Growing Firsties

What a great way to get growth mindset oriented parent input during back to school or when you have new students! This Back to School Parent Input form for your new parents to fill out will give you SUCH helpful information so you can hit the ground running! The newly added Getting To Know Your Family page will help you make connections with your students and their families. This is a zipped (compressed) file containing both a non-editable PDF and an editable Powerpoint file. You will not be abl

This helpful back to school parent support bundle includes a parent input questionnaire to help you get to know your new students and their families as well as a parent letter that provides support for students reading at home with their parents. Reviews for the Parent Input Form:This is a great resource to use especially for open house back to school night! Easy no-prep sheets to help teachers get ready for the new year! — Carina S. I use this input form every year with my students. It is such

Follow me on my blog at www.growingfirsties.blogspot.com for lots of freebies! I'd love for you to follow my TpT store, too! This pdf file includes a volume chart with 12 different black and white backgrounds. volume levels go from level 0 (no talking) to level 4 (outdoor voice) and a one page poster for each volume level. Some teachers like to clip a clothespin next to the expected voice level, while others like to post a large image of the level. Backgrounds and graphics from www.mygrafico

EVERYTHING you need to simplify conferring in writing for capitalization, punctuation and spacing especially for beginning writers in kindergarten and first grade. This Conferring Toolkit is set up for side by side writing conferences with your students with the teacher script on the left and a continuum for learning the focus point on the right, as well as goal setting with sticky notes for each student's goal setting page. Student goals include spacing between words, capitalizing single senten

Please download the preview to see the two versions! This includes seven different color combinations of volume charts using two different versions of Voice Levels. It also includes one poster per volume level. The backgrounds are polka dot, the clip art is an adorable owl. Please contact me at growingfirsties@gmail.com if you have any specific color requests and I'll see what I can do. :-)

This Bright Happy 2025-26 two-page monthly calendar (August 2025 - July 2026 ONLY) comes with both printable and digital versions and is a must have for teachers looking to start and stay organized. You'll love the clean fonts and bright, happy graphics, as well as the monthly tabs and extra pages included to make your school year calendar both functional and fashionable. The digital version allows you to customize text boxes in Google Slides or PowerPoint to fit your needs. The printable versio

Follow me on my blog at www.growingfirsties.blogspot.com for lots of freebies! I'd love for you to follow my TpT store, too! This pdf file includes a volume chart with 12 different brightly colored backgrounds. volume levels go from level 0 (no talking) to level 4 (outdoor voice). ****UPDATE*****This item now has a one page poster of each level. Backgrounds and graphics from www.mygrafico.com (Lilly Bimble)

Do you run Writer's Workshop in your classroom? This Writing Teaching Tools Pack has everything you need for an organized and efficient writing block to help you teach and take the Status of the Class. This resource pack includes posters for the steps in the writing process, projectable teaching tools to teach your students about each of the steps in the writing process, a Status of the Class writing checklist and tracker so you will always know what each student is working on, and a Writing Top