April Spiral Review Activities

This 3rd Grade April Math Review Packet is part of a Year-Long 3rd Grade Spiral Review Math Bundle. The spiral review packets build proficiency in all grade level math skills and make test prep simple. They are available for each month that school is in session, including March Spiral Review Activities and May Spiral Review Activities. Learn more about them below!

• 1st Grade Spiral Review Activities
• 2nd Grade April Spiral Review Activities
• 3rd Grade April Spiral Review Activities
• 4th Grade April Spiral Review Activities
• 5th Grade April Spiral Review Activities

March Math Word Problems

Daily math word problems give students the opportunity to apply their learning in real world math situations. This word problem resource has a seasonal theme, which makes it relevant to students and their lives. They are available for each month that school is in session, including April Math Word Problems and May Math Word Problems. Learn more about them below!

• 1st Grade March Word Problems
• 2nd Grade March Word Problems
• 3rd Grade March Word Problems
• 4th Grade March Word Problems
• 5th Grade March Word Problems

April Writing Prompts

This April Writing Prompts resource offer fun and engaging writing activities for students. They motivate students to practice their writing skills and inspire a love of writing. This resource includes the following genres: Creative, informative, opinion, narrative, procedural, descriptive, review, persuasive, poetry, and letter writing. There are writing prompts available for all of the months that school is in session, including March prompts and May prompts.

Spring Seasonal Writing

At the end of the school year, you’ll want to capture a snapshot of your students’ current writing abilities. This will help you address weaknesses by designing lessons based on your students’ needs at the end of the year and use the information for report card evidence. This Spring Writing Activity helps you do just that! You can continue to track student progress using the summer, autumn, and winter writing activities. At the end of the school year, you’ll have four writing samples that show your students’ growth in writing.

Reading Comprehension Activities

These May Reading Comprehension Activities are part of a year-long collection of themed graphic organizers that can be used with any book. Check out the March Reading Comprehension Activities and April Reading Comprehension Activities too. They facilitate engaging, meaningful practice that improves students’ reading and writing skills.

1. Rainbow Activity Packet

This Rainbow Activity Packet is filled with fun and engaging activities students love like a directed drawing writing activity, word search, and crossword puzzle! These activities can be used as center activities, homework, fast finisher tasks, filler activities, or indoor recess activities. Learn more about this print-and-go resource in our Clutter-Free Classroom Teacher Store!

2. Rainbow Fish Book Companion

This Rainbow Fish Book Companion will become one of your favorite rainbow activities for kids. includes reading comprehension questions, writing prompts, SEL lesson ideas, printable and digital activities, and much more. It is part of our Starts With a Story collection. Learn more about this resource in our Clutter-Free Classroom Teacher Store!

3. Rainbow Classroom Decor

This Rainbow Classroom Decor Theme includes everything you need to do a classroom transformation. There are resources ranging from Google Classroom headers and Slideshow Slides to rainbow classroom decorations for wall displays, posters, bulletin boards, and door decor. It also includes classroom set-up materials like desk nameplates, editable labels, word wall cards, and more. Learn more about this resource in our Clutter-Free Classroom Teacher Store!

1. Read Aloud Before She Was Harriet

Before She Was Harriet by Lesa Cline-Ransome is a story that teaches readers about Harriet Tubman’s life in sequential order. It starts with her beginning years as a slave. Next, it goes into her becoming a conductor in the Underground Railroad. Finally, readers learn about her experience fighting in the Civil War. This beautifully written story shows the incredible journey Harriet made to empower others. It also shows how her legacy still impacts us today.

Check out these related Before She Was Harriet activities!

2. Read Aloud Mae Among the Stars

Mae Among the Stars by Roda Ahmed is about a girl named Mae who dreams of being an astronaut when she grows up. She reads books and researches how to become an astronaut and has a dream that she is floating in space looking at Earth.

Mae’s parents tell her that if she dreams, believes, and works really hard, anything is possible. When Mae goes to school and shares what she wants to be when she grows up, the other children laugh at her and her teacher suggests she does something else. This disappoints Mae but her mom reminds her that all that matters is that she dreams big and works hard.

Check out these related Mae Among the Stars activities!

3. Read Aloud Planting Stories

Planting Stories: The Life of Librarian and Storyteller Pura Belpre by Anika Aldamuy Denise is about Pura Belpre, the first Puerto Rican Librarian in New York City. When Pura started working at the library, she realized that there weren’t any of the stories and folktales that she was familiar with in Puerto Rico. She decides to share her stories during story hour and through puppet shows, and eventually publishes a book. 

Pura travels across the country and from classroom to classroom planting her story seeds and educating about her homeland. When she returns to the library, she sees that her story seeds have bloomed and everyone is telling her stories. 

Check out these related Planting Stories activities!

4. Read Aloud Shark Lady

Shark Lady by Jess Keating is about the life of Eugenie Clark, a brave scientist who changed the way people preserve sharks, and women in the field of science. 

As a young girl, Eugenie loved everything about the ocean but the sharks were her favorite. She spent her childhood learning as much as she could about sharks. When she grew up, Eugenie decided to study zoology in college. Many people didn’t think women were smart or brave enough to go into science, but that didn’t stop Eugenie. She went on to make many discoveries about fish and sharks. 

As she learned more about her favorite animal, Eugenie wanted people to see sharks the way she did. She decided to conduct an experiment where she would train sharks. She learned that not only could sharks be trained, they could remember what they learned for two months. 

Check out these related Shark Lady activities!

5. Read Aloud The Story of Ruby Bridges

The Story of Ruby Bridges by Robert Coles tells the story of when 6 year-old Ruby Bridges and her family moved to New Orleans for a better life in 1960. Segregation was still rampant, and a judge ordered a handful of Black girls to begin going to White schools. Ruby was one of these children.

She was the only one to go to Franz Elementary School from these children. On her first day, a big mob stood outside and chanted with signs, protesting her going. No students went as well. Ruby continued to go, day after day, praying for God to forgive these angry people.

Check out these related The Story of Ruby Bridges activities!

6. Read Aloud The Tree Lady

The Tree Lady by H. Joseph Hopkin is a biography of Katherine Olivia Sessions. It tells the story of how Kate became known as the Mother of Balboa Park, located in San Diego.

Kate grew up in Northern California and loved being in the woods under the trees. Unlike other girls at the time, Kate liked to get her hands dirty and study science. She even went to college to study science and was the first woman to graduate from that school.  

After graduating, Kate moved to San Diego and became a teacher. San Diego was very different than anywhere Kate had lived before. There were no trees and it was a very dry landscape. After a few years of teaching, Kate decided to become a gardener. She made it her mission to bring trees to San Diego. Kate began collecting trees that could grow in San Diego. She wrote letters to gardeners around the world asking for seeds. Soon, there were trees all over San Diego and people were even planting them in their yards.

When a big exposition was coming to San Diego, it was decided the park, Balboa Park, needed more trees for shade. Kate worked to plant trees all over the park. People couldn’t believe the lush park that had been created. 

Check out these related The Tree Lady activities!

7. Rosa Parks Non-Fiction Reading Unit

This Rosa Parks Nonfiction Reading Unit includes 3 leveled reading passages, vocabulary cards, reading and writing activities, and more. It pairs really nicely with our fictional book companions listed above. Learn more about this resource in our Clutter-Free Classroom Teacher Store!

1. Holi Non-Fiction Reading Unit

This Holi Nonfiction Reading Unit includes 3 leveled reading passages, vocabulary cards, reading and writing activities, and more. It pairs really nicely with our fictional book companions like Holi Hai! and Festival of Colors. Learn more about this resource in our Clutter-Free Classroom Teacher Store!

2. Holi and Diwali Book Companions

This Holi and Diwali Book Companion Bundle includes 3 of our Starts With a Story resources: Holi Hai!, Festival of Colors, and Binny’s Diwali. Each of them includes printable and digital resources, so they can be used in school or at home. Learn more about this resource in our Clutter-Free Classroom Teacher Store!

3. Holidays Around the World Activity Packet

This Holidays Around the World Activity Packet is filled with fun and engaging activities students love like a directed drawing writing activity, word search, and crossword puzzle! These activities can be used as center activities, homework, fast finisher tasks, filler activities, or indoor recess activities. Learn more about this print-and-go resource in our Clutter-Free Classroom Teacher Store!

What Is It?

This Mardi Gras activity packet is a set of activities that assist you in celebrating Mardi Gras in your classroom. Teachers looking for something fun, but also academic to celebrate this festive time love this resource. They keep these activities prepped and ready on their desk and pull them out as needed. Learn more about what’s included and why teachers love it below!

Read Aloud the Book, Akiak

Akiak by Robert J. Blake is a story about a dogsled team running in the Iditarod. Akiak is the oldest dog on Mack’s team. They have never won the race before, and now that Akiak is 10 years old, it is her last chance to win the race. She is the lead of her dog team because she knows the trails very well. When Mack’s team makes it to first place in the race, they must start running through deep snow. Akiak gets a lot of snow jammed in her paw and gets hurt. She can no longer run the race and her team must go on without her.

As a handler is trying to get Akiak into a helicopter, she breaks free and starts to run after her team. She runs for several days through the cold snow and storms. Several volunteers try to catch her while others cheer her on. Akiak finally catches her team when they are on the wrong trail. Thanks to her experience, Akiak is able to direct her team to the finish and help them complete the race.

Akiak Book Companion

This Akiak book companion is part of our Starts With a Story collection. It is packed with resources and activities including reading comprehension questions, writing prompts with themed paper, vocabulary activities, word study activities, grammar lessons ideas, social emotional learning discussion topics, and more. Learn more about this resource in our Clutter-Free Classroom Teacher Store!

1. Leprechaun Activity Packet

This Leprechaun Activity Packet is filled with fun and engaging activities students love like a directed drawing writing activity, word search, and crossword puzzle! These activities can be used as center activities, homework, fast finisher tasks, filler activities, or indoor recess activities. Learn more about this print-and-go resource in our Clutter-Free Classroom Teacher Store!

2. Leprechaun Book Companions

This Leprechaun Book Companion Bundle includes 5 of our Starts With a Story resources: How to Catch a Leprechaun, Clever Tom and the Leprechaun, That’s What Leprechauns Do, The Gingerbread Man and the Leprechaun Loose in the School, and The Luckiest Leprechaun. Each of them includes printable and digital resources, so they can be used in school or at home. Learn more about this resource in our Clutter-Free Classroom Teacher Store!

3. Disguise a Leprechaun Writing and Craft Project

Disguise a Leprechaun Writing and Craft Project is a St. Patrick’s Day writing activity that combines an engaging St. Patrick’s Day craft with a standards-based, differentiated and scaffolded writing project. You and your students will love this St. Patrick’s Day craftivity and writing activity! It is a step-by-step, scaffolded activity that walks your students through the writing process and culminates with a fun art project. Learn more about this resource in our Clutter-Free Classroom Teacher Store!

4. Leprechaun House for Sale Craft and Writing Activity

Leprechaun House for Sale is a standards-based, differentiated, scaffolded St. Patrick’s Day craft and writing project that combines an engaging art project with a meaningful and educational writing lesson. Students create a home for the leprechaun and work through a step-by-step descriptive writing process to compose a sales listing for it. Learn more about this resource in our Clutter-Free Classroom Teacher Store!

1. Crayon Activity Packet

This Crayons Activity Packet is filled with fun and engaging activities students love like a directed drawing writing activity, word search, and crossword puzzle! These activities can be used as center activities, homework, fast finisher tasks, filler activities, or indoor recess activities. Learn more about this print-and-go resource in our Clutter-Free Classroom Teacher Store!

2. Crayon Book Companions

This Crayon Book Companion Bundle includes 5 of our Starts With a Story resources: Red: A Crayon Story, I’m Not Just a Scribble, Harold and The Purple Crayon, The Day the Crayons Came Home, and The Day the Crayons Quit. Each of them includes printable and digital resources, so they can be used in school or at home. Learn more about this resource in our Clutter-Free Classroom Teacher Store!

3. Crayon Decor Bundle

This Crayon Classroom Decor Theme includes everything you need to do a classroom transformation. There are resources ranging from Google Classroom headers and Slideshow Slides to crayon classroom decorations for wall displays, posters, bulletin boards, and door decor. It also includes classroom set-up materials like desk nameplates, editable labels, word wall cards, and more. Learn more about this resource in our Clutter-Free Classroom Teacher Store!