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This is by far my student's favorite lesson when I'm teaching life cycles! The Mexican Jumping Bean is a bean that is actually ALIVE, because there is a moth larva moving around inside! Crazy, right? You can easily purchase the jumping beans online if you would like students to observe the life cycle first hand! It's definitely worth the purchase! Although, I've included slides that outline each step of the life cycle if you prefer not to buy the actual beans. You can teach students each step

Do you need a fun and colorful method of introducing elements of fairytales to your students? This product contains teaching slides, a fairytale elements crown craft, graphic organizers for read alouds, and comparison pages for diverse fairytales!

Do you need a create way to assess students when it comes to retelling a story? This product has three different retelling options to choose from: 1. Retelling a Story: Characters, Setting, Problem, Solution, & BME 2. Retelling a Story: Beginning, Middle, & End 3, Main Idea & Details: Main Idea, Detail #1, Detail #2, Detail #3, & Detail #4 These fun flipbooks can be used with a fiction or nonfiction book!

This product is wonderful to go along with ANY Thanksgiving read aloud! You get to choose from seven different organizers to go along with your favorite Thanksgiving read aloud! If you're like me, then you have many favorite Thanksgiving books. I love reading one to my students each day, followed by allowing them to independently complete an organizer. Most of the organizers go along with fiction books, but I've added a main idea and detail organizer for any nonfiction book.

Are you needing a creative method of teaching nonfiction text features? This activity teaches the students all about nonfiction text features, while also allowing them to be creative! All you need, as the teacher, is a spider nonfiction book to model each text feature! Each leg of the spider includes a nonfiction text feature. Students can even write spider facts on the back of each leg as you introduce each text feature! Their ending product will be a completed spider! I've also included a si

Your students will love this Valentine writing activity and craft! Here is an example of how you could use this in YOUR classroom: 1. Read a fun Valentine book aloud to the class. 2. Create a class chart outlining all of the reasons each student 'Wheelie' loves their family members/friends. 3. Each student will create their own graphic organizer outlining all of their personal reasons. 4. Then, each student will use the reasons from their graphic organizer to write a story. 5. Last, each stu

Are you looking for an activity for your students to express everything that they're thankful for in their lives? This product includes a prewriting graphic organizer, writing pages, AND a super cute turkey craft! The students will get to write about everything that they're thankful for, as well as creating a 'thankful turkey', where they will write what they're thankful for on each feather.

This product is wonderful to go along with ANY Valentine read aloud! You get to choose from seven different organizers to go along with your favorite Valentine read aloud. I've even included three different Valentine letter pages for your students to enjoy. That means you could teach a reading and writing lesson with this one purchase!