Alana Eustace

Our district has put a major focus on math discourse and I wanted to have cards displayed around our room that serve as sentence starters, and discourse reminders as we work through our lessons. This has been a great resource for my students to refer to. You cant print/laminate them to hang or shrink them when you print to make desk printable sets for students on an individual basis.

I love a good about me page, but with my middle schoolers don't often want to engage with the typical posters and pages I see on here. Buttt...they LOVE sneakers. The shoe game is where it's at. So, I created this with a few specific shoes that my students talk about often, and I use it as a first week of school short activity that is used to decorate my bulletin board at the beginning of the year.

This is a google slides presentation I created to teach my students more about pollination. Great for grades 2-4 and can be modified to hit the standards you are working on. My classroom has an indoor garden so there are additional slides specific to our garden that easily be edited or removed.

My students often struggle to grasp difficult vocabulary and this kinesthetic game has helped them really grasp our science vocabulary! I start them in the middle of the room between each slide to give them a re-set, but the kids love getting to move while they learn and collaborate with their peers to make decisions! Enjoy! One helpful tip would be to make a sign just on a piece of paper that you tape up to help the kids know which side of the room is biotic vs. abiotic. This helps them to also

I was having a hard time with coming up with homework assignments that fit each level of student and parents were asking for homework to do at home with their student. While there is not evidence supporting homework, I wanted to accommodate my families who are willing to spend extra time working with their student. So I developed choice boards for each month and sent a letter at the beginning of the year letting families know that as long as they turned in the filled in board at the end of the m

I have used this passage specifically with my 4th and 5th graders. We have been working on understanding historical text, looking at cause and effect, and main idea. There are only three questions for this article because I wanted something attainable for my students to work through during their independent center time.

Whether I have called out sick and have a sub, need an engaging learning video, or just want to have a fun Friday, I often make worksheets to go along with a Magic School Bus episode. The kids enjoy watching and it helps build a skill of note taking! For my students still struggling with basic writing or fine motor skills, I give them a traceable copy so that they are still building the skill of taking notes, and engaging with fine motor practice. The kids have loved doing this!

With having multiple grade levels in my classroom, I needed something consistent that I could build independence with in the morning. My 4th graders were given this for seven weeks and then tested on Fridays. This was an easy way to get them thinking in the morning but not something that would take a long amount of time. As a support I kept dictionaries in the classroom and allowed them to search and find the words. This helped as an informative assessment in looking at their paragraph writing a

I needed a simple way to introduce my students to ecosystem changes that required participation on their part. This power point highlights rapid vs. gradual change and looks at some of the negative changes to ecosystems. This would be easy to make a copy and add information from your standards. My kids enjoyed coming up to the smartboard and writing on the powerpoint to answer questions as well as watching the videos.

Each week I try to make a quick recipe with my class, and we connect it to a math standard we are working on. My class has been working on fractions and measurement conversions, so we made milkshakes and had to convert our measurements! The class rocked it and actually making the milkshakes helped them conceptualize the measurements and fractions!

Here is a quick 6 question CVC worksheet. Perfect for morning work, independent work, or even to gather some progress monitoring data! Check in soon for my CVC bundle!