Tag: 6th grade

  • Daily paragraph bingo

    Daily paragraph bingo

    When my kids were in upper elementary their writing skills were not where I wanted them to be. They needed to work on their editing and their ability to quickly write a paragraph, so I sat down and started creating some writing prompts. I then turned the prompts into daily paragraph bingos and it became…

  • Princess Diaries book club

    Princess Diaries book club

    Funny story, I went and wrote a Princess Diaries book club post where I had already created the pictures thinking, “That’s funny, why didn’t I publish this when I made these pictures years ago?” Well I did, so I’m republishing it,, but I’m going to add in my extra things from when I rewrote this…

  • How to make a compass

    How to make a compass

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    I was scrolling through my stockpiled post ideas looking for inspiration and saw this how to make a compass lesson we’d done years ago, like my kids were in middle school years ago. I somehow never wrote about this particular bit of Earth Science, and I’m realizing I have some truly random science lessons to…

  • 6th-grade books made into movies

    6th-grade books made into movies

    In my ever-expanding books made into a movie series, and my continued plan to make my blog a bit more usable for people, and break that ridiculously long list down into grade levels, I now present to you 6th-grade books made into movies. (there are of course so many affiliate links in here) Funny story,…

  • Tom Sawyer book club

    Tom Sawyer book club

    I knew I wanted my kids to read Huckleberry Finn in 8th grade, and to prepare for that I wanted them to first read Tom Sawyer so they had familiarity with the character. You could totally read one without the other, but I wanted them to read the fun adventure story of Tom Sawyer before…