Jennifer Drake

Searching for a Thanksgiving craftivity that will 'serve' as a great keepsake for parents? This Thanksgiving Mat/Placemat can be used as part of your own Thanksgiving Feast decoration or sent home for students to share with their families as they enjoy their Thanksgiving dinner! 2 versions so that it can be differentiated for different levels! **Updated 11/18/24 for 2024** This Pack Includes: *Photo Page *Mat with labels and year (2024) *Mat w/o labels and year (2024) *Optional Back Project poem

Pumpkins Lifecycles Life cycle Pumpkin lifecycle ***Find this crown in my money saving lifecycle crowns BUNDLE!***Are you learning all about pumpkins?! Want a fun way to review the life cycle of a pumpkin so that students can 'display' their knowledge?! This Pack Includes: *Directions/Suggestions for Use *Numbered Crown *Crown (without sequencing numbers) *6 Full Color Pumpkin Sequencing Cards *6 B & W Pumpkin Sequencing Cards Sequencing cards can be used in a pocket chart and/or glued/taped/Ve

Interactive Notebooks ABC Interactive Notebooks Have you been reading all about interactive notebooks/journals and wondering how to implement it in your PreK-1 classroom? This resource is everything you need to get started! ***Check out this FREE SAMPLE for Letter Aa*** Need hands-on activities from A to Z for your little letter learners? Want an anchor chart to introduce the notebook and give visual reminders to students as they complete their notebook activities independently in a center?

back to school back to school craft bestsellerforme Are you planning on reading 'The Kissing Hand' by Audrey Penn to your students this year? Using it as a 'first day' story? Want a cute and simple craftivity that connects to the story and serves as a conversation starter about the child's first day for parents? This cute and easy craftivity is just what you need! My students LOVE making hats and parading around the school! How fun it will be to make and wear these on the first day! Parents

Father's Day Father's Day Craft Father's Day Gift Father's Day is approaching! Need a super easy and ultra cute craft for your students to make to celebrate the special man in their lives? Your students probably love to build...play on that with a frame filled with tools and a header that says 'I couldn't have built a better Dad!' Keep the tool theme with a saw card that says 'Hands Down You are the Best Dad I Ever Saw!' This pack comes with templates for Dad, Grandpa, Uncle, Brother & Spec

Black History Month Woman's History Month Ruby Bridges Rosa Parks Are you planning on teaching your students about Rosa Parks and Ruby Bridges, but having a hard time finding books they can read about these 2 famous African American women? I have searched high and wide to find emergent readers that my students can read independently to teach them about Rosa Parks & Ruby Bridges, but always came up dry, so I created them! Now my students can read an 'informational text' independently during Bl

There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Turkey Thanksgiving Turkey Old Lady stories Retelling Sequencing Are you working with 'There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Turkeyl' by Lucille Colandro and looking for some fun no-prep extension activities?! ***Consider this BUNDLE for added savings and extra additions!!!***Be sure to download the preview to see a peek at all the goodies in this pack! This Pack Includes: *Listening Response Printable *Sequencing Printable/Pieces *11 Full Color Sequencing C

fall scarecrow leaves old lady stories retelling sequencing Are you working with 'There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves' by Lucille Colandro and looking for some fun no-prep extension activities?! This resource is perfect for working on retelling and sequencing! ***Consider this BUNDLE for added savings and extra additions!!!***Be sure to download the preview to see a peek at all the goodies in this pack! This Pack Includes: *Listening Response Printable *Sequencing Printable/Pieces *

Gearing up for 'back to school' and all the new name tags, labels, desk plates and more? Looking for a product that allows you to edit and personalize your tags? Think your students will be 'hungry' for learning and fun with a cute and familiar caterpillar character theme? Look no further! To see examples of just some of what you can do with this product, view the 'examples' thumbnail! This Pack is a zipped file containing both EDITABLE PDF file (you cannot change the font/size that is embedded

How To Writing How To Pizza Sequencing ***This is part of my 'How To' Writing BUNDLE that can be found HERE. Save money by purchasing the bundle rather than individual packs. Pizza is a 'kid favorite' and is the perfect food to use for teaching 'how to' writing! This pack can be used all year long to work on 'how to' writing and comes with 3 suggestions of how to 'act out' how to make a pizza- both with food and craft materials! ***Here are links to all my 'How To' packs:*** *How To Care F

Ordinal Numbers Ready for a fun game to practice and reinforce ordinal numbers first through tenth?! Want a game that can be used to address Common Core standards, yet is fun, engaging and developmentally appropriate?! My students are choosing to play this game during choice time! They really understand and can use ordinal number 'language' thanks to this game! This Pack Includes: *Directions for Set-Up, Play and Flip-Up Activity with Photos *Cookie Jars labeled with ordinal names first th

Penguins Penguin Books Non-Fiction Learning about penguins? This is an informational text pack all about penguins! It comes in both color and black and white- please download the preview to see all the different components of the pack! Read about these books and set this blog post! ************ Find a FREE Sample of one book here! *************** You can also find a pack for Animals of Antarctica! Students will leave your penguin unit with a carrying case of penguin books they can read,

bats old lady stories retelling sequencing Halloween freakout2021 Are you working with 'There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Bat' by Lucille Colandro and looking for some fun no-prep extension activities?! ***Consider this BUNDLE for added savings and extra additions!!!***Be sure to download the preview to see a peek at all the goodies in this pack! This Pack Includes: *Listening Response Printable *Sequencing Printable/Pieces *8 Full Color Sequencing Cards *8 B & W Sequencing Cards *Directions

Is the thought of composing and decomposing numbers 2 to 20 with your students make you want to scream? This fun and engaging pack will have your students work hands-on so that they truly understand how to compose and decompose numbers! The pack comes in both color and b & w to best meet your printing capabilities! Be sure to download the preview to get a sneak peek of everything in the pack! This Pack Includes: *Directions and suggestions for use *Composing Numbers Work Mat (Color) *Decomposin

sight words high frequency words *A 'TOP 100 SELLERS' PRODUCT!* ****This bundle is in my SUPER BUNDLE for added savings and more books!****This is a MEGA BUNDLE of my 6 sight word reader packs. It covers total of 30 sight words. By purchasing this mega bundle you save $4- which is the same as getting one of the packs for free! Price comes out to 69 cents per book! *******Be sure to check out my FREE sight word reader sampler!! You will receive 2 full books in the sampler so that you can see

Presidents Black History Month Are you teaching your emergent readers about Barack Obama? **UPDATED 1/8/17 to reflect that he is no longer President** Would you like THEM to be able to read an informational book about our 44th President with pride & confidence? How about a printable that details facts from the book- teaching students how to reference back into a book for information? Look no further! ***Find My Other Presidental Foldable Reader Packs Here:*** *George Washington *Abraham L

Pilgrims Native Americans Thanksgiving Are you teaching your emergent readers about Pilgrims and Native Americans this November and/or for Thanksgiving? Would you like THEM to be able to read an informational book about important American figures with pride & confidence? How about printables that detail facts from the books- teaching emergent readers how to reference back into a book for information? Look no further! Download the preview to see some of the pages in both color & black & whit

Black History Month Harriet Tubman African American Women Are you planning on teaching your students about Harriet Tubman, but having a hard time finding books they can read about this famous African American woman? I have searched high and wide to find emergent readers that my students can read independently to teach them about Harriet Tubman, but always came up dry, so I created them! Now my students can read an 'informational text' independently during Black History month- and so can yours

St. Patrick's Day Old Lady stories Retelling Sequencing Are you working with 'There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Clover' by Lucille Colandro and looking for some fun no-prep extension activities?! ***Consider this BUNDLE for added savings and extra additions!!!***Be sure to download the preview to see a peek at all the goodies in this pack! This Pack Includes: *Listening Response Printable *Sequencing Printable/Pieces *11 Full Color Sequencing Cards *11 B & W Sequencing Cards *Directions for

Water Cycle The Water Cycle Weather Condensation Precipitation Evaporation Transpiration Rain Are you learning all about the water cycle?! Want a fun way to review the water cycle so that students can 'display' their knowledge?! This Pack Includes: *Directions/Suggestions for use *Numbered Crown in B&W and Color (2 versions- evaporation & transpiration) *Crown (without sequencing numbers) in B&W and Color (2 versions) *6 Full Color Water Cycle Sequencing Cards *6 Color & B&W Arrows (to sh