Learning is Magic

These two virtual rooms are a great addition to your Google Classroom, add them to your "homeroom" or just use them to present to your class. The links included are from Youtube, with read aloud books featuring Pete the Cat and Color songs from Frog Street. Students and parents both enjoy the virtual rooms, add some surprise links and change them every so often to keep them interesting.

This game is created for the purpose of giving students an opportunity to practice money skills: 1. Identify coins by name. 2. Identify value of coins. 3. Count coins up to one dollar, in same coin and mixed coin sets. Designed for those students who need repetition. My students enjoy it and asked for it again and again.

Dragons! Who doesn't love a good dragon story? Student's creative juices start flowing when they consider "If I had a dragon, what would we do?". This is inspired by the picture book written by Tom and Amanda Ellery titled If I had a dragon. It's a super cute book about playing with a baby brother and wishing he was something else. Your students will enjoy this project. This resource includes:  Suggested lesson plans for a writing project.Worksheet: Brainstorm and Draw.Worksheet: Compose Senten

Students are always happier to review sight words with a fun holiday theme. This product includes: 5 coloring pages withDolch sight words at the Pre-Primer levelWords: and, away, big, blue, can, come, down, find, for, funny, go, help, in, jump, little, look, make, my, not, one, run, said, where, yellow, you.

These slides accompany Lessons 1-10 in the Corrective Reading Decoding B2 program. Slides are set in a chalkboard setting, in yellow font and red used for letter changes. When in the presentation mode, the slides transition on the "cube" mode. Instructions are included for changing transitions and animations.

Introduce students to Google slides using this virtual cabin room to decorate for the Holidays! Includes: Directions and shortcut tips.Editable ChecklistA virtual cabin room with a treeLights, ornaments and a star to begin with.Activities such as writing and presentation skills can be added to it. Students are eager to share their decorated room with others. This can be an ongoing assignment throughout December until winter break.

Educators are using videos more and more in our teaching. We are using videos to share facts about a subject or introduce a new concept. Using core curriculum videos and creating our own is the norm. It is becoming apparent that our students attention on information presented through a short video is a useful strategy. It is a great way to provide variety and repeat information to them. This simple form gives students a way to show what they learned while watching and listening. It give teacher

This is a very basic journal for elementary school age students. It has a cover page, brainstorm page and writing pages with seven different sea themed images (shells, star, fish, eel, seahorse and a submarine.) The writing pages have primary handwriting lines. They have been referred to as "hat, belt and foot lines" in the past.

These cards are handy for centers, games or drill and practice. Skills: numeral recognition and counting up to 10. These watercolor dragons are hard to resist!

This is a great way for your students to learn how to use Google Slides and all the tools that go with it. Once they begin, they will take off. Students can introduce themselves to their classmates. It is fully editable, you can choose the subjects you want students to share about.

Here are 5 bookmark designs highlighting a famous wizard and cute dragons. They are black and white, ready to be printed, colored and cut out. Easy to use for any magical learning classroom.

Here is a great little activity for the last week before winter break. It is made for grades 1-3 depending on their skills. It is designed to be a group activity at circle or calendar time. You can use it as an online task or print it. I have found that students do not get enough graph practice. Answering a question based on a graph every day is great practice.

This is a simple and useful worksheet for separating root words and suffixes. Made on Google slides. You can print and copy it or assign it in your Google Classroom. Editable word box and 8 lines for students to show their responses.

students read, cut and glue while practicing the rule of silent e.

This form can be individualized for each student. Type or write their daily schedule onto the form. The smaller box is for the target objectives you wish to track during the student’s normal school day.