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** 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 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

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 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

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

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 math activity is the perfect way to engage students, get them moving, and practice different ways to write numbers in standard form, word form, expanded form, and using place value blocks. The Monster Math packet includes 24 cards, 5 student work pages and a corresponding answer key. Each monster card features a unique monster and a number in either standard form, word form, expanded form, or using place value blocks. Numbers are either two or three digits. Set these cards up around the

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

This math activity is the perfect way to engage students, get them moving, and practice different ways to show multiplication: through problems, products, arrays, and fact triangles. The Multiplication Monsters packet includes 24 cards, 5 student work pages and a corresponding answer key. Each monster card features a unique monster and a multiplication problem, array, or fact family. Multiplication problems are from the 2-9 times tables. Set these cards up around the class for an all-class s

Making your own snowflake from square pieces of paper are my students' favorite thing to do in the wintertime. This activity capitalizes on that interest and sneaks in some functional writing practice and use of transition/linking words. Included in this packet is everything you need (minus the paper and scissors) to get this activity off the ground: - 2 pages of instructions - 3 pages to record beginning, middle and ending linking words- hang in your class for future reference - a student sh

This language activity is the perfect way to engage students, get them moving, and practice the past, present and future tense of both regular and irregular verbs. The Verb Tense Monsters packet includes 24 cards, 5 student work pages and a corresponding answer key. Each monster card features a unique monster and a word in either past, present, or future tense. Set these cards up around the class for an all-class scavenger hunt or use them in centers as flash cards. Students will find the mat

This engaging wintertime activity will help your students build words with prefixes and/or suffixes by dressing up snowmen in scarves, hats, and earmuffs. Each of the 10 snowman cards contains a root word for your kids to dress up with prefix cards (earmuffs & hats) and/or suffix cards (scarves). They will then write the completed word on the included recording sheet and draw the dressed-up snowman (fun!). Below their new word is a place for them to write the definition of their new word. This

Are you looking for a way to include student voice in your parent-teacher conferences? Do you need a fun and non-judgmental way to discuss growth and goals with your students? This two-page reflection sheet is the perfect tool to get your students thinking about ways they have shone or things they are proud of ("GLOW") and things they still need to improve on, or set a new goal for ("GROW"). Use these throughout the year to encourage Growth Mindset and success along their learning journey. Inc

This unit includes several center activities to help celebrate Thanksgiving in your classroom. Included are: - Making Words (3 sheets with a variety of letter word combinations) - Word Search (including most of the vocabulary) - Matching Thanksgiving Cause & Effect (includes 16 cause & effect cards, 2 header cards with mini-definitions to help, and recording sheet) - Parts of Speech Sort (sorting 36 Thanksgiving vocabulary words into nouns, verbs, or adjectives) - Syllable Sort (sorting 36 Tha

Do you struggle with chatterboxes this year? Is it a challenge to have kids use voices other than on or off? This Voice Levels Classroom Noise Management Packet can help! Included in this packet are loads of helpful resources: - Level 0-5 posters (several wording versions to suit your style) - One comprehensive poster (three versions & EDITABLE PowerPoint version where you can type in your own descriptors) - Anchor charts to help teach your students the difference between each voice level - Bla

This activity is a perfect way to introduce, practice, or quickly refresh the concept of onomatopoeia (sound words). And what better time to talk all about sound words than Halloween? This packet includes four sets of 8 cards that include: - characters - spooky event/setting - onomatopoeia There is also a mini-anchor chart as well as six publishing pages for the stories that kids create. To use, simply print out the cards on cardstock and divide into three-four piles (I will often make two p

If you study landforms in your class, this set is a perfect way to play and learn about 24 landforms and bodies of water! Included in this set are: - 24 landforms posters with name, clip art image, and short description - 24 different Bingo boards with landform name and a Free Space - 1 Make-Your-Own Bingo template - 3 Bingo pieces pages for your students to cut out to make their own board- one with landform names, one with black & white clip art and one with full-color clip art of the landform