Creating Classrooom Magic

I am a 2nd grade teacher who also happens to have a deep love for Harry Potter. In my classroom I read the Harry Potter books for our 10 minute read aloud each day. My kids love it. I am also a teacher who is a huge advocate for having your students help create the classroom behavior plan. My kiddos help me come up with a Harry Potter themed behavior plan in our classroom and I decided to make it into something awesome! I began this incentive program right before Christmas break because t

This is another subtraction with regrouping PPT presentation to use with your kiddos. These are great for teachers that must use the LEARN model for their math lesson plans which requires them to have a 10-15 minute mini lesson introduction.

This presentation introduces students to the artist Tyree Guyton. It explains how this man took his old abandoned neighborhood and turned it into live art. There is a read aloud titled "Magic Trash" that is included in this presentation as well! This is a great lesson to use for Earth Day as well as to integrate the arts into your instruction!

Getting organized as a teacher is essential for the year to run smoothly in your classroom! This editable teacher planner/binder will be a great resource for you to use in order to do just that! In this planner you will find the following resources to help you get organized! 1. Planner cover and dividers for each section 2. Months at a glance 3. Monthly 2 page calendar spreads 4. Grade book 5. Weekly to do lists (can use post it notes) 6. Weekly reminder pages 7. Weekly lesson idea pages 8. W

This is one of my FAVORITE creations!!! I am all about being organized and passing that attitude on to my students. This planner is full of great organizational and communication tools. I also made it editable so that in certain parts you can add your own information to suit your school! Cover pages: There is a cover page for the front of the planner along with cover pages for different sections throughout the planner. This are all in color. Student information page This page is the first

These covers are for you to use to help organize those oh so many papers you have as a teacher! This file is editable and includes both binder covers and spines. There are a few different forms of editing in this file. I left some pages fully completed and I also added fully editable pages! I use them to print on colored astrobrights paper.

Sticker charts are an easy way to recognize your students good choices and behavior. These charts are used in conjunction with my behavior clip chart and reward system. Students love seeing their teacher walk over and put a sticker on their chart. They cant wait till its all filled up! There are several options for clip charts in this product. There are both colored and black and white. If you choose the black and white version I would recommend printing them out on colored card stock t

Hello everyone! I just started teaching math this year using the Math Daily 3 workshop outline. With this, teachers are asked to create 10-15 minute mini lessons for each day before the allow the students to go off on their own into their center activities. These mini lessons can be anything from showing a new strategy and doing a few example problems, to creating word problems with the class. Believe it or not, I was finding it very difficult to find things to do in this small amount of tim

Hello Everyone! I don't know about you, but as a teacher I try my best to teach smarter not harder! A class pet fits right into this idea! I think it is amazing that some teacher get a real animal for their classroom, but I am not one of those teachers, plus too many of my students each year have allergies so I just try and avoid all of that! So, I started using a stuffed animal for our class pet about 4 years ago. I have seen so many other teachers taking on this great idea as well and I

Hello everyone! I just started teaching math this year using the Math Daily 3 workshop outline. With this, teachers are asked to create 10-15 minute mini lessons for each day before the allow the students to go off on their own into their center activities. These mini lessons can be anything from showing a new strategy and doing a few example problems, to creating word problems with the class. Believe it or not, I was finding it very difficult to find things to do in this small amount of time

This pack is only 1 part of my larger Super Facts system! This pack includes an editable tracking sheet for the teachers use. You can enter your students name on the sheet, print it out, and then use it to keep track of what facts each student has passed.

Hello everyone! This is a new product in my store for teacher organization. It is an editable product which means you can type in information to the exisiting pages that are there. It DOES NOT mean that you can change the theme or color scheme. That will remain what it is. There are 4 different sections to this assessment binder. They include the following: 1. Grade Book 2. Pre and Post Assessment Data 3. Student Quarterly Information 4. Assessment teacher evaluation questions There are

This product was made for those of us who need a little extra help getting organized. I am fairly new to the blogging world and TPT. I have been working very hard to listen to the wonderful advice given by so many great fellow TPT members and bloggers. From their advice I learned that the more organized I keep myself the more successful I will be on this journey! I originally made this product specifically for me because I needed help with keeping track of things.. I soon realized that many

Hello everyone! here is a little Freebie for summarizing. This is a powerpoint that has a magical theme to it. The powerpoint is meant to spark interest in summarizing by asking the students to work hard to be accepted as a magical summarize. The powerpint gives the students a mission and then there are slides that discuss the different parts of a summary that include,,, Somebody wanted but so then The example is Cinderella. Then at the end of the powerpoint there is a suggestion for a bo

Hello everyone! This new planner is all about organizing your small group time! I have struggled with this for years now so I created a planner to use in order to help keep me on track and organized with students intervention and small group planning. In the planner you will find resources for the following things: 1. Small group planning page (reading and math) 2. Group notes page (reading and math) 3. Individual conference pages with strengths and needs (reading and math) 4. Intervention

This is the st installment of the Mathematician warm ups for Money. I use these for my 10-15 minute warm up for Math Workshop. Students follow along using their white boards to answer the questions.

This test was created to assess students understanding of place value concepts. This can be given paper pencil or you could make it digital if you desire. I have used it both ways. I have left an empty box at the top right corner of each page. Here I recorded myself reading the directions and placed the speaker icon of my recording in this blank box if you choose to use it digitally. I made a hard copy answer key as well if you choose to do it paper pencil! There are 15 questions in all.

hello all! If you are constantly looking for where you placed those papers you needed to copy, or your running around like a crazy person trying to get things organized for your TA or parent helper this product will be a life saver! This file is a copy binder resource with several different options for you to choose from to help keep your copying needs organized! There are color copies and black and white ones as well!

This is a PPT presentation to introduce money to your students. It discusses each coin and gives some information about each. I use it as my 10-15 minute introduction for Math Workshop

This file gives you the materials you need to create a quick and easy, yet adorable door display for your classroom! It is editable so that you can type your students names into the document, use any fonts you wish and then print!