Busy Bee Learning Tools

Description: No need to buy an expensive planner when you have this print-and-go, 12-month planner that suits your everyday needs. Simply print, hole-punch, and place in a binder. Each month-at-a-glance includes motivational tips and quotes, and has its own theme and color scheme. Uses: For daily personal use when planning throughout the year. You can print and place in a folder or hole-punch for use in a binder. Cover page included to place in the front binder sleeve. You could also print two t

11 Games in one!Short Vowel SoundsLong E Vowel TeamsLong A Vowel PatternsVC-E (Long Vowels)Closed Exceptions (ild, old, ind, olt, ost)R-Controlled VowelsWelded Sounds (am, an, all)Ending Blends (ng)Ending Blends (nk)OI vs. OYOU vs. OWDescription: While students are playing Memory Match, they have to recognize spelling patterns within printed words, read words that contain learned spelling patterns, group words by spelling pattern, and write words using correct spelling. You may decided to lamina

Description: No need to buy an expensive planner when you have this print-and-go, 12-month planner that suits your everyday needs. Simply print, hole-punch, and place in a binder. Each month-at-a-glance includes motivational tips and quotes.  Uses: For daily personal use when planning throughout the year. You can print and place in a folder or hole-punch for use in a binder. Cover page included to place in the front binder sleeve. You could also print two two a page to hang on the refrigerator o

Description: This flash card deck includes a name card for each student’s deck and multiplication facts from 1 through 12. Print double sided to have the answer on the long edge so students can quiz themselves, or print odd pages single-sided to remove the answer from the back (some teachers like to have students write their own answers on the back for additional practice). Cut and place in a plastic baggie or rubber band the deck. For best results, print on thicker or colored paper to reduce th

Description: Students will hold the snowmen up to the light (up to a window or in front of a flashlight) to view the word and the melting snowmen! Students will have fun identifying words containing ending blends and sorting them.  Uses: Have students read the words out loud, identify the blend and write the word on the graphic organizer. You could use this as a center activity, small group activity, partner activity, or even an independent activity for the whole-class if you have a class set of

Description: These traditional-multiplication templates help students keep track of place value while multiplying 1-by-2 through 3-by-3 numbers. Six templates are included in this pack.  Uses: Use these templates when teaching traditional multiplication. Demonstrate how to use it whole-class or in small group, then provide a laminated copy to each student for continued use. You also place in sheet protectors in lieu of laminating and offer it to students who need extra visual-spatial support. Pr

Description: Target students’ fiction reading skills with these Story Element Bookmarks! Each bookmark is filled with targeted questions to support independent growth within a skillset. Students can check off each prompt as they use them until they have had a great range of practice. Story elements included: problem/solution, characters, summary, and setting. Uses: Use this bookmark as a supplement to your small group work or whole class lessons. Give to individual students as a way for them to

Description: No need to buy an expensive lesson planner when you have this print-and-go, 12-month, 7-subject daily planner that suits your everyday needs. Simply print, hole-punch, and place in a binder. Each month comes with spaces to jot down notes and upcoming dates including meetings and birthdays. Besides your 7-subject planner, you also get a month-at-a-glance with motivational tips and quotes. Additional pages included: blank lined and unlined planner sheets, birthdays at-a-glance page, m

Description: Printable, reusable discussion dice are meant to get students talking about their texts in an interactive, engaging way. Discussion dice come with both fiction and nonfiction specific questions that align to reading skills and match student reading levels.  Uses: For use in reading partnerships, book clubs, and small group settings. Partnerships can use this tool with independence to discuss their fiction and nonfiction reading in an engaging and interactive way. Simply print, cut,

Description: Capitalize on student knowledge of Base 10 Blocks to support understanding of traditional addition and subtraction. When subtracting, start by having students draw the larger number using Base 10 symbols in the workspace (⃞=100, ❙=10, ▪=1). As students subtract traditionally from the ones place to the hundreds place and need to regroup, they can use the workspace to trade tens for ones, or hundreds for tens. As they regroup, they will show their work within their numbers. See the sa

Description: This product includes various printable clock templates to support student learning of telling time: simple clock, clock with minutes labeled, clock with every 5 minutes labeled, two side-by-side clock pages to support visualizing elapsed time. Uses: When introducing clocks, start by having students fill in the minutes on a black clock. They can refer to this clock to check their accuracy when telling time to the minute. When supporting more automaticity, have students graduate to u

Description: No need to buy an expensive lesson planner when you have this print-and-go, 12-month, 7-subject daily planner that suits your everyday needs. Simply print, hole-punch, and place in a binder. Each month comes with spaces to jot down notes and upcoming dates including meetings and birthdays. Besides your 7-subject planner, you also get a month-at-a-glance with motivational tips and quotes. Additional pages included: blank lined and unlined planner sheets, birthdays at-a-glance page, m

Description: Target students’ nonfiction reading skills with these Story Element Bookmarks! Each bookmark is filled with targeted questions to support independent growth within a skillset. Students can check off each prompt as they use them until they have had a great range of practice. Story elements included: text structure, vocabulary, main ideas and supporting details, author’s craft. Uses: Use this bookmark as a supplement to your small group work or whole class lessons. Give to individual

Description & Uses: This series-study book “tasting” menu can be used when previewing series books. As students are looking through books to get an idea of what series and characters they might be interested in, they can use this pamphlet to record the most important information: series title, book title, author, identify what they like the book, and provide an interest rating. This is usually done at the start of a reading unit to get students familiar with titles within the genre and create a

Description & Uses: This fantasy-fiction book “tasting” menu can be used when previewing fantasy books. As students are looking through books to get an idea of what titles and characters they might be interested in, they can use this pamphlet to record the most important information: book title,  author, identify the fantasy elements, identify what they like the book, and provide an interest rating. This is usually done at the start of a reading unit to get students familiar with titles within t

Description: Target students’ fiction reading skills with these Story Element Bookmarks! Each bookmark is filled with targeted questions to support independent growth within a skillset. Students can check off each prompt as they use them until they have had a great range of practice. Story elements included: plot, character development, theme, author’s craft. Uses: Use this bookmark as a supplement to your small group work or whole class lessons. Give to individual students as a way for them to

Description: Print and distribute for student use. Fiction and nonfiction questions are tailored to the reading level, grouped in reading “bands” of complexity. Reading range: Guided Reading Levels K-Z; Lexile Levels 620-1000. Uses: This tool can be used a few different ways. Some like to use this as a homework tool where students respond to a number of questions each week. You could even assign it as a bi-weekly homework assignment and have students answer all questions across a 2-week span. So

Description: Target students’ nonfiction reading skills with these Story Element Bookmarks! Each bookmark is filled with targeted questions to support independent growth within a skillset. Students can check off each prompt as they use them until they have had a great range of practice. Story elements included: text structure, vocabulary, main ideas and supporting details, and text features. Uses: Use this bookmark as a supplement to your small group work or whole class lessons. Give to individu

Description: This rounding placemat is a graphic organizer to support visualization when rounding to the nearest tens or hundreds place. The student should write the number in the top box and determine if they will be rounding to the nearest tens or hundreds place. They should fill in the rounding options on the number line, and the middle number. For example, When rounding 289 to the nearest hundreds place, the rounding options would be 200 and 300 with a center point of 250. Students can use t

Description: Printable, reusable discussion dice are meant to get students talking about their texts in an interactive, engaging way. Discussion dice come with both fiction and nonfiction specific questions that align to reading skills and match student reading levels.  Uses: For use in reading partnerships, book clubs, and small group settings. Partnerships can use this tool with independence to discuss their fiction and nonfiction reading in an engaging and interactive way. Simply print, cut,