Interactive Elementary Classroom

Assess spelling, mechanics, and listening with these dictation sentences! Each lesson (1-30) has three dictation sentences. Points are awarded based on current spelling words and words from any previous lessons, correct punctuation and capitalization, and listening skills. Current and past spelling words are clearly marked. Each lesson includes the total amount of points available, and each sentence is also broken down by points. *Complete instruction sheet included! Includes the rationale be

Booklet is available for second, third, fourth, and fifth grade! Don't waste the last week of school just because your textbooks are taken up! This packet will allow your students to practice this year's skills while having fun! 18 Pages and 12 Activities! Contents 1. Summer Break Acrostic 2. Favorite Summer Activities Graph 3. Last Week of School Story Fill-In (Grammar Practice) 4. School's Out! Cause and Effect 5. Getting Ready for Summer Fact and Opinion 6. Write a Summer Story (Story Ele

Send home this information sheet and/or questionnaire on the first day of school to get the parent/teacher relationship started right away! Student Information Sheet: basic student information, parent/guardian contact info, allergies/medications, etc. Parent Questionnaire: Get to know your students! Let the parents offer their perspective on their students strengths and weaknesses, goals, and other information they think you should know. **Other Helpful Back-To-School Products:** My Summer Ne

This booklet is best suited for third-fifth grades, but could also be used in second grade with a little extra guidance! The first week of school is hectic! Here are some fun, educational activities for your students to work on while you take care of everything else! This is a *great* tool to use as an informal assessment of each student's skills! 18 Pages and 12 Activities! Contents 1. Back to School Acrostic 2. Get to Know Your Classmates Graph 3. The First Day of School Story Fill-In (Gr

This file includes 10 templates for alternative book report activities. These activities are *great* to use with summer reading books. Activities are easily adaptable for all grade levels! Activities Included: 1. Become A Playwright 2. Make A Comic Strip 3. Compose a Letter 4. Design Trading Cards 5. Make Headlines 6. Conduct An Interview 7. Create A Movie Poster 8. Develop A Travel Brochure 9. Write A Journal Entry 10. Be A Book Reviewer Other Helpful Back-To-School Products: My Summer New

Booklet is available for second, third, fourth, and fifth grade! Don't waste the last week of school just because your textbooks are taken up! This packet will allow your students to practice this year's skills while having fun! 18 Pages and 12 Activities! Contents 1. Summer Break Acrostic 2. Favorite Summer Activities Graph 3. Last Week of School Story Fill-In (Grammar Practice) 4. School's Out! Cause and Effect 5. Getting Ready for Summer Fact and Opinion 6. Write a Summer Story (Story Ele

Booklet is available for second, third, fourth, and fifth grade! Don't waste the last week of school just because your textbooks are taken up! This packet will allow your students to practice this year's skills while having fun! 18 Pages and 12 Activities! Contents 1. Summer Break Acrostic 2. Favorite Summer Activities Graph 3. Last Week of School Story Fill-In (Grammar Practice) 4. School's Out! Cause and Effect 5. Getting Ready for Summer Fact and Opinion 6. Write a Summer Story (Story Ele

Booklet is available for second, third, fourth, and fifth grade! Don't waste the last week of school just because your textbooks are taken up! This packet will allow your students to practice this year's skills while having fun! 18 Pages and 12 Activities! Contents 1. Summer Break Acrostic 2. Favorite Summer Activities Graph 3. Last Week of School Story Fill-In (Grammar Practice) 4. School's Out! Cause and Effect 5. Getting Ready for Summer Fact and Opinion 6. Write a Summer Story (Story Ele

This PDF contains two different products: 1. Back To School: "My Summer Newsletter" A great first week of school activity! Students will love writing about their summer, and you will be able to informally assess their writing skills! Use just the front page for younger grades, or add in the second page for older or more advanced students! 2. Blank Newsletter Template Student-produced newsletters are a great assessment tool that students enjoy completing! Use as an alternative book report

This product contains 10 graphic organizers to help your students begin the writing process. These prewriting organizers help your students brainstorm and organize their thoughts for the following types of writing: 1. Compare/Contrast 2. Literature Response 3. Summary 4. How-To 5. Problem/Solution 6. Personal Narrative 7. Fictional Narrative 8. Descriptive 9. Friendly Letter 10. Persuasive

Your elementary students will love making their own "time capsule" the first week of school! Students complete the packet the first week, and then look at it at the end of the year to see how much they have changed! When I do this activity, I have the students roll up the packet and put it inside paper towel rolls to make it more like a real time capsule. After they close up the openings and decorate the outside, I store them in my closet until the end of the year. If you don't have the time or

A basketball-themed fact and opinion worksheet

Students must read word problems and determine whether to solve them by using addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division.

This wanted poster could be used for many things. Some ideas: Character assessments, historical figures, beginning of the year ice breakers, etc.

*Also available with corresponding Smart Notebook lesson!* This is a short quiz to assess students' understanding of place value.

Help your students reflect on the previous years as they set goals for the new one! This activity book consists of 4 pages: 1- 2015 Year in Review 2- Resolution Think Sheet- What were your favorite parts/struggles from last year? How do they contribute to your goals for the new year? 3- New Year's Resolutions for Home 4- New Year's Resolutions for School My students design their own cover every year!

Seven different letter-size posters! Each poster lists the trait and a checklist for students to use as a reminder for that trait. I laminate them and use them as I teach each trait. After we have learned about the trait, I add it to the wall. **Use these with my 10 writing graphic organizers!**

A simple review for common nouns, proper nouns, and identifying the adjectives that describe them.