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This resource is a set of posters meant to help your kids understand how we classify shapes into categories based on their attributes. For example - there are triangles that share attributes (three sides and angles), but there are also three different KINDS of triangles (scalene, right, isosceles, and equilateral). Another example might be that that a square can be classified as a rectangle because it has four sides and four right angles. If you want your students to stop using descriptions

What student doesn't love to be an actor? In this unit, which will take approximately 4-6 days, students use their acting ability to translate dramatic skills into writing descriptions of characters' feeling and character traits through "charades." When this unit is complete, students will be able to show a character's feelings and character traits with words and actions rather than simply telling the reader what's happening. This is also a great unit for emphasizing inferencing in reading!

This packet includes several activities and resources to teach your students about stars during a space unit. It covers these essential questions: - How many stars are there in the universe? - How can stars be classified? - What is the life cycle of a star? - What is the life cycle of our sun? It includes the following materials: - teaching guide - star vocabulary sheet - essential questions - stars in the universe activity - star brightness, temperature and color classification chart -

This resource contains flow charts, teaching/anchor posters and a polygon "scrapbook" for independent work, meant to help your kids understand how we classify shapes into categories based on their attributes. For example - there are triangles that share attributes (three sides and angles), but there are also three different KINDS of triangles (scalene, right, isosceles, and equilateral). Another example might be that that a square can be classified as a rectangle because it has four sides and

A poster I use to introduce the relationships between shapes and shape vocabulary. Includes the following vocabulary words and pictures of each shape: Polygon Triangle Equilateral triangle Scalene triangle Isosceles triangle Right triangle Quadrilateral Trapezoid Parallelogram Rectangle Square Rhombus Pentagon Hexagon Heptagon Octagon Nonagon Decagon This is a FREEBIE product that related to these two products: CLICK HERE: Polygon Posters CLICK HERE: Polygon Scrapbook

I created this chalkboard-themed subway art as a way to brighten up my room! This pack included six quotes and a "Classroom Wisdom" poster that you can print out and laminate, frame or just post in your room! Each quote is included in white writing on a black chalkboard, as well as colorful writing on a chalkboard. The .pdf file is formatted for 8x10 prints, but .jpegs are included if you'd like to re-size them smaller. This pack included the following quotes: - "The greats were not great

Make learning about energy easy for elementary school learners! This resource is a set of ten posters / slides that can be used to introduce and reinforce energy types, in a kid-friendly yet accurate way. Don't spend a ton of time creating your own explanations for types of energy like light, heat and motion, or settle for explanations that are way over your kids' heads. The kid-friendly definitions are right here! Inside this resource you will find: - Energy definition slide - Energy flow-

This packet contains four experiments that will help you teach the following learning targets: - Observe changes in matter due to heating and cooling of common materials. - Explain how heat is produced and can move from one state of matter to another. - All matter does not change in the same way. This packet contains: - Essential questions: What happens when electric (heat) energy is added to liquid water? What happens when light energy is added to liquid water? What happens when heat ener

Looking to label crates, cabinets, boxes or other large items? These 8x10" chalkboard and burlap labels are clean and modern - and EDITABLE! This item comes as a PowerPoint document, with textboxes added for you to customize with your favorite font {font not included}. {I use Kimberley Geswein's "Second Chances" with many of my chalkboard and burlap products, if you're looking to duplicate.} You might also like these chalkboard and burlap products: CLICK HERE: Chalkboard Inspirational Subw

This is a full presentation for parents to help them understand our "new" problem-solving strategies and help their kids with their work, as we transition to the Common Core. So often, I have parents say things like, "I have NO idea what my child is doing with all those tally marks," or, "Why aren't you teaching the "up and down" (algorithm)?" We didn't learn to add and subtract this way and it's the #1 thing parents are confused about at conferences. I included a quick tips cheat sheet for pa

This resource is a fill-in-the blank book meant to help your kids understand how we classify shapes into categories based on their attributes. For example - there are triangles that share attributes (three sides and angles), but there are also three different KINDS of triangles (scalene, right, isosceles, and equilateral). Another example might be that that a square can be classified as a rectangle because it has four sides and four right angles. If you want your students to stop using descr

Help! Aliens have invaded! This pack can be used to both teach and practice area and perimeter for between 1-2 weeks in an exploration format. ... The kids' job will be to keep the aliens happy during their stay on Earth. This unit includes: - teaching slides for area and perimeter of rectangles, and perimeter of irregular shapes - one task to explore area (designing a spaceship!) - one task to explore area of rectangles and create an equation for area of a rectangle - one task to explore pe

This is a quick introduction for parents on four different strategies for solving addition and subtraction with re-grouping - base ten blocks, using a hundreds chart, adding on a number line, and expanded form. I'm using this to send home to parents so they can be familiar with our problem-solving strategies and help their kids - we didn't learn this way and it's the #1 thing parents are confused about at conferences. If you like this freebie - feel free to leave me some feedback! AND check

Homework can be a BEAST - for parents and teachers alike. For the past three years I've used homework choice boards - three weeks of assignments given ahead of time, with students spending no more than 30 minutes a day on the work (plus reading). IT'S MAGICAL! This product includes: - Eleven {EDITABLE} sets of homework choice boards with assignments for reading, writing, science/social studies - Eleven {EDITABLE} differentiated math choice boards - An {EDITABLE} parent guide to homework -

The foundation of any great planning is a detailed, thorough and differentiated long term plan - and that's what this is - a ready-to-go year-long plan for both reading and math. You will be able to take this plan and plan your weekly plans IMMEDIATELY and with success! The plans are backward planning or Understanding By Design (UbD) aligned. They include Common Core Standards and are aligned with NWEA's Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test and Learning Continuum. I've used this long term

A set of binder dividers, activities and forms to keep your kids accountable during their Reader's Workshop time! I found that while I love the Daily 5, often I had just a few slipping through the cracks in terms of completing really authentic reading activities. My team worked together to come up with a binder system to keep kids accountable for their work, which we check once a week or during reading conferences. This .pdf contains: - Two choices of binder covers - One divider label for e

The "Reading is Thinking" skills are: connections, predictions, questions, visualizations, summaries, and inferences. This pack contains two sections - a packet for students to record their thoughts and anchor posters with the "what" and "why" of each type of reading skill. The "put it all together" organizer is a one-pager students can use to practice their connections, predictions, questions, visualizations, summaries, and inferences AS they read! I use this packet in several different way

I created this modern chalkboard word wall alphabet and number line set after searching high and low for classroom decor that was a bit more modern and sophisticated than what I'd found so far! I created it using two fonts - one a little more juvenile, one a little more refined, in case you're using it in an older classroom ... or you just want something a little more modern looking! This pack includes: - Word wall alphabet in two choices of font - Positive numbers (1-20) in two choices of fo

I whipped up this interactive and low-prep Common Core-aligned summer choice board for my class because I wanted something that would encourage my kids to practice their academic skills but also get outside into the real world and PLAY! There are four difference choices in five different academic areas - reading, writing, math, science/social studies and technology. Each choice is real-world applicable, can be completed regardless of resources/income and is generally cross-curricular. The pack

This is a game that will help you review the life cycle of a star, if you, like me, spent FOREVER trying to figure out what the life cycle of a star was to begin with! :) This is two-page sheet with a key - it is part of a larger bundle that includes a vocabulary sheet, lesson ideas, life cycle of a star cartoon and brightness classification chart. That bundle can be found here http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Space-Explore-the-Stars-Brightness-Life-Cycle-and-Classification-of-Star