Language Arts/ Crafts

ABC Teach It Word Scrambles: Integrate your colonial unit with a related spelling list. Use this site with possibly the Thanksgiving or November list or better yet make your own list.

Colonial Newspaper: Use this site to create a classroom newsletter using student research from the theme unit connections. The program includes a five-day lesson plan unit for 4^th or 5^th grade students.

Language Arts Mini-Lessons: Use these ideas to spur on a number of interdisciplinary connections to the theme site.

Outta Ray’s Head Writing Lessons: Use these lessons to organize just the right writing project to write various reports or paragraphs about this theme.

Reach for the Stars: Perhaps you need a spelling connection for your theme study. Here are two other related list and activities. Use the list for Jamestown or Thanksgiving list and sort the words, made them into a puzzle, alphabetized the list, and much more.

Rubistar: Create rubrics for your project based learning projects.