Always Absorbing

This New Year Goal Setting lesson includes everything you need to help your students reflect, brainstorm, and publish a school and home goal for the new year. Includes: 1. Student brainstorming page with sentence stems for school and home goals 2. Teacher presentation with goal ideas (for each student handout spot), conversation prompts, and reflection/student instruction slide 3. Student publishing page with illustration spots

These are the templates I wish I had from my first year teaching. Included are: 1. Reading Levels Tracking Sheet featuring beginning, middle, and end of the year cells to record students' reading levels. Also includes color-coded key sample to track days of the week to meet with your reading groups. 2. Assignment Checklist featuring student names, assignment name, standard/objective,who turned it in, grade, spot for if reteaching was done, and spot for if student met after second attempt. Also i

Making inferences is a complex skill, and searching through your teacher's purse makes it far more engaging and easy to understand! Each year, I let my students look through my (ultra safe) purse, and they work together to infer why I have certain items! Students thoroughly enjoy the hands on aspect of this activity and also hearing each other's inferences.