Sarah Cooley

A TpT TOP SELLER!!!! Take your students on a magical trip aboard Christmas Airlines to learn about Christmas in other countries! This interactive Christmas Around the World Scrapbook is a creative way to track student learning, and is a wonderful keepsake! This 63 page packet comes with a student scrapbook, Christmas Airlines plane boarding passes, passports and passport stamps for the journey, a teacher's guide with suggestions for books to read on your trip, food ideas, and fun crafts for ea

All of your end of the year needs are included in this fun and unique bundle! Your students will have a blast dressing up for the year end celebration! The mama-razzi and papa-razzi will have fun taking photos as their little celebrities walk the red carpet, visit the walk of fame, munch on movie snacks, and sign autographs! Your students will never forget their year with you, and they will always remember the perfect "Hollywood Ending" you gave them with this party pack! Here is what is incl

Looking for an exciting way to celebrate Johnny Appleseed's birthday or end a unit study of apples? Have an apple treat tasting party! This kit offers ideas for "applicious" treats to include in your apple tasting party. It also comes with a parent letter, favorite apple treat pictograph pieces {in full color OR black and white}, "Good Apple or Rotten Apple" printables, and an apple adjectives printable! Have a deliciously great time while eating, graphing, and writing! This party kit is the

Begin your unit with bold, kid friendly, food-themed vocabulary posters to introduce important fraction words. Students will create "mini menu" booklets to illustrate learning of their new fraction words. In addition to vocabulary, students will have many opportunities to practice and apply their learning of halves, thirds, fourths, as well as the concept of equal and unequal; and partitioning shapes into equal pieces. This packet includes a lift the flap fraction booklet and a mini fractio

This 10 page mini booklet will complement your unit study on basic BEGINNING subtraction skills and subtraction story problems! Your students will gain practice with a variety of subtraction strategies such as "hopping back" on the number line, 10 frame cross out, draw a picture, number bonds, and write an equation. These story problems engage students by using characters and names they are familiar with--like problems with a Groovy Cat who has lost some buttons, a big red dog who buries some

This 10 page mini booklet will complement your unit study on basic BEGINNING addition skills and addition story problems! Your students will gain practice with a variety of addition strategies such as "hopping up" on the number line, 10 frame images, draw a picture, count up, and write an equation. These story problems engage students by using characters and names they are familiar with--like a problem in which students have to figure out how many jars of marmalade Paddington has in all, or anot

**UPDATED FILE--8/4/15** Learning about community will be an interactive and memorable experience as your students create a keepsake scrapbook full of their own drawings, magazine cut outs, photos, and more! Activities and pages included in this rockin' project: 1. Adorable cover page :) 2. "On the Map"--students will glue a map of their state or draw their state, and label their city. 3. "Home Sweet Home"--students will learn to memorize their home address as they write it on the envelope an

This hands-on math activity pack has 6 engaging games that can all be played using real pieces of candy corn! Students will have a blast during math stations and/or during math small group--all while practicing basic addition, missing addends, modeling subtraction facts, adding 3 numbers, and gaining practice with non-standard units of measurement! Games included: 1. Clear the Candy: An Addition Game 2. Trick or Treat: How Many Pieces Did You Eat? (A missing addends activity--with record

{FRY version!} You can use Sight Word Sticker books with your struggling students or with all students. There are 3 sight word sticker books included in this packet: Fry's First 100 Words, Fry's Second 100 Words, and Fry's Third 100 Words. The sticker book concept provides positive reinforcement for learning sight words. I review one page per week with each student. When the students have mastered all the sight words, they will have a fun sticker and word collection! This is perfect to place i

The “Thankful Platefull” Project has been a November tradition in my classroom for years! I enjoy this project because the students LOVE creating their plates with their families, and they shine with pride while sharing what they are most thankful for with the class. Sharing day is the sweetest day! The project is so easy to implement—here is what you will need to do to get started: -Buy thick/strong paper or plastic plates {like Chinet brand}—you will need one plate for each child -Print the _

**Updated 3/25/14** Now EDITABLE and with new fonts! This is hands-down, the best motivator I have found to get my students practicing, learning, and retaining their sight words! This version includes all 220 DOLCH words. There are 5 individual sight word sticker books included in this packet: pre primer, primer, first, second, and third grade Dolch lists. The sticker book concept provides positive reinforcement for learning sight words. I review one page/list per week with each stude

This MAGICAL phonics mini unit will be a fun way for your students to practice reading, writing, and spelling soft c and soft g words. Learning Activities in this mini unit: A mini take-home reader about Cinderella & Prince Gentleman {Fun to read again and again...and to color!} The mini reader also comes with a word hunt page to use with the book. 2 PRECIOUS posters to remind students the phonics rules of "Cinderella C and Gentleman G" Fairy Godmother's Soft G/Hard G word sort: comes with 1

Adorable reindeer learning--perfect for Christmas station activities! *3 games: 1. Collect 9 Reindeer 2. Place Value Match Up 3. Rhyming Reindeer *Meet My Reindeer Poster and Coloring Activity *ee/ea Reindeer Write the Room *Nonfiction reindeer write the room facts (with real photos!) Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer Remix Song *Have students make up a reindeer name and descriptive words to complete the song. Reindeer printables with names *Print on cardstock, laminate. Use in a pocket chart

Keep your classroom rules simple {and CUTE} with the five "bees" promise! This pack comes with full-color posters to display each of the five rules, and mini award certificates to pass out when you notice a student following one of the "bee" rules!

Using incentives for positive behavior is a wonderful way to motivate students to do the right thing. The system I use to reward the entire class for positive behavior is called Brownie Points! This system is so easy to implement! Go to your local dollar store and find a small or medium sized metal baking pan. Attach magnet strips to the back of the metal pan so it hangs on your white board. You will also need to print and laminate the brownies, and attach magnets to the back of each one. T

Your little zookeepers will read, write, draw, observe, and have a blast learning to classify animals into groups: mammals, reptiles, birds, fish, and amphibians! The fun zoo animal science activities in this packet include: *5 animal group posters *Zookeeper Animal Classification Log *Color, Cut, and Classify (sort animal pictures into correct animal groups) *Who is that zoo animal? A riddle match up game *Little Riddles: students will create zoo animal riddles *Picture Perfect Habitat: d

Counting Collections are a weekly engaging math activity to use with your students to assess number sense, counting, number identification, and representing numbers. Students will count and record one fun collection item each week, and will learn how to group items, skip count, and most importantly, accurately count items. Counting collections are also a way to make sense of place value. This packet comes with ideas for what to put in your collections, how to organize them and tips for how t

When it comes to matters of estimation, we have all used "the Jar." While this is a valuable visual, we all know that capacity is only one facet of estimation. The cards in this packet will take you beyond the estimation jar to include length, time, and weight, along with capacity. These 32 colorful estimation task cards are a perfect way to incorporate estimation into your weekly math routine. Simply put one new card on display each week, and set out the printable response cards, then let yo

Make your dental health unit an adventure as you and your students meet "Super Tooth"--a whimsical hero who saves the Land of Sparkle Tooth from the sneaky Cavity Villains! This unit includes the fun mini book of Super Tooth and the Cavity Villains, and is also packed with all of these great activities to have crazy fun during your dental health unit of study: *Brush/floss check page (school to home connection!) *What is a Dentist? Activity printable *What is a Dental Hygienist? Activity p

Fall and Halloween themed elements help to make these morning tub labels and ideas the most fun yet! This set includes 12 labels for tubs--and ideas for what to put inside each! I try very hard to create tubs that use items teachers already have in their classrooms (snap cubes, craft supplies, blocks, etc). Each morning, your students will be engaged in cooperative learning, as they complete these fall-themed tasks: create shape pumpkin patches, construct spooky houses, explore slime, come