Forest Classroom

This one-page guided reading lesson plan template is great for planning small group reading lessons. It would be best for teachers who plan to lead 2 small groups per day, focusing on specific skills. There is room for notes to be made during small group, as well as room at the bottom to list your groups. TIP: I recommend printing a master copy, recording student groups on that, and then taking that master copy and copying it several times. This way, your groups stay recorded on the plan, week

Math Notes (Handwritten - Funny, Thorough, Rigorous) You can print these to pass out or have students copy them by hand.

Workshop Lesson Plan Template

Dialogue Cheat Sheet (Example, Rules)

Math Word Problems Strategy (for visualization of multi-step problems)

This is a guide for understanding 5-paragraph essay structure using the rainbow writing technique.

Quick and thorough! I suggest having your students fill out a copy as well, and use their self-assessment (compared with your assessment) to guide discussion with parents. :)

This one-page front/back activity sheet is intended to assist with the Words Their Way curriculum. Activities should be demonstrated first by the teacher, but once students get the hang of this, it is a totally independent activity.

These notes were created to guide classroom study as we learned about North Carolina government. In order to truly understand the government and constitution of NC, it is necessary that students understand the document that it was based on: the United States Constitution. This study guide begins by explaining colonial history and the American Revolution, so that students understand the intention that went into structuring the US Constitution. Then, students are guided through the parts of the NC

This one-page guided reading lesson plan template is great for planning small group reading lessons. It would be best for teachers who plan to lead 2 small groups per day, focusing on specific skills. There is room for notes to be made during small group, as well as room at the bottom to list your groups. I recommend printing this, grouping students, and copying that page to plan by hand.

This half-page foldable can be glued into math notebooks to assist with understanding of arrays, factors, multiples, and multiplicative comparison.

Students work through the stages of collecting, representing, and analyzing data for a question that they choose. I suggest making sure students check in with the teacher before moving onto the next stage. This way, you can assist with misunderstandings in real time, instead of getting a final product that has been done wrong. After my students finish successfully, I have them copy their line plot onto construction paper to make a "beautiful bulletin board version" that goes into the hallway. D

How much sugar does a typical cake recipe contain? This investigative activity is excellent for self-directed learners who are ready for an activity that requires little to no teacher assistance. I originally created this as an enrichment activity for students who demonstrated competency in our data unit.

This "all about me" style sheet comes in forest, watercolor, and cosmic themes. For adaptability, there is also a copy of each theme with a blank space for different grade levels. I created this sheet to get to know my kids at the beginning of each year, asking deeper questions than I'd seen any info sheets go before. Since many of my students knew each other from the year before, we played a game where I read out random tidbits and we guessed who it was. They loved the "three things most peopl