Be Their Difference

This pack will guide you through the process of allowing your students to plan, create, and conduct a poetry cafe! The students are the center of this unit. They will brainstorm what is needed, form focus groups that will make a plan, create, and execute, and the class will work together to create a performance atmosphere in your classroom. This pack includes the materials needed for each student to create their own Poetry Notebook with different styles of poetry including: Acrostic, Sensory

Develop your students FINE MOTOR SKILLS during math. These make a great center. This pack includes 4 different math skills: Patterns, Addition Facts, Decomposing Teen Numbers, and Fractions (basic and equivalent). Simply print, laminate, and enjoy watching your students have fun while they practice math and build motor skills.

ABC posters that display growth mindset vocabulary. These posters accompany the book: Growth Mindset: It's as easy as ABC by Erin Mengeu. Available soon on Amazon. www.betheirdifference.com

This writing/art center is great paired with the children's book, Just Start with a Line. Best for k-5 students. Students complete a learn how to draw and then answer questions to create a writing piece.

Drawing with simple lines is great for early learners who are looking to improve their drawing, practice lines, develop fine motor skills, and to just make writing fun. This product has 6 pages of designing with simple lines. It makes a great morning work and/or writing center activity.

Coloring pages that include one page for each letter of the alphabet. These pages have growth mindset vocabulary words and pictures for young learners to color and display. This coloring set goes with the book, Growth Mindset: It's As Easy as ABC by Erin Mengeu which will be available soon on Amazon. www.betheirdifference.com

3 different styles of journal pages for various grade levels. Start your day off right with a daily dose of gratitude! Your students will develop a growth mindset by starting their day off right. 5 different covers to choose from 3 different journal page styles to choose from Print, assemble, and enjoy! To read about how this journal has been used before click here.Visit my blog at https://betheirdifference.com

These resources can be used for several lessons that teach students about understanding and controlling their emotions. Mood Meter - use this to have students point to the color they are feeling and why they feel that way. Practice this using characters from books. Web - Use the web to brainstorm what makes them happy (green). Gold Coins - Use the coins to write what makes them happy.

Practice basic and equivalent fractions with this hands on activity. Also will help build fine motor skills.

Celebrate each student with this Student of the Week Pack! A great way to make each student feel special!

Helping students to stay organized and teaching them how to do so is a huge part of executive function skills. Being able to organize physical belongings will help with being able to organize what goes on in the brain. Use these desk fairy cards to do a weekly desk check. After your student leave for the day, leave a card in desks that look neat and tidy. FREE PRINTABLE BOTH COLOR AND B/W

This freebie is easily printed and laminated to put on a wall or on a students desk. You can use it as a reference and create one with your class. You could also cut it apart and use it in a different order with velcro dots or sticky tack. To read a blog post about how Morning Routines help to develop Executive Function Skills click here. I'd love for you to subscribe to my blog to get updates each time that I post new content. Visit www.betheirdifference.com