Spring Activities for the Classroom
Are you looking for fun and exciting ways to incorporate the upcoming arrival of the Spring season into your classroom? Spring is always one of my favorite seasons to celebrate in the classroom. We’ve almost made it to the end of the school year. Students know the routines and expectations and have shown oh so much growth! It’s a great place to be in and a wonderful season to incorporate into the curriculum! Let’s take a look at some of my favorite spring activities for the classroom!
Beatrix Potter Author Study
Beatrix Potter is known for her classic works of literature. I love to introduce my students to her works in the spring. In the time of year known for animals, what better time to explore the works of Beatrix Potter? I love to read The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies, and The Tale of Jeremey Fisher to my students. While reading these wonderful books, we practice vocabulary, comprehension skills, character analysis, making visualizations, sequencing, and so much more! Students connect to the characters through the different books and build their writing skills by responding to texts. Finally, it’s fun to tie in some seasonal crafts into the author study!
Spring Activities for the Classroom
While welcoming the spring season to the classroom, it’s fun to research rabbits, write Spring acrostic poems, practice comprehension skills with spring fill-in-the-blank sentences, practice math skills with spring-themed missing addends worksheets, practice fractions with eggs, and finally, practice alphabetical order skills using spring vocabulary words!
If you would like to do any of these spring activities in your classroom, I’ve compiled them in a jam-packed spring resource packet! This 83-page learning resource contains spring literacy and math resources, rabbit literacy resources, and a Beatrix Potter author study. The Beatrix Potter author study uses the works of Beatrix Potter (The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of Jeremy Fisher, and The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies) to teach students the literacy skills of vocabulary, sequencing, reading comprehension, making visualizations, writing, making connections, character analysis, and retell.
The resource begins with spring activities that can easily be incorporated into any lessons on spring. Students can use the included spring activities to organize characteristics of spring, practice alphabetical order and sentence comprehension skills with spring vocabulary, write a spring acrostic poem, and practice math skills such as missing addends and fractions with engaging spring worksheets.
To incorporate science and writing into the unit, rabbit reading comprehension passages and rabbit research reports are included.
Finally, the resource explores the works of Beatrix Potter. Each work (The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of Jeremy Fisher, and The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies) contains a teaching guide with vocabulary and comprehension questions, written-response comprehension questions, graphic organizers, and literacy activities. Students will be engaged and challenged while exploring the works of Beatrix Potter! This resource is geared toward students in Second and Third Grades.
Here Is What Is Included:
Spring
- Spring Graphic Organizer
- Spring ABC Order
- Spring ABC Order Answer Key
- Spring Fill-in-the-Blank
- Spring Fill-in-the-Blank Answer Key
- Spring Acrostic Poem
- Spring Math Challenge
- Spring Math Challenge Answer Key
- Fractional Eggs
- Fractional Eggs Answer Key
- Fractional Eggs
- Fractional Eggs Answer Key
Beatrix Potter
- Beatrix Potter Reading Comprehension Passage
- Beatrix Potter Reading Comprehension Passage Answer Key
- Beatrix Potter Stories Graphic Organizer
Rabbits
- Rabbits Text Evidence Reading Comprehension Passage
- Rabbits Text Evidence Reading Comprehension Passage Answer Key
- Rabbits Reading Comprehension Passage
- Rabbits Reading Comprehension Passage Answer Key
- Rabbits Knowledge Graphic Organizer
- Rabbits Graphic Organizer
- Rabbits Can, Have, Are Graphic Organizer
- Rabbit Research Activity
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
- Teaching Guide
- Reading Check
- Reading Check Answer Key
- Peter Rabbit Graphic Organizer
- Peter Rabbit VS. His Siblings Graphic Organizer
- Peter Rabbit VS. Mr. McGregor Graphic Organizer
- Sequencing Worksheet
- Sequencing Worksheet Answer Key
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit Sequence Form
- Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then Worksheet
- Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Then Worksheet Answer Key
- Noticing Details Worksheet
- Noticing Details Worksheet Answer Key
- Peter Rabbit Character Analysis
- Mr. McGregor Character Analysis
- Peter Rabbit Connections to Self, Text, and World
- Apology Letter Writing Activity
- School Rules Graphic Organizer
- A Time I Broke the Rules Graphic Organizer
- Craft and Writing Activity
- Mr. McGregor’s Garden Fraction Worksheet
- Mr. McGregor’s Garden Fraction Worksheet Answer Key
The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
- Teaching Guide
- Reading Check
- Reading Check Answer Key
- Benjamin Bunny Graphic Organizer
- Peter Rabbit VS. Benjamin Bunny Graphic Organizer
- Sequencing Cut and Paste Activity
- Sequencing Cut and Paste Activity Answer Key
- The Tale of Benjamin Bunny Sequence Chart
The Tale of Jeremy Fisher
- Teaching Guide
- Reading Check
- Reading Check Answer Key
- Jeremy Fisher Graphic Organizer
- Making Visualizations with Jeremy Fisher
- Making Visualizations Vocabulary Activity
- Using Illustrations to Determine Word Meanings Activity
The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies
- Teaching Guide
- Reading Check
- Reading Check Answer Key
- The Flopsy Bunnies Graphic Organizer
- The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies Story Map
Website and Book Suggestions
Answer Keys are Included
If you would like to grab a copy to use in your classroom, you can get it here. I hope you and your students enjoy these fun spring activities!