Erin Linde

This is a complete animal diorama project, in which the students choose an animal and create an animal and habitat diorama in a shoebox along with a four paragraph report about the animal. The students will write about the animal's characteristics, habitat, diet, and what they learned. The report can be adjusted down to a fill-in-the-blank type of activity if paragraph writing is too difficult for the students; there is a planning sheet included to make this possible. This document includes: -a

Do you teach Lucy Calkins' Writing Units of Study for first grade? If so, these SmartBoard slides for the third unit, Writing Reviews, will make your writing workshop time more engaging and easy to follow! There are 3-5 slides per session. All include the teaching point, the mid-workshop teaching point, and visuals, videos, and/or interactive activities that go along with the day's lesson. These also help keep the minilesson on track as well as give a great visual and integrate technology! I use

Do you teach Lucy Calkins' Writing Units of Study for first grade? If so, these SmartBoard slides will make your writing workshop time more engaging and easy to follow! There are 3-5 slides per session. All include the teaching point, the mid-workshop teaching point, and visuals, videos, and/or interactive activities that go along with the day's lesson. These also help keep the minilesson on track as well as give a great visual and integrate technology! I used several HelloFonts and KG fonts, wh

Do you teach Lucy Calkins' Writing Units of Study for first grade? If so, these SmartBoard slides will make your writing workshop time more engaging and easy to follow! There are 3-5 slides per session. All include the teaching point, the mid-workshop teaching point, and visuals, videos, and/or interactive activities that go along with the day's lesson. These also help keep the minilesson on track as well as give a great visual and integrate technology! I used several HelloFonts (Hello Big Sky,

This listing is for an Animal Jeopardy! PowerPoint game, perfect for playing on a SmartBoard or something similar, although you could project it onto a blank wall or projector screen and use your computer to control it. The categories for the Jeopardy game are: -Mammals and Birds -Amphibians, Fish, and Reptiles -Behavior and Extinction -Vocabulary -Miscellaneous I love to use this game as a review at the end of our animals unit. The kids LOVE it! You can also easily alter the questions within t

This is a cut-and-paste activity with a chart to fill in about how animals parents and babies are alike and different. This supports common core science standards for students recognizing how animal species share traits, and how they are different. In this activity, the students first choose an animal from the 24 mother-and-baby animal pictures in the document (I usually randomly pass them out to the students and then let them trade with people at their tables if they want to, but you could give

This document includes a blank 8x11 fact triangle, a page of 6 blank frames and arrows problems 7 frames in each problem), and a page of blank math boxes (6 boxes, just like in the math journal). This is a great resource for reinforcing things that your students are having trouble with, as it can be adjusted to any level. It is basically a template for each type of problem that you fill in for your individual needs. Since it is a Word document, you may either type on it, or you can print out a c

This bundle includes all my SmartBoard slides for second grade Everyday Math for the entire year! See individual unit bundles or lessons for more thumbnails and details. I am also including Project 3 (Chinese New Year Calendars) and Project 5 (Snowflakes).

This is a recording sheet for a gravity experiment. Students drop the items on the recording sheet from the same height at the same time with a partner. Then, they circle which one fell faster. They will be shocked to see that size and weight have no effect on how quickly something falls, but shape does! At the end, they will record their 3 Big Ideas about gravity together.

This file is a powerpoint presentation to be used on Open House or Parent Orientation nights. I left in general information and titles, but removed anything too specific. It is ready to be personalized for use in your Open House presentation! Simply fill in your information, and add or delete from what is included as best meets your needs. The slides are on a colorful, cheery colored pencil background with a bold, easy-to-read font, and there are slides ready made for: -teacher info -specials -

These three apple experiments/explorations are perfect for any STEM unit in the fall, especially if you study apples or do a Johnny Appleseed unit! Three simple experiments are included with directions and materials lists as well as recording sheets for the students. The activities are: 1- What's inside an apple? 2- Does an apple sink or float? 3- Dancing Apple Seeds Not much prep is required for these experiments/explorations, and the kids have so much fun with them!

This is a page of two quick assessments for two-digit subtraction. The sheet is meant to be cut in half, with 10 problems on the top and 10 on the bottom, although you could easily give all 20 at once for a longer quiz. It is a very basic quiz, simply meant to assess students' progress on the second grade math Common Core standard 2.NBT.B.5. Erin Linde by 2 digit subtraction quiz is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

This product gives a materials list and teacher instructions to perform the popular moldy bread germs experiment in your classroom, and includes a 2 sided printable student recording sheet. Basically, this will teach students that soap and water is the best way to get rid of germs! Some kinds of germs will cause mold to grow. This is where the bread comes in! This science experiment will allow students to see which bread grows the most mold- clean, untouched bread, bread that has been touched by

This document includes six printable activity pages for a bat unit along with an activity guide explaining them and offering five additional activities. There are suggested read alouds and activities to go with them, as well as other ideas. The books the read aloud activities are based on are: Bats by Gail Gibbons, Bats at the Beach and Bats at the Library by Brian Lies, and Stellaluna by Janell Cannon. There are links to related websites and suggested pacing. This is a great unit to do in Octob

This is an adorable writing assignment in which the student pretends to be a chick inside an egg, and answers the writing prompt, "You are a baby chick, about to hatch! Write about your last day in the egg, and what you have to do to get out. Tell about coming into the world!" The document includes the writing prompt, lines to write on, and a cute chicken-and-egg clipart picture. I usually use this activity as we're studying birds in our animals unit, but it could easily be used as a creative wr

This is a bundle of several of my Open House/Meet the Teacher items, including letters to parents explaining classroom procedures such as Star of the Week and birthday treats, spreadsheets to collect contact and transportation information, as well as sign ups for volunteers, Mystery Readers, and an editable Open House Powerpoint! This is a 30% discount compared to purchasing these items separately. Please see the individual listings for more details if needed.

This listing is for my growth mindset lesson using the book Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae. The lesson plan walks you through the read aloud with discussion questions and includes the printable "I can't ___... yet" speech bubble for the kids to complete, the bulletin board letters for the bulletin board heading "The Power of YET!", and photos of my anchor chart and bulletin board as examples. In summary, this file contains: * Lesson plan * Discussion Questions * Anchor chart IDEA and ph

This document contains four Halloween story starters for elementary students. Each one is several sentences long, setting the scene for a spooky story! There are then two pages of blank lines with cute, coordinating clipart for each scenario for the students to finish the story on. The subjects of the story starters include a haunted house, a talking black cat, magical Halloween candy, and magical Halloween costume. I like to use these for a Halloween writing hallway display, but they could be

This is an Excel gradebook for keeping track of grades in the subjects of reading, math, spelling, and writing. The gradebook is organized by tabs for Reading Data, Reading, Math, Spelling, and Writing by quarter. Each subject has categories within it to record students' grades, and has columns formulated to average each student's grades for each category within the subject. There is also a Class Average box formulated for each skill. This specific gradebook follows the Everyday Math program and

This is a bundle of all my Reading Street spelling homework for the year! There are 4 nights of homework for each week. The homework pages each have the list of spelling words at the top, along with cute coordinating clip art. Then, each page has a different activity, including writing the words 3 times each, putting them in ABC order, sorting them according to prefix, and spelling aerobics (the students act out their spelling words, spelling each word out loud. As they say each letter, they put