Shelly's Classroom Secrets

BEST SELLER Read Aloud Plan Sheets are a great graphic organizer for teachers of young children. It puts a pre-made plan in your hand when you are reading a book to your kids. These plans include vocabulary words, things to do before, during and after reading, and ideas to increase brain function. My favorite part of these plans are the higher level questions from the top three levels of Blooms taxonomy already there for you to ask. I know that I have a hard time thinking of these

This is a cute craft to make with your kids in a church or church school setting. Your kids cut and glue the letters to spell VALENTINE vertically through the words of the Bible verse John 3:16. I have included a photo but the flash distorted the colors, much better in person. The teacher can print the main page in color or copy it in black and white onto a colored paper. Each letter in the word VALENTINE is on it's own page. There are 30 hearts on each page. You can copy eac

Graphic organizers for Eric Carle books, including Bloom's higher level question. This set of read aloud plans includes 13 of the most popular Eric Carle books. It puts a ready to use plan in your hand with lots of ideas to do before, during and after reading the book. It also includes activities to activate the brain and Bloom's higher level questions. I use these in my classroom all the time and I always feel like my kids get so much more from the book when I have a plan ready. I ha

Bloom's higher level questions for all your favorite fairy tales and Eric Carle books on a one page graphic organizer at the teacher's fingertips. These plans include vocabulary, before, during, and after reading ideas, higher level questions, and activities to activate the brain. I use these in my classroom every week and many other teachers on my campus do as well. The Three Little Pigs, The Three Billy Goats Gruff and many other favorites included in this set. The Hungry Caterpillar, The

Teacher friendly graphic organizers are what these read aloud plan sheets will be for you. They will help you make the most of your read alouds and all the planning is done for you. This also includes a blank graphic organizer for you to fill in with any of your own books. This set has a plan sheet for The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle and The Three Billy Goats Gruff. This set is a sample. I have two other sets for sale right now including fairy tales and Eric Carle books. I plan to ha

This is a great alphabet game for a small group. Students can name the letter, letter sound, or word that starts with the letter. It is an active game and activates the brain. This game is ideal for pre-k, kindergarten, RTI groups, English language learners, and special education. Kids take turns drawing a card and naming the letter,sound or word if they draw a "bee" then the whole group pops up and starts to buzz. My kids ask to play this game everyday.

This is a game to use in a small group to work on number recognition. Numbers in the game include 0-20. They are broken down so that you can work on 0-5 with one group and 6-10 with another. You can also work on 11-15 and 16-20. My students love this game because they are actively participating. They get to roll the large number cube and they get to dot paint the numbers that are rolled. This game also works on reading a graph. After we play this as a teacher led game several times then

This set contains 3 literacy station activities and 2 math station activities ready to print and use in both color and black and white. The colored set is in red and would be great to use around Valentines Day. It has no hearts, just red polka dots so that it can be used anytime of the year. Literacy Stations 1. Syllable counting 2. Big Book task cards 3. Alphabet tracing cards Math Stations 1. Ordering numbers 1-12 2. Tracing numbers 1-12 These stations are ideal for p

This packet includes a form to pretest pre-k students. There is also a grid/graph to transfer your entire class results onto one sheet and color coordinate your kids into high, medium and low groups. I included an example graph that was already filled in and color coordinated as an example. I also included a simple to use and quick to fill out progress report page. These forms are great time savers and graphic organizers for me. I have many other teachers on my campus using these

Great alphabet game themed for Halloween. Includes directions for use with pre-k students and kindergarten students. Also included are ideas for differentiating for all students and how to make this game a higher level thinking game. This game would be great in the pre-k, kindergarten and special education classroom. Included in this freebie are directions, and a card for each capital letter of the alphabet and "Go Batty" cards. My class loves to play this game. Just adding an active pa

I just improved and reposted this product. Please read description and look at preview to decide if this product would be a good fit for your class. This Nursery Rhyme Journal includes nine common nursery rhymes with space at the bottom of the page for kids to illustrate. You can print these along with the cover and staple into a booklet. The cover is included in color or black and white. The nursery rhyme pages are in black and white. I usually copy the cover in black and white on

This Christmas alphabet game will be a favorite of your students. Included are a dozen different ways to differentiate play of this game from your lowest pre-k student to your highest kindergarten student. Critical thinking included in many of the ways to play. Included in this set are cards with all uppercase and lowercase letters both in color and black line. There are also cards that add a fun active element to the game to make it multisensory. Also convenient teacher cards listing th

This is a great Christmas game to practice phonological awareness skills. Skills include: rhyming beginning sounds syllables onset rhyme ending sounds

This Thanksgiving alphabet game will be a favorite of your students. Included are a dozen different ways to differentiate play of this game from your lowest pre-k student to your highest kindergarten student. Critical thinking included in many of the ways to play. Included in this set are cards with all uppercase and lowercase letters both in color and black line. There are also cards that add a fun active element to the game to make it multisensory. Also convenient teacher cards listing the v

These holiday alphabet games will be favorites of your students. Included are a dozen different ways to differentiate play of this game from your lowest pre-k student to your highest kindergarten student. Critical thinking included in many of the ways to play. Included in this set are -cards with all uppercase and lowercase letters both in color and black line. -Games for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. -Cards that add a fun active element to the game to make it multisensory. -Conv

These holiday alphabet games will be favorites of your students. Included are a dozen different ways to differentiate play of this game from your lowest pre-k student to your highest kindergarten student. Critical thinking included in many of the ways to play. Included in this set are -cards with all uppercase and lowercase letters both in color and black line. -Games for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Valentines, St. Patrick's Day and Easter. -Cards that add a fun active element to th

This is a set of alphabet cards could be used literacy centers, or small groups. They include three cards per letter, one capital letter, one lowercase letter, and one with a picture that starts with that letter. You could choose to differentiate for students on different levels by using the letter cards to match upper and lower case or match letter to picture card. The colors and stars could be used for a New Year theme or 4th of July theme but they are generic enough to be used anytime.

This Easter alphabet game will be a favorite of your students. Included are a dozen different ways to differentiate play of this game from your lowest pre-k student to your highest kindergarten student. Critical thinking included in many of the ways to play. Included in this set are cards with all uppercase and lowercase letters both in color and black line. There are also cards that add a fun active element to the game to make it multisensory. Also convenient teacher cards listing the variety

These holiday alphabet games will be favorites of your students. Included are a dozen different ways to differentiate play of this game from your lowest pre-k student to your highest kindergarten student. Critical thinking included in many of the ways to play. Included in this set are -cards with all uppercase and lowercase letters both in color and black line. -Games for Valentines, St. Patrick's Day and Easter. -Cards that add a fun active element to the game to make it multisensory. -

This Valentine alphabet game will be a favorite of your students. Included are a dozen different ways to differentiate play of this game from your lowest pre-k student to your highest kindergarten student. Critical thinking included in many of the ways to play. Included in this set are cards with all uppercase and lowercase letters both in color and black line. There are also cards that add a fun active element to the game to make it multisensory. Also convenient teacher cards listing the vari