 8th
Christmas Lights SMART Board Attendance Activity w/ Animation and Sound
Let's have a day that's merry and bright! Students tap their Christmas light to turn it on. A Christmas bell chimes as the light turns from white to red or green!
This attendance activity comes with both a numbered page (if you assign students numbers) and a page where you can change student names. Directions for changing names are included!
Created by Deb Painter, 2013
*If you are concerned about students being able to reach the higher items on a SMART Board, consider having students use
Grades:
PreK - 8th
Plants: Lesson 2: Transpiration & the Xylem
In this lesson, students will take the journey through a plant via the perspective of a water droplet (traveling with a mineral). By reading an adventure-like story and illustrating it, the teacher can easily check for understanding, then later, explain the science behind what is happening.
By using a story instead of a boring text, students are more engaged and visualize processes much better. This then, can provide an excellent foundation for building vocab or understanding larger scientific
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6th - 8th
Christmas Songs: Set #1 (Total of 7 Songs)
Want to sing some fun Christmas Songs? This Smart Notebook file (Smartboard software) is complete with song lyrics, music notation, and PIANO ACCOMPANIMENT for a total of 7 songs.
Included in the file is "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus is Comin' to Town, Deck the Halls, Let it Snow, We Wish you a Merry Christmas, Winter Wonderland, and Frosty the Snowman."
Examine music notation concepts or just sing the songs for fun. This Smartboard file is a great resource for any classroom!
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1st - 6th
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Attendance December Christmas Interactive Smartboard Morning
If you are looking for a fun way to take attendance in the morning, you will love this December SmartBoard attendance file. It comes complete with a page of detailed instructions for changing your student names. I know your students will love using the SmartBoard to take attendance. Look for more of my themed attendance pages including months September through May in addition to a birthday, beehive, butterfly, cookie, computer, Easter, garden, Halloween, Kite, monkey, patriotic, pizza, sports, s
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PreK - 6th
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Writing Strong Endings for Narratives using Mentor Texts
Do your students struggle to write a strong satisfying ending to their stories? I know my students do! I created this SMARTboard presentation to use with my students.
The presentation starts by covering the most common endings we want to move our kids away from, and then walks them through how to write a strong ending using mentor texts.
Grades:
3rd - 6th
Best Christmas Pageant Ever SMART Response
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is a wonderful book, full of exciting characters. This is a SMART Response unit designed to be used while reading this book. At the end of each chapter, students will be asked 10 questions about it. The questions are a mixed variety; multiple choice, yes/no, true/false, etc. Each chapter quiz is setup so that it can be completed independently and you can save your students' scores each day (or at the end of each chapter).
Don't have SMART Response Clickers?
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
A Christmas Carol activities
Smart Board activities to go with my "A Christmas Carol in symbols with questions." Includes functional reading, writing, and math activities designed for young children or those with moderate to severe cognitive handicaps. Matching symbols to words, forming sentences with symbols, simple addition and subtraction word problems, counting quarters. Appropriate for special needs students, including autism, Down Syndrome, and traumatic brain injury, and FMD. Symbols are helpful for emerging read
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PreK - 12th
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Identifying Simile or Metaphor Lesson SMART Notebook
Your students will be able to identify the differences between similes and metaphors after this 31 page Smartboard lesson. This file includes an introduction to both similes and metaphors, then follows up with some interactive activities and 12 multiple-choice Response voting questions. It even includes a simile or metaphor? activity page for you to print and give to your students as a pre or post test. Have fun learning!
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Realistic Fiction Writing Unit Smartboard
This is an outstanding unit you can use with your students to help them write well developed and interesting realistic fiction stories! The minilessons in this unit include:
1) Goal Setting and Generating Ideas
2) Imagine Stories from Ordinary Moments
3) Imagining Stories We Wish Existed in the World
4) Drafting My Writing
5) Story Mountains
6) Feeling and Drafting the Heart of Our Story
7) Developing Believable Characters
8) Giving Characters Struggles and Motivation
9) Show, Dont Tell
10) Gr
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
An Intro to Poetry on the SmartBoard: A Two-Week Unit Featuring 10 Poetry Forms
Hurray for Poetry! Adding a Poetry unit into a Language Arts curriculum helps students better understand alliteration and rhythm, allows them to break apart the syllabication of words and develop their reading and writing skills, and lets them get their creative juices flowing!
Poetry can be serious and introspective as well as silly and nonsensical. In this 2-week introduction to poetry, students are introduced to 10 different common poetry forms. This animated presentation introduces each
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Halloween Character Traits SmartBoard Vocabulary Activity No Prep
Halloween Writing Activity for Smartboard. Halloween digital resource - writing motivator and vocabulary activity. Five different Halloween characters - vampire, ghost, scarecrow, skeleton, and witch. On the interactive whiteboard, students can drag the character traits they want for their chosen Halloween character into the box. They then can name their character and, in their journal, show, not tell, how their character demonstrates the traits they chose and elaborate on the character. They c
Grades:
5th - 8th
The Very Itchy Bear Guided Reading 4 Days - Four Blocks Literacy
This is a SMART notebook file that forms 4 days (or 1 weeks) worth of guided reading lessons for the book The Very Itchy Bear by Nick Bland.
This file follows the Anchor, Read, Apply model and has a purpose for reading the book each day.
Included with each day's purpose is a link to the Six Hats Thinking Model.
This file was made originally for a high school special education class using the Four Block Method of Instruction but can easily be used in most school classrooms, for home school, rel
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PreK - 10th
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Navidad en Guatemala: Christmas in Guatemala
ATTENTION! This is a Notebook file, intended for use on Smartboards. Please look for the same presentation in PowerPoint format if you don't have the software.This presentation covers all the different aspects of how Christmas is celebrated in Guatemala, but it also is a springboard to elicit language from your students and help them make cultural connections. With beautiful pictures, questions, and age appropriate videos that cover many of the traditions, students get to experience Navidad in t
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4th - 7th
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Six-Traits of Writing: Sentence Fluency with Smooth Transitions
This Sentence Fluency lesson concentrates on effective transitions using the popular mentor text, Meanwhile by Jules Feiffer.
The 20 slide SMART file contains 8 days of lessons, activating and summarizing strategies, detailed instructions, graphic organizers, handouts, examples, opportunities for peer and teacher conferencing, scoring rubrics, links to videos, and interactive activities.
It's everything you need to teach an engaging lesson on sentence fluency using effective transitions.
Grades:
4th - 7th
Christmas Trivia SmartBoard Activity
This is a very fun game to play on the SmartBoard. It is adaptable for any number of participants. You can play the game using the Smart Response clickers but they are not required. The game designed to use a koosh ball or bean bag to throw at the dancing reindeer to bring up a question. If you don't want to use this techniques students can touch the reindeer and the question will open.
Christmas Trivia by Sherri McKendree is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDer
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2nd - 12th
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Figurative Language Relating to Poetry- Common Core Aligned
This highly interactive lesson introduces students to figurative language and shows them how by using it an author is able to express their own style in their writing by painting a picture in the reader's mind. It uses poetry examples to assess the students learning, and offers as many examples to practice on as your students will need! Reading poetry and understanding it is so critical in the Common Core Standards!
This adds SO much to my reading lesson, especially when poetry is being read!!!
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Grades:
3rd - 6th
Spelling SMART in Grades 5 and 6: SMARTNotebook
Spelling SMART was created by Carrie Sutton to meet the spelling needs of her Grade 5 and 6 class students. It is a SMART notebook file so that it can easily be viewed by students in the classroom.
"I noticed many of them could not spell a large portion of the high frequency words. I also wanted them to use these lessons to learn how to write good sentences with varied beginnings and lengths, and of different types, which contained figurative language. The idea for dress-ups and sentence sta
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5th - 8th
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The Nutcracker Suite-Dance Of Sugar Plum Fairy-(Listening Map) SMBD/NTBK ED.
This SMART NOTEBOOK Lesson is appropriate for elementary music students of all ages and is part 4 of a 9 part unit. In this lesson, students will follow a listening map as they hear the sugar plum fairy dance her way from one section to the next. Students will be expected to read simple rhythmic notation including quarter notes, quarter rests, and paired eighth notes, repeat signs, as well as visual icons to help navigate their way through the map. Included in this lesson is a YouTube link to
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Grades:
K - 8th
Drafting, Revising, and Editing Lessons - Smartboard
This Smartboard presentation is great to show students during the drafting, revising, or editing stage of writing. It explains and takes students through each process step by step.
Each lesson follows the workshop model and includes:
1) A connection to students' lives
2) A teaching point
3) A teaching component
4) Active engagement activity
5) A link
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Grades:
2nd - 7th
Christmas Trivia Game for Smart Boards
This is a Christmas Trivia game that can be used for all ages. It includes 24 questions and is easy to use! (You can also adapt it by having students create extra questions.)
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2nd - 12th
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Christmast Holiday Science Experiments/Activities
Four (plus one bonus) exciting, hands-on and engaging Christmas Science experiments you can do with your class using simple and easy to find supplies. In the older grades you can even explain the Science behind the chemical and state reactions!
Grades:
PreK - 8th
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