Kristine Nannini

Between lesson plans for the first week of school and learning a class full of new students, Meet the Teacher Night can feel like the ultimate scramble. Beat the stress of planning your event with these Open House Activities, Meet the Teacher Letters, Back to School Flip Book, Scavenger Hunt, and MORE for the perfect first interaction with your families. No more frantically trying to make a sign-in sheet on looseleaf that will definitely get lost or having nothing for families to do on arrival.

In the hustle and bustle of a new school year, enrichment activities are just one more thing on your plate. These Back to School Math Logic Puzzles are ready-to-go brain teasers just perfect for use as early finisher activities, enrichment activities, or morning work. Designed to give students the opportunity to solve real-world, first-week teacher problems, these logic games push students to practice both their reasoning and key math skills. Students will be so engaged as they solve missing bu

To master any skill, students need constant reinforcement. With this Morning Work with Daily Math and ELA Spiral Review, you have standards-aligned math and ELA content right at your fingertips! Whether you use this resource as 4th grade morning work, quizzes, or daily homework, your 4th graders will constantly return back to foundational math and reading skills as they build their academic toolbox. You don’t need to spend hours mapping skills to standards and digging for materials to keep old

Back to school is SO busy - but it’s so important to take the time to build relationships with students, and between students! With Volume 1 of these Back to School Activities, you’ll have getting-to-know-you activities, ice breakers, team building activities, and more prepped and ready to go as you begin to build your classroom culture. In the hustle and bustle of getting new students in the door, you can breathe a sigh of relief knowing you have endless activities that will help you build the

There are so many things to communicate home to parents - that field trip is coming up, there’s a half day next week, you need classroom volunteers stat. Keep school-to-home communication organized with these Editable Weekly and Monthly Classroom Newsletters and Calendars. Without a consistent system, it can be so stressful to make sure important information is getting home to families. These 100% editable templates are set up so that you can choose the version best for you, insert your informa

Between lesson plans for the first week of school and learning a class full of new students, Meet the Teacher Night can feel like the ultimate scramble—and that’s only your FIRST communication point with families! Beat the stress of planning your Back to School event with these Open House Activities, Meet the Teacher Letters, Back to School Scavenger Hunt, and MORE for the perfect first interaction with your families. Then, keep up the communication all year long with simple-to-use Classroom

There’s no question that students need to learn math and reading to succeed inside and outside of the classroom—but life skills like nutrition, personal hygiene, personal finance, and social skills are critical for students to truly build the independence they will need to succeed outside of the classroom. With this Daily Life Skills resource, you have 110 ready-to-go activities that break 13 critical categories of life skills into bite-sized pieces. Perfect for homework, morning work, or as a

To master any skill, students need constant reinforcement. With this Morning Work with Daily Math and ELA Spiral Review, you have standards-aligned math and ELA content right at your fingertips! Whether you use this resource as 5th grade morning work, quizzes, or daily homework, your 5th graders will constantly return back to foundational math and reading skills as they build their academic toolbox. You don’t need to spend hours mapping skills to standards and digging for materials to keep o

Determining the meaning of unknown words is a daunting task for many students - and we see them just skip over unfamiliar vocabulary frequently. My Context Clues Passages are designed so that students can use context clues from the text to determine the meaning of new vocabulary. I have intentionally included vocabulary that will be unknown or only vaguely familiar to students, so that they are forced to rely on restatements, synonyms, antonyms, inferences, examples, and parts of speech to dete

Included are Four Dabbing and Flossing-Themed Coordinate Graphing Mystery Pictures:-Dabbing Pizza-Flossing Pug-Flossing Unicorn-Dabbing TacoEach picture has three different graphing options to easily provide differentiation in your classroom.·One picture to be graphed in all four quadrants with positive and negative whole numbers and decimals ·One picture to be graphed in all four quadrants with positive and negative whole numbers only ·One picture to be graphed in this first quadrant with posit

Making inferences is tricky, but inferring is a crucial skill in every reader’s toolbox! Not every text provides strong opportunities for students to practice making an inference, but these Making Inferences Reading Comprehension Passages were created for students to practice inferring over and over again to build their confidence and proficiency with the skill. With 3 differentiated levels for each of my 10 passages written specifically to practice making inferences, your students will be

Coordinate plane graphing mystery pictures are the perfect way for students to practice those tedious ordered pair graphing skills without boredom creeping in. This Halloween Coordinate Graphing Mystery Pictures Activity is a ready-to-go activity just perfect for use as early finisher activities, enrichment activities, or Halloween bulletin boards. Designed as a coordinate graph with a mystery picture that comes together as students plot ordered pairs, each of the 4 pictures has multiple versio

Teaching 5th grade ELA has so many components - and that’s before you even think about aligning to English Language Arts standards and state test prep! Supplement your main ELA curriculum with my 5th Grade ELA Standards Based Assessments With Teaching Notes. Whether you use this resource every single week to supplement instruction, as a part of your literacy rotations, or as a robust review for test prep season, your 5th graders will show what they know as you thoroughly assess each standard. N

How many times have you read a student summary or response with irrelevant details? Summarizing is a critical skill for readers because summarizing important information allows students to make connections and integrate information efficiently. These Summarizing Passages were written specifically to sharpen students’ summarizing skills. Graphic organizers provide students with a practical summarizing process to follow. Short passages and questions help students learn how to "check all the box

End of year and summer break is approaching—sometimes students are a little more distracted, and sometimes you find a few spare minutes between end of the year festivities. Grab students’ attention with End of the Year Math Logic Puzzles - ready-to-go brain teasers that are just perfect for use as early finisher activities, enrichment activities, or morning work. Designed to give students the opportunity to solve real-life problems that might pop up at the end of the year, these logic games pus

Determining main idea and key details of an expository text is the first big step in true reading comprehension of an informational text - so it’s a pretty crucial skill! These Main Idea and Supporting Details Reading Comprehension Passages were created for students to practice identifying the main idea and its key details over and over again to build their confidence and proficiency with this skill. Not only will students gain experience identifying a single main idea, but they will be expose

It’s difficult for a student to truly analyze a story without a firm grasp on the elements of a story and plot. My Story Elements and Plot Reading Passages are intentionally written so that students begin to recognize the beginning, middle, and end of a story. Students will learn to recognize the structure of a story and learn when authors begin introducing characters, setting, action, conflict, a climax, and the resolution. With lack of recognition of these plot elements, students will stru

Teaching 4th grade ELA has so many components - and that’s before you even think about aligning to English Language Arts standards and state test prep! Supplement your main ELA curriculum with my 4th Grade Standards Based Assessments with Teaching Notes. Whether you use this resource every single week to supplement instruction, as a part of your literacy rotations, or as a robust review for test prep season, your 5th graders will show what they know as you thoroughly assess each standard. No mo

The Halloween season can leave students a little more distracted than usual! These Halloween Math Logic Puzzles are ready-to-go brain teasers just perfect to grab students’ attention as early finisher activities, enrichment activities, or morning work. Designed to give students the opportunity to solve real-life Halloween problems, these logic games push students to practice both their reasoning and key math skills. Students will be so engaged as they solve the missing ingredients to the witch’

Coordinate plane graphing mystery pictures are the perfect way for students to practice those tedious ordered pair graphing skills without boredom creeping in. This Thanksgiving Coordinate Graphing Mystery Pictures Activity is a ready-to-go activity just perfect for use as early finisher activities, enrichment activities, or morning work. Designed as a coordinate graph with a mystery picture that comes together as students plot ordered pairs, each of the 4 pictures has multiple versions so that