Teaching with Crayons and Curls

Happy End of the Year! Do you need some EASY and INEXPENSIVE ideas for gifts for your students!? There are over 20 different gift tag options to easily print and attach to gifts you can find at the dollar store, Target, Wal-Mart, and/or Amazon! UPDATED 05/2020: Now includes a color, tie-dye, and black and white version of each tag! Gift Tags Included: You Really Blew Me Away This Year- bubbles Your Future Looks Bright- sunglasses This Year was Buckets of Fun- sand bucket I Wish We Could Bottle

Do you send a reading log home each month? These simple reading logs can be used as homework or in the classroom to keep track of your students' reading! This has TWO different versions! Each month of the year is included! One version includes a table for students or parents to write the date, the title of the book and for parents to initial. The other version is more simple, and students can just color in a picture for each book or chapter they read! These reading logs coordinate with my oth

Do your students LOVE furry friends!? Mine do! So, I created these Behavior Buddies certificates and stickers to use with stuffed animals to promote positive behavior in my classroom! I purchased stuffed animals from Amazon, but you can get some anywhere! Wal-Mart, Target, Dollar Tree! I watch for POSITIVE behavior each day, and then students EARN the behavior buddy for the day. They can also receive a special certificate and a sticker to wear! *************************************************

Do you have a student teacher or know a future teacher and need a fun way to tell him/her goodbye and wish them luck!? This is the cutest book to have your students create for the student teacher in your classroom! The book has editable covers, so you can easily type in their name on the cover! Simply insert text boxes to write your student teacher's name and your name on the cover! It also comes with a cute poem to tell them goodbye! There is a blank page that you can type in a letter to y

Your students love morning meeting and sharing stories about themselves! Still, you aren't completely sure exactly what to have them talk about each morning! For that reason, these Get to Know You activities will help you and your students get to know each other better while giving you the ease of just having to share a slide! **************************************************************************************************************** WHAT’S INCLUDED:• SEVEN different activities that can ta

Get your *Red Carpets* ready! The Kids Choice Awards are here! Instead of doing the traditional End of the Year Awards, why don't you have your kids be involved in the process!!! This is the PERFECT way to end the year! With this product, your kids can use a voting sheet to vote for each award. Then, you can also send home an invitation to families to invite them to the big event! UPDATED 04/2020- Also includes a DIGITAL version of the Kids Choice Awards so you can still enjoy this event while

I LOVE using mini-anchor charts in my classroom to help guide my student's learning! We create anchor charts together, and then my students use these mini-anchor charts to glue in their Writing Notebooks to continue their learning and use as a reference! There are mini-anchor charts included for launching Writer's Workshop, Personal Narratives AND Opinion Writing! Writer's Workshop Mini-Anchor Charts Included: What is Writer’s Workshop? What do Writers Write? Why do Writers Write? What Do Good

This is a great resource to help with Opinion Writing in your classroom! It goes along perfectly with the First and Second Grade Common Core standards for opinion writing! This resource was updated in January 2019! This unit includes: -standard pages (first, second and third grades) -anchor charts for each letter (O, R, E, O) with explanations and Edit, CUPS, Revise, and ARMS -graphic organizers for opinion writing (1 Reason, 2 Reasons, 3 Reasons----great for differentiation!) -graphic organize

Updated July 2022- Includes Welcome Back Flags and "Squish"ing you a great year tags! Happy Back to School! Do you need some EASY and INEXPENSIVE ideas for gifts for your students!? There are over 20 different gift tag options to easily print and attach to gifts you can find at Oriental Trading, the dollar store, Target, Wal-Mart, and/or Amazon! Gift Tags Included: This Year is Going to Be Bright- sunglasses This Year is Going to be Sweet- candy or lollipops Our Class is All That and a Bag of C

These Subject Covers and Coordinating Bookmarks are the PERFECT way for your students to organize their folders, journals, notebooks, and binders in your classroom! And, the best part is they all match!!! There are over 20 DIFFERENT headers included, and for each header there is a folder, journal, notebook, AND binder option! I suggest printing each cover in a different color to help keep your students work more organized and easier for little learners to find the right notebook! There are

Happy 101st Day of School! Do you want to celebrate something other than the 100th day of school? 101 is TONS of FUN and this unit is packed with fun activities! This pack includes: -a letter to send home to families (editable option also included) -fun hat template with ears! -fun activity sheets -math mystery picture -101 HUNT! -writing prompt (If I had 101 _____, I would...) and Dalmatian craft -writing prompt and 101 year old person craft (also in my 100th Day of School Activities) -g

Updated January 2019--- NEW fonts and backgrounds! Are you going out on short-term leave, sick leave, or maternity leave and will have a long term sub or supply teacher in your classroom? This is the PERFECT survival notebook for the teacher that will be taking over your classroom! It includes colorful dividers, printer friendly dividers, and fill in the blank pages and calendars for you to easily type in and then print! Or, you can easily print out the pages and handwrite the information. If

This is just what you need to make {Back to School} time MUCH easier! Use this resource for Sneak-a-Peek, Meet and Greet, Meet the Teacher, Open House, anything! This resource includes Forms, Checklists, and Signs to use for Back to School with TONS of different options! Each form is editable In Powerpoint for you to add your own information! I have added {Enter Text Here} boxes throughout the document to make it easy for you! Most of the text and all of the graphics that are already in this d

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This fun MON"STAR" activity is perfect for your students to create their own monsters using 15 different monster pieces (body, arms, legs, eyes, mouth, and hair). This fun activity allows your students to let their creativity shine because each monster will be different! Then, students will use graphic organizers to brainstorm their monster's characteristics and create their very own story with their monster as the main character! Graphic Organizers Include: -First, Next, Then, Last -Beginning,

This is the {perfect} resource to make your Open House/ Curriculum Night/ Back to School/ Meet the Teacher Night (whatever your school calls it) a huge success! This document is {editable} in PowerPoint. Simply insert text boxes and type in YOUR information! Choose the slides you need to make your presentation fit your classroom! Please note that the images AND text that are already included ARE NOT editable! You can add your own text, but can not change anything already there! There are TONS

These GIANT 120 Chart Puzzles make the perfect math center or math activity for your students learning numbers to 120! These puzzles have THREE different versions included for charts up to 60 AND 120!! Makes differentiating your activities VERY EASY!!! There are block puzzles, puzzle pieces, and puzzle pieces with missing numbers! All you have to do is print (I suggest printing on different colored paper), laminate, and cut and you've got differentiated math centers!! Happy Teaching!

This ENGAGING mini-unit is the perfect way for your young students to learn and practice writing complete sentences! There are 5 days worth of activities for young learners to learn all all about including naming parts, telling parts, capital letters, and punctuation to their complete sentences! They will practice sorting, writing silly sentences, and completing their own {Sentence Surgery} with a cute band-aid book craft! Make sure to check out the teachers notes for all that your students c

I LOVE using Maria Dismondy books to promote kindness and character in my classroom. They are great at the beginning of the year, back to school, and throughout the school year! There are writing prompts, a craft, and graphic organizers for each book! The activities included for this unit correspond with these SEVEN AMAZING books: Spaghetti in a Hot Dog Bun The Juice Box Bully The Potato Chip Champ Pink Tiara Cookies for Three The Jelly Donut Difference Chocolate Milk Por Favor The Fruit Sala

Do you want to {SPREAD SMILES} in your classroom! Do you already using the Spreading Smiles slips with your students? Now you can create your OWN Bulletin Board using these letter templates that come in TWO different sizes and different font options! Simply print on your favorite paper or cardstock, cut, and put the letters on a bulletin board or on your door! There are also heart templates and banner templates to personalize your board! Updated August 2017: There is also a template included