Inspired in Intermediate

It is tough to keep your kids engaged in those last few days before summer break! That is why I started to create my Summer Fun products! In this product, I have included four activities to keep your kids engaged and learning at the end of the year. The activities include a summer word search, a summertime word scramble, and two summer themed color by number activities. Answer keys are provided for the word search and word scramble. The color by number activities address standards 4.NBT.3, 4.NB

In this resource, I have included 120+ unique labels to use to organize your classroom library! In total, there are 244 labels included. The labels include many topics, genres, holidays, and awards. There are also two leveled sets included in both primary and bright colors. A complete list is included below. Topics and Genres: Action Scary Fairy Tales Funny Mystery Mythology Poetry Fantasy Historical Fiction Realistic Fiction Adventure Multicultural Sports Biography Human Body Math Animals

It is tough to keep your kids engaged in those last few days before summer break! That is why I started to create my End of the Year Summer Fun products! In this product, I have included four writing activities to keep your kids engaged and learning at the end of the year. The activities include a sequence text structure prompt, an end of the year reflection, a theme and character change writing activity, and a letter of advice to my future students. These activities were created with my fourth

This Valentine's Day, keep your students engaged and learning with standards-based writing prompts to practice On-Demand writing! My students always need practice with writing On-Demand pieces, and they love it when we work in seasonal prompts. In this product, I have included three stand-alone On-Demand prompts that can be used in the weeks leading up to Valentine’s Day. In my classroom, we use the acronym SPAM to help plan our writing. I know that some classrooms do not use this acronym, so

Review theme and story elements in a fun way for Valentine's Day! Let your students be creative and have fun this Valentine's Day while still covering important literature standards! With this activity, your students will think about setting, characters, and theme when writing their own story. Your students will roll a dice to determine the setting, the main character, and the theme of their story. Your students will then plan out how their character will change throughout the story before be

Review figurative language this Valentine's Day with this fun Valentine's Day Roll and Write! Your students will roll the dice to see what kind of figurative language they will use when writing their own sentences. I included alliteration, simile, onomatopoeia, idioms, and personification. An example of each is included. My kids love using figurative language in their writing. This is a great way to review those skills and apply the knowledge they already have. I hope it works for you and your

Review theme in a fun way for Valentine's Day! Let your students be creative and have fun this Valentine's Day while still covering important literature standards! With this activity, your students will think about setting, characters, and theme when writing their own story. Your students will roll a dice to determine the setting, the main character, and the theme of their story. Your students will then plan out how their character will change throughout the story before beginning their writi

Every Monday, both of my classes start out with a weekend reflection. I stole this idea from my mentor teacher in student teaching. It allows my students to tell me about their weekends first thing in the morning, and it allows me to see what kind of weekend they had so I can be better prepared to manage them that day. A lot can happen over the weekend, good and bad, and this allows my students to share that information with me in a safe place. This is especially helpful for my students who are

This Word Sort Recording Sheet can be used with any word sort based on the information found in the book Word Journeys by Kathy Ganske. This can be used in a guided or independent word work center to improve your students’ understanding of phonics. Remember that there is NOT the only one way to sort the words in word sorts, and students should be encouraged to be flexible with their thinking when looking for rules and similarities to sort words. I create this to use as an accountability pie