Andrea Phillips

Movin' and Groovin': My Book About Motion! was designed to teach primary learners about motion, forces, gravity, and magnets. This download includes a 12 page student booklet and a 9 page teacher guide with patterns and book recommendations. Student Booklet Contents: Page 1- What is motion? Page 2- How things move Page 3- How I move Page 4- Speed Page 5- Forces, pushing and pulling Page 6- Push and pull picture sort Page 7- Can forces move objects without touching them? Page 8- Gravity experimen

This download includes 4 different writing packets to help students move through the writing process. Themes include mystery, fairy tale, superhero and personal narrative. Each packet provides a planning sheet, beginning, middle, and end matching writing papers, and blank lines. There is also a peer editing checklist that can used with any student writing project. Happy writing!

Can your students solve the mystery? Students can use their Detective's Notebook to learn about character traits, setting, problem and solution, for popular chapter books such as A to Z Mysteries, Jigsaw Jones, Magic Treehouse, and Cam Jansen. Happy Sleuthing!

Students can practice solving 1 more and 1 less, 2 more and 2 less, and 10 more and 10 less problems. They will need to solve the math problems to find and color the correct squares on the 100 chart! Packet includes 6 puzzles, a 100s chart, and answer keys. These are a fun way to practice simple math facts and get to know the 100s chart!

Students love being scientists! This unit is designed to promote student inquiry and wonder about something they see all the time... the sun! This unit includes: * 7 page booklet "The Sun and Its Energy" that can be copied for each student * KWL for students to document their thinking and questions * 8 Day planning guide * Solar Energy Chains project * Solar Animal STEM project

"My Writing Words" is a personal dictionary for students to use when writing. The download includes pages of frequently used words and a blank page to add their own words for each letter. Addition pages include Days of the Week, Months of the Year, Colors, Numbers, Animals, Seasonal Words, Body Parts, Classmates names, and Friends names. My students love to keep these in their writing folders and use them throughout the day. As the year progresses, they add their own important words to create a

This sorting activity is a great practice or assessment tool for hearing the long or short i sounds in words. Students cut and paste the pictures under the pumpkin for short i, or under the pie for long i.

This is a thematic/literature mini unit based on Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin's Duck for President. The unit includes a retelling and sequencing activity, story vocabulary worksheet, and a writing craft. Patterns and instructions are included to make your own Duck for President (or Principal). Perfect for Presidents Day or to introduce government!

Use these pattern sheets as practice or assessment tools. Themes include Thanksgiving, Earth Day, beach, and arctic. Students can practice making AB, AAB, ABB, AABB, ABC, and ABCC patterns.

Want to encourage your students to read a variety of authors and genres at home? The "Monthly Reading Challenges" packet does just that! Each month has 16 different reading suggestions and challenges students to read at least 10 different topics/genres/materials. Just print the reading challenge sheet with the book list on the back and send it home with students at the beginning of the month. You can offer prizes or incentives for completed challenges, or just hang their completed forms on the "

This unit teaches the basic concepts of economics, needs and wants, goods and services, and consumers and producers. It includes vocabulary posters, printable worksheets and activity ideas, as well as assessment options. It is a perfect way to get students thinking about money and how it is used in the world around them!

This cross-curricular unit is based on the book Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type by Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin. It includes a reader's theater script, word family activity, onomatopoeia activity, addition game, milk graph, friendly letter writing, a cute cow craft, and ideas for planning your own Cow-lloween celebration!

This cross-curricular polar unit is one of my students' favorites! The materials were originally designed to be part of a polar themed lap book, but are just as fun on their own. Unit includes... *Polar Animal Exploration (fact chart and research ideas) *Meet the Inuit (research and craft) *Meet the Sami (research and craft) *Arctic Animals Food Web *Polar Book Recommendations (fiction and nonfiction) *Bossy R Word Study Activities *Polar Problem Solving and 100 Chart *Polar Poetry Pals (3 poem

Splish Splash: Let’s Learn About Solids and Liquids helps primary students learn about states of matter. The activities in the booklet cover mostly liquids and solids, but also touch on gases. Student booklet covers: Page 1- What is matter? Page 2- The molecules in matter Page 3- Water in our world Page 4- Physical Properties of matter Page 5- Exploration #1: Comparing physical properties of water and ice Page 6- Exploration #2: Comparing Mass of water and ice Page 7- Exploration #3: Comparing V

These fun word study centers will help your students make, use, and identify compound words. Each center includes a colorful hands-on activity and at least 1 recording or activity sheet. *Fishing for Compound Words activity and recording sheet *Compound Word Family Trees activity and recording sheet *Compound Cupcakes matching cards and 2 activity sheets *2 color the compound words sheets *2 Fill in the Blanks Compound Word sheets

Argg! Help your class learn like fun, fearless pirates by planning a day (or two) of pirate learning fun! "It's Pirate Day!" includes 2 different writing activities. Your students can fill in the blanks on the "If I were a pirate..." sheet and plan, write, and publish their own pirate adventure story. Students will get to learn about nouns and draw their own pirate island full of people, places, and things. "It's Pirate Day!" provides 2 math activities; an addition game and ordering and comparin

This unit will make learning about the life cycle of mealworms hands-on and fun! It includes worksheets that go along with 4 experiments found in "Mealworms: Raise them, watch them, see them change" by Adrienne Mason. It also provides vocabulary activities, a life cycle chart, and pages to make student's observation journals.

This unit was designed to help students learn about nocturnal animals around the world. It focuses on comparing habitats, predators, prey, and animal adaptations of various nocturnal animals. The unit includes: - 2 day lesson plans to introduce the differences between day and night (including venn diagrams, webs, and a day/night sky craft) - book suggestions - an animal fact chart - plans and patterns for an animal fact book (including fact pages and a cute craft for each animal) - vocabulary w

Grab your crayons and pencil! This resource includes Hidden Picture puzzles for all of the NBT standards for first grade. There are 13 puzzles total and multiple puzzles for most of the standards. Kids love practicing their skills and finding the hidden pictures to check their work. These would make great practice for first graders, enrichment for kindergarteners, or review for second graders! 1.NBT.1 Counting on from any number Counting objects and writing numerals 1.NBT.2 Writing #s with tens

This download includes 4 different writing packets to help students move through the writing process. Themes include Dogs vs. Cats (persuasive), How To... (informational), Space Adventure and Feelings (personal narrative). Each packet provides a planning sheet, beginning, middle, and end matching writing papers, and blank lines. There is also a peer editing checklist that can used with any student writing project. Happy writing!