Marnie Samuelson

It's that time of year again, when school begin having their school wide Spelling Bee. The Scripps National Spelling Bee, inspired this collection of items to help a schools set up a Spelling Bee. *Remember to register your school with Scripps National Spelling Bee to reserve a space for your school's Spelling Bee Champion, at the district finals.* Includes: *student Spelling Bee #'s 1-30, laminate for yearly use *red & green cards for judges, 3 of each * "Please BEE Quiet" sig

These /sh/ digraph literacy station activities are a great way to introduce, practice, and reinforce the /sh/ sound in words. These activities can be used in one week time or over a 2 week period. I've also included a 1 minute reading fluency check. I think it's SO important to hear a student read to find their fluency, comprehension, and voice levels. Here are the activities: *picture flash cards or memory cards with and without words *flash cards or memory cards with words only

I love when activities can be intertwined throughout the different subject areas. The Valentine Candy Hearts are perfect for L.A., math, and SCIENCE. Students will be conducting experiments, recording their data, making hypothesis, drawing conclusions, following procedures, learning new vocabulary, and best of all HAVING FUN! These experiments vary in time. The dissolving of the candy can take anywhere from 40min.-90min. I find it best to begin the experiment in the morning and observe the can

Use the book, The Crayon Box that Talked, by Shane Derolf, to introduce the unit. This book is a wonderful way to teach cooperation in your class. The activities include basic color identification using words and pictures, discovering secondary colors, word search, middle vowel sounds, venn diagram and character trait graphic organizers. The activities have been differentiated for student's success. The Crayon Box that Talked Activities by Marnie Samuelson is licensed under a Creative Commons

Using Halloween fruit snacks by Betty Crocker, students can create a variety of activities. These activities include: addition and subtraction problems, graphing, stories, and use beginning and ending sounds. This packet is differentiated to meet the needs of each student. It is a fun activity across all subject areas that I have used for the last five years with my students. Always one they remember at the end of the year. Halloween Fruit Snack Book by Marnie Samuelson is licensed under a

These /ch/ digraph literacy station activities are a great way to introduce, practice, and reinforce the /ch/ sound in words. These activities can be used in one week time or over a 2 week period. I've also included a 1 minute reading fluency check. I think it's SO important to hear a student read to find their fluency, comprehension, and voice levels. I'd like to thank mycutegraphics.com for the darling clip art. Here's what's included: *memory/flash cards with words & pictures *me

These /th/ digraph literacy station activities are a great way to introduce, practice, and reinforce the /th/ sound in words. These activities can be used in one week time or over a 2 week period. I've also included a 1 minute reading fluency check. I think it's SO important to hear a student read to find their fluency, accuracy, comprehension, and voice levels. Activities include: */th/ digraph flash cards, word wall, or memory cards with pictures */th/ digraph flash cards, word wal

Every Valentine's Day, I look for fun and useful ways to include conversation candy hearts into my lessons. These activities are fun as well as educational. The activities can be used as a math center, whole group, or small group. Students will be counting, matching, writing, adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, and creating amazing work through play. I used Sweethearts conversation heart candy. There was about 30 pieces of candy in a small box. I would like to thank Tanya Rae Desig

1st grade Journey's HMH reading program weekly sight words. The sight words are labeled to match the units and lessons for the entire year. These sight words are for individual student notebooks or to be taped on desks for easy reference.

Kids brag about these activities to everyone! These activities really reinforce the money skill concept. These are great center activities that parents can run for you. The hardest part will be setting up for the Gingerbread Sweet Shop. Teachers are responsible for getting the candy to put on the gingerbread boy, as well as the actually gingerbread boy cookie. Students love earning pennies for following directions and then exchanging them for different coins. Activities include: *flash

Basic flash cards with word and definition for the prefix dis-. Can be cut and glued to a note card. Dis-Flashcards by Marnie Samuelson is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.