Barrett Basics

I make my own writing journals for my students. This is the cover I allow them to color and make their own. I then print out writing paper and 3 hole punch it together to make it a journal :)

Using the Wit and Wisdom reading program level 1 - one of the end of module tasks is to write an informational paragraph about 2 animals and how they use their unique features. This is a great student hand out for children to study and practice talking about and writing before the assessment.

This is a resource I use with students on Mondays. This is a great resource to use with students who don't know what to write about.

Every spring my students and I plant seeds in a cup with soil and a bean in a bag with a paper towel. Every Monday and Friday we keep a log so we can track the changes and growth that were made :)

On the first day and the last day I do this. This is our first day one. :)

Every spring my students and I plant seeds in a cup with soil and a bean in a bag with a paper towel. Every Monday and Friday we keep a log so we can track the changes and growth that were made :)

Personal Folders for practicing trick words. I usually put these on a manila folder and send home with their adults during December conferences so they have resources at home to be practicing trick words :)

I celebrate 3-4 holidays around the world in December with my students. I've printed out a pretend passport and each country we travel to they get a "stamp" in their passport just like in real life! So fun!

Teaching Bossy R can be confusing! I like to use a pirate to help me. "ar" is the happy pirate. "ur" "er" "ir" is the mad pirate because he has to share the sound with THREE other letters and "or" is the oars he rows with! I have these printed and laminated and put on display as introduced.

Informative Writing activity for chimpanzees. Print and color chimp for bulletin boards :)

Print and cut. Have students compare the different objects in the picture and fill out the worksheet. this familiarizes students with math terminology.

Thanksgiving Turkey Making! Make sure to print different parts of the turkey on colored paper if coloring and cutting is too much for your littles.

I hang these along with my Growth Mindset Brain Activity. These posters hang all year and we read them periodically to remind ourselves :)

Teaching narrative writing and get those students saying "I don't know what to write!" Well this is the perfect resource to have students complete before narrative writing to brainstorm some ideas to write about!

Personal Narrative Pre-Writing Activity

100th Day Of School Stickers. Small ones for students and bigger ones for teachers. Print onto sticker paper!

First day of school growth mindset activity! I have students color the growth mindset statements in yellow and the fixed mindset statements in blue. These stay hanging in my room all year :)

To go with my teacher progress monitoring packet, here is the student reading word list.

Teaching about narrative writing. This is a small checklist students can keep on their desks to refer to :)

I use this poster during morning meeting. It is posted right above our weather portion of morning meeting. It's a great way to separate the different parts of morning meeting.