Ray Roe

2nd Grade This should take about 5 or 6 days to complete. I use this for my Writer's Workshop based on the Lucy Calkins series. They way she was presenting the lessons did not work for me but I have found great sucess by using these packets. Assign one page per day. That way the student can focus on one topic at a time. I take the time to conference with each student after they have completed them and make corrections on the paper. When the packet is done, I have the students write all three

2nd Grade Word wall for writing journals. Tired of having students ask you, "How do I spell...?" Have the students cut the edges off of this paper and have them paste it into their journal. A reinforcement of spelling task I assign is that they have to write the word ten times whenever a word is spelled incorrectly on their journal. THIS IS NOT A PUNISHMENT! It is to practice the word and get it stuck in their head. Make sure you clarify that to the student. You will see words like when, they

This vocabulary and sorting quiz. My student love doing the vocabulary then cutting out and sorting the words at the bottom. This is a great way to get a sciecne grade.

Meditation in the classroom is a topic that I am extremely passionate about. I feel that it will become a necessity in the coming years. This is a mediation morning routine for 180 days of an elementary classroom. I have developed this routine for a number of years and its benefits are endless for students and teachers. This morning routine is catered to those classrooms that have a number of behavioral issues and arguments throughout the day. Implementing a mediation routine can have profound

Science 2nd and 3rd This is a crossword dealing with the water cycle. It should take about 35 minutes to complete. The vocabulary is very helpful.

This is an excellent little Social Studies quiz with a vocabulary element and a cut and paste element. It it time efficient and it encourages class discussion.

Grammar 2nd and 3rd Grade This is a short ditto I made dealing with the subject and predicate of simple sentences. This should take about 25 minutes to complete. Please excuse the margins and font of the preview. The font is comic sans on the actual worksheet and the margins are correct.

Grammar 2nd and 3rd grade This is a ditto I made dealing with contractions with not. I designed it so that each student has to rewrite the full sentence. This reinforces capitals and punctuations along with contractions with not. This activity should take about 45 minutes to complete. Please excuse the margins on the thumbnail. They are not the same as the actual worksheet. The actual worksheet has the correct margins and the font is not script.

Grammar 2nd and 3rd This is a short ditto I made dealing with the different types of sentences, imperative, declarative, interrogative, and exclamatory. This should take about 35 minutes to complete. Please excuse the font and margins on the preview. The margins are correct on the actual copy and the font is comic sans not script.

Grammar 2nd and 3rd Grade This is a ditto I made dealing with Pronouns. This encourages students to rewrite the whole sentence. This activity should take about 25 minutes. Please excuse the margins on the thumbnail. They are not the same as the actual worksheet. The actual worksheet has the correct margins and the font is not script.

Grammar 2nd and 3rd Grade This is a short ditto dealing with synonyms and antonyms. This should only take about 15 minutes to complete. Please excuse the margins on the thumbnail preview. The margins are correct and the font is not script.

This vocabulary and sorting quiz. My student love doing the vocabulary then cutting out and sorting the words at the bottom. This is a great way to get a sciecne grade.

Grammar 2nd and 3rd This is a short ditto I made that deals with the different types of plural spellings. This should take about 25 minutes to complete. Please excuse the margins and the font on the preview. The font I used is comic sans and the margins are correct on the actual worksheet.

This vocabulary and sorting quiz. My student love doing the vocabulary then cutting out and sorting the words at the bottom. This is a great way to get a sciecne grade.

This vocabulary and sorting quiz. My student love doing the vocabulary then cutting out and sorting the words at the bottom. This is a great way to get a sciecne grade.

The Personal Narrative Packets worked so well I created another packet for Explanatory texts based on the Lucy Calkins seriers. The students spend one day each on one paragraph. We have a mini lesson to brain storm and then they head back to their seats and work indpendently for approx. 30 mins. When each student completes their paragraph, they bring it up to me and I make corrections with a red pen. After the three paragraphs are completed, they compy their final draft onto lined paper. A g

This vocabulary and sorting quiz. My student love doing the vocabulary then cutting out and sorting the words at the bottom. This is a great way to get a sciecne grade.

Grammar 2nd and 3rd This is a short ditto I made dealing with colons. This encourages students to write in complete sentences. This should take about 35 minutes to complete. Please excuse the font and margins in the preview. The font I used is comic sans and the margins are correct on the final product.

Grammar 2nd and 3rd This is a short ditto I made dealing with colons. This encourages students to write in complete sentences. This should take about 35 minutes to complete. Please excuse the font and margins in the preview. The font I used is comic sans and the margins are correct on the final product.

A sweet little Valentine's Day Word Search for elementary students. There is a bonus activity noted at the bottom for students to complete when they have found all the words.