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Do you want morning work for the entire year? This bulk pack contains all you need for Thinking Thursdays! Thinking Thursday is part of my morning work for the entire year of third grade, but it can easily be adapted to all grade levels. Each Thinking Thursday worksheet contains high-interest facts, a joke of the day, a daily riddle, a would you rather question, a trivia question, and a weekly word challenge. The students work on this for morning work and they can continue working on it during c

Do you want morning work for the entire year? This bulk pack contains all you need for Math Mondays! My students complete Math Monday as their morning work at the beginning of each week. This is followed by Twitter Tuesday, Word Work Wednesday, Thinking Thursday, and Facebook Friday. Math Monday includes a spiral review of first and second grade skills, and gradually builds each week to incorporate third grade arithmetic and problem solving skills. Students practice odd and even, skip counting,

This personal word wall resource contains all of the sight words and high frequency words for grades K, 1, 2, and 3. Each letter list also contains blank spaces for the teacher or student to add other commonly used words. I created privacy folders by gluing two file folders together. I laminated them to reuse each year. I then staple the word wall sheets to each section of the file folders. These fold up and can be kept in student desks. They can also be propped up on student desks during writer

This flipchart contains Thinking Thursday morning work for the entire school year. You can boost critical thinking skills and increase student engagement all at the same time! Each morning work contains "Did You Know?" facts, a joke of the day, a daily riddle, a "Would You Rather?", a trivia question, and a weekly word challenge related to curriculum content. Some of the morning works contain extra true or false questions and various "BOGGLE" activities to get students' brains ready for the day

Do you want morning work for the entire year? This bulk pack contains all you need for Word Work Wednesdays! Students can practice their sight words, spelling words, and phonics skills as they complete these word work activities each week as part of their morning work. These printables can also be used as homework or in literacy centers. Activities include vowels and consonants, rainbow words, triple words, super sentences, letter counting, picture perfect, scrabble spelling, bubble words, money

This Calm Down Board can be used with all of your students or with certain students in particular. These strategies are especially helpful for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. You can give each student a copy to keep in their desk that they can refer to as necessary. The board can also be kept in a student’s pocket during times of transition. If they are in the hall, at recess, in the cafeteria, on the bus, or even at home, they will have these tools and strategies at their disposal. This

This math homework consists of "Multiplication and Division Monday" (fact fluency with unknowns in all positions and 2 multiplication and/or division word problems), "Two-Step Story Problem Tuesday" (includes all four operations), "Word Problem Wednesday" (2 word problems including all four operations), and "Think About it Thursday" (choose which student's answer is correct for a complex word problem and justify your reasoning). This resource provides 55 days of homework (enough for at least 11

This flipchart contains "Word Work Wednesday" word work activities for the entire school year. It can be edited and adapted to meet your students' learning needs. It can be used with word wall words or weekly spelling words. Activities include Rainbow Words, Triple Words, Scrabble Spelling, Money Words, Pyramid Words, Connect the Dots, Code It, Word Triangles, and many more!

This flipchart contains "Twitter Tuesday" (writing) morning work for the entire school year. Each writing prompt contains sentence starters and ideas to help students as they compose narrative writing, informative/explanatory writing, and opinion writing. The flipchart can also be adapted and edited to meet your students' needs.

Thinking Thursday is part of my morning work for the year. I use it in third grade, but it can easily be adapted to all grade levels. Each Thinking Thursday worksheet contains high-interest facts, a joke of the day, a daily riddle, a would you rather question, a trivia question, and a weekly word challenge. The students work on this for morning work and they can continue working on it during centers or if they have finished an assignment. It encourages higher-level thinking skills, creativity, a

My students complete Math Monday as their morning work at the beginning of each week. This is followed by Twitter Tuesday, Word Work Wednesday, Thinking Thursday, and Facebook Friday. Math Monday includes a spiral review of first and second grade skills, and gradually builds each week to incorporate third grade arithmetic and problem solving skills. Students practice odd and even, skip counting, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, story problems, and so much more! These worksheets c

This flipchart contains Math Monday Morning Work for the entire school year. The flipchart includes interactive answer keys as well as grading scales.

This presentation will give you all the information you need to know about Autism Spectrum Disorder. I included an activator, definition, summary of affected areas and symptoms, classroom climate considerations, ideas for daily class meetings, ways to increase success, ways to assist and help students with ASD, methods of differentiation, additional classroom ideas, ways to address behavior, crisis management strategies, debriefing methods, a learning role playing activity, a conclusion, and a l

I have my students practice word work activities as part of my morning routine each Wednesday. This is an example of one of the word work activities my students can use to practice their sight words or specific assigned spelling words. I use a different word work activity each Wednesday of the school year. These activities can also be used in a word work center during reading rotations. Please check out my store to buy all of the word work activities in bulk so you will be set for the entire yea