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If you're looking for a fun way to celebrate St. Patrick's Day this year, look no further than Leprechaun snot!! This is a great, hands-on activity that your kiddos will love! Use this packet for teaching vocabulary, sequencing, using the 5 senses, making predictions, and a varied level writing task at the end! Carryover and vocabulary cards are included. All you will need for the experiment is clear glue, borax, warm water, and food dye.

"Catch the bubblegum bandits by answering correctly! Look at the two pictures and decide which category they belong in. Click on that category and watch the gumball fly out of the machine!" This is an interactive POWERPOINT activity! Pictures are shown of two items that are related. Students are provided with two options and must decide with their teacher which category fits. The teacher then reveals the answer and the gumball goes flying! Continue answering the questions to help catch the band

This activity is a blast! You’ll have to do some crafting for it though! Glue the sticky situations and sticky objects to separate popsicle sticks, I’d recommend laminating the paper first! Then, have your students pull out a sticky object and stick situation. Guaranteed they’ll get a silly one! Have them create a story based on the two sticks they pull out, it’s their story and they’re stickin’ to it! If your students aren't focusing on writing, no problem! Have them tell it to you verbally

Looking for a fun way to teach your students how to retell/tell/write a story? Look no further than "Bento Box Your Story"! Each student has their own bento box. Each part of the bento box represents different slots for what a story needs. Fill the boxes with the correct sushi to tell your story! Sushi pieces are labeled with the various parts of the story. Need some story ideas to practice using the bento box? Check out the Wasabi-Spiced Story Ideas! Be sure to visit www.practicallyspeechin

Use this great activity to work on comparisons! Have your students answer questions and explain why they think they’re right! After they answer correctly, they get a bow to put on their kite! Fill up the kite and win!

Amelia Bedelia is fantastic for teaching multiple meanings and idioms! Use this great Valentine's Day version to teach some V-day idioms! This story packet includes: -Valentine’s Memory Match Up with Idioms -A multiple-meaning heart for idiom identification and explanation -Idiom love notes -Sequencing -An idiom game using idioms from the story and others -Conversational hearts with story-based questions -A make your own “sweetie pie” worksheet -An idiom craftivity

This classic fable is sure to have your students yelling “Not I!” and learning the important lesson of helping. This activity packet for the story includes: -Character cards -Character Playing Masks complete with printable sheet that says “not I!” -Character Playing cards for describing characters -Vocabulary and Definitions -Vocabulary “Barnyard” game -A printable Story Comprehension Cube! -Comprehension worksheet -Sequencing worksheet -Rewrite the story worksheet -Debate – Pick a side, Hen vs

"The Hat" by Jan Brett is an adorable book that your students are sure to love! I've created this packet to go along with this great book! Inside the packet you will find: -"Story socks" for sorting the characters -Cards with all the characters -A Timeline to organize the characters -"Character Socks" to talk and write about each character -A "Dirty Sock" game featuring "what would you do" questions related to the story -A "Story Box" organizational worksheet -Vocabulary and Definitions from th

Use this fun, interactive game to teach your students about dreams, and Dr. King's "I have a dream" speech. This powerpoint game uses inferencing to go through many peoples dreams. Students will infer what this person's dream could be - i.e., doctor, lawyer, singer. It's a great intro or wrap up activity for MLK, Jr. Day! **Please note, this is a PPS.x file. It will not download and open like a regular PPT file. It will open and you will be able to view the ppt in slideshow mode. This is done

January marks the half-way point in the school year for many students (and teachers!). Forecast with your kids what they think they will be doing each month until June. It’s a great way to take the focus off of goals, deadlines, and testing. Instead, teach inferencing by “forecasting” what could happen that month. Then go back and fill in what happened! Compare and contrast what actually happened vs. what they forecasted to happen For the younger set, have them color what they think will happe

Teach basic sentence combining techniques using commas and "and" with this great interactive game! The kids answer correctly to put together a snowman! The instructions read... Click on the choice that combines the sentences correctly. For every correct answer you will build a part of your snowman! Try to build the entire snowman with your friends! **Please note, this file is a PPSx file, meaning it will open as a "powerpoint show" and not in powerpoint. This is to maintain the integrity of

Teach the facts about Valentine’s Day in a fun way! This packet includes: -Illustrate Valentine’s day worksheet -Valentine’s day acronym -Valentine’s Day vocabulary and worksheets -Valentine’s Day fill-in poem -DIY Candy Hearts worksheet -Valentine’s Day Story and questions -Essay writing sheet to go along with it!

Teach root/stem words and suffixes with this fun printable game! Match the correct marshmallows to the cups of hot cocoa and win! Each cup of hot cocoa has a root/stem word on it, the marshmallows all contain suffixes...Great winter activity!!

Utilize this great lesson to teach adjectives and acronyms! In this pack you will find… -an Acronym for “acronym”, and a blank one so your kids can make their own! -a worksheet about acronyms, with WH-questions about acronyms -a name Acronym worksheet to practice! -the “Adjective Addition” to teach adjectives! It's a great, fun combination for teaching acronyms and adjectives!

Use this great packet to work on plurals with your kids! Includes 3 worksheets and a plurals game! A great addition to your holiday lessons!

Have your students play a part in Christopher Columbus' discovery. The play is written in modern-day language using the first set of Tier 2 vocabulary words. The mission: use context clues to figure out the unknown vocabulary!

Use this during the first 5-10 minutes of your class/session. THIS WILL BE A WEEKLY UPLOAD/DOWNLOAD! This warm up includes: -Changeable date -Tier 2 Vocab Word ------->Synonym/Antonym ------->Compare/Contrast ------->Category ------->Definition -Idiom of the Week ------->2 pictures ------->Often a video ------->Concrete and Figurative meaning represented