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Simple Past Practice
In this simple past worksheet, students watch a video, fill in the blanks for the video, complete a word search, and more. Students complete 4 activities.
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Superstitions
Students discuss the various superstitions they encounter in our culture. Working in groups, they create a vocabulary list of words related to superstitions. Working in teams, they play Pictionary in order to aid in the create of...
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Letter Recognition: The Letter B
In this letter B worksheet, students identify the B words in a word bank by circling them. Then, students circle the pictures that start with the letter B and color them.
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Halloween Crossword
In this Halloween crossword worksheet, students read the 15 clues about Halloween and use the word bank to assist them in completing the Halloween crossword.
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Rhyming Tic-Tac-Toe
In this rhyming words worksheet, students draw a line through the three words that rhyme in each tic-tac-toe puzzle. Students then write the rhyming words on the lines for the 4 puzzles.
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Mystery In the Attic
For this spelling worksheet, students view sentences with the title of Mystery in the Attic and choose which word is spelled incorrectly in each sentence and edit it. Students do this for 12 sentences.
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Cry Baby
Students recognize the short vowel a in written and spoken language. Through matching and listening activities, they discriminate the vowel sound /a/ from other phonemes. Students associate the phoneme with its letter representation...
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Halloween Unscramble And Make a Sentence
In this Halloween activity students look at 10 scrambled words. Students decipher the words and then use each in a sentence. There are no graphics.
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Squigly's Riddlers - Halloween
In this Halloween worksheet, students use words to fill in clues and use this information to solve each of the four riddles provided.
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October Writing Journal
In this October writing journal worksheet, students are given a list of October daily writing prompts to choose from, and a fall-framed writing page on which to write.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Habitat Network: Habitat Feature: Bat Houses
Find out how providing bat houses can be beneficial to a habaitat.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: What Angles Are on a Bat House?
Third graders are preparing to build bat houses. They have calculated surface area, identified nail placement, and will now collect data on angle types in this real-world activity.
Other
Contra Costa County Office of Education: Bats: Why Should You Care?
At this site, provided by the Contra Costa County Office of Education, you can get the facts on bats and their environment.
National Geographic Kids
National Geographic Kids: Animals: Vampire Bats
Great multi-media site from the National Geographic Society with great information, pictures and video of Vampire Bats. Sections include fun facts, video, audio, a map and send a postcard.
Other
Canadian Wildlife Federation: Be Bat Friendly, Build a Bat House
Bats have been maligned for centuries, miscast as the familiars of witches, associated with Hallowe'en, and feared for the false belief that they will get caught in hair. Bats have been unfairly burdened with these myths, often reviled...
PBS
Idaho Public Education: Bats
Explore this site to understand facts and general information about bats. Learn about bat wings and houses, why they hang upside down, echolation, and more! Classroom activities and games are also included.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of Natural History: American Mammals: Big Brown Bat
Big brown bats make their homes in rural areas, towns, and cities, sometimes choosing barns, houses, or other buildings as roosts. Males usually live alone; females gather in maternity colonies in the spring and summer to give birth and...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: What Makes a Shape? Analyzing and Script Writing
Third graders will use the bat houses we built as examples of various quadrilaterals.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning: Crafts for Kids
Choose from dozens of simple crafts including activities for the holidays, animal crafts and much more.