Category: Seasonally Themed Learning
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$6.75Add to CartMove beyond the elementary myths and engage your middle and high school students with a strictly factual exploration of the 1621 Plymouth feast and how it evolved into what we celebrate today.
Written on a 9th-grade reading level, this comprehensive, no-prep unit challenges the popular narrative of the “First Thanksgiving” by diving into primary sources, demographic shifts, and the complex diplomatic alliance between the English Separatists and the Wampanoag people.
Whether you are teaching in a traditional classroom or facilitating a flexible, child-centered learning journey at home, this unit provides an objective, neutral, and highly detailed historical account.
📖 What is Covered?
This unit is broken down into 6 detailed reading sections, perfectly chunked for deep learning and retention:
- Origins of Thanksgiving Celebrations: Indigenous agricultural traditions (The Three Sisters) and early European harvest festivals.
- The 1621 Plymouth Feast: The factual timeline of the three-day diplomatic gathering, native crop yields, and historical menus.
- The Wampanoag & The English: The devastating impact of the “Great Dying” (1616-1619) and the strategic 1621 mutual defense treaty.
- The Evolution of the Holiday: How regional colonial prayer days evolved into a national holiday under George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
- Broader Historical Context: Economic shifts, land demands, and the eruption of King Philip’s War (1675).
- Historical Source Analysis: Understanding the events of 1621 through the primary accounts of William Bradford and Edward Winslow.
📝 Types of Activities Included:
- Detailed Reading Passages: 6 highly focused, neutral, and fact-based sections.
- Short Answer Comprehension: 5 dedicated short-answer questions immediately following every single section to check for understanding.
- Timeline: Key events spanning from the 1500s to 1863.
- Comprehensive End-of-Unit Assessment: Includes Multiple Choice, True/False, and Short Answer questions.
- Essay Prompts: 3 distinct analytical essay choices.
- Enrichment Activities: 3 extended learning options (Primary Source Transcription, Agricultural Modeling, and Demographic Graphing).
- Complete Answer Key: A full teacher key for all section questions, assessments, and grading rubrics for essay questions.
💡 How to Use This Resource:
- Independent Study: Perfect for homeschoolers who thrive on independent, self-paced reading and research.
- Whole-Class Instruction: Read sections together and use the essay prompts for vibrant classroom debates and discussions.
- Station Work: Break the 6 sections into different classroom or co-op stations for collaborative group learning.
⭐ Benefits of Use:
- Zero Prep: Simply print and hand out. The student sections include no background shading or boxes means it is incredibly printer-friendly! Primary resource documents will have minimal shading to highlight specific sections.
- Strictly Factual & Objective: Relies entirely on historical data, crop yields, and primary source timelines without leaning into modern political or cultural opinions.
- Encourages Critical Thinking: Pushes older students to analyze how history is recorded, adapted, and remembered.
- Highly Flexible: Easily adaptable to fit a strict daily classroom schedule or a customized homeschooling pace.
📚 Core Standards Covered:
This unit aligns seamlessly with High School Common Core State Standards for Literacy in History/Social Studies:
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.1: Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.2: Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RH.9-10.9: Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources.
🛒 Ready to bring rigorous, factual history into your lesson plans? Buy now!
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$3.50Add to Cart🎨 45 No-Prep Picture Writing Prompts & Oral Conversation Starters ✍️
Unlock the door to creative expression with this versatile, 45-page “Color and Write” resource! Designed to bridge the gap between visual art, oral language, and written composition, these prompts are the perfect solution for students who struggle with “blank page syndrome.”
By combining the therapeutic act of coloring with structured writing and discussion, you provide a multi-sensory experience that builds confidence in every learner.
🧠 The “Why” Behind This Resource: Benefits for Your Students
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🗣️ Vocabulary & Oral Language: Before a student can write, they must be able to speak. These images act as Conversation Starters, allowing students to describe scenes, build specialized vocabulary (like ecosystem, monument, or artifact), and practice sentence structure through verbal storytelling.
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🖍️ Fine Motor Development: Coloring is more than just fun! It strengthens the small muscles in the hand and improves hand-eye coordination—the essential “pre-writing” skills needed for neat and fluid handwriting.
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📝 Creative Writing: By coloring the scene first, students “enter” the world of the prompt. This mental immersion makes it much easier to transition into narrative or descriptive writing, resulting in richer, more detailed stories.
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✨ Stress-Free Engagement: The “No-Prep” design means you can print and go! It’s the perfect tool for writing centers, morning work, early finishers, or a “boutique” homeschool curriculum.
🌍 What’s Included? 45 Detailed Scenes to Explore!
This collection takes students on a journey through nature, travel, and everyday life. Your download includes 45 unique, print-ready pages featuring:
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🌲 Diverse Habitats: Explore the Desert, Forest, Rainforest, Swamp, and Beaches.
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🏡 Backyard Adventures: Scenes of gardening, swimming, and caring for animals.
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✈️ Travel & Transportation: Adventures by car, airplane, and cruise ships.
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🏛️ Iconic Landmarks & Parks: National Parks (Grand Canyon, Arches), Washington D.C., and more.
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🐧 Cultural Experiences: Educational trips to Museums, Aquariums, and Zoos.
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⚽ Sports & Action: High-energy scenes of volleyball, soccer, and softball.
🚀 How to Use This Resource
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Look & Talk: Have the student describe what is happening in the picture. Use the “Five W’s” (Who, What, Where, When, Why) to spark a deep conversation.
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Color & Create: Allow the student to bring the scene to life with color. This provides time for “quiet thinking” about their upcoming story.
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Write & Share: Use the provided lines to write a narrative, a list of facts about the habitat, or a creative story based on the scene.
🛒 Transform your writing block today!
Stop the “I don’t know what to write about” struggle and start the conversation. Give your students the visual tools they need to become confident, expressive writers.
[Add to Cart / Download Now] and watch your students’ creativity soar! 🌟
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Summer Planning – Ideas and Planning Form | Keep the Learning Going to Pinterest (opens in a new window)$2.50Add to Cart
Make summer learning stress-free! These ideas and planning form helps homeschooling moms organize custom projects and keep kids engaged. Download today!
Turn your summer break into a season of discovery with the Summer Ideas and planning form! ☀️📖
Say goodbye to the “summer slide” and hello to intentional, hands-on learning that feels like pure fun. This downloadable PDF resource is designed for the homeschooling parent who wants to move away from “boxed” curriculum and toward a “boutique” summer experience—tailored specifically to your child’s interests.
What’s Inside the Planner? 🧭 Specific ideas of things you can do as well as an organized planning form providing dedicated space for your goals, resources, and activity descriptions across five exciting themes PLUS themes you come up with after seeing our ideas!
Why You’ll Love It:
✅ Flexible & Open-Ended: No rigid schedules—just room for your best ideas.
✅ Resource Management: Keep track of the books, videos, and unit studies you want to use in one place.
✅ Professional Design: Clean, organized, and easy to print.Don’t let the summer slip away without a plan for wonder! ✨
🛒 Add to Cart, Download, and Start Planning Your Best Summer Yet! 📥
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How to Draw Flowers | 20 Directed Drawings – Nature Study, Spring, Botany, & Art to Pinterest (opens in a new window)$3.75Add to Cart
Unlock student creativity with this comprehensive How to Draw Flowers directed drawing bundle! This resource features 20 different flowers, each broken down into 6 easy-to-follow steps.
Perfect for art lessons, biology units, Mother’s Day cards, or time fillers, these worksheets help students build confidence in their fine motor skills and artistic abilities. Directed drawing is a fantastic way to engage students of all ages by providing a structured path to success. Whether you are teaching a unit on botany, plant life cycles, or spring themes, these drawing guides are a must-have addition to your lesson plan toolkit.
What’s Included?
This pack includes step-by-step drawing instructions for a diverse variety of 20 popular flowers:
- Spring Favorites: Tulip, Daffodil, Easter Lily, Crocus, Lily of the Valley.
- Garden Classics: Rose, Daisy, Sunflower, Poppy, Pansy, Petunia.
- Wildflowers & Unique Blooms: Evening Primrose, Black-Eyed Susan, Iris, Violet, Aster, Orchid, Morning Glory, Bird of Paradise, and Water Lily.
Why Use Directed Drawing in Your Classroom?
- Builds Confidence: Students see complex shapes broken down into simple lines.
- Improves Focus: Encourages students to follow multi-step directions.
- Versatile: Great for science journals, art projects, or calming “morning work.”
- No Prep: Just print and go!
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This unit is full of hands-on, interactive science exploration and discovery! Students will work with 4 items commonly associated with autumn: a pumpkin, an apple, an acorn and a gourd.
Using each, they will be guided through several activities to observe, hypothesize, describe and explore the items. They will also draw, color and write throughout. Fall fun activities that will excite your young scientists. (14 pages)
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26-word, printable Fall – Autumn Word Search puzzle!
Words:
corn maze
pumpkin pie
chocolate
season
apple
hayride
apple cider
pinecone
football
turkey
acorn
autumnal equinox
October
November
cornucopia
cranberry
harvest
autumn
corn
thanksgiving
scarecrow
squash
feast
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Looking for a fun and creative pumpkin themed activity? This resource will excite and motivate students to write. With 6 funny pumpkin faces and 3 differentiated writing papers, students will love writing and publishing an imaginative story.
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A multi-age lesson to teach students (1st – 5th grades) about trees! The lesson is designed as a Fall (Autumn) outdoor/indoor activity lesson as the leaves are changing colors but can be easily converted to an indoor activity only. If using as an indoor only activity, be sure to have photos of trees to incorporate into the lesson.
Students will learn about:-
What trees provide
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Aspects of a ‘living’ tree (how they get water, nutrients and breathe)
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Parts (and their function) of a tree: roots, trunk, bark, branches, leaves
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How leaves make food
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Types of trees: deciduous and evergreen
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– Teacher lesson notes (guide)
– Student informational text
– Student activity worksheet pages
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Fall-Themed Haiku Poetry Writing Pack | Visual Prompts & Publishing Pages to Pinterest (opens in a new window)$5.75Add to Cart
Bring the beauty, colors, and rhythm of autumn into your writing block! This comprehensive Fall-Themed Haiku Poetry Pack is designed to teach students the traditional art of haiku poetry while sparking their creativity through vibrant, nature-inspired visual prompts. From colorful foliage and forest wildlife to pumpkin patches and harvest tables, this resource gives learners everything they need to brainstorm, draft, and publish their own seasonal masterpieces.
📦 What’s Included in This Resource?
- Haiku Instruction & Anchor Chart Page: A clear, student-friendly reference guide breaking down the origins of Japanese haiku, the traditional focus on nature, the 5-7-5 syllable structure, and mentor poem examples.
- 20 Full-Color Photo Prompts: Breathtaking, autumn-themed photography prompts featuring winding forest boardwalks, mountain foliage, waterfalls, wildlife (owls, deer, wolves, foxes/cats, wild turkeys, squirrels), orchard harvests, trains through autumn trees, and Thanksgiving displays.
- 11 Student Drawing & Writing Template Pages: Formatted drawing pages where students can sketch, illustrate, or paste their own fall observations before writing.
- 26 Additional Themed Publishing Pages:
- 9 Full-Color Pages with Borders and/or Images: Illustrated pages featuring vibrant autumn leaves, seasonal berries, harvest motifs, and arched window frames.
- 17 Black-and-White Color-In Pages: Engaging line art featuring pumpkins, autumn leaves swirling in the wind, scarecrows, acorns, pinecones, cozy hedgehogs, turkeys, bare trees, and Thanksgiving harvest feasts.
✨ Benefits of Using This Resource
- Eliminates Writer’s Block: High-quality visual prompts immediately trigger sensory details, making it easy for reluctant writers to find words and imagery.
- Strengthens Syllabication & Phonological Awareness: Counting out the 5-7-5 syllable pattern builds word awareness, pronunciation skills, and intentional vocabulary selection.
- Multi-Age & Differentiated Friendly: Simple enough for early elementary students learning basic syllable counts, yet rich enough for middle-grade writers refining figurative language and concise imagery.
- Display-Ready Work: The decorative color and color-in publishing sheets double as beautiful bulletin board displays, portfolio additions, or keepsake poetry gifts for families.
- Zero Prep: Just print and teach!
🎯 Common Core Standards Covered
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.1.3 / RF.2.3 / RF.3.3: Phonological Awareness & Word Recognition (identifying syllables, breaking words into syllable segments).
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.1.5 / W.2.5 / W.3.5 / W.4.5: Writing Process (planning, drafting, revising, and focusing on concise word choice).
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.2.4 / RL.3.4 / RL.4.4: Craft and Structure (identifying how rhythm, structure, and poetic forms create imagery and meaning).
- CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.3.5 / L.4.5 / L.5.5: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use (exploring figurative language, sensory descriptions, and word nuances).
✏️ How to Use in the Classroom or Homeschool
- Introduce & Model: Display the introductory reference sheet. Review the 5-7-5 syllable rule and clap out syllables together using the mentor examples.
- Brainstorm with Visuals: Project one of the 20 photo prompt cards or pass them out to small groups. Have students jot down descriptive adjectives, autumn verbs, and sensory words based on what they see.
- Draft & Count: Students arrange their ideas into three distinct lines, tapping or clapping to verify their syllable counts.
- Publish & Illustrate: Choose from the full-color decorative pages or let students personalize one of the black-and-white coloring pages to frame their finished haiku. Alternatively, use the blank frame sheets for an outdoor nature-walk sketch activity!
🛒 Ready to Inspire Your Young Poets? Add a splash of autumn wonder to your language arts lessons today!
👉 Download your Fall-Themed Haiku Poetry Pack now and watch your students’ seasonal creativity take flight! 🍁📝✨
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A fun, summer-themed word search puzzle which includes 32 hidden terms! Benefits of word search puzzles:
- – Supports language fluency
- – Improves spelling
- – Helps improve concentration
- – Teaches patience and persistence
- – Helps develop problem-solving skills
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This winter themed BIG BOOK of activities will keep your preschooler busy with fun learning pages and have them coloring, tracing, drawing, counting, learning shapes and more! They’ll will love the snowmen and winter themed items throughout. There is even a fun poem about mittens and a mini-book to create!
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Throw a little fun into your Language Arts plans this Thanksgiving with these three activities!
- – Building sentences with nouns and adjectives
- – Syllable work
- – Writing a Thanksgiving themed limerick poem!
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This resource is perfect for fun and quick poetry writing during the Fall! Students can write one or two different forms of poetry, acrostic and haiku, on pumpkin designed pages! The resource also includes an informational page about pumpkins.
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Fun pages with a summer theme, students will find 2 math color the picture games, 2 math puzzle worksheets, a riddle word search and an opinion writing page!
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This directed drawing resource will help students draw a cute sled in 5 easy steps. Perfect to use for a quick art lesson during winter or anytime!
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Perfect pages for Preschool, PreK and Kindergarten to trace and color during Fall or the months of October and November! Pictures include: acorn, leaf, farmer boy, farmer girl, pumpkin, tree, wagon and turkey. On each worksheet, students will trace the picture and word. Then they can color the picture!
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FUN Fall writing activity. This resource has been designed to help students plan out and write a fun, Fall-themed story! Can be used again and again as things will change each time students use the activity because of the roll of the dice.
Using this resource, students will roll one die 4 times and use the chart to help determine the character, setting, weather and conflict that should be in their story. Then, they will plan out their story on given pages:
– Character Planner
– Setting Planner
– Story PlannerAfter all planning is complete, they will write their stories!
Will their stories be about a fox, a mouse, a scarecrow, a raven, a badger or a turkey?
Will it happen in an apple orchard, a corn silo, a pumpkin patch, a hollow tree, a corn field or an old barn?
Will it be during the first frost, in rainy or windy weather? Will it be too hot or during an early snow? Will there be a tornado warning?
What will be the conflict? An oncoming tractor, finding a winter home, seeing that the leaves aren’t falling yet (oh, no!)? Is the farmer too sick to harvest is crop? Or is the crop in danger because of the weather or insect?
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This Winter writing and grammar resource has a snow globe theme and has four different levels for students of different abilities. In this Language Arts product, all four levels require students to write and two of the levels add Grammar. Students will be asked to use their imaginations and be creative!
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Level 1: Color the picture and write about the picture. (slightly larger lines for writing than the next three)
Level 2: Color and write a short story inspired by the snow globe picture.
Level 3: Color. Write three words that describe (adjectives). Write 3 sentences using the adjectives.
Level 4: Color. Write a noun that names what is in the picture. Using their imagination, they are asked to write a verb tell what is happening. Then they are to write a story about the picture keeping in mind the verb they wrote.Each level has 7 designs. One design is blank in which students are to draw their own picture in the snow globe before proceeding with the rest of the activity.
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Here is a FULL MONTH of Math pages with a Snowman theme for 1st Grade! Includes: 30 student pages for practice and reinforcement of many 1st grade math skills.
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Cute, whimsical mini-book templates for students to use when self-publishing their work. Ideas for use: Have students create a ‘snowman’ story, write a report about snow, a narrative about building a snowman, or a snowman poem!
Includes:
- 2 template sizes
- Cover pages for each size template
- 22 template pages in all
