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The fox is coming! Your students will be able to help keep the gingerbread man safe by creating a disguise. They will also be able to write about their gingerbread man and receive a special award for participating. Fun and engaging! This take-home family project will help you involve your student's parents while creating an amazing disguise for your 'cookies'. It contains gingerbread cookie templates, home reminder (note), home letter to present the project to your families, award templates, cl

Are your students having a hard time learning about Nonfiction Text Features? This product will help your students learn about 13 text features (Polar Bears Themed). This product contains: · Text feature cards to create Polar Folders. All you need is a file folder for each student. · 26 cards with definitions and examples of 13 Text Features. · 12 Text Feature posters that can be used to present each nonfiction text feature as you present it in class. · 7 pages (half sheets) and 13 pages

Are you ready to learn about your students virtually or in person? These Virtual All About Me Google Slide Templates will help you get to know your students. They can be creative and share what they are comfortable with. 28 Editable Google Slides will help your students add their personal information and share it with all of their classmates and teachers. Your students will be please to tell you everything about them! #StudentoftheWeek   * Your students need to be able to know how can add text a

Is it hard to look at your desktop because the mess is not pretty at all? It is time to fix that problem! These 55 desktop organizers will help you classify your folders into beautiful sections, so can easily find what you need, when you need it. It is saved as a PowerPoint file: type your titles and save as a png or jpeg file before uploading to your desktop. * E-mail me directly if you have any ideas I can use to add more templates, or if you have any trouble uploading them (mysecondsense@g

Make your animal research project an interactive one! Informational writing is fun when you read about animals your students do not know much about. This product includes: 28 animal cards for students to choose from for their research, draft templates and final interactive templates for your final product. You will fin cover, location, life cycle, habitat, interesting facts...and more!. It can be used with any animal (not just the 28 animal cards I included). Rubric, reflection, checklist and

Are you looking for activities to learn or review 2D shapes? Are your students ready to investigate and describe two-dimensional shapes according to their attributes? This product will help your students learn about 9 two-dimensional shapes using a variety of hands-on activities. These geometry activities were created to introduce, practice, and review 2D shapes. This geometry product contains: 11 mini-shape posters in color (triangle, right triangle, acute triangle, square trapezoid, rectangle,

Are your students ready to create animal research reports? This is an animal research project created to share information about any animal. Your students will practice their reading and researching skills (writing non-fiction) as well as reflecting on their learning. Students can work together or create individual reports. Then can create a Google Slide presentation or use the printable version. What is included?Digital file: 21 slides Printable File: -32 animal cards that can be used to hel

Are you looking for a way to welcome your students to the new school year? Perhaps you’ll like to create something for the end of the school year and/or your student’s birthday!  Use the editable file to personalize each bookmark using your student’s names and/or a message from you on the back. I created a set of editable bookmarks using Melonheadz Kidlettes: 51 girls, 51 boys, 1 blank, and 1 with a group of Kidlettes. These files are saved in PowerPoint. You can edit a bookmark that resembles

Turn a boring paint stick into a retelling wand. Your students will be thrilled when they can use the wand while Reading to Someone, taking a reading assessment, or summarizing all their ideas right after reading a book. This packet contains: Elements of fiction and nonfiction circles to make your wands, 12 full page posters. 12 half page posters, and 27 pages for you students to retell in writing. Visit my blog for the complete post. Please ask any questions you may have before purchasing:

What are you most thankful for this year? Create this Thanksgiving lapbook with your students to share what they are most thankful for. Share it with their families during your classroom Thanksgiving celebrations or feasts. All you need are the printables included and some file folders. Be ready to witness what Thanksgiving means to your students and have the opportunity to share the things we value this time of the year. Please let me know if you have any questions: mysecondsense@gmail.com

Do you need to keep your students organized and your parents well informed throughout the year? This student agenda is packed with useful forms and calendars to do just that! It can be used using a three-ring binder or a folder with prongs. You can edit/customize it by adding your own text boxes within the Powerpoint file before printing. The file is EDITABLE in PowerPoint. You can insert your own text boxes where needed OR print the forms as is and have your students add all the details. *Plea

Do you have a student teacher? Student Teachers Binders are a must to keep them organized. Your student teacher will feel loved, welcome and ready to conquer the teaching world! This binder contains 19 overs, a 12 month calendar (without dates) and a variety of inserts to use after almost each cover. The covers included are: Bright ideas, behavior management ideas, common core standards, evaluations, grades, lesson plans, notes... and much more. This is a power point presentation. You can

No matter how you go back to school, virtually or in person, these Virtual Meet the Teacher Templates and Open House Templates will help get ready either way!  These 48 editable Google Slides can help you share all the information needed during your Virtual Meet the Teacher and/or Open House. Your students and families will be well informed. Due to Copyright Laws and Terms of Use all pages are embedded and you can only add text and text boxes.  The slides titles ARE NOT EDITABLE, but you could e

These *40* buttons are just a different way to present an award to each student in your classroom. Instead of the typical certificate, they get to wear their award for others to admire :) Purchase 3” clear plastic buttons from your closest craft store. Print, cut, add to clear buttons and present to each of your students during your last day of school, or perhaps during your End of the Year celebration. They are editable. You may type your student's names, or hand write. I included the name o

Product Description: Are you looking for a way to introduce arrays? This product will help your students create, read, and understand arrays. My second graders used it to master repeated addition (2.OA.4- Operations and Algebraic Thinking), but it can easily be used for multiplication. Common Core Aligned: 2.OA.4: Use addition to find the total number of objects arranged in rectangular arrays with up to 5 rows and up to 5 columns; write an equation to express the total as a sum of equal adden

This unit provides you with a variety of tools to teach Opinion Writing. It includes: - Anchor charts - Sentence starters chart - Brainstorming topic chart - 3 different graphic organizers to aid your student's writing - Draft paper (lined) - Final paper (lined) - Student's checklist - 10 different question headers for the whole class to write about - 12 pages including 4 choice cards each- to use with your question headers. - Blank cards and headers for students to create their own choices.

Twenty ways of practicing spelling words at home. You can use these ideas with words from your spelling lists, word walls...

This little packet includes: - Going Batty: Compare and order numbers from least to greatest - Witche's Brew: Delicious drink for Halloween party - Parent note to use for your Halloween party - Mad Lib - Halloween book for students to write about their Halloween night Hope it is useful!

This unit contains pattern cards for you to print, cut, laminate and use to teach number patterns. It contains two and three digit cards to practice how to find number patterns. - 4 anchor charts/posters - 48 (two digit) pattern card - 4 per sheet - 64 (three digit) pattern cards - 4 per sheet - One sheet to record the number patterns - One sheet to extend the number patterns - One assessment sheet

Product DescriptionAre you looking for a way to help your student reflect on what they are grateful/thankful for? Use these daily thankful prompts to help your students reflect using the 50 prompts provided. Students will also have the opportunity to draw a picture and upload it to their journal entry. Being thankful and reflecting on how fortunate we are have been found to increase happiness!  This product contains:50 Google Slides with thankful prompts to show daily gratitude. Decide what yo