Dianne Schuring

This document will take your students through the story writing process step-by-step. They will create a fun, creative story about Rudolph's cousin, Rory, who has a superpower. The students will choose a setting and create characters. They will choose a superpower for Rory, and create a story with a beginning, middle and end. They are given a variety of ideas to choose, or they can create their own ideas for their story. When they are finished, they will have a creative story they will be proud

Your students will enjoy building these snowmen, no matter what the weather is like outside! This is a math center-style game where students use a spinner and build snowmen using math fact families. The fact families go from 5-10 and 10-15. This activity is aligned with the Math Common Core Standards.

So easy! So fun! This packet for K-2 is jam-packed with SIX phonics games that are easy prep and easily stored. Your kids will love playing these games in reading groups, literacy centers or RTI. This packet includes: Hoppin' Down the Bunny Trail - oi, oy words An Egg-cellent Match - compound words Spring Spin-a-Word - long o, a and e words Spring Chick Bingo - kn and wr words Hatch Match - -ch and -tch words Pop! It's a Garden! - Long i words (-b, -ie, -igh, -ight)

These phonics literacy center games are bound to be your students' favorite Valentine games! They will become your favorite games because they are simple to organize and easy for your students to use. I have included four games, which are aligned to the Common Core Standards. The games include: A Compound Word Matching Game A Digraph Spinner Game An R-Controlled Vowel Spinner Game A Tic-Tac-Toe Game for Plural Word Endings

This is a great reading center activity. Kindergarten and First Grade students will use winter penguin mats and word slides to create words that begin with consonant blends sl, sm, sn, sp, st and sw. They will gain further practice writing the words in word shape boxes. This center is aligned with the Common Core Reading Standards. This activity was created by Dianne Schuring with graphics provided by mycutegraphics.com

This document contains 25 math word problems to do each day from December 1 until December 25th. This can be used as a math journal, seatwork, or math centers. There are addition and subtraction, money, counting up, counting on, and number sense problems. The children must solve the problem and there is space for them to show how they solved it with drawings and writing.

This reading journal will make your reading groups and book clubs fun and exciting for your kids! The students can use this journal as they read their assignments and fill in interesting information from the story. I have framed the questions to encourage higher-level thinking according to Bloom's taxonomy! This journal will appeal to classroom reading as well as gifted reading. The reading journal is aligned with the Common Core Standards.

This unit will help your students discover how similarities and differences between people can create strong friendships. The students will interview each other to gather information and put that information in a Venn Diagram. There are several writing activities that will help them draw conclusions about how similarities and differences affect friendships. This unit can be used in conjunction with Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, or with a character development unit. The unit is aligned with the Co

Short Vowel Word Slides provide a fun and interesting center of practice for your young readers! The students use each slide to make word families and then record them in shape boxes for extra practice. This activity includes: Short vowel word family slides Shape box recording pages Answer key

This is a group of writing activities based on the story of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. These activities are aligned with the Common Core Standards and address Bloom's Taxonomy of Learning Domains. The children choose a writing activity to complete. Once the activity is complete, there is a rubric to color which will help them check their work for accuracy.

Do your students lose interest in calendar activities through the year? This journal will help keep them focused. The journal begins with routine calendar activities to get them "in the swing" and the activities gradually increase in difficulty. There are also daily "challenge" problems to help you differentiate your math instruction for your gifted math students. Just print and staple and watch your kids work! These can also be used as a center activity with students using manipulatives. The pr

Children love science and especially watching the magic of growing plants! This Plant Journal is a print-and-use science unit for primary grades. I have created study sheets to go along with the journal to teach students about the parts of plants, and plant needs. As your students' plants grow from seed to sprout to flower, your students can write and draw about the changes they are observing. This is a wonderful activity to use for Earth Day or in preparation for Mother's Day gifts!

This game provides an excellent opportunity for your students to practice telling time to the hour, half-hour and quarter-hour. Your children will enjoy matching the clock heart halves to the digital time heart halves. It is aligned with the Common Core Standards. The hearts can be used altogether, or you can separate them for differentiated practice.

This is a great language arts center activity. The students will use the word slides to make words containing digraphs sh, ch, th and wh words. They will write them in shape boxes for extra word reading practice.

If you are looking for some summer math addition activities, here they are! These are fun math center games and worksheets that are ready in a jiffy and give students lots of addition fact practice! Each activity is aligned to the Common Core Standards. *Cool and Creamy Addition is a math fact matching game with facts from 5-20. *Triple Treat Popsicles gives practice using 3 addends. *Spin-a-Sundae is an addition tic-tac-toe game *Ice cream stories helps the student use fact families to create

This entertaining learning center will help your students practice the difficult concept of contractions. The children will slide the words through colorful characters to create lists of contractions, including have, not, are, will, is, and had words. This activity is aligned with the Common Core Standards.

This is a great writing and math center for those kids that finish early and are looking for something to do! The lists can be chosen in Tic-Tac-Toe, three-in-a-row fashion, or students can complete the entire page. The activities are differentiated for different levels of Bloom's Taxonomy, so there will be activities for all of the children in your class.

Keep your students busy . . . . especially the ones who finish first . . . with this fun but challenging make a list activity. This activity will also be great to use in literacy centers. It's easy, it's no prep, and it's FREE! Please check out my other items and follow me in my store for more easy, differentiated classroom activities!