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Daily Agenda Welcome slides prepped for each month of the school year (August/September-June). Enjoy fun and funky slides decorated for each month. Students look forward to a new slide welcoming them to class each month. My kids always ask what next month's slides will look like. Slides have spaces for the date, schedule, homework, do now, and attendance questions. Google Slides are prepped with background. Feel free to duplicate slides for each day. Then, you'll have digital plans for the next

Teach theme like a pro! These slides have notes for student to take on theme as well as examples to practice with. Examples include a classic fable, a story about a famous basketball player, and a PIXAR short.

Use this Google Slides presentation to teach students about the Words of the Wise signpost. Middle schooler friendly, these slides give a real life example, Disney video example, and include an excerpt from Riding Freedom by Pam Munos Ryan to engage students. Guided questions are also included to elicit discussion.

Use this Google Slides presentation to teach students about the Again and Again signpost. Middle schooler friendly, these slides give a real life example, Disney video example, and include an excerpt from Hatchet by Gary Paulsen to engage students. Guided questions are also included to elicit discussion.

Daily Agenda Welcome slides prepped for each month of the school year (August/September-June). Enjoy fun and festive slides decorated thematically for each month. Students look forward to a new slide welcoming them to class each month. My kids always ask what next month's slides will look like. Slides have spaces for the date, schedule, homework, do now, and attendance questions. Google Slides are prepped with background and text boxes for you to fill in! Feel free to duplicate slides for each

April is National Poetry Month! What better way to kick off the celebrations than with a bad poetry contest? These slides contain some winners from the National Bad Poetry contest. Students can discuss what makes poems so "bad" and how they would do better. The last slides give suggestions for how to make poems basic and contrite. These slides set you up to have a bad poetry contest of your own! Copy of student poem page hyperlinked on second title slide. Make your own copy to edit!

Growth mindset poster. Work it out! Grow your mind! Perfect motivation for any students that feel like throwing in the towel. You got this!

A reminder that "I don't know" is not an answer! Encourage students to extend their thinking to show that learning is a process and answers take time.