May Writing Prompts: Are you looking for a creative list of writing prompts and
journal ideas to use during the month of May?
Below, you will find a list of general May writing topics and a list of
specific calendar dates for May which contain creative writing ideas related to
that particular date in May.
I have created this list of May writing prompts and ideas for
elementary school teachers and students, but many of these creative
writing ideas and topics would also be appropriate for other grade levels.
You will find some May writing prompts below that contain underlined
links. If you click on an underlined link:
Write a poem about flying a kite using kite shaped poetry templates.
April showers bring May flowers...
Write about spring using your 5 senses: the smells of spring, the sights of
spring, the sounds of spring, the touch of spring, and the tastes of spring.
Write a S.P.R.I.N.G. acrostic poem.
Write a spring story that has a beginning, middle, and end. Write each part of your story in one of
the butterfly's wings. Draw a picture in one of the wings.
This unique creative writing project measures 14 x 14 inches when it has been assembled together.
Are you looking for fun reading projects that will help you to design a colorful spring
bulletin board display in your classroom? Try one of these unique book report projects
that are ideal for spring:
Are you looking for unique spring themed sticker charts that will help
you to motivate and encourage your students to reach a goal that you set for them this April? Try one of these unique sticker chart templates that are ideal for spring:
May is National Salad Month. The first salads trace back centuries to the simple
vegetable dishes of the Roman Empire. Today salads are made with crisp greens,
delectable pastas, luscious fruit, and flaked seafood.
The American Heart Association
recommends five or more servings of vegetables and fruits per day. Darker
salad greens contain the antioxidant beta-carotene, which battles certain
cancers, and folic acid, which helps tissues grow. Most salad greens are also
sources of vitamin C, potassium, and fiber.
May 1 is Save the Rhino Day and this day helps to make people aware
of the threats to this animal and to support the efforts to help save
the rhinoceros from extinction.
Rhinoceroses get their name from their
most famous feature: their horns. The word rhinoceros comes from the
Greek rhino (nose) and ceros (horn).
There are five species of
rhinos and they are found in parts of Africa and Asia. Rhinos
rank among the most endangered species on Earth.
Valued for
their horns, rhinoceros face a serious threat from poaching. In recent
times, poachers have hunted the rhino to near extinction.
May 2 is Brothers and Sisters Day
Cinco de Mayo is celebrated on May 5 and is a time to be proud of coming
from Hispanic descent. This day celebrates the victory of the historical
battle of 1862 between Mexico and France.
This holiday is a symbol of Mexican pride and unity and includes great
festivities. It is a time of song, dance, and parties.
Mother's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday in May and was first observed in 1907.
The second week of May is National Pet Week. National Pet Week was founded in
1981 by the American Veterinary Medical Association.
I have created puppy shaped reading sticker charts that would be great to use with
your students during National Pet Week. Click here to go to Heidi's puppy reading sticker charts page.
May 8 is World Red Cross Day. The Red Cross provides humanitarian efforts and
disaster relief around the world, wherever it is needed. There are millions
of Red Cross volunteers.
On May 8, the American Red Cross puts special focus
on our programs that keep children healthy and safe around the globe.
May 12 is Limerick Day and it honors the birthday of the English writer
Edward Lear (1812-1888), who is credited with making the limerick popular.
A limerick is a five-line humorous poem in which the first, second, and
fifth lines rhyme, and the third and fourth lines also rhyme. Its name
comes from the city of Limerick, Ireland.
The first Academy Awards Ceremony was held on May 16, 1929.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts.
He was the 35th President of the United States and the youngest president
ever elected.
At his inauguration, Kennedy challenged the youth of America
when he said, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
The last Monday of May is Memorial Day in the United States.
On this day, Americans remember and honor the brave men and women who have died while
serving in the U.S. Military.
Above: The large May calendar title is a
2 page banner template that is glued together and cut out.
This printable calendar set for May includes smaller calendar pieces for the 7 days of the week that will fit inside your calendar pocket chart.
There are 31 square calendar number dates in this teaching resources set.
There are squares for you to print and write your students' names and birthdays on.
There are 11 printable calendar worksheets in this
May teaching resources classroom display set.
This lesson reviews the comparative and superlative forms of these 15 words: large, fat, fast, hot, high, late, sad, pretty, loud, many, delicious, bad, good, difficult, and little.
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Busy Bees Grammar Comparison
This lesson has a rain theme and reviews 3 end punctuation marks: period, question mark, and exclamation mark. Students write their answers in raindrops inside a cloud on their worksheets.
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Rainy Day Punctuation Marks
This spring set of teaching resources is designed to be a daily writing warm up activity. There are 25 different sentences for students to rewrite using more descriptive word choices.
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Spring Into Colorful Writing
Students solve addition, subtraction, and multiplication equations using these fun math puzzles that contain butterfly themed animations. There are 5 puzzles in this set of resources.
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Spring Into Math Squares
Students use addition and multiplication to solve word problems that have a farm theme. These problems involve money, so students are reviewing decimal points and place value as well.
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Old McDonald Word Problems
These butterfly writing templates will make your students fly away with creative ideas. Students write each section of their story in a separate wing of the butterfly.
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Butterfly Writing Templates
These caterpillar writing templates will make your students march away with creative ideas. Students write each section of their story in a separate section of the caterpillar's body.
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Caterpillar Writing Templates
These turtle templates would be ideal to use for a short writing assignment, poetry, or a science unit. These cute turtle creative writing templates measure 10 inches in width and 6 in. in height.
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Turtle Writing Templates
Are you looking for a Mother's Day activity that is unique and different? Every mother loves to receive flowers on Mother's Day! Students write a Mother's Day message inside these unique flower templates.
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Mother's Day Flower Templates
Are you looking for a unique way for your students to create a family tree? Your students will be branching out to learn about the members of their family as they design their own family trees.
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Family Tree Lesson Plans
Do you want your students' writing to bloom with creative ideas? This unique creative writing set is designed in the shape of two sunflowers inside a plant pot template.
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Sunflower Writing Templates
If you have 25 students in your classroom, you can create a caterpillar display that is over 15 feet long with these unique poetry lesson plans. Each student writes a poem in one of the caterpillar templates.
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Caterpillar Poems
These ice cream shaped poems are a fun way for your students to write a poem about their favorite colors. For example, if a student's favorite color is blue, he could write a poem about the ocean.
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Ice Cream Color Poems
These poetry lesson plans will have your students' poetry flying high in the air! Students write a shape poem where each line of their poem is shorter in length than the previous line.
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Kite Poetry Templates
This is a S.P.R.I.N.G. rainbow shaped acrostic poem. This acrostic poem is different because the key letters appear in the middle of the poem, instead of at the beginning of the poem.
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Spring Acrostic Poem
Your students will Bee Cool as they write stories using these colorful language arts worksheets that are appropriate for a wide variety of different topics.
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Bee Cool Worksheets
I use these We Are Busy Bees language arts worksheets in the spring, but they can be used any time of the year for a wide variety of creative writing topics.
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We Are Busy Bees Worksheets
I use these Colorful Butterfly language arts worksheets in the spring, but they can be used any time of the year for a wide variety of creative writing topics.
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Colorful Butterfly Stories
I designed these Our Writing is Blooming! language arts worksheets for the spring, but they can be used any time of the school year.
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Our Writing is Blooming!
These colorful umbrella sticker charts will encourage your students to get drenched in reading books.
These incentive charts are perfect for a spring reading theme. This set includes 9 different colored umbrella templates to choose from and each umbrella has 20 raindrops for 20 stickers.
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Reading Umbrella Sticker Charts
Provide your students with an extra incentive to read 25 books with these colorful reading rainbow sticker charts.
This set includes a colored rainbow template, as well as 6 bright reading rainbow accent pieces that contain reading slogans on them that promote a colorful reading theme.
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Reading Rainbow Sticker Charts
If you are looking for a dynamic and bright spring bulletin board display idea, these charts are a blooming great resource!
There are 12 different shaped flower templates, so you can design a colorful garden themed bulletin board display filled with flower sticker charts in a variety of shapes and colors!
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Flower Sticker Charts
The "athletes" in your class will have fun racing around the world reading 7 books, which represent the 7 continents.
For each book, students fill out the pages in their reading passports by writing a summary about the book and drawing a picture. Then, students color that continent on their world maps.
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Amazing Reading Race Passports
Nonfiction Book Reports: Your students will enjoy being newspaper editors and writing articles, cartoons, and timelines about the life of John F. Kennedy.
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Biography Newspapers (nonfiction)
Your students will enjoy designing large character body projects about John F. Kennedy and then writing a report about this president inside the vest area.
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Character Body Book Report Projects
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Thank you for visiting my May Writing Prompts page. I hope that you have found some unique May writing prompts and journal ideas to use with your students.
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