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.

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.

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

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