Spring Activities For Students
Introduction
Spring is right around the corner! Thursday, March 20th, is the official day. Spring activities for students will begin to replace winter ones. Now is the time to transition from winter into spring in your classroom. I will trade out the current snowflake winter window clings for flower spring decor on my classroom windows. I can begin to focus on doing spring activities with my students in my classroom!
After a cold winter, warm days and spring weather are welcomed here in Ohio! How about where you live? Is there a drastic contrast between winter and spring? In this blog post, I discuss spring activities you can do with your students. I also recommend reading the listed spring blog posts I have written in the past for even more ideas you can use during the spring season.
Spring Activities For Students
Spring Word Search and Activities
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This product is best for 4th, 5th, and 6th grades. Your students will enjoy completing a quick write, word search, word scramble, crossword puzzle, and a crack-the-code, all centered around Spring vocabulary. Use these 5 paper and pencil no-prep activities in your classroom today!
Spring Sports Word Search and Activities
This Spring Sports Word Search and Activities focus on spring sports. Have your students do activities around spring sports they already know about while learning about new sports. Students will have 8 no-prep activity pages about spring sports to enjoy. Have your students work on the quick write, word searches, word scrambles, crossword puzzles, and the crack-the-code sports sayings page. Click here to learn more about this product in my TPT store.
Chapter Book Choice Boards 2nd-3rd Grades
Spring is a great time to have your students pick their chapter books and read them during class. Once students are done reading, they can strengthen their comprehension of what they have read by doing choice board activities. This is extremely helpful, especially if your students are reading a variety of books. This Chapter Book Choice Board Product was created to be used with any fiction book. It was made with 2nd and 3rd grade students in mind. Students will work on 1 fiction choice board with 8 activities that include templates.
Students can do the following activities: create a portrait of the characters, create a diary entry, create a board game, create a comic strip, compare and contrast, write a new ending, create a new cover, write a summary, and lastly, students can create an activity from their own idea. Click here to learn more about this product in my TPT store.
Novel Study Choice Boards 4th, 5th, and 6th Grades
For students in 4th, 5th, and 6th grades, I have created Novel Study Choice Boards that include two fiction choice boards with 17 activities. Of the 17 activities, 9 activities have templates. Technology options are available, too. This is a great way to help students show what they learned about the book they read creatively.
Activity choices on the choice boards are create a brochure, create a poster, create a board game, create a comic strip, compare and contrast using a t-chart or venn diagram, create a new ending, create a new cover, create a summary, create a diary entry, create “apps”, photography, create portraits, multimedia design, powerpoint or google slide, Google Docs letter, or students create their own ideas. Click here to learn more about this product in my TPT store.
Fiction Discussion Cards 4th, 5th, 6th Grades
These fiction discussion cards are great to use along with whole class novel studies. They come in PDF and slides. You can cut out the cards and have students meet in groups throughout the classroom to answer the questions. Or you can have them meet in groups and display the slides on their devices while answering the questions together. This product contains 50 questions. Click here to learn more about this product in my TPT store.
Spring Blog Posts
Back From Spring Break Activities
Are you looking for ideas to use in your classroom after spring break? Read my blog post Back From Spring Break Activities to help with returning to class. Depending on when your spring break is, it can be difficult to get going again in the classroom after a week-long break. You and your students may be ready for summer break, but you still have weeks before this happens. In my blog post, I discuss the importance of reviewing rules and procedures and give examples of engaging activities that can be done to help with the end of the school year.
Why Use Novel Studies?
Spring is a great time to do novel studies with students. Whether you do a whole class novel study or have students read a novel study of their choice. Novel studies lead to quiet moments of reading in the classroom or outside if it’s a nice day. In my blog post, Why Use Novel Studies? I discuss why teachers should use novel studies, how to do a whole class novel study, and how to do individual novel studies. I also discuss activities to do with novel studies to help students with comprehension.
How To Use Discussion Cards
Discussion cards are great to use to help students with conversation. These cards can be used for the whole group, in small groups, or with pairs. Students can use the questions on the discussion cards to guide their conversation about what they read in their novel studies. In this blog post, I used a question-and-answer format to help answer some common questions teachers may have about how to use discussion cards in their classroom.
Moving Grade Levels
In the spring, many teachers find out their teaching assignment for the following year. Do you find yourself having to move grade levels? Do you have questions about how to successfully make that grade level change? Well, read my blog post, Moving Grade Levels?, to read about the steps I give when changing grade levels. I have moved grade levels many times. I have taught first through sixth grade, so I have plenty of experience teaching a new grade level. In this blog post, I not only talk about steps to take when moving grade levels. But I also talk about how to transfer the skills you used in the previous grade you taught to the new grade level you will be teaching. As well as discuss how to modify your classroom management approach to fit the new grade level.
Conclusion
Spring is a great time of year in the classroom! It is a time to transition out of winter and into spring. It is a time to get your students involved in activities that focus on the season. Help your students enjoy this season leading up to the end of the school year.
