Cross-Curricular Instruction

Since the school day seems to go by in such a blur and multiple topics need to be covered, their needs to be some intertwining of subject areas.   I find cross-curricular instruction makes the day flow much better and allows a connection to the material when students are asked to review.

During one of my teaching blocks, I created weekly plans that incorporated Math, ELA, Art and Science that followed a specific book from the collection of Dr. Seuss.  I started the week off by reading the book and in the following days we would do activities that related back to the story. The activities either included counting and graphing, word family sorting, recreating images through art, or earth science projects.  I found that students reacted well to it and would continuously ask about reading another book or doing another activity based on the book.

Creating lesson that do not just challenge one subject area but a whole of host of them allows the students to have fun and not even know that they are working on a number of different skills at one time.