Lesson Package | Cinco de Mayo, Mother’s Day, & Memorial Day Reading Passages

Looking for print-and-go May activities to use throughout the month? With over 60+ worksheets covering math and ELA skills, you will have plenty of options to keep your students learning all month long! Worksheets cover Cinco de Mayo, Facts about Mexico, Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, sharks, sports, and spring/ summer themes.

How to Use These Worksheets?

Print and go worksheets for morning work, time-fillers, early finisher activities, RTI intervention (standard is listed on each page), to leave for a substitute, math/ ELA centers, or just to use in your classroom throughout the month!

Who Are These Worksheets for?

The pages included practice many common core skills, both for second grade and third grade. This was designed for use in the third grade classroom, but many of the resources would be useful for other grade levels as well.

What's Included

- Pages included chart-for teacher use
- Pages used table. Includes page name, standards covered, and column to record date used in the classroom.

1. Cinco de Mayo themed pages:
Cinco de Mayo informational text
Cinco de Mayo text-based questions
Cinco de Mayo acrostic poem
Cinco de Mayo coloring-multiplication/ division
Mexico facts-informational reading
Mexico questions graphic organizer
Mexico/ U.S. compare and contrast
Cinco de Mayo making words activity page
Cinco de Mayo coloring page-parts of speech
Taco Tuesday-singular to plural
Fiesta Time-elapsed time on a number line

2. Mother’s Day:
Mother’s Day-text with questions
What Makes my Mom Special-acrostic
My Mother’s Day-descriptive writing
Mother’s Day coloring-rounding
Make time for Mom-time on a clock
Happy Mother’s Day-making words

3. Memorial Day:
Memorial Day-informational text
Memorial Day-main idea/ detail
My Memorial Day-descriptive writing
Memorial Day-acrostic poem
Memorial Day-sentence writing
Memorial Day-cause/ effect
Remember who served-making words

4. Sharks:
Sharks-are, can, have brainstorming chart
Sharks-informational text
Sharks-explanatory writing
Sharks-text-based questions
All About Sharks-acrostic poem
Shark Attacks-text with questions
Sharks-cause/ effect
Sharks-main idea/ detail
Sharks-sentence writing

5. Spring/Summer:
Chirp, chirp-equivalent fractions
Camp out-matching multiplication
Fruity multiplication 2 digit by 1 digit
Would you Rather-opinion writing
Orange you close? early long division
Roll & Write-summer fun narrative
Sunshine words-synonyms and antonyms
Here comes the sunshine-division search

6. Sports:
Spring sports-graphing/ questions
Catching differences-subtraction
Batting new words-prefixes/ suffixes
Find my Number-number sentences
Scoring with area/ perimeter
Score with good sentences-verb tense
Scoring with word problems
Batter Up! Punctuating dialogue
On the soccer field-context clues
Spring fractions-partitioning shapes
Pitching new words-prefixes/ suffixes