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Enjoy this coloring page to use to welcome your new class back to school! This is a great project for your students to work on during that busy first day while you organize and take care of first day business! It also makes for a great photo prop or room decoration when finished! There are two versions for differentiation. Please consider becoming a follower at my shop for notification of new items and freebies to download! Feedback on free items is always appreciated! :) Have a wonderful schoo

Enjoy these primary lined writing papers for handwriting practice, journals, story writing, publishing for display or for class book pages! There are two types of pages in this file. One is for a picture and story. The other contains a full page of lines for those students that can write more or need to add a second page to their story! There is even a template for students to write a friendly letter. The lines have a dash in the center to encourage students to bump the lines. See the thumbnai

Enjoy this coloring page to use to celebrate 100 days in school! It makes for a nice keepsake or packet cover, a great photo prop or a bulletin board and room decoration when finished! If you are looking for more ways to celebrate 100 days, there is a complete set of 100th Day Activities and printables pack you might like! You can preview it in my TPT shop! Are coloring pages a big hit with your students? We offer a collection of holiday and seasonal coloring pages that you may also enjoy. P

This is a cute and simple flap book project for your student to create to review the stages in the life cycle of a butterfly. It will make a great supplement to your science unit on life cycles! Students may color the cover images, fold the booklet in half, crease, cut on the dashes and glue pieces under the flaps. The cover names the stages from egg, larva (caterpillar) pupa (chrysalis) to adult butterfly. Beneath each flap is a kid-friendly and easy to read description of each stage. A variet

This no-prep comprehension skills packet includes 50+ pages of printable worksheets that can be used with just about any book! It is ideal for second grade and third grade reading lessons in small group instruction, intervention groups, as sub plans, and for whole-class reading lessons using research based reading comprehension strategies. These activities, for both fiction and informational text, will also help to guide your instruction in the science of reading when used as formative assessm

Teaching fractions using Hershey bars has always been a favorite of mine and I know that you and your students will love it too! I have used real candy bars in the past but they make for sticky fingers, desks and are not really good for eating afterward! These printable Hershey bars and worksheets/workmats are just the solution! This recently expanded packet includes all of the printables you need to have your class partition rectangles (candy bars) and model fractions of a whole in halves, thir

Take your students on an imaginary trip around the world to learn how Christmas, December and some New Year and Epiphany holidays are celebrated in other countries. This bundled teaching resource ( 84 slides) PowerPoint file contains interesting facts and descriptions of holiday customs, traditions, celebrations and more! The best part is there is no prep and you have weeks worth of lessons and learning activities here to keep your learners engaged and excited during the weeks before Christmas!

Help your students become more fluent readers with poetry! These fun poems will be a great addition to your fall teaching resources and activities. Use these printer friendly pages at a literacy center, in poetry binders, as take home poems or for whole group reading instruction. The poems are created with adorable black and white graphics and borders that students can color for a bit of creativity or to use as a fast finisher choice. Poems include the following fall themes to fit in perfectly w

End of the Year Project: Send home slices of the school year with an adorable keepsake project made with a pizza box! I save a classroom writing craftivity or art project each month to send home in the last week of school inside this box along with anything that is special to the child like their desk plate, cubby tag, photos of the class and awards. This can be a back to school craft and the children can use the boxes as a portfolio to hold their treasures! Parents absolutely love these boxes a

Enjoy these printable coloring and writing pages to use in remembrance of the heroes of 9/11 on Patriot Day. They can be used for morning work, a fast finisher task, as a follow up activity to a read aloud book or as a journal writing prompt. Two writing pages with primary handwriting lines and two coloring pages are included in this file. Feedback on your purchases is always greatly appreciated! Jeannine Moriconi Creative Lesson Cafe

Use the excitement of the holiday season and help your little ones become more fluent readers with this collection of Christmas poems. These poems will be a nice addition to your December holiday teaching resources for reading and language arts. This is a collection of poems for students of all reading abilities with black and white graphics for children to color. Titles include Gingerbread Children, Peppermint Stick, 5 Little Christmas Trees, Santa's Workshop, Rudolph, Christmas in the Classroo

The Life Cycle of a Chick PowerPoint Lesson: With spring comes new life and the perfect time to learn about life cycles! This is a beautiful and informative 13 slide PowerPoint presentation designed to teach students about the life cycle of a chicken from egg to embryo to hatchling to adult. Your students will enjoy seeing beautiful, clear photographs of each stage in the life cycle! If you are incubating eggs and watching chicks hatch in your classroom, this may be the perfect introduction for

Reading High-Frequency Words for Fluency Reading Fluency Activities and Worksheets for First and Second Grade: 80+ colorful pages of fluency phrases and short sentences include the first 100 Fry Words which represent 50 percent of all the words children encounter in elementary school reading. Repeated reading of a few phrases per week gives students practice reading high-frequency words and developing reading fluency and proficiency. Use them as a whole group daily warm up or as an intervention

Imagine students gathered in circle having meaningful, rich discussions about their leveled books or novels in a kids-only book club. These task cards are a very effective tool designed help to keep student discussions focused and to help all students stay engaged during reading activities. Station activities like this are a great way to keep all learners on task as you work to differentiate in intervention groups. What is included: The printable cards contain a variety of questions designed t

Task cards are a great way to get your students up and out of their seats and to have fun while learning. Help your students be able to identify the author's purpose with this set of 30 colorful task cards and recording sheet. You may post the cards throughout the room or set them up as a scoot activity where students move from one station to the next. Brain research supports the link of movement within the classroom to increased academic performance! This is an easy to prep classroom resource t

Celebrate the 100th day of school with this fun activities and printables packet! Everything you need to plan your special day around the theme of 100 is included in this resource! This pack is perfect for new teachers looking for ideas, or for teachers looking for some new resources to add to their favorite festivities! Includes these printable pages, activities and project ideas to reinforce the concept of 100: ⭐Parent letter explaining 100's day collection project and class snack mix donatio

Bring some "slightly tacky" fun to your winter reading and writing activities! This 78-page literacy packet is the perfect companion to Helen Lester’s story, Tacky the Penguin. Whether you are teaching character traits, sequencing, or looking for a cute penguin craft, this resource is packed with "print-and-go" activities. Designed with flexibility in mind, it includes primary dashed lines and intermediate lines to for use in first, second and third grade. What’s Included in this 78-Page

Sequencing Activities: Your students will really enjoy this sequencing pack to use with the favorite story, If you Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff! You can print the picture cards on cardstock and laminate them to use in a pocket chart, at a literacy center or at a retelling station. You may also print a copy for each student to cut, sequence and paste on a large piece of construction paper. Ordinal number words, another cut and paste sequencing worksheet and a few writing pages are incl

The Life Cycle of a Plant PowerPoint Lesson: With spring comes new life and the perfect time to teach your students about life cycles! This is a beautiful and informative 15 slide presentation designed to teach students about the life cycle of a flowering plant from seed germination to seedling to flowering bud stage to fruit producing adult. Your students will enjoy seeing real photographs of each stage in the life cycle! The text is easy to read and content simplified for students in grades K

Looking for a fun and easy project to get your little learners excited to do some research? This can be the perfect ending to your animals lessons or a great assignment any time of the school year on a high-interest topic! It also makes for a really cute bulletin board display! This is a simple 6 page lift the flap booklet designed in printer-friendly black and white. There is room on each page for students to write simple facts about their animal and a place to draw a picture or glue a printed