Martha Rogers

Children love to receive awards from their teacher! In this product, you will find 18 different certificates to help reward your students reading achievement. These certificates are editable, allowing you to customize them for your students. The following themes are included in this product: *Back To School (Crayons) *Fall *Football *Halloween *Thanksgiving *Gingerbread *Santa *Snow Monsters *Valentine Bears *St. Patrick's Day *Rainy Day Frogs *Spring *Insects *Under The Sea *Camping *Stars

Teaching children how to use punctuation in their writing, and how to use punctuation to read with fluency in reading, is an expectation of the Common Core. This free download is just what you need to help teach your kiddos this important skill in a fun way! Included here are seven punctuation song posters to help your students identify different punctuation marks and remember their meaning. Each punctuation mark poster is formatted in a variety of colors to fit your classroom decor, includi

Hey, Michigan teachers! Are you looking for a new twist on “Student of the Week?” This product features a different activity for each day of the week with a state of Michigan theme. Students love to be recognized, and these activities do just that as well as build classroom community, incorporate the Common Core Speaking and Listening Standards in a fun and engaging way, and help students learn more about our beautiful state. These activities are designed to be short and sweet, taking up app

Every child loves show and tell, but with the ever increasing demands on instruction, it often feels difficult to squeeze it in. This activity is just what you need to help your students fulfill their wishes for show and tell time, while meeting the demands of the Common Core. The mystery box is something I use in my classroom to help my students work towards meeting the Common Core speaking and listening standards. I send this box home nightly with one student, as well as with a word game th

This is a fun measurement activity sure to get your kiddos excited about math! Hide the 11 different sized Gingerbread Characters around your classroom. Children then will hunt to find and "catch" the Gingerbread Man. Once found, the children will measure the gingerbread character in one of three ways, using a matching recording page: *Estimate in inches and then record in inches *Estimate in centimeters and then record in centimeters *Measure in centimeters and inches Please view the previe

This Reading Olympics activity is a great way to have fun and celebrate the love of reading with your students, while introducing and reviewing several different reading concepts. It is perfect for March is Reading Month or anytime you want to plan something special to get kids excited about reading! Included in this product you will find: *A Reading Olympics brochure for students to record their thinking during each event. This brochure can be printed on 8-1/2x11 or 11x17 size paper, as well

These reading activities and craftivity are perfect for helping students become more metacognitive of their reading behaviors and reading life. Use the craftivity alone as a fun way to celebrate the end of a Readers Workshop unit. Or, use the activities to help students build an understanding of their reading lives along with the craftivity. Please view the preview above for more details about this product. If you are looking for a fun way to celebrate student reading progress, check out my e

Use this editable transportation list freebie to keep track of your students' transportation arrangements this school year. This document is saved as a Power Point file, enabling you to add text to suit your classroom needs. The thumbnail pictures to the right show an example of how I use this page in my classroom, as well as 3 different layouts available in the download. There are 5 different layouts in all. If you download this item, please take a moment to leave feedback. And, if you alr

Children love to sing, and music is one of the best tools for helping students remember their learning. Included in this download, you will receive musical recordings to help teach 7 different punctuation marks, as well as a piano only version. I have also included a detailed tutorial explaining how to burn MP3 files onto a CD should you need help doing so. These songs are intended to go with my Punctuation Song posters, which you can find as a free download in my TPT store. These songs are

Help your students set and work towards the Common Core writing standards with this writing goals bulletin board set. In this download, you will receive everything you need to help you and your students keep track of their writing goals. Please download the preview to get a detailed idea of what is included in this product. In this product, you will find two different versions in the file: a full color version with colorful backgrounds and a black and white background version to save ink.

Music is one of the best ways to help students learn! This product contains 12 original songs with musical recordings to teach students about the book buddy (often called "beanie baby") reading strategies. Included in this product you will receive: *MP3 music files for each of the 12 strategy songs to help your students learn how the lyrics go with the tune *Posters for each strategy song *2 different student songbook versions to use as a Shared Reading tool -a 1/2 page size version with

Do you ever have kids ask, “when can I bring something for show and tell?” and wonder how that fits into your over packed teaching schedule? These activities are the perfect solution! In addition to being fun, they are aligned to the Common Core Speaking and Listening Standards. Included in this 26 page product, you will receive: -Detailed directions on how to use these reporting activities in your classroom -3 different reporting activities: One Minute Reporter, Be The Teacher, and News Repo

Students love sharing what they did over the summer, and this product is just the thing to help students share vacation memories while incorporating writing. I have my students complete this activity on the first day of school, but it would work well anytime during the first week. Students write about a vacation memory on the provided printable, and then can choose between two different postcard styles to illustrate a picture to match their writing. This makes for a fantastic first bulletin b

This free download is designed to go with the Lucy Calkins and Amanda Hartman "Authors As Mentors" unit of study for writers workshop. In this download you will receive: -a variety of covers to choose from in both 1/2 page and 1/4 page sizes for the tiny topics notebook in color (as shown in the preview picture) and black and white -the watermelon graphic is to symbolize the "seed ideas" as taught in the unit -also included are copies of the cover with no graphic, leaving a spot for your kiddos

These aren't your typical book logs! These book logs are designed for independent use by primary students. Each time a child reads for 10 minutes, or is read to, he or she colors in a picture on that month's book log. At the end of the month, students return their book logs and can receive a matching certificate for a job well done! Use the certificates "as is" with a pre-written message, or use the editable Powerpoint file version to write your own message to your kiddos. Children love bei

This 19 page download is a fun way to celebrate Thanksgiving with your kiddos while incorporating the speaking, listening, and writing Common Core standards. The first part of this download is a classbook activity titled "Mr. Turkey, Mr. Turkey, Won't You Come To Dinner?" A great way to launch this lesson is by reading 'Twas' The Night Before Thanksgiving' by Dav Pilkey and/or 'A Turkey For Thanksgiving' by Eve Bunting. Both books are about turkeys who "escaped" being eaten for Thanksgiving d

The story of the Gingerbread Man is the perfect story to use to introduce the concept of contractions to your students. Within the story, several contractions repeat (can't, I'm, I'll, etc.) and serve as a wonderful springboard into helping your kiddos learn all about these often tricky words in text. In my classroom, I teach word study in an inquiry based way, based off research found in Diane Snowball's book, "Spelling, K-8." As teachers of the Common Core, we are called to promoting higher

This activity involves reading, writing, and art. After reading The Gingerbread Man, students will think of what they would do if they were a gingerbread man or girl and write about their adventures. Then, they will decorate a gingerbread man picture to display with their story. This activity is AWESOME for the hallway, and I use it every year to adorn a large gingerbread house my students and I create just outside of the classroom. Included in this download, you will find: *4 different Gin

This Gingerbread Math game is perfect for helping your kiddos practice addition math facts in a fun way! To play, children will roll 1 die or 2 dice (depending on the game board chosen), add up the dots, and color in a gumdrop on the gingerbread man. Once all of the gumdrops are colored in, the game is over. This game can also be played with a partner. Included in this download you will receive: *A gingerbread game board for use with two dice-there are 2 copies of this game, one with directio

This product contains a wide variety of Thanksgiving themed writing ideas for use as a whole class or at your writing center. These writing pages have been designed to fit Common Core standards, and include activities for opinion, procedural, and nonfiction writing. Included in this product you fill receive: *Thank-o-grams for students to give to each other * How To Cook A Turkey how-to page * A wide variety of turkey themed stationary, including versions with and without lines, as well as full