Great bulletin board idea! Have students respond with sticky notes, and encourage admin, staff, other teachers, and students to ask students what they are reading. Use this to give you some knowledge on the book to conference with students.
Great resource introducing the race strategy! Students can place the covers on top of the directions/examples for each part of the strategy. It's easy to refer to and students can easily access it through their notebooks!
Here are a variety of posters that work as a puzzle to add to your classroom community. I have a pineapple themed classroom because pineapples are symbols of welcoming and friendship. In case, you would like to see something different, I added alternative posters that go with this theme as well! I hope you enjoy!
A calm corner booklet is a fast-paced way to help children identify their emotions and quickly search resources that can be used to help them calm down and what it looks like to be calm.
Let's get ready for back to school season with these resources to collect information about our students including a student survey on the back of the student/parent/guardian sheet. I also included a behavior communication sheet for documentation when talking to a parent. Lastly, there are some cute name tags for the beginning of the school year!
These are voice level visuals for your little learners! I tried to connect real-life situations of when they would use these voice levels to help them make connections to the voice level numbers.
A variety graphic organizers for little learners to use in their reading and writing notebooks to help with accountable talk, the writing process, and build connections within the text.
Need an easy way to collect documentation for writing and want to make sure your students understand how to improve? Check out this resource! It gives examples and non-examples plus feedback to improve. It includes a page for narrative, opinion, and informative writing.
One of the best way to build classroom community using a variety of choices that your students can pick to greet you! This is a fun simple way to do individual greetings with your students to welcome them to your classroom!
Customizable writing process pencil. I recently added the sections "Ready to Conference" and "Ready to Peer Edit". Those pieces are optional, but I think it is important to add to the writing process! Use magnets or clothing pins, so that students can take ownership to find their place in the writing process.
Do you want your students to be more independent during the day? Do you want to give them more choices instead of making them do rotations? Then give this resource a chance! My students found this liberating, and it made grading easier for me as a teacher. I included the standards in each square for standards-based grading and the assignment. In the teacher's note section, I made sure to include the due data plus how many activities they are expected to complete in a day. I also make sure that
This is a simple template to help you organize your expectations and use visuals for your students. I used this when I worked with kindergarten, so it can be used with any grade level!