Jen Ross - Teacher by the Beach

These monthly family projects are a great way to make that home connection! I send our projects home in the beginning of the month and I love seeing them hang in the room for the rest of the month! Each month has a craft AND a writing extension September- apple (what they like best about school so far) October - pumpkin (description) November - turkey (disguise a turkey) December - tree or snowflake (Christmas tradition or winter break activities) January - snowman (100th Day or just decorate)

An interactive journal for students to practice vocabulary words. This is perfect for reading, science and social studies, or even math vocabulary! Included is: Journal cover Table of Contents for student journals Journal pages for A-Z, 2 pages each Extra journal pages for different ways to put together. Pictures for a suggested way to put together! There are THREE different version to choose from; 2 to a page with handwriting lines 3 to a page with handwriting lines 3 to a page with regular

This pack is filled with FIFTEEN activities that you can have ready for any fast finisher or math center! All of the activities can be used with 2-digit, 3-digit, or 4-digit numbers. All you need is a deck of cards! Activities include: Make the Number - greatest and least number Place value - building with place value blocks and drawing for tens or hundreds More and Less (1 more/less, 10 more/less, etc) Analyze the number (expanded, word, place value, number values) Rounding Adding Subtractin

This is a great packet to use in March, or you can use it all year round on its own! We love to do this for Dr. Seuss week, too! You will need to buy the box of COLORED Goldfish crackers. Many of these activities have options for differentiating to fit the needs of your students! There are different versions for many of the activities, that way you can differentiate for your classroom needs! Here's what's included: Sorting mats Adding Tally Graph Ten Frames Bar graph Comparing Fractions Fill

This is a great way to get students involved in spelling! This interactive journal is set up to help students enhance their writing. This is like my Hands-On Phonics Dictionary, except with this one, all you do is print, and bind! We use our word journals every day in my class - my students have just come to know they need to look in their dictionaries before they ask how to spell anything! Every week we put in our Spelling and our sight words. *****UPDATED 1/29/16 to include HALF-SIZE Journals

Your students will love learning words that have two closed syllables, such as muf-fin, bas-ket, and fin-ish. This is also a great strategy to learn so students can learn to sound out or chunk bigger, multisyllabic words. Most of my phonics packs contain the same activities, they just change for the specific phonics skill. In this packet there are: Teacher Notes rule poster word cards and header cards Walk the Room (and ABC order Walk the Room) Word Shapes for Walk the Room Sentence Writing

Looking for a Spelling continuum that makes sense for your 1st graders?? This pack follows a phonics continuum that progresses and builds off previous skills throughout the year! It also uses word families, which allow students to learn how to apply the skills they learn! Students get five phonics words to study, but are tested on 10, which demonstrates if they know the phonics skills. Also assessed are sight words. Many students can recognize them, but have a difficult time spelling them.

I have been doing this activity for over TEN years in my classroom! It is amazing what a Skittle will do to motivate students during Read Alouds! Using this pack and a couple of bags of Skittles, your kids will use higher-order thinking to respond to read alouds, whether they are picture books, or chapter books! I have done this activity in my 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade classes! Included is color AND black and white posters, written response sheets for EACH level with handwriting lines and re

Easy to prep math activities to use for whole group, small group, or centers! Black and white activities to print on color paper - ink saver! For each activity there is a version for whole group, small group, or centers AND an independent version for a summative evaluation of the concept for each student. Activities included: Number Bonds to compose and decompose numbers number sense 2-10 part-part-whole ten frame addition fact families making 10 making 10 to add up to 20 comparing numbers mis

**updated 7/14/13 to include a blank EDITABLE page for you to use the words you need to better differentiate for your class! Looking for a Spelling continuum that makes sense for your 2nd graders?? This pack follows a phonics continuum that progresses and builds off previous skills throughout the year! It also uses word families, which allow students to learn how to apply the skills they learn! Students get five phonics words to study, but are tested on 10, which demonstrates if they know the

This is a fun way to count the days of the year using ten frames and the thematic "counters" that are included! There are 3 different styles to choose from for you "How Many Days?" title. There are 2 different size ten frames to choose from (3 to a page or 2 to a page). You can also choose to print them with or without numbers. They are in black and white so you can print them on white paper or print them in color to "pop" on your wall! There are enough "counters" of each theme to do the whol

These memory books are a perfect way to make those memories last a lifetime! They are a great alternative for yearbooks that some of your kids may not be getting from school. Your parents will love getting these at the end of the year - definitely a keepsake! Make these books all year, starting the first week of school and ending with the last week of school! There are 2 versions of this book - portrait or landscape, PLUS both version come with some editable pages. Included in this pack: In

My kids love doing this activity every St. Patrick's Day! All you need to get is a box of Lucky Charms. Included is: Sorting mats Adding Tally Graph Bar graph Comparing Fractions Think About It Write About It Journal Prompts If you are a school that doesn't allow food, I have included templates for you to copy onto paper and cut out to use. ****Download the preview to get a better look!**** This is NOT included in my St. Patrick’s Day Bundle! Here are my other St. Patrick's day packs! Pot

This pack is a great supplement to your penguin unit! It uses Tacky the Penguin books as well as non-fiction books to enhance your students' learning! Included: Describe Tacky - using adjectives; a tree map and a circle map Cause and Effect Story Structure - BME, summarizing wiht SWBSF Problem and Solution Text Connection Evaluation Character Analysis A Table to compare Tacky books' story structure Venn-diagrams with Writing extensions Fiction/Non-fiction comparison Compare/contrast assessments

This pack is filled with OVER TWENTY activities that you can have ready for any fast finisher or math center! All of these activities can be used for number sense, addition, and subtraction in First Grade - or as a review in 2nd grade! All you need is a deck of cards! Activities include: Base Ten - 1 and 2 -Digit Number Sense and Adding using base tens Ten Frames - Number Sense, Adding, and Subtracting Number Sense - Word Form, Tally Marks, Base Tens, and Ten Frames Word Problems - Students

In my class, I have been doing timed quizzes forever! My kids LOVE them because we set goals that they have to pass all the way through the end by a certain date and they get to "build" their ice cream sundae, pizza, or nachos to earn their party! Included: -cover sheets for both addition and subtraction -checklists to keep track of your students' success -2 different versions for both vertical and horizontal version for each addition and subtraction fact from 0-12 - build your sundae templates

Included in this download is 3 different versions to manage your small group rotations! The slides are timed so you don't have to do any work - just push play and your groups change automatically. You will also get directions on how to set up your PowerPoint presentation for your groups with this download. There are 2 different center powerpoint versions: 1) R.E.A.D version (Read with teacher, Enjoy writing, All by myself, Do a new Center) 2) Daily 5 activities *This product will only be alte

Your students will love learning how to add a suffix to words that end in Y! This pack has activities that make students apply the rule, helping to "make it stick!" In this packet there are: -Teacher Notes -Kid-Friendly poster to explain the rule -16 word cards WITH the suffix -24 word cards WITHOUT the suffix, making the students sort and figure out how to add -es to the end of the word. -3 different word sorts: whole group, independent/center work, and correct/not correct words - with writ

Charlotte's Web Novel Study Interactive Notebook and Lap BookA fun Charlotte's Web Novel study and lap book for your culminating review. Interactive components to review literacy skills after finishing the novel. Product includes activities for:Setting Compare and Contrast Changes in Characters Character Traits Problem and Solution Theme

These memory books are a perfect way to make those memories last a lifetime! They are a great alternative for yearbooks that some of your kids may not be getting from school. Your parents will love getting these at the end of the year - definitely a keepsake! Make these books all year, starting the first week of school and ending with the last week of school! There are 2 versions of this book - portrait or landscape, PLUS both version come with some editable pages. Included in this pack: In