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This is a collection of 65 different Brain Breaks for the classroom. These can be used as transitions, breaks in the middle of an activity, something to raise or lower the energy of the group, team-building activities, and more! Each brain break is accompanied by a description of how to do the exercise that can be glued onto the BACK of each activity, making it easy for you to remember all of these and for a sub, parent, principal, or student to know what to do each time a Brain Break is pulled!

** Featured on the 2 Sisters' Tip of the Week 7/6/12** This is a great activity to combine both math and word work! I pair this sheet with a baggie of play coins and have students determine the worth of each of their spelling words. You could also use content vocabulary words, sight words, and more! On the bottom of this page, they are asked which word is worth the most, least or if any are worth the same. The second page is a simple recording sheet- I print several out on cardstock and lam

These menus are a fun-filled way to incorporate a variety of reading responses throughout the entire school year! The menu format provides two fiction and one nonfiction choice for each appetizer, main course, and dessert. Each fiction menu item is used twice throughout the entire year, so there's plenty of variety to go around! Each nonfiction menu item is alternated from month to month. Students will choose one of the three choices from each course- appetizer, main course, and dessert, and

These engaging chevron posters will help your students remember the four types of sentences in either advanced or basic terms. Each poster comes with the term in a unique color, the definition, the ending punctuation needed, an example sentence, and cute punctuation clip art telling then what type of ending punctuation is needed. Advanced terms include: - Declarative - Interrogative - Exclamatory - Imperative Basic terms include: - Statement - Question - Exclamation - Command Full-color and

**UPDATED 7/22/15 to include EDITABLE PPT files! Now you can add any job you'd like with fonts AND clip art! Redownload if you have previously purchased this and enjoy personalizing the job cards to fit your classroom's needs!! These square chevron jobs will help make organizing your classroom easy, cute and uniform. What could be better? 32 jobs and 3 headers are included-- be sure to download the preview to see each job listed. Each 3.5" square card comes with a chevron border, job name, and

When the Spring weather arrives and it gets harder and harder to keep your students motivated in writing, this engaging and interactive writing activity will save the day! Making your own paper airplane from a piece of copy paper is a blast! This activity capitalizes on this high-interest activity and sneaks in some functional writing practice and the use of transition/linking words. Included in this packet is everything you need (minus the paper) to get this activity off the ground: - a page

**HUGE UPDATE: Be sure to redownload to take advantage of all of the new additions! Do your students struggle with creating strong, complete, and concise paragraphs? This Hamburger Paragraph Planning Packet is perfect for you and your students! This packet will help your kids plan a complete paragraph including an introduction sentence, three strong supporting/detail sentences, and a concluding sentence- all in a fun, engaging, and kid-friendly way! Included in these 50+ pages are numerous res

I have been incorporating Mystery Readers into my class for the last six years and it has been fantastic! Mystery Readers are parents, siblings, grandparents, visiting relatives, family friends, neighbors.... basically, anyone with an attachment to a child in my class (including the principal and other teachers!) who comes in for 15 minutes one afternoon per week to share a picture book aloud with the class. The super-fun part is that their identity is kept TOP SECRET all week long! The kids

If you study maps, be sure to check out this resource for additional fun in your classroom! This will help your students recognize and understand the five parts of a map: - title - compass rose - key/ legend - scale - grid Have students bring in maps from home, spread them around the room, give each child a set of printed sticky notes and have them label the different parts of the map they see. Included in this set are: - full-size posters of the five parts of a map - sticky-note templates f

These activities will get you all set for year-long, self- differentiating word work centers and/or math centers! Each activity combines learning spelling with a math concept, like place value, addition, multiplication, cents, and dollars. Included in this set are all three Place Value Word sheets & recording sheets, all three Word Worth sheets & recording sheets, and Letter Tiles Spelling Practice that includes four different recording sheets and practices addition and multiplication... wh

This is a collection of 135+ different Brain Breaks to use throughout the year during various seasons, topics, or for any reason whatsoever!! These can be used as transitions, breaks in the middle of an activity, something to raise or lower the energy of the group, team-building activities, and more! Each brain break is accompanied by a description of how to do the exercise that can be glued onto the BACK of each activity, making it easy for you to remember all of these and for a sub, parent, pr

This packet includes all of the resources you will need to start a Morning Meeting in your classroom, including a 30+ page E-BOOK to walk you through the entire process!! **To see a quick flip-through of the e-book, click HERE. Included in the packet: - Posters with the five steps of a Morning Meeting in variety of color themes - EDITABLE Posters in variety of color themes to customize for your own class' steps - 7 pages of questions for kids to answer as they greet each other (simply cut and

These menus are a fun-filled way to incorporate a variety of reading responses throughout the entire school year! The menu format provides two fiction and one nonfiction choice for each appetizer, main course, and dessert. Each fiction menu item is used twice throughout the entire year, so there's plenty of variety to go around! Each nonfiction menu item is alternated from month to month. Students will choose one of the three choices from each course- appetizer, main course, and dessert, and

With the Common Core's increased emphasis on nonfiction, this packet with be very helpful in keeping your students engaged and involved in a wide variety of activities to understand nonfiction text features. NF Text Features included are: - Table of Contents - Index - Glossary - Map - Caption - Chart - Heading/Subheading - Photograph/Illustration - Timeline - Diagram - Key Words - Bullet Points Included in this packet are; - 12 nonfiction text features full-page, full-color posters with feat

This is a PDF collection of 35 fun facts to hang in your class and spark fun conversations and LOTS of curiosity! Each fact is accompanied by fun clip art and includes standard measurements (where applicable). I hang a new one of these up on our front board each week and it gives the kids something fun to contemplate. Looking for even MORE fun facts? Check out Version 2 here: http://3rd.gr/DYK_Facts2 Enjoy and visit me on my blog for more ideas: 3rd Grade Thoughts Thanks for stopping by!

This is a fantastic system to keep desks, bins, tables and/or cubbies nice and tidy in your classroom! Every so often, leave one of these colorful & cheerful notes along with a special treat on top of a desk or in a bin or cubby that is very neat, clean and organized. Watch your students' excitement when they discover they have been visited by the Desk, Bin, Table, or Cubby Fairy! Each of the four designs comes with a cute poem about how the fairy visited when the students were away to see i

These posters include the six revised steps in Bloom's Taxonomy: - Remembering - Understanding - Applying - Analyzing - Evaluating - Creating Each poster includes a guiding question and a bullet list of verbs that help define each term. The colors are also in the order of the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue & purple) to help kids visualize the progression. I have hung these in my classroom and also have shrunk them down to 1/4 size (see a tutorial of how to do that HERE) and put the

Are subjects and predicates challenging when it comes to motivating your students? Use this "Complete Sentences" pack and your favorite Star Wars characters to help! Included are: - 3 Anchor Charts (Color and B&W) - Instruction pages for each of the activities - Subject & Predicate Cards with Recording Sheets (3 levels of differentiation and **EDITABLE** blank cards included) - 2 worksheets and keys - Student signs for small-group or whole-class informal assessments (kids will show you either "

**This is a discounted bundled set. Save by purchasing this item. Individual sets are linked above as well. This is a PDF collection of over 200 holiday-themed and general fun facts to hang in your class and spark fun conversations and LOTS of curiosity! Each fact is accompanied by fun clip art and/or photographs. I hang a new one of these up on our front board each day during the year and it gives the kids something fun to contemplate. Included in this set are all of the items you see listed ab

Looking for new, unique, and kinesthetic ways to practice spelling and/or vocabulary words? By incorporating these two centers into your Word Work rotation, you are not only having your students practice their words, but become familiar with alternative methods of communicating using the ASL alphabet and the Braille alphabet. This packet comes with two alphabet sheets that I print on cardstock and laminate to use all year long. There are instructions on the bottom and the Braille sheet also c