Allison Drolen

Enjoy making an ABC Book of Illinois to learn and review key facts about the state! Students will learn about everything from agriculture to popular zoos in the State of Illinois. This works great as an addition to your current unit or it works well by itself using trade books or Internet resources. I have listed what is covered (from A-Z) below! Simply make front to back copies for each student. I have included a cover page for students to color. I prefer to bind the student booklets for

This is a GREAT Lap Book to use when studying the Human Body Systems! I have included a STUDENT TEXT WORKBOOK in case you do not have access to a science text! There are FABULOUS PHOTO SAMPLES from REAL STUDENTS to show you EXACTLY how to implement and utilize this Lap Book! SPECIFIC TEACHER DIRECTIONS are included. I have also included BOTH COLOR AND B/W COPIES! Please see thumbnails and preview files for photo samples and other samples! Systems included are: Circulatory Respiratory Muscula

This is a great freebie to use when learning about perspective/point of view! After reading both stories (The Three Little Pigs and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs) we discussed what perspective/point of view is and its significance in stories. Please note that this was broken into two days--one day reading/discussing the traditional Three Little Pig Story and how students felt about the Wolf and the second day reading/discussing The True Story of the Three Little Pigs and how the char

Make the fourth day of 4th grade extra special with this fun scoot activity! Place cards on student desks or around the room. Each student will start at one card. Give the students one minute to read the card and write their responses on the recording sheet provided. Be sure to make front to back copies of both recording pages so students can fit in all of their responses! After time, students will "scoot" to the next card until all of the cards are played. Afterwards, I like to meet at my rug

I have combined my Fables and Folktales Lapbook and 5 Literacy Centers this Bundle Pack. What's included in the Fables and Folktale Literacy Centers: Included are 3 Fable cards with 5 Literacy Centers for Fables and Folktales! Please read the description below. The Loin and the Mouse– I have included a brief story card for student use. Simply print, cut and laminate story cards and vocabulary words. Make multiple copies of student recording forms and place at center. Students will us

Follow me on TpT so you are notified when my latest products are released. I post them at 50% off for the first 48 hours of being posted. Follow me so you can take advantage of my offer! At the beginning of the year, I often want to get right into writing. However, students often need a refresher on writing and especially on generating their own ideas. I created this mini-lesson unit to ease students back into writing after summer break! There are 7 mini-lessons that you can do along with

Follow my store so you are notified when my latest products are released. I post them at 50% off for the first 48 hours of being posted. Follow me so you can take advantage of my offer! I really struggled when trying to decide which Fairy Tales to use for my Interactive Journals. But then I questioned, why should I create one for a specific title? Could there be a way of creating a versatile journal that could meet the needs of teachers and allow teachers the freedom of picking their own Fa

Add some color and fun to your classroom with this cute birthday bulletin board set! Print, laminate, and cut each cupcake out. Have students sign their name in the white part of the cupcake that matches their birthday month. You may also have students write the date (number) under their name as well. For example, Allison's birthday is May 17th. She would write her name on the May cupcake and write "17" under her name. Display on bulletin board or wall. You'll be sure to keep track of eve

I am so happy to offer ALL of my Science Lap Books, Science/Literacy Centers, and matching Science 7-Up Games at a huge discounted price! A $22.00 value for only $10.00! Included in this Mega Pack: 1. Human Body Systems Interactive Journal/Lap Book -Nervous System -Respiratory System -Muscular System -Circulatory System -Skeletal System -Digestive System 2. Human Body Systems Science/Literacy Centers 3. Human Body Systems 7-Up Game 4. Plants Interactive Journal/Lap Book 5. Plants 7-Up Game

Follow me on TpT so you are notified when my latest products are released. I post them at 50% off for the first 48 hours of being posted. Follow me so you can take advantage of my offer! Whenever my students hear “algebra,” I see a classroom full of panicked faces! To ease their worried looks, I decided to make an inviting and engaging math center for my students! Students are asked to join the Construction Crew to fix up and build the algebraic equations wherever a variable is. Stude

Before purchasing, please view my Science Interactive Journal/Lap Book MEGA Pack---all of my Science Journals/Lap Books are included as well as the matching 7-Up Games---a $22.00 value for only $10.00--over 300 pages worth of fun interactive material! This is my THIRD Science Lap Book that I have created! After seeing the students' success and this also being one of my top selling items, I thought it would be beneficial to create a Science Lap Book for each of the science concepts I teach in T

Enjoy this January Monthly Write the Room Freebie! I love the concept of "Write the Room!" However, I teach 3rd grade and wanted to still do the activity, while making it a bit more challenging for older grades! This activity is so versatile, it is suitable for grades K through 4th! Please read through directions below. Print, laminate, and cut winter word cards. Place word cards around your classroom. You may wish to use all 24 cards or just 12 cards. If you’d like to use all 24 c

In our district, we use the program Making Meaning as part of our Literacy Block. There are a lot of texts to use for this program. I wanted to enhance the lesson a bit more by presenting the students with enriched questions. Therefore, I decided to create questioning cards that go along with the text/genres in the program (although you do not need to use the Making Meaning Program to implement these cards). The questions presented are a combination of higher-level thinking questions. I also

This is a GREAT Lap Book to use when studying the Human Body Systems! I have included a STUDENT TEXT WORKBOOK in case you do not have access to a science text! There are FABULOUS PHOTO SAMPLES from REAL STUDENTS to show you EXACTLY how to implement and utilize this Lap Book! SPECIFIC TEACHER DIRECTIONS are included. I have also included BOTH COLOR AND B/W COPIES! Please see thumbnails and preview files for photo samples and other samples! Systems included are: Circulatory Respiratory Muscular

Follow me on TpT so you are notified when my latest products are released. I post them at 50% off for the first 48 hours of being posted. Follow me so you can take advantage of my offer! I am so happy to add this to my store! I have worked a long time on designing and creating this product. I love using Interactive Notebooks in my class. My Third Grade Team and I wanted to continue using our current spelling lists; however, we also wanted to make spelling a bit more exciting for the stude

Follow my store on TpT so you are notified when my latest products are released. I post them at 50% off for the first 48 hours of being posted. Follow my store so you can take advantage of my offer! Before purchasing, please view my Science Interactive Journal/Lap Book MEGA Pack---all of my Science Journals/Lap Books are included as well as the matching 7-Up Games---a $22.00 value for only $10.00--over 300 pages worth of fun interactive material! I am so excited to release my second science

You kids will have fun finding the action verbs in these spooky sentences! Print, laminate, and cut for student use. Make multiple copies of the student recording form. Students can work together in small groups or individually. This idea would also work well in a word work station during your Daily Five time in the month of October! If you found this product to fit your needs, I'd greatly appreciate your feedback. Check out my store for other products and many freebies! I'm working all

This package is filled with 45 different Math Boggle Boards! There are 4 boards for the months of September-May. For each month, I have created 2 different 3x3 boards (easy) and 2 different 4x4 boards (challenging). I like to put laminated copies of the boards in a Zip Lock Bag and store extra recording sheets in the bag as well. Then I place the entire bag in my Math Games Center. You will be all set for the entire year! Students will use one of the Math Boggle Boards to find different

Save 50% and Purchase the Bundle Pack! Are you using Reading Wonders in your third grade classroom? Check this out! Best practice supports creating your classroom word wall along with your class instead of posting all words prior to the beginning of the school year. I have created a weekly addition to your word wall using the spelling words from your Reading Wonders Series! This product includes all 6 units of the Reading Wonders Spelling Words. There are 5 weeks in each unit with 15 spel

We are working on different ways of telling time to the nearest 5 minute mark. I created this little match up game for my Guided Math Group. At my Guided Math Table, students work together to make a "Time Clock S'more". They will use the pieces to match up the digital, analogue, and written time. In the written time cards, I have used more common "time language" such as "a quarter past..." or "half past..." as those are some of the concepts our math curriculum focuses on. After printing, la