Fancy in Fourth

This character trait organizer helps students understand the main character's feelings, actions, sayings, and thoughts. It makes it easy to analyze characters and compare different characters when you use this organizer. It goes along with CCSS RL4.3. Enjoy!

This is a Kindergarten Screening Test used on students before they enter Kindergarten. I use this test to place students into different classrooms based on their academic performance on this screening.

This writing activity provides an opportunity for students to make text to self connections using the book A Pocket For Corduroy. Students come up with describing words to describe their own teddy bear after reading the book A Pocket For Corduroy. You can have students come up with a list of good describing words and then they can choose two words from the list. They will then draw a picture of their teddy bear in the box provided. This activity gives students a way to make and document a conne

Included in this labeling unit are three small animals: snail, worm, and fish. This is a cross-curricular activity that can be used during Communication Arts to identify parts of the animals and use reading strategies such as beginning sound to determine which is the correct label.

This product is a pumpkin labeling activity that you can use with a whole group or as a literacy station. You can use it to teach labeling or as a review. Identify which students know the parts of a pumpkin easily with this activity.

This unit is a Social Studies unit that I use with my Kindergarten class, however it can easily be used with first or second grade. Included are cross curricular activities to use with writing. Included are: - venn diagram comparing and contrasting how we live here to other cultures - writing prompt form for students to write about where they could live if they choose - pictures of different parts of the world and prompts that allow students to write about how people would live there.

This product is a little guided reading book that you can use with a whole group or small groups. Students fill in the blank on each page by writing what the gingerbread man ran away from. This book is seven pages long and includes repetitive text. You will easily see how your students spell phonetically as they write words to match each picture. Words include: girl, boy, car, dog, fox, and Santa.

This is a chart used to teach properties of objects. I use it with my Kindergarten class but it can easily be used in other grades. We teach properties of objects in Science and this is a great tool to document the describing of objects for the whole class to see! I used this chart as we played the "Guess What I am Thinking" game. I thought of an object and they asked me questions about the object. We filled in the chart as we figured out more information about the object. When we guessed correc

Use this great goal form to have your students document their personal goals for learning! This form can be used with ALL grades! Have students write their goals and document strategies for how they will achieve their goal. Help your students take charge of their learning!

This is a unit including four labeling activities. Included are color pictures of Santa, an elf, a tree, and Rudolph on labeling pages. Each page includes five parts for students to label. These activities may be used whole group or in a Daily 5/literacy station. Use these labeling activities in page protectors along with a dry erase marker and you have an easy literacy station.

Use this helpful community helpers unit to teach the differences to students about neighborhood workers. Compare and contrast different helpers to identify their jobs, tools, and vehicles. This unit includes graphic organizers to compare and contrast each pair of community helpers. It also includes "Write It" activities for the students to write out how the community helpers are the same and different. The last page includes a writing activity for students to write about what community helper

This Unit of Homework was made for Kindergarten or First Grade teachers that want to encourage their students to practice basic skills at home. The lessons include practice with writing their name, numbers, sight words, and simple topic sentences. This unit will take you throughout the year if assigned one per week. Each assignment has a spot for a grown up to mark that it was checked. We are using this homework across the grade level as one of our weekly assignments this year and we have seen a

This product includes 34 pages of sight word playdough mats. It also includes color words which are color coded for the students to easily identify the word and number words up to 10. Each number word has a set of bugs on the card so that students can easily see what number they are making by counting the bugs. This is a great product to use for a center or word work station.

This is a great graphic organizer to use for your upper elementary class. I am using it with my 4th grade class to focus not only on main ideas of text, but also topic and theme! It is great to use with fiction and non fiction! Follows along with CCSS RL4.1 and RL4.2. It requires the students to look for evidence in the text to support their answers. Hope you enjoy this product!

This is a chart used to teach properties of objects. I use it with my Kindergarten class but it can easily be used in other grades. We teach properties of objects in Science and this is a great tool to document the describing of objects for the whole class to see! I used this chart as we played the "Guess What I am Thinking" game. I thought of an object and they asked me questions about the object. We filled in the chart as we figured out more information about the object. When we guessed corre

This is a unit including four labeling activities. Included are color pictures of a snowman, a penguin, a polar bear, and a winter girl on labeling pages. Each page includes five parts for students to label. These activities may be used whole group or in a literacy station. Use these labeling activities in page protectors along with a dry erase marker and you have an easy literacy station.

This product includes two labeling page with color pictures. Students will label a gingerbread man and a gingerbread house. The third page is a story writing prompt, in which students will write about what they would run away from if they were the gingerbread man.

This product includes 34 pages of sight word playdough mats. It also includes color words which are color coded for the students to easily identify the word and number words up to 10. Each number word has a set of bugs on the card so that students can easily see what number they are making by counting the bugs. This is a great product to use for a center or word work station.

This is a flipchart that focuses the comprehension strategy of making inferences. You can use this flipchart on Promethean boards during shared reading. Students take information from the story along with information that they already know to make inferences about what is going to happen in the story or situation. This can be used with all grades!

These are sight word star pointers that can be printed out on colored cardstock and glued to popsicle sticks. I use these pointers in the reading area of my classroom where students can choose a sight word pointer and find that sight word throughout the book they are reading.