Koala-Tea Learning

Is your class working on opinion pieces or reviews? This packet is a graphic organizer that includes an introduction, three reasons to support the opinion, and a conclusion with a star rating.

I use this to help children draw small self-portraits at the beginning of the year. They act as a signature next to our classroom contract, Our Promise to Each Other. By drawing their portraits and signing their names, students show that they agree to follow our student-generated class expectations. However, these face templates could be used for any craft project.

16 pages of fun for your field trip to the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan! This packet focuses on the "Your Place in Time" section of the museum and includes activities to compare an 80s bedroom with a bedroom today, imagine the future of television, compare SMART Boards to Blackboards, dive into the Dymaxion House, telephones through history matching, and concludes with worksheets to accompany visiting the Rosa Parks bus. There are many writing opportunities included as well as a wor

Learning about the history of castles or the science of simple machines? Spark your students' interest by introducing them to the catapult. This diagram and materials list can be a coloring page or it can encourage your students to make their own catapults.

Future veterinarians will love learning about dogs, cats, birds, fish, and lizards in this fun activity booklet. Each animal species has a diagram, life cycle, fun facts, and how to care guide. This resource includes plenty of opportunities for tracing, coloring, a learning new vocabulary.

Fans of Vicky Fang's Invent-a-Pet will love this extension activity! Your students will be inspired to use their imaginations to invent their very own pets--the sky is the limit! If you could invent a pet, what would it be like?  Would it have fur, feathers, or scales?  How many legs would it have?  Would it have wings?  Think about its size, color, and what it loves! Don’t forget to draw eyes, ears, a nose, and a mouth!

As part of our geography study, students created crafts to learn about each continent. I designed a 8" x 11" suitcase to hold each student's crafts. The suitcase has stickers from famous places around the world!

This activity booklet features pirate vocabulary, a diagram of a pirate ship, instructions for reading a treasure map, and a pirate treasure page, and more! There are plenty of opportunities for tracing words and coloring!

This helpful sign reminds young students what to bring in the classroom each morning and what to leave behind.

Do you need a fun activity for the first week of school? This activity is a great way to build classroom community. It encourages students to get to know one another and learn classmates' names. Extend the fun with a game of Bingo afterwards!

These graphic organizers will help upper elementary students write about people who inspired change all over the world. My class used these pages to write about Malala Yousafzai, Mahatma Ghandi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Helen Keller, Albert Einstein, Jane Goodall, Henry Ford, Alexander Graham Bell, Wilbur and Orville Wright, Mae Jemison, and Greta Thunberg. Then we compiled the pages to make a keepsake book for each child. There is a spot for children to draw a portrait of the in

These graphic organizers will help lower elementary students write about people who inspired change all over the world. My class used these pages to write about Malala Yousafzai, Mahatma Ghandi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, Helen Keller, Albert Einstein, Jane Goodall, Henry Ford, Alexander Graham Bell, Wilbur and Orville Wright, Mae Jemison, and Greta Thunberg. Then we compiled the pages to make a keepsake book for each child. There is a spot for children to draw a portrait of the

Give your students the opportunity to explore how poetry exhibits certain feelings. This small booklet features poems by Eloise Greenfield, Jack Prelutsky, and Beatrice Schenk de Regniers. The back page includes an illustrated feelings chart.

These printable valentines are perfect for attaching a special pen, pencil, or crayon. One page reads "You color my world" and the other reads "You're all write." I used an x-acto knife to tuck in a multi-colored pen, but you can also just tape on a trinket of your choice!

This resource has 4 numbered pages with lines and a half page picture box at the top of each page. This paper was used for students to write small moment stories, but it can be used for other writing projects.

Record your observations from individual student reading workshop conferences. It features a spot to note the date, book, level, genre, research, compliment, and teaching point as well as a handy guide at the bottom to help you remember best teaching practices (1. Research, 2. Compliment (follow up on prior instruction), 3. Teaching Point (new strategy), 4. Model, 5. Guide through practice, 6. Link to independent reading).

This download includes front and back pages of estimating sums practice plus another front and back page without numbers for you to add your own. At the top of the page is a reminder about rounding rules.

Post these signs in your calming corner to provide reminders about your expectations for this area of the classroom.

Resource includes a cover page, materials/supplies/ingredients needed page, and a writing page. Students will use one page per step in their How To Books.

If you're like me, you love reading First Day Jitters by Julie Danneberg to students on the first day of school. This worksheet helps students make their own connection to the story. It features pictures with feelings words underneath to scaffold students when they identify their own feelings.