Lori Smith

Get all 7 available months of my Morning Messages in one bundle at a special price! These interactive daily messages will help your students review a variety of skills while keeping them engaged! About Morning Messages: Twenty messages written in letter format to cover letter writing skills. Each message contains errors that students need to find and tally. Each message has either a positive thought (character education) or interesting question for the day. Each message includes either a Langua

These interactive daily messages will help your students review a variety of skills while keeping them engaged! About Morning Messages: Twenty messages written in letter format to cover letter writing skills. Each message contains errors that students need to find and tally. Each message has either a positive thought (character education) or interesting question for the day. Each message includes either a Language Arts or Math problem for students to solve. Message errors and problem answers are

This is a free sample of my December Morning Messages with 3 days worth of messages. If you like this freebie, be sure to check out the complete version of December Interactive Morning Messages for 2nd Grade! The information below pertains to my Morning Messages paid products. These interactive daily messages will help your students review a variety of skills while keeping them engaged! About Morning Messages: Twenty messages written in letter format to cover letter writing skills. Each messag

These interactive daily messages will help your students review a variety of skills while keeping them engaged! About Morning Messages: Twenty messages written in letter format to cover letter writing skills. Each message contains errors that students need to find and tally. Each message has either a positive thought (character education) or interesting question for the day. Each message includes either a Language Arts or Math problem for students to solve. Message errors and problem answers are

This is a free sample of my November Morning Messages with 3 days worth of messages. If you like this freebie, be sure to check out November 2nd Grade Interactive Morning Messages! The information below pertains to my Morning Messages paid products. These interactive daily messages will help your students review a variety of skills while keeping them engaged! About Morning Messages: Twenty messages written in letter format to cover letter writing skills. Each message contains errors that stude

These interactive daily messages will help your students review a variety of skills while keeping them engaged! About Morning Messages: Twenty messages written in letter format to cover letter writing skills. Each message contains errors that students need to find and tally. Each message has either a positive thought (character education) or interesting question for the day. Each message includes either a Language Arts or Math problem for students to solve. Message errors and problem answers are

This is a free sample of my October Morning Messages with 2 days worth of messages. If you like this freebie, be sure to check out October 2nd Grade Interactive Morning Messages! The information below pertains to my Morning Messages paid products. These interactive daily messages will help your students review a variety of skills while keeping them engaged! About Morning Messages: Twenty messages written in letter format to cover letter writing skills. Each message contains errors that student

These interactive daily messages will help your students review a variety of skills while keeping them engaged! About Morning Messages: Twenty messages written in letter format to cover letter writing skills. Each message contains errors that students need to find and tally. Each message has either a positive thought (character education) or interesting question for the day. Each message includes either a Language Arts or Math problem for students to solve. Message errors and problem answers are

If you’re anything like me, you love the look of a cute anchor chart, but can’t seem to get it to look quite right. That’s why I decided to make this packet. It has everything you need to set up your chart in a variety of ways to get that cute look, while still enabling you to fill in the chart with your students. I have included titles, subtitles, clip art, and bullet points to help make your chart look great. Simply cut the pieces you wish to use, glue them to the anchor chart, and fill in th

These interactive daily messages will help your students review a variety of skills while keeping them engaged! About Morning Messages: Twenty messages written in letter format to cover letter writing skills. Each message contains errors that students need to find and tally. Each message has either a positive thought (character education) or interesting question for the day. Each message includes either a Language Arts or Math problem for students to solve. Message errors and problem answers are

These interactive daily messages will help your students review a variety of skills while keeping them engaged! About Morning Messages: Twenty messages written in letter format to cover letter writing skills. Each message contains errors that students need to find and tally. Each message has either a positive thought (character education) or interesting question for the day. Each message includes either a Language Arts or Math problem for students to solve. Message errors and problem answers are

These interactive daily messages will help your students review a variety of skills while keeping them engaged! About Morning Messages: Twenty messages written in letter format to cover letter writing skills. Each message contains errors that students need to find and tally. Each message has either a positive thought (character education) or interesting question for the day. Each message includes either a Language Arts or Math problem for students to solve. Message errors and problem answers are

This is just like my Me on the Map Flipbook, except I have modified it for teachers in Australia. It includes all of the Australian states and a map of Australia. This activity is based on the book, Me on the Map, by Joan Sweeney. This idea is not original. I saw it on the web, and decided to put my own spin on it to do with my class. Included you will find everything you need to make a flip book, as well as vocabulary words to put on your word wall.

**Updated to include a 2016 cover and a cover without the year.** Included in this packet are all of the pages you will need to have your students make Valentine keepsake books. There are 2 covers to choose from, and several different page choices for valentines. Copy one cover page for each student, then copy as many of the pages as they will need for valentines from each student in the class. This works best if you request students bring in FLAT valentines. After assembling the books, stud

This game includes a variety of multisyllabic words, with no emphasis on particular prefixes or suffixes. To assist children with reading the words, I have divided the words into syllables using red and green. I have included a page with smaller “title pages” to label the game. There is also a page with directions to include for student use. How to play: Place the cards in a pile so that all players can reach them. Each player takes a turn by choosing a card. If he/she correctly reads the w

These rubrics are based on our county’s new writing textbooks, Being a Writer. However, the rubrics can be used in any writing curriculum, and cover the following CCSS in Writing and Language: CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.1 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.2 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.3 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.W.2.5 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.1 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.2 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.3 CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.2.6 Included are rubrics for narrative, fiction, informative, nonfiction, letters, poems, and opinion writing. I h

In this packet, you will find 7 different styles (unofficial adaptations) of scoreboards to be used with the Whole Brain Teaching program. I am in no way affiliated with Whole Brain Teaching. If you are interested in learning more about the program, there are lots of FREE materials and downloads at http://wholebrainteaching.com . You are welcome to use the scoreboards for other purposes as well! I hope you enjoy this freebie! You might also like: Whole Brain Teaching Super Achiever Card F

Updated 2/22/15! Extra vocabulary words have been added, including each of the provinces, as well as an updated flip book cover. This is just like my Me on the Map Flipbook, except I have modified it for teachers in Canada. It includes all of the Canadian provinces and a map of Canada. This activity is based on the book, Me on the Map, by Joan Sweeney. This idea is not original. I saw it on the web, and decided to put my own spin on it to do with my class. Included you will find everything yo

A simple writing rubric for Pre-K or the beginning of the year in Kindergarten. It is great for getting students to become great authors. It helps them to focus on their pictures (where most of the story is at first) and learning to add words to their stories through labeling or writing sentences. Each step in the rubric can be used to develop minilessons for Writer's Workshop. This is the same as my Beginning Writing Rubric (Kindergarten) except it is in Spanish. Rubric includes: 1. ¿Tú dibu

This is a simple, fall-themed card game that students will enjoy while developing phonics skills. This works wonderfully with Common Core Reading Foundational Skills. I have included a page with smaller “title pages” to label the game, as well as directions to include for student use. How to play: Place the cards in a pile so that all players can reach them. Each player takes a turn by choosing a card. If he/she correctly reads the word, he/she gets to keep the card. If a pumpkin card is ch