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This 85 page unit is designed around My Plate and the five food groups: fruits, vegetables, grains, protein, and dairy. The unit contains teaching materials, posters, handouts, hands-on activities, engaging worksheets, recipes, printables and a test with an answer sheet! See the preview and below for everything that is included! A Google Slides version is also included. Students can type and drag/drop.5 My Plate Teaching Posters (comes in color and black and white) 15 Food Group Teaching Posters

Students will love learning about money while creating a Thanksgiving dinner menu! Students can go grocery shopping and become chefs while creating their very own Thanksgiving menu from a large selection of food and drink items! There are two differentiated levels included. **JUST ADDED** I add pages with blank boxes for you to print and write your own prices for the food items. Included: Teacher Tips and Examples Shopping List (with and without prices) Grocery List (with and without prices) T

Are you ever in a rush to gather last minute sub plans? I know I am! Can you get your hands on the book, 'Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving, written by Dav Pilkey? All you need is the book and this no prep packet! Just print, copy and you are ready to go! This packet contains 20 activities for reading, writing, math, social studies, and art that will keep your kids busy all day (or a couple of days)! A daily schedule, detailed lesson plans for the activities, and an over of activities are also

Are you ever in a rush to gather last minute sub plans? I know I am! Can you get your hands on the book, Snowmen at Night written by Caralyn Buehner? All you need is the book and this no prep packet! Just print, copy and you are ready to go! This packet contains 23 activities for reading, writing, word work, grammar, math, and science that will keep your kids busy all day (or a couple of days)! A daily schedule, detailed lesson plans for the activities, and an over of activities are also include

Reading at Home Folders can be part of your students' nightly reading homework/take home books or any other way you wish! It will be downloaded as a PowerPoint presentation and most pages in the packet or editable. This means you can simply type in the text box provided. I also included the pages I use in my classroom as an example for you. Feel free to use those pages or the editable pages. A Google Slides version that is ready to be used with Google Classroom is also included! Included in t

These first grade math assessments are perfect to use as quick checks or exit tickets! They are a perfect way to quickly assess your students’ understanding of a math concept. These half sheet math quick checks are fast, student friendly, and provide the teacher with valuable information to guide and differentiate their instruction. Teachers will be able to easily assess student understanding on first grade math standards using these half sheet exit tickets/quick checks. Teachers can keep track

This is a FUN and ENGAGING way for students to understand 2D and 3D shapes through hands on learning! Students build 2D and 3D shapes using toothpicks and playdough (can use marshmallows or other candy)! Students will learn to understand a shape's properties by recognizing sides, flat surfaces, edges, and vertices. Please see the preview for everything included! Materials Needed: Maker Space Work Mats Shaper Maker Cards Tooth Picks Playdough (marshmallows or other candy work well too) Dry Erase

This Spring Math Cut and Paste Packet has many math skills perfect for students in grades 1-3 and requires NO PREP! Cut and paste worksheets are engaging and interactive and are designed to make learning fun through a hands-on approach! This pack includes the following cut and paste worksheets: -single digit addition -adding three single digit numbers -two digit addition without regrouping -two digit addition with regrouping -adding three two digit numbers -three digit addition without regroup

These quick checks are designed to go with all Grade 2 Math Common Core Standards. This is the bundle and will last you the WHOLE YEAR! Each quick check has the standard written at the top and a place to mark the students' scores. Each standard has three different quick check options. I included three to help you assess, teach, assess, reteach, etc. All quick checks are on a half sheet of paper. I have also included three different teacher check sheet options. You can use these quick checks f

Second Grade Morning Work (The Bundle) includes all three of my second grade morning work packs. Included are over 160 pages of morning work pages that focus on second grade standards. Also great for enriching first graders or for providing review for third graders! The following skills are covered: Language Arts word families rhyming words complete/incomplete sentences short vowels and long vowels compound words contractions r-controlled vowels nouns/verbs/adjectives proper nouns category class

Are you ever in a rush to gather last minute sub plans? I know I am! Can you get your hands on the book, Santa's Stuck, written by Rhonda Gowler Greene? All you need is the book and this no prep packet! Just print, copy and you are ready to go! This packet contains 23 activities for reading, writing, word work, grammar, math, science, and health that will keep your kids busy all day (or a couple of days)! A daily schedule, detailed lesson plans for the activities, and an over of activities are a

Hamburger Homework Menus are a great way to differentiate homework! These menus will allow students to select their own homework assignments for the WHOLE YEAR! Students will pick a box from each category (bun, meat, lettuce, ketchup and mustard) to build their hamburger. I like to copy the homework menu options and the answer sheet back to back and stick it in a designated homework folder. I also like to attach a square adhesive label pocket (from Target) to the folder where students can keep t

Students will become place value construction workers as they work on the centers, games, and worksheets included in this product! Each center/game and worksheet can be used with two digit or three digit numbers. There are a total of 10 games/centers and 8 no prep worksheets for extra practice or assessment! ! Each game/center comes in color and black and white. What is Included: 1. Dump It - Students put place value cards in a cup and dump hundreds, tens, and ones to create two or three digit

Looking for a way to differentiate sight word practice? These sight word sentences with pictures are for Dolch Sight Word sets 1-5 (prek-3rd grade) and are perfect for differentiation! These flash cards contain Dolch's pre-primer, primer, first grade, second grade, and third grade lists. Each flash card includes the sight word, a sentence using the sight word, and a picture. A student goal card and/or sight word tracker is also included! These are perfect for centers, morning work, warm-ups f

Are you ever in a rush to gather last minute sub plans? I know I am! Can you get your hands on the book, Fletcher and the Falling Leaves, written by Julia Rawlinson? All you need is the book and this no prep packet! Just print, copy and you are ready to go! This packet contains activities for reading, word work, math and science that will keep your kids busy all day (or a couple of days)! -Reading Fill in the Blank Comprehension story vocabulary Beginning, Middle and End Story Structure: Chara

There are over 60 pages of comprehension worksheets that you can use for ANY story! There are a couple of ways to use these student reading comprehension pages. I use them during guided reading. I put each page in a sheet protector and put all sheet protectors in a binder. During guided reading, each student has their own binder. The students turn to the page with the skill we are focusing on and use a dry erase marker to fill it in. You could also print the pages and have the students use penc

This Math Cut and Paste product is the BUNDLE of all FOUR seasonal Math Cut and Paste products. The cut and paste worksheets have many math skills perfect for students in grades 1-3 and requires NO PREP! Cut and paste worksheets are engaging and interactive and are designed to make learning fun through a hands-on approach! This pack includes the following cut and paste worksheets for ALL FOUR products: -single digit addition -adding three single digit numbers -two digit addition without regrou

This Spring ELA Cut and Paste Packet has many reading, language and spelling skills perfect for students in grades 1-3 and requires NO PREP! Cut and paste worksheets are engaging and interactive and are designed to make learning fun through a hands-on approach! This pack includes the following cut and paste worksheets: - nouns, verbs and adjectives - antonyms, synonyms and homophones - facts and opinions - types of sentences - long vowel and short vowel identification - short vowels: a,e,i,o,u -

Are you ever in a rush to gather last minute sub plans? I know I am! Can you get your hands on the book, Little Cloud, written by Eric Carle? All you need is the book and this no prep packet! Just print, copy and you are ready to go! This packet contains activities for reading, writing, math and science that will keep your kids busy all day (or a couple of days)! Enjoy! Need more sub plans? Check out below! Good News Bad News- No Prep Sub Plans No Prep Sub Plans 'Twas the Night Before Thanksgi

This bundle includes activities for four snowmen books: Snowmen at Night, Snowmen at Christmas, Snowmen all Year and Snowmen at Work. Please see below and the preview for everything that is included! -Comprehension Task Cards and student recording sheet -Anchor Chart Pieces -Making Predictions -Plot -Story Structure -Story Sequence -Summarizing -Story Notes -Build a Snowman -Color a Snowman -Snowman Accordian Writing and Craft -Differentiated Writing Papers and Writing Prompts -Text to Text -