Brian Cretney

Here is one of my picture books which I have converted to a pdf. I have written and illustrated this book and have travelled to nearly 150 schools with this story! Last in Line is about a king about to retire who must decide on the right person to take over his throne. This is a great story to promote character education in your classroom. Once you purchase this story, be sure to get my Teacher Guide which is nearly 50 pages of ready-to-use activities for grades K to 6. Here is easily a couple w

Here is a teaching resource chock-full of ready-to-use activities for grades K to 6, based on my picture book Last In Line (available here on TPT as a digital download, paper back or hard cover). All subject areas are covered and curriculum expectations are listed on each page. Many of these activities could be stand-alone exercises as well. Easily a couple week's worth of planning done for you!

Five poets appear on a Documentary to convince the audience they know what Christmas is missing. A child links it all together in the end for the big reveal that is both heart-warming and memorable. I wrote and produced this play for our church and it actually works!

Having trouble getting some of your students to focus? Here's a great tool: A powerpoint that uses the acrostic FOCUS to teach your students what behaviors are needed to succeed in school (and life). There are funny, animated surprises waiting on every slide which will help make these points more memorable. This presentation is open-ended enough for you to customize each point to your class. Use with small groups or with all your students. As an added bonus, be sure to download my daily F.O.C.U

This activity is taken from my Teacher Guide for Last In Line (both of these available here on TPT). Fun and easy-to-use activities to help your students really grasp the concept of why we right the teen numbers the way we do. No rote stuff here!

My F.O.C.U.S. Classroom Management Program is designed to help students take ownership of their own behaviors by making and monitoring their own goals. This is how the program works: 1. Show my F.O.C.U.S. Powerpoint Presentation (available here on TpT). 2. Every morning, the students receive a checklist and we review the skills that are presented in the F.O.C.U.S. acrostic until each skill is memorized. 3. Close to day's end, the students evaluate how well they performed using the points system

This activity is taken from my Teacher Guide for my picture book, Last in Line (both available here on TPT). This fun and easy-to-use activity will help your budding readers discover one of the coolest reading strategies ever: Find chameleon words hiding in big words!

Here is a fun game to go with "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom." This activity allows children to match a quantity (number of dots they roll on a dice) with its corresponding number (on the coconuts).

This activity is taken from my Teacher Guide for my picture book, Last In Line (both available here on TPT). These fun and easy-to-use activities will help your students develop their ability to manipulate sounds in words, strengthening their basic reading skills. Step-by-step instructions are provided for the teacher while the students are given a game sheet to record their new words.

This activity is taken from my Teacher Guide for my picture book, Last In Line (both available here on TPT). This fun and easy-to-use activity will help your students better understand symmetry and give them a chance to get artistic at the same time!

Another Teacher Guide for my picture book, Tooter's Stinky Wish. More ready-to-use activities for grades K-6. I try to make teacher guides that take a lot of work out of planning.

These activities are taken from my Teacher Guide for Last In Line (both of these available here on TPT). Activities include: life cycle of a butterfly (graphic organizer), science article/activity, the differences between a butterfly and a moth (venn diagram) and a fun art activity.

This activity is taken from my Teacher Guide for Last In Line (both of these available here on TPT). An easy-to-use printable that allows children to develop their A-B-C order.

This activity is taken from my Teacher Guide for my picture book, Last In Line (both available here on TPT). These fun and easy-to-use activities will help your students develop their measuring skills. (NOTE: The metric system is used in these activities)

This activity is taken from my Teacher Guide for my picture book, Last In Line (both available here on TPT). These fun and easy-to-use writing templates will help your students develop their ability to organize their ideas in an orderly way.

These activities is taken from my Teacher Guide for my picture book, Last In Line (both available here on TPT). These fun and easy-to-use exercises will help your students develop their ability to rhyme, the very foundation of phonemic awareness!

This activity is taken from my Teacher Guide for my picture book, Last In Line (both available here on TPT). This fun and easy-to-use activity will help your students develop their ability to write numbers in various forms.

This activity is taken from my Teacher Guide for Last In Line (both of these available here on TPT). Fun and easy-to-use activities to help develop a sense of patterns in our numbering system.

This activity is taken from my Teacher Guide for my picture book, Last In Line (both available here on TPT). This fun activity will help your students develop their spatial abilities.

Are you looking for a proactive method to regain classroom management in your French classes? Here is an effective way: Reward the students with a certificate when you "catch" them following one or more of these classroom guidelines (TIP: Place these guidelines on a poster in a prominent spot in the room). Simply get your principal to sign his/her name on the certificate and then run several copies off to give out during the month. Every student who receives a certificate automatically has his/h