Kayla Smalley

Different types of fossils. True form, cast, mold, and trace fossils. Students will replicate each type of fossil and glue it to the handout.

Two week unit! Day 1- Have a discussion on how people can make their money grow. Introduce vocab for unit. Hand out Stock Market passage and answer questions about reading. Day 2- 3 Vocab matching sheet quiz. Discuss dangers of investing in stocks. Hand out Danger in Stocks handout and answer questions. Discuss stock symbols. Have students search symbols for 4 teacher chosen stocks and check progress of the stocks together across the week. Tell students they have $1000 to invest. They will

Quiz on Primary and Secondary Sources

For use in the classroom or to send home with students to review sight words. Print on card stock and laminate for added durability. Can also hole punch corner of words and add to a key ring. Comes with a blank page for you to write additional words. Font is KG Miss Kindergarten.

Newsletter Template. Delete my sample text and write your own personalized messages. Can be used for weekly or monthly newsletters.

Use with a unit on States of Matter: Discusses 4 changes in water: Melting, freezing, condensation, and evaporation- What happens when object is affected by temp. changes? After lesson, have students demonstrate the process of melting. Give each student an ice cube and see who can melt it the fastest. Leave a cup of water by the window and check level each day to demonstrate evaporation, etc.

Use during a unit on archaeology. We focused on paleontology for this lesson. Watch a BrainPop video or create a Smart Board on fossils to go along with these handouts. Great way to keep students focused during a lesson. Buy my separate fossil activity as a follow-up activity to this lesson!

Turkey graphic organizer. Students cut and paste facts in correct sections: Answer Key can: fly (yes short distances), lay eggs, gobble have: wings, a wattle, feathers are: birds, brown, and yummy ;)

students must determine if change in object is either physical or chemical.

13 questions on: Matching coins to their values counting change skip counting

Students will practice filling in a Compass Rose. They must know which direction each direction goes.

Students will use cardinal and intermediate directions to arrange furniture in their room. 2 handouts. - 1 has directions, other is used to arrange furniture.

Have students cut cards apart from each other. Can be used as a do now where students match vocab word to definition or used as study cards.

Writing paper that allows students to check their sentence and rate their own writing. Students must go back and check their writing to make sure they can color in the star for using a capital, spaces, period, spelling sight words correctly, and for completing a full sentence. Font used is comic and penmanship print. Two versions available (single solid writing lines or three lines for writing).

Venn Diagram- students fill in titles and list similarities and differences between the two. Great for introducing Venn Diagrams- two paper options to use (one uses the term "both" in the center- great for beginners, and one does not).

States of matter: Freezing, Melting, Condensation, Evaporation

Social Studies Final Exam answer key included. Topics: Map Skills Continents Landforms Archaeology Stock Market Sources of Information

Dental Health Month Idea: Writing prompt... If I were the tooth fairy... You can edit the handout and delete the rectangle box and use additional lines underneath for writing and no illustrations. You can also have the students dress up the assignment by adding fairy wings to the sides of the paper.

Looking for a rubric to rate students writing? Look no further. This rubric works well with schools who use a 3 trimester schedule. Blow up the rubric and post in your classroom so students can refer to it throughout the year. The rubric can also be a great tool to use when conferencing with parents about writing expectations in kindergarten. I also included writing paper with a self check rubric that corresponds to each trimester. Students can self-check their papers by coloring in each star to

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Unit Test. 15 Multiple choice questions and 2 Short answers.