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Glow Day room transformation activities! Everything you need from shopping lists, prep and planning, management ideas, 14 centers, printables and signs. Your class won't be disappointed to have a fun learning day with Glow Day! Use for a fun review day or transform your classroom for an end of the year party! Bring on all things NEON and GLOW! Designed with 2nd graders in mind :) Includes GLOW DAY & LETS GLOW banner letters as well! Preview includes a sample of the pages included :) UPDATED MA

20+ activities to learn about and celebrate the 2026 Big Game! Patriots vs. Seahawks! This product will be updated from the previous year, so buy it once and have activities each year with the two football teams! Football themed literacy and math activities including informational text, graphic organizers, opinion writing: Who Would Win?, reading charts, Roman numerals, syllables, compound words, nouns & verbs, math/graphing and text dependent questions! Designed with 2nd graders in mind! *All a

Memes are hilarious! Why not use them in the classroom as fun, light-hearted writing prompts? This product is perfect to present as a slideshow. Included are over 50 memes with a specific writing prompt for each. Have your students respond, share and reflect using the FAME writing rubric and "2 stars and 1 wish" feedback form. Happy Writing! Enjoy! ✨ Follow me✨ to check out other writing resources and units, interactive read aloud text sets and much more in my store! Also, don't forget you can

Focus on scientific inquiry while studying oobleck properties using this fun 8 page, printable lab book. Includes both science lesson and interactive read aloud lesson plan and 7 reading response choices. Students will be highly engaged with this hands-on experiment! Enjoy!

Curriculum Based Measures are a quick and easy way to collect high quality student data to measure and show growth over time. CBM also provide teachers with the ability to analyze student data according to national writing norms. This product provides simple and specific directions for administering a 3-minute writing assessment, scoring, and tracking student data for writing. This product features a national norms chart focusing on grades 1-6 for three specific writing assessments including: T

Mr. Peabody's Apples is a great story to teach students about the power of their words and not spreading rumors or gossip. This activity would be great to incorporate into your back to school lesson plans and/or character education resources. Included with this product is a full interactive read aloud lesson plan with pre-made questions to print on post-its, a variety of resources including home-to-school connection and parent letter, listening center, response pages and more! Here's What's Incl

The Alaskan Iditarod Race is an exciting event! Designed for students to research and learn the history behind this iconic event! A 5 day mini-unit, with easy to follow plans that streamline just the right amount of nonfiction and fictional texts for students to be engaged. Included are resources for the trade book: Akiak: A Tale from the Iditarod, by Robert J. Blake. This captivating tale tells the story of a lead sled dog named Akiak who, while competing in the Iditarod race, injures her paw

Put the timeline creation in your student’s hands by providing them the opportunity to connect with important inventions that changed our way of life. Print out these posters for students to illustrate. Students can be a part of the sequencing process. Display the timeline in your classroom as a year-long display, or during your history unit. This activity is also great for math – determining how many years ago these monumental creations were invented. Also includes a handout so that student

40+ weeks of daily grammar lessons and growing! These supplemental materials help with implementing quick and easy grammar lessons. After studying Jeff Anderson’s Patterns of Power, the framework makes sense! I’ve put a fun weekly writing routine spin on this plan and infused lots of opportunities for real writing in the elementary classroom. The slides include a weekly writer’s workout routine with daily writing prompts. The focus/mentor sentences are from a rich variety of children’s literatu

Ready to upgrade your phonics instruction? A sound wall is a great feature to add to your classroom. This visual display helps students make connections between the 44 phonemes (sounds) and numerous grapheme (letter) combinations. This resource provides a few options for display. Whether you are working with older students, requiring less visuals, or younger students that benefit from visual supports, this product can be used in a variety of ways based on the needs of your students. The full di

Put the timeline creation in your student’s hands by providing them the opportunity to connect with everyday items and inventions that matter to them. Print out these posters for students to illustrate. Students can be a part of the sequencing process. Display the timeline in your classroom as a year-long display, or during your history unit. This activity is also great for math – determining how many years ago these monumental creations were invented. Timeline Posters Included: Hershey Bar(

Milk Goes to School is a fun back to school read aloud all about friendship. This collection features 25 reading response pages - plenty to choose from to reinforce, revisit, and discuss the text. Skills Focused On:ConnectionsRetellingVocabularySummarizingProblem & SolutionLesson of the StoryCharacter StudyCharacter TraitsFavorite Part Author's MessageAuthor's CraftPreviewing & PredictingFriendly Letter to a CharacterPrepping for a Book TalkRecalling Story EventsCreating a Movie PosterComprehen

Emmanuel's Dream is a must read for bringing SEL and social justice discussions into your classroom. This product has been designed to use as an interactive read aloud; one of the best ways to expose your students to higher level questioning - thinking within, beyond, and about a text that is slightly above their independent reading level. These resources include a focus on elements of nonfiction and research, text features, social studies connections, vocabulary, author's purpose, opinions, rec

A complete research unit including handouts aligned with Common Core and parent explanation letter. All you need to provide are the nonfiction books! From guided, whole group research to cooperative learning and finally an independent research project. A brief overview - This unit focuses on: •Explaining the major differences between books that tell stories and books that give information, Questioning in informational text, Text features, Distinguish between information provided by pictures

With the World Series coming up this fall are you looking to increase student engagement with fun learning activities? Look no further - Here are all the activities and ideas you need to create a Baseball Themed Room Transformation! Be sure to watch the video preview to check out all that's included. This collection features activities to review skills in reading, grammar, phonics, math, and writing. There are listening center QR codes and reading response pages to use with any baseball themed t

Have you ever heard of the popular Flat Stanley Project? This year long social studies project has students asking every day, "Did we get any Flat Stanley mail?!?" After reading the book Flat Stanley by Jeff Brown, students create their own Flat Stanley and begin a chain letter to help learn about other places in the world. Your class will gain a more global perspective while identifying states and countries on a map. Will your Flat Stanley go to the beaches of Florida? Travel to see the Lon

Red and Black themed classroom decor! All the essentials you need to rock this style in your classroom! Includes: Banners, Alphabet posters, Numbers 1-10, Labels, Colors, Shapes, and lots more! Print, cut, laminate and go! Full List of items: Alphabet (8.5x11) Number cards with numeral, word, and tens frame 1-10 (8.5x11) Colors (8.5x11) Shapes (8.5x11) Calendar pieces to use in a pocket chart Name tags Desk name plates Numbered labels for cubbies, etc. Daily schedule cards Classroom birthday pos

Ready to dive into rich phonics instruction but not quite sure of all the science behind the sounds of our complex English language? This cheat sheet is a great resource to help you map out all the phoneme (sounds) and their corresponding graphemes (letters). As a bonus, a few word mapping resources are also included! If you're looking for more stop by my store for more SOR resources! ✨ Follow me✨ to check out all that I can offer: interactive read aloud 2nd grade text sets, room transformation

Extreme Weather! Hurricanes - As we work our way through hurricane season, this no prep resource features lots of learning opportunities. Students will learn all about hurricanes, how they are categorized, what makes them so destructive, and how to stay safe when a hurricane approaches. What's Included?Cover page for a research packet or lap bookFull informational text article - longer passageText dependent comprehension questions6 different graphic organizers: can/have/are, main idea & details,

Gail Gibbons is a fantastic children's book author and illustrator. This collection features over 100 pages of activities and resources to use while studying her craft through an author/illustrator study. The resources include pages of non-specific Gail Gibbons texts such as a biography, book tasting, nonfiction response pages, listening center QR codes, as well as resources for 6 specific texts (6 activities for each of the books). Check out the preview for all the activities. Here is what is i