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Spring Story Starters

Wendy Piersall — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 15:40:13 +0000

Our new series of printable story starters are becoming increasingly popular with our readers. I’m thrilled because I always love finding a new subject to create worksheets for that I know you all will use. Here are some of the ways you can use these story starters in your classroom or curriculum:

To practice paragraph formation and chunking related ideas together
To practice simple sentence structures
To foster creative writing and creative thinking
To engage students more in their writing because they are making this story their own
To challenge students to use weekly vocabulary words in context
To use as fill in activities when you need to work with small groups or rearrange your schedule for the day

Related Pages: Spring Mad Libs, Spring Worksheets, Spring Kids Poems

If Spring Never Came Story Starter

If Candy Grew on Trees Story Starter

If it Rained Red Raspberry Juice Story Starter

Check out all of the Woo! Jr. Spring kids activities right here!

Spring Worksheets

Wendy Piersall — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 14:36:17 +0000

Back when I started the Woo! Jr. Network, it wasn’t “Woo! Jr.”, it was just little ol’ AnimalJr.com. ClassroomJr.com didn’t come around until 6 months later. So that means I have a lot of printable teacher worksheets over there that really should be over here.This week I’m going to repost some of them over here, to make it easier for you to find all of our teacher resources in one place. These spring worksheets are from all over the Woo! Jr. Network, and cover math, science, reading, and language arts. All are free and printable – enjoy!

Related Pages: Spring Kids Crafts, Spring Coloring Pages

Spring Math Worksheets

Spring Math Coloring Page - Butterfly	Spring Math Coloring Page - Butterfly Answer Key	Spring Math Coloring Key - Butterfly
Spring Math Coloring Page - Caterpillar	Spring Math Coloring Page - Caterpillar Answer Key	Spring Math Coloring Key - Caterpillar

Spring Money Worksheets

Spring Money Worksheet

Spring Money Counting Worksheet

Spring Language Arts Worksheets

Spring Antonyms and Synonyms Worksheet

Spring Spelling Worksheet

Spring Mad Libs

Spring Reading Worksheets

Spring Kids Poems

Spring Science Worksheets

Plant Life Cycle Sequencing Activities and Printables

Plant Life Cycle Quizzes

Spring Mazes

Printable Spring Maze - Carrot

Printable Spring Maze - Chick

Printable Spring Maze - Bunny

Check out all of the Woo! Jr. Spring Kids Activities right here!

Weather Coloring Pages

Wendy Piersall — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 14:05:01 +0000

For those of you who, like me, are stuck in the dead of dark winter, these weather coloring pages are for you! It’s hard to remember that the earth actually does warm up again when there is nothing but dreary, cold days to endure. And for those of you in Australia right now? Pfffftttttt. :)

Related Pages: Spring Coloring Pages, Summer Coloring Pages, Fall Coloring Pages, Winter Coloring Pages

Hot Weather Coloring Page	Weather Map Coloring Page	Cold Weather Coloring Page
Wind Coloring Page	Lightning Coloring Page	Sun Coloring Page
Fall Season Coloring Page	Tornado Coloring Page	Melting Snow Coloring Page

Have fun outside at any time of year with these 101 outdoor kids activities, too!

May Kids Activities and Family Fun Links

Wendy Piersall — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 16:45:14 +0000

The All Things Family Blog Carnival

Welcome to the April 27, 2010 edition of the All Things Family blog carnival! This week we have asked everyone to submit their ideas for May holidays – Cinco de Mayo, May Day, and Memorial Day (next week’s edition will be just for Mother’s Day)!

May Day Kids Activities

Char Polanosky presents May Day posted at Printables for Kids – free word search puzzles, coloring pages, and other activities, saying, “A collection of May Day coloring activities and crafts.”

And here are some fun printables from the Woo! Jr. Network – May Day Coloring Pages and Printable May Day Baskets.

Cinco de Mayo Kids Activities

Linette G. presents Plan a Kid’s Fiesta! posted at The Kid’s Birthday Fun Review, saying, “Party ideas for a children’s Cinco De Mayo party.”

Char Polanosky presents Bored with Burgers? Make it a Summer Fiesta Party Instead posted at Celebrate It, saying, “Everything you need to have a Cinco de Mayo day fiesta!”

I’m also adding the Woo! Jr. Cinco de Mayo coloring pages and these Kids Mexican Crafts.

Memorial Day Kids Activities

Shannon presents Memorial Day Party Ideas posted at Partyelf, saying, “Make your Memorial Day party planning easy with these fun ideas.”

Heather Mann presents How to Make a Candy Buffet! posted at Dollar Store Crafts, saying, “A fun idea for any kind of celebration: a candy buffet is a pretty focal point AND a great party favor that people love.”

More Family-Friendly Resources

Toni presents My Baby Bookworm posted at Wifely Steps, saying, “It’s never too early to get kids interested in books!”

Doug Boude presents My Top 20 Life Lessons for Husbands and Fathers posted at Doug Boude (rhymes with ‘loud’), saying, “In this post, I’ve compiled what I consider to be the top 20 things that I believe, when implemented and adopted, maximize the success of a husband and/or father in his role in his household. Being a father of 8 children, 4 step children, and 2 grand children, I kinda feel like I’m speaking from experience here :)”

Yosef presents Artichoke Beef Sliders posted at Get Ready Dad, saying, “It’s Dad’s turn in the kitchen!”

Fred Lee presents 8 Easy, Breezy Tips for Inviting Creativity into Your Home posted at Parenting Squad.

Jason @ Redeeming Riches presents 5 Things Dora the Explorer Teaches Us About Personal Financial Planning posted at Redeeming Riches, saying, “What could Dora possibly teach us about our finances? Find out what you can learn from a cartoon!”

Saraline Grenier presents Feeding a baby is not child abuse posted at Feminist Mom in Montreal.

Kate Rothwell presents 100 Best Blogs for Parenting Advice posted at Nurse Practitioner Schools.

June Tree presents A Young Entrepreneur Learns About Business posted at The Digerati Life, saying, “Inspiring story of our neighbor’s child.”

Jennifer Gresham presents Lessons From Vacation, Part 1: You Can Do It! posted at Everyday Bright, saying, “I realized fear had been preventing the family vacation. Turns out, I’ve been worrying about nothing.”

Tara presents The “Funky Town” Date posted at The Dating Divas, saying, “We ALL know life can get pretty crazy! We fall in love, get married, and think we are going to live happily ever after…. Then comes the careers, meetings, church callings, kids, laundry, grocery shopping, cooking, cleaning the house, BILLS, illness, stress, etc. We forget to slow down and count our blessings AND focus on the person we decided to spend the rest of our lives with!! We forget to continue dating our spouses!! We are a group of fun-loving friends…er…I mean….DIVAS who adore our husbands and want to make sure that we always keep our relationship with that significant other…a TOP priority! We will be taking turns posting fun, creative, AND inexpensive dates each week!”

Pamela Jorrick presents Our Many, Mini-Adventures Quest posted at Blah, Blah, Blog, saying, “Since the month of May leads into the travel season for many people, I thought I’d share my family’s latest quest to incorporate more travel adventures into our lives.”

Saraline Grenier presents To stay home or not to stay home? posted at Feminist Mom in Montreal.

That concludes this edition. Submit your blog article to the next edition of all things family using our carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on our blog carnival index page.

Earth Day Kids Poems

Wendy Piersall — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:19:44 +0000

I’m slowly coming back to work after a long and awesome spring break. We didn’t go anywhere, but I got caught up on so many things! It’s so hard to get back into the swing of things, though.

Besides spring break and Easter, the other great thing about April is Earth Day, and we have a ton of great material for your classroom for this very special day! Be sure to check out our page of activities from Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax, Craft Jr.’s recycled kids crafts, and these Earth Day coloring pages.

Printable Earth Day Poems

Earth Day Kids Poem - What You Can Do

Earth Day Kids Poem - Earth Day Mixup

Here are all of the Woo! Jr. Earth Day kids activities in one place!

Spring Coloring Pages

Wendy Piersall — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:09:18 +0000

This week it has been so nice outside that none of us can get spring out of our heads. My kids ask every day to walk home from school. My teenager keeps trying to sneak out of the house without a coat (it’s still in the 40′s in the mornings!!). And my dog is very grateful for all the walks we have been taking.

Then we’re watching the news last night and it’s supposed to snow on Saturday. Ahhh – I knew this was all only a dream!

Related Pages: Spring Flower Coloring Pages, Easy Spring Kite Craft, Butterfly Coloring Pages, Spring Preschool Crafts

Spring Worm Coloring Page	Boy Riding Bike Coloring Page	Spring Kitten Coloring Page
Spring Birds Nest Coloring Page	Kite Flying Coloring Page	Flowery Bear Coloring Page
Spring Chick Coloring Page	Spring Tulip Coloring Page	Rainy Rhino Coloring Page

Be sure to check out all of the Spring Kids Activities from the Woo! Jr. Network!

Spring Kids Poems

Wendy Piersall — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:56:31 +0000

2 days in a row of sunny weather above freezing is enough to bring on a full case of spring fever here (I’m so easy, aren’t I?!). So today I’m posting a new set of kids poems for spring, along with new spring mad libs. And be sure to check out all of the printable worksheets on Animal Jr., which I really need to get moved over here at some point. The spring math coloring pages are massively popular!

Related pages: Plant Life: How Do Plants Grow?, Spring Flower Coloring Pages, Spring Kids Crafts

Funny Spring Kids Poem - Jessica Erica Steeze

Spring Kids Poem and Coloring Page

Here’s even more spring kids activities from all Woo! Jr. Network sites.

Spring Mad Libs

Wendy Piersall — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:56:15 +0000

In my effort to whine less about winter, I am instead going to talk more about spring. Spring! Yay spring! Where are you – I love you so! Actually I can’t be too upset this week – it’s been sunny and above freezing, which I will take any day in February. It’s also a great reason to start dragging out my spring content. It might be a teensy bit early, but I think we’re all pretty happy to think that spring is only about a month away. Yay Spring! (I said that already, didn’t I?)

So today I bring you these spring mad libs, and also these spring kids poems. And for those of you who want to get lost in the idea of spring like I do, you can also check out these spring math worksheets and these spring language arts worksheets, too!

Related Pages: Easter mad libs, spring math worksheets and more printable mad libs,

Spring Mad Libs - Spring Garden!

Spring Mad Libs - Bicycle Riding!

Spring Mad Libs - A Trip to the Park!

Here’s even more spring kids activities from all Woo! Jr. Network sites.

Plant Life for Kids

Wendy Piersall — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:51:53 +0000

A while back, I created a great set of worksheets and printables for teaching kids about the plant life cycle. It also included a mini-book! Here are two more multiple choice worksheets that are great for older children and a good compliment to the first set of class materials.

Parts of Plants Worksheet	Plant Life Worksheet
Plant Life Cycle Sequence	Plant Life Mini Book

You might also like these printable worm letters or these easy tissue paper flowers, too!