Jaimyn Hacker

This ActiveInspire flipchart can be used to help your students plan their time for the Daily Five. -The flipchart works and looks best when displayed as "Fit to Width." -Change "student" to actual student names. This flipchart has space for 22 names but could be adapted to include more or less. -I have posted our Reading Expectations, but feel free to change as needed. -Have students choose three activities to complete during your literacy block. They should drag the icon that matches th

Here is a graphic organizer my students sometimes use as a book report. For this activity, students write the title of the book on the recipe card, along with the characters and setting of the book. They then combine the information to retell the book in steps, similar to a recipe!

This quick-check activity is used weekly in my classroom as an informal assessment. At different times throughout the day, I announce “Time Check!” Students stop what they are currently working on, look at the clock and record the time. We tape our Time Checks to the tops of our desks for easy access.

This introduction page is a great way to introduce your students to anyone who will be a part of your classroom community! This page can be reproduced and bound into a booklet to either keep in your classroom library or given as a gift to student teachers, paraprofessionals, parent volunteers and more! The pages could also be kept separate and given to cross-grade level "buddies" and/or tutors. Our student teacher LOVED receiving this booklet on her first day and was able to quickly put nam