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This simple sorting activity is great to review the differences between a primary and secondary source, not to mention a hands-on approach to keep your students engaged in their learning. Enjoy!

Need a critical thinking, Common Core aligned, super fun activity to go with your informational text? Look no further! This blank non-fiction book template can be customized to any topic or subject, from science to social studies and everything in between. Print all the different page types or just use a few. What a great way to get your students thinking about what they read and research! This book is also a great way to reinforce the concepts of non-fiction text features and get your students

Having a hard time finding curriculum about mixtures and solutions for 4th grade? So did I, and with a little research, I created this quiz which accompanies the Mixtures and Solutions Smart Notebook presentation (also available in my tPt store). These products satisfy the GLE for 1.1.B. a-d about mixtures and solutions. If you like this quiz, make sure to check out the Smart Notebook file that goes with it! As always, happy teaching! Sara

Looking for a great poetry unit for your Writer's Workshop? Look no further! This 26-page student guide accompanies the SMART Notebook Poetry Unit (also available in my store) and includes instructions, graphic organizers/pre-writing planners, poetry notebook cover page, and publishing paper for 9 poems! It follows the pages in the SMART Notebook file very closely so the students are always on track with you. Poems you will write with this unit: -haiku -acrostic -diamante -bio-poem -cinquain -cl

Looking for a great poetry unit for your Writer's Workshop? Look no further! This 30-page SMART Notebook file follows the poetry unit student guide (also available in my store) and includes instructions, pre-writing graphic organizers, whole group modeling practice, poem templates, and examples for 9 different poems! Also included in Day 1 of the poetry unit are activities and examples for exploring meter, rhyme, stanza, and line within poems. Poems you will write with your students in this u

Having trouble finding easy-to-read, practical checklists of "I Can" statements for Common Core? Having an especially hard time finding ones aligned to your state? I sure did, which is why I created this no-fuss, colorful, and organized checklist of statements specifically aligned to CCSS in Missouri. Trust me though, the more I compared resources from other states, that more I realized that the changes, if any, are minute. This list will work for you, no matter what state you teach in! --This

Having trouble finding easy-to-read, practical checklists of "I Can" statements for Common Core? Having an especially hard time finding ones aligned to your state? I sure did, which is why I created this no-fuss, colorful, and organized checklist of statements specifically aligned to CCSS in Missouri. Trust me though, the more I compared resources from other states, that more I realized that the changes, if any, are minute. This list will work for you, no matter what state you teach in! --This

Having trouble finding easy-to-read, practical checklists of "I Can" statements for Common Core? Having an especially hard time finding ones aligned to your state? I sure did, which is why I created this no-fuss, colorful, and organized checklist of statements specifically aligned to CCSS in Missouri. Trust me though, the more I compared resources from other states, that more I realized that the changes, if any, are minute. This list will work for you, no matter what state you teach in! --This

This is a five- to six-day writing project about how Santa Claus prepares for Christmas, aligned to several language and writing CCSS. Take your class through the steps of the writing process: plan, draft, revise, edit, and publish/share with this complete, packaged project. Included in this 11-page file: - planner for pre-writing activity - adjective web to brainstorm "juicy" words - transition tips - Christmas-themed writing paper for the published copy - spelling, punctuation, capitalization,

Looking for a way to reinforce area and perimeter? This 14-page SMART Notebook file is a great introduction or review of basic area and perimeter concepts. It covers everything from the definitions to estimating area and combining halves on a grid. Also included are algebra-based area problems to enrich your students' understanding. Use the practice problems at the end of the presentation for formative assessment, tickets out the door, or observe students solve the problem on their whiteboards!

Having trouble finding the right lesson to teach mixtures and solutions? I did too, so with a little research, I created this SMART notebook file to satisfy the GLE Strand 1.1.B.a-d for mixtures and solution in 4th grade. This lesson accompanies the freebie Mixtures and Solutions Quiz. Included in this 18-page file: mixtures vs. solutions Venn diagram, five-question pop quiz, definitions of solute, solvent, solubility, homogeneous, heterogeneous, real-life examples and applications, and interact

Included in this 15-page packet is everything you need to scaffold your students' research project about a famous scientist. This is a 3rd grade GLE, but would absolutely be adaptable to other grades as well. This packet includes: -page to record research questions -organizers for taking notes and citing sources -paragraph writing guide with topic, closing, and detail sentences -final project rubric

I hope you enjoy this short SmartBoard activity on the Declaration of Independence. This interactive file covers England's control over the colonies, the role of Thomas Jefferson, opportunities to use ipads and/or dictionaries, and even activates prior knowledge regarding the pilgrims and the original colonies. **Covers the 3rd grade GLE: State the main purposes of the Declaration of Independence. Happy teaching!

This product is a great way to review the types of communities -rural, suburban, and urban- and their attributes. Use as a formative assessment, a quiz grade, a centers activity...you name it! Goes wonderfully with main idea and detail reading strategies. Please take a second to leave me some feedback so I can make this product the best it can be!

Please use this absent work form in your classroom to help you keep on top of things! I found that this set-up worked best for my classroom, but I know not all teachers teach in the same way :) I keep a file folder full of these already printed and ready, so when a student is absent, I yank it out and jot down what they missed. I also try to staple any papers we used to the back (or place it all in a file folder) so the student has everything they need to make up the work. Enjoy, and as always,

Created for a fourth grade immigration research project, this guide is broken down into 7 main areas and gives space for students to take notes about their research in each. I found this also helped them when planning the paragraphs in their research paper. Topics include: population, languages, food, customs, products and industry, holidays, plants and animals, and geography.

This is an EDITABLE daily agenda form for students' binders or folders (in case you would like to add/change/delete subjects). I created this page as a way of having my students know and record the objectives for the day. I copy this front and back and hole punch lots of copies. They go in a certain box where all the students know to find them. As part of their morning routine, I ask the students to write down the date, the topics or objectives for the day, and any homework they have at the end

This product satisfies the 4th grade Science GLE: Compare and contrast common fossils found in Missouri (i.e., trilobites, ferns, crinoids, gastropods, bivalves, fish, mastodons) to organisms present on Earth today. My small class took one fossil each and researched it, using the planner to take notes and draw pictures. This would make a great team activity, reciprocal teaching activity, or even the start to an in-depth project/research paper about fossils. I also included a short quiz complete

Although I found several lovely homework passes on TpT, none of them matched my classroom colors and said exactly what I wanted, so I created one myself! My kids get so excited about earning homework passes that they really amp up the good behavior. Whatever works, am I right? I would definitely laminate these, write on them with dry-erase markers, and reuse them year after year to save ink.

This activity is a guide to writing a friendly letter. It is meant to be copied front and back, then folded and cut to create a flip-chart of the 5 parts. For my class, we drew a person on the front and labeled where the 5 parts of a friendly letter would be (i.e. greeting is the mouth). We use this to refer back to when writing. I don't know about your class, but mine jump at anything they get to color! I did this at the very beginning of the year and asked them to write to their favorite teach