Watermelon Day End of Year Theme Day

Looking for some end of the year fun? If so, host a Watermelon Day in your classroom! It's perfect for when your students are ready for summer, but still have some learning to do.

The materials in this pack span across the content areas. The highlight of the day is sampling fresh watermelon, as well as other watermelon flavored foods (or other types of fruit, if you prefer). Students will write about their experience, create and analyze bar graphs, learn about the watermelon life cycle, sort watermelon related words by parts of speech, participate in a seed spitting contest, create a line plot, and more!

This pack is designed for a full day of fun and learning, but could easily be used over several days if desired. The student pages were created in black and white for ease with photocopying. Your purchase includes a PDF document AND a digital component for use in Google or Seesaw.

I am excited to share that a digital component has been added to this file. It can be used in Google or Seesaw. Some of the digital activities are based on what you'll find in the PDF, but some new activities were added as well. Please keep reading for a breakdown of what is included in the digital add-on pack.

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The following activities are included in the PDF:

• Watermelon Day Crown (A quick and fun craft to get the day started)
• Watermelon Adjective Web (Could be used as a prewriting activity)
• Watermelon Is/Has Organizer (perfect for classifying information after sampling some watermelon)
• Watermelon Themed Writing Pages (Prompts include: Our Watermelon Tasting, Our Fruit Tasting, Our Watermelon Fun Day, blank title; two sets of lined paper are included, each set also includes a full page of lines that can be used as a second page for lengthier writing pieces)
• Watermelon Acrostic
• Making Words Activity (Students make new words from the words "watermelon seeds")
• Tasting Party Graphing (Students sample a variety of watermelon flavored foods or a variety of fresh fruits and then create a graph; a blank graph is also included. Each graph comes with an "Analyze the Data" question page)
• Watermelon Venn Diagram (Students compare fresh watermelon with another food item)
• Seed Spitting Contest/Line Plot Activity (Students spit watermelon seeds and plot the measurements of their classmates on a line plot)
• Super Spitter Awards
• Life Cycle of a Watermelon (Students read the included information page about watermelons and then sequence and illustrate the watermelon life cycle)
• Label a Watermelon Activity Page
• Parts of Speech Sort (Students sort watermelon related words into the categories noun, verb, or adjective)
• Place Value I Have/Who Has (Students review expanded form and use place value clues to play this version of I Have/Who Has)

The following activities are included in the digital add-on pack:

• KWL chart
• Watermelon Fun Facts & Questions (students use the information to answer questions about the content-text boxes are already set up for student use)
• Watermelon Life Cycle (students read about the life cycle, then drag pictures to sequence the stages)
• Watermelon Labeling (students drag labels in place after reading provided definitions)
• Watermelon Adjectives (students choose from a set of adjectives and drag the words that describe watermelon into place)
• Making Words (students drag the provided letters around to create new words and then type each new word in the provided text boxes)
• Compare/Contrast (students compare watermelon to any fruit of their choice using the provided text boxes)
• Parts of Speech Sort (students drag the provided words into categories: noun, verb, adjective)
• Directed Drawing (students watch a video and draw a watermelon character)

Disclaimer:

There is a video from You Tube in this digital resource. I have reviewed the video myself prior to including it. The video includes kid-friendly/appropriate content. Any ads, banners, and/or videos that play if you click out of the slideshow or when playing the video via the Seesaw link are not controlled by the person posting the video or the creator of this resource. As always, videos should be watched with adult supervision.